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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 Pitrou6c40eb72012-01-18 20:16:09 +010013- Fix the builtin module initialization code to store the init function for
14 future reinitialization.
15
Gregory P. Smith9564e4c2012-01-21 14:50:11 -080016- Issue #8052: The posix subprocess module would take a long time closing
17 all possible file descriptors in the child process rather than just open
18 file descriptors. It now closes only the open fds if possible for the
19 default close_fds=True behavior.
20
Meador Inge33880602012-01-15 19:15:36 -060021- Issue #13629: Renumber the tokens in token.h so that they match the indexes
22 into _PyParser_TokenNames.
23
Antoine Pitrou2e872082011-12-15 14:15:31 +010024- Fix the fix for issue #12149: it was incorrect, although it had the side
25 effect of appearing to resolve the issue. Thanks to Mark Shannon for
26 noticing.
27
Alexandre Vassalotti3bfc65a2011-12-13 13:08:09 -050028- Issue #13505: Pickle bytes objects in a way that is compatible with
29 Python 2 when using protocols <= 2.
30
Barry Warsaw9f571352011-12-05 16:45:02 -050031- Issue #11147: Fix an unused argument in _Py_ANNOTATE_MEMORY_ORDER. (Fix
32 given by Campbell Barton).
33
Antoine Pitrou11942a52011-11-28 19:08:36 +010034- Issue #7111: Python can now be run without a stdin, stdout or stderr
35 stream. It was already the case with Python 2. However, the corresponding
36 sys module entries are now set to None (instead of an unusable file object).
37
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc58e87612011-11-22 21:51:55 +010038- Issue #13436: Fix a bogus error message when an AST object was passed
39 an invalid integer value.
40
Petri Lehtinen8d40f162011-11-19 22:03:10 +020041- Issue #13338: Handle all enumerations in _Py_ANNOTATE_MEMORY_ORDER
42 to allow compiling extension modules with -Wswitch-enum on gcc.
43 Initial patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
44
Antoine Pitrou5418ee02011-11-15 01:42:21 +010045- Issue #13333: The UTF-7 decoder now accepts lone surrogates (the encoder
46 already accepts them).
47
Antoine Pitrou0d776b12011-11-06 00:34:26 +010048- Issue #13342: input() used to ignore sys.stdin's and sys.stdout's unicode
49 error handler in interactive mode (when calling into PyOS_Readline()).
50
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc97c1bef2011-11-04 22:17:45 +010051- Issue #13343: Fix a SystemError when a lambda expression uses a global
52 variable in the default value of a keyword-only argument:
53 (lambda *, arg=GLOBAL_NAME: None)
54
Petri Lehtinencd06a142011-10-30 20:59:10 +020055- Issue #10519: Avoid unnecessary recursive function calls in
56 setobject.c.
57
Antoine Pitrou8db076c2011-10-30 19:13:55 +010058- Issue #10363: Deallocate global locks in Py_Finalize().
59
Petri Lehtinena94200e2011-10-24 21:12:58 +030060- Issue #13018: Fix reference leaks in error paths in dictobject.c.
61 Patch by Suman Saha.
62
Nick Coghlande31b192011-10-23 22:04:16 +100063- Issue #1294232: In a few cases involving metaclass inheritance, the
64 interpreter would sometimes invoke the wrong metaclass when building a new
65 class object. These cases now behave correctly. Patch by Daniel Urban.
66
Senthil Kumaranfdd45752011-10-21 00:29:47 +080067- Issue #12604: VTRACE macro expanded to no-op in _sre.c to avoid compiler
68 warnings. Patch by Josh Triplett and Petri Lehtinen.
69
Antoine Pitrou551ba202011-10-18 16:40:50 +020070- Issue #13188: When called without an explicit traceback argument,
71 generator.throw() now gets the traceback from the passed exception's
72 ``__traceback__`` attribute. Patch by Petri Lehtinen.
73
Mark Hammond6c58b282011-10-17 11:05:57 +110074- Issue #7833: Extension modules built using distutils on Windows will no
75 longer include a "manifest" to prevent them failing at import time in some
76 embedded situations.
77
Antoine Pitrou586bfe42011-10-07 16:16:31 +020078- Issue #13063: the Windows error ERROR_NO_DATA (numbered 232 and described
79 as "The pipe is being closed") is now mapped to POSIX errno EPIPE
80 (previously EINVAL).
81
Antoine Pitroueeb7eea2011-10-06 18:57:27 +020082- Issue #12911: Fix memory consumption when calculating the repr() of huge
83 tuples or lists.
84
Victor Stinner53ffdc52011-09-23 18:54:40 +020085- Issue #7732: Don't open a directory as a file anymore while importing a
86 module. Ignore the direcotry if its name matchs the module name (e.g.
87 "__init__.py") and raise a ImportError instead.
88
Barry Warsaw916048d2011-09-20 14:45:44 -040089- Issue #13021: Missing decref on an error path. Thanks to Suman Saha for
90 finding the bug and providing a patch.
91
Mark Dickinsonb2f6bc72011-09-24 08:56:09 +010092- Issue #12973: Fix overflow checks that relied on undefined behaviour in
93 list_repeat (listobject.c) and islice_next (itertoolsmodule.c). These bugs
94 caused test failures with recent versions of Clang.
Mark Dickinsonc0420fd2011-09-19 19:18:37 +010095
Antoine Pitroua7622852011-09-01 21:37:43 +020096- Issue #12802: the Windows error ERROR_DIRECTORY (numbered 267) is now
97 mapped to POSIX errno ENOTDIR (previously EINVAL).
98
Ezio Melotti93e7afc2011-08-22 14:08:38 +030099- Issue #9200: The str.is* methods now work with strings that contain non-BMP
100 characters even in narrow Unicode builds.
101
Antoine Pitroua370fcf2011-08-20 14:15:03 +0200102- Issue #12791: Break reference cycles early when a generator exits with
103 an exception.
104
Ezio Melottiee8d9982011-08-15 09:09:57 +0300105- Issue #12266: Fix str.capitalize() to correctly uppercase/lowercase
106 titlecased and cased non-letter characters.
107
Charles-François Natali134a8ba2011-08-18 18:49:39 +0200108Library
109-------
110
Senthil Kumaran3800ea92012-01-21 11:52:48 +0800111- Issue #6631: Disallow relative file paths in urllib urlopen methods.
112
Antoine Pitrou1b468af2012-01-18 22:30:21 +0100113- Issue #13722: Avoid silencing ImportErrors when initializing the codecs
114 registry.
115
Nadeem Vawda892b0b92012-01-18 09:25:58 +0200116- Issue #13781: Fix GzipFile bug that caused an exception to be raised when
117 opening for writing using a fileobj returned by os.fdopen().
118
Jesus Cea8874fd62012-01-18 03:58:42 +0100119- Issue #13803: Under Solaris, distutils doesn't include bitness
120 in the directory name.
121
Antoine Pitrou03757ec2012-01-17 17:13:04 +0100122- Issue #13589: Fix some serialization primitives in the aifc module.
123 Patch by Oleg Plakhotnyuk.
124
Senthil Kumaranc5c5a142012-01-14 19:09:04 +0800125- Issue #13642: Unquote before b64encoding user:password during Basic
126 Authentication. Patch contributed by Joonas Kuorilehto.
127
Senthil Kumaranbcfe56d2012-01-14 18:26:27 +0800128- Issue #13726: Fix the ambiguous -S flag in regrtest. It is -o/--slow for slow
129 tests.
130
Ross Lagerwall66e2fb62012-01-08 08:29:40 +0200131- Issue #12364: Fix a hang in concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor.
132 The hang would occur when retrieving the result of a scheduled future after
133 the executor had been shut down.
134
Charles-François Natalided03482012-01-07 18:24:56 +0100135- Issue #13502: threading: Fix a race condition in Event.wait() that made it
136 return False when the event was set and cleared right after.
137
Lars Gustäbeldee45e22012-01-05 18:48:06 +0100138- Issue #12926: Fix a bug in tarfile's link extraction.
139
Senthil Kumaran6497aa32012-01-04 13:46:59 +0800140- Issue #13696: Fix the 302 Relative URL Redirection problem.
141
Antoine Pitrou8f85f902012-01-03 22:46:48 +0100142- Issue #13636: Weak ciphers are now disabled by default in the ssl module
143 (except when SSLv2 is explicitly asked for).
144
Senthil Kumaran83194f52011-12-23 11:11:21 +0800145- Issue #12798: Updated the mimetypes documentation.
146
Ross Lagerwall031bf952011-12-22 09:07:30 +0200147- Issue #11006: Don't issue low level warning in subprocess when pipe2() fails.
148
Michael Foord3ba95f82011-12-22 01:13:37 +0000149- Issue #11829: Fix code execution holes in inspect.getattr_static for
150 metaclasses with metaclasses. Patch by Andreas Stührk.
151
Antoine Pitrou86a8a9a2011-12-21 09:57:40 +0100152- Issue #1785: Fix inspect and pydoc with misbehaving descriptors.
153
Victor Stinnerd2084162011-12-19 13:42:24 +0100154- Issue #11813: Fix inspect.getattr_static for modules. Patch by Andreas
Michael Foorda51623b2011-12-18 22:01:40 +0000155 Stührk.
156
Antoine Pitrou2bc801c2011-12-18 19:27:45 +0100157- Issue #7502: Fix equality comparison for DocTestCase instances. Patch by
158 Cédric Krier.
159
Charles-François Natali6d5f9e72011-12-18 18:35:09 +0100160- Issue #11870: threading: Properly reinitialize threads internal locks and
161 condition variables to avoid deadlocks in child processes.
162
Charles-François Natalicf53ae22011-12-18 16:05:07 +0100163- Issue #8035: urllib: Fix a bug where the client could remain stuck after a
164 redirection or an error.
165
Antoine Pitrouc345ce12011-12-16 12:28:32 +0100166- Issue #10350: Read and save errno before calling a function which might
167 overwrite it. Original patch by Hallvard B Furuseth.
168
Meador Ingeb7288a72011-12-14 22:37:48 -0600169- Issue #13591: A bug in importlib has been fixed that caused import_module
170 to load a module twice.
171
Ned Deily061c0282011-12-14 15:06:50 -0800172- Issue #4625: If IDLE cannot write to its recent file or breakpoint
173 files, display a message popup and continue rather than crash.
174 (original patch by Roger Serwy)
175
Victor Stinner720f34a2011-12-09 20:19:24 +0100176- Issue #5905: time.strftime() is now using the locale encoding, instead of
177 UTF-8, if the wcsftime() function is not available.
178
Ned Deily2f0ad742011-12-07 01:08:35 -0800179- Issue #8641: Update IDLE 3 syntax coloring to recognize b".." and not u"..".
180 Patch by Tal Einat.
181
Lars Gustäbeled1ac582011-12-06 12:56:38 +0100182- tarfile.py: Correctly detect bzip2 compressed streams with blocksizes
183 other than 900k.
184
Petri Lehtinen9aa20af2011-12-02 21:24:14 +0200185- Issue #13439: Fix many errors in turtle docstrings.
186
Éric Araujoa74f8ef2011-11-29 16:58:53 +0100187- Issue #13487: Make inspect.getmodule robust against changes done to
188 sys.modules while it is iterating over it.
189
Meador Inge22b9b372011-11-28 09:27:32 -0600190- Issue #12618: Fix a bug that prevented py_compile from creating byte
191 compiled files in the current directory. Initial patch by Sjoerd de Vries.
192
Antoine Pitroud7c8fbf2011-11-26 21:59:36 +0100193- Issue #13444: When stdout has been closed explicitly, we should not attempt
194 to flush it at shutdown and print an error.
195
Antoine Pitrou4558bad2011-11-25 21:28:15 +0100196- Issue #12856: Ensure child processes do not inherit the parent's random
197 seed for filename generation in the tempfile module. Patch by Brian
198 Harring.
199
Antoine Pitrou116d6b92011-11-23 01:39:19 +0100200- Issue #13458: Fix a memory leak in the ssl module when decoding a
201 certificate with a subjectAltName. Patch by Robert Xiao.
202
Victor Stinner60b385e2011-11-22 22:01:28 +0100203- Issue #13415: os.unsetenv() doesn't ignore errors anymore.
204
Antoine Pitrou58fcf9f2011-11-21 20:16:44 +0100205- Issue #13322: Fix BufferedWriter.write() to ensure that BlockingIOError is
206 raised when the wrapped raw file is non-blocking and the write would block.
207 Previous code assumed that the raw write() would raise BlockingIOError, but
208 RawIOBase.write() is defined to returned None when the call would block.
209 Patch by sbt.
210
Ezio Melotti15cb4892011-11-18 18:01:49 +0200211- Issue #13358: HTMLParser now calls handle_data only once for each CDATA.
212
Ezio Melotti8008f2a2011-11-18 17:34:26 +0200213- Issue #4147: minidom's toprettyxml no longer adds whitespace around a text
214 node when it is the only child of an element. Initial patch by Dan
215 Kenigsberg.
216
Ezio Melottic2fe5772011-11-14 18:53:33 +0200217- Issues #1745761, #755670, #13357, #12629, #1200313: HTMLParser now correctly
218 handles non-valid attributes, including adjacent and unquoted attributes.
219
Antoine Pitrou3714c1e2011-11-12 01:22:11 +0100220- Issue #13193: Fix distutils.filelist.FileList under Windows. The
221 "recursive-include" directive now recognizes both legal path separators.
222
Brian Curtin675f6b82011-11-11 09:37:25 -0600223- Issue #13384: Remove unnecessary __future__ import in Lib/random.py
224
Antoine Pitroua3651132011-11-10 00:37:09 +0100225- Issue #13373: multiprocessing.Queue.get() could sometimes block indefinitely
226 when called with a timeout. Patch by Arnaud Ysmal.
227
Petri Lehtinen8c482ee2011-11-05 09:44:59 +0200228- Issue #13254: Fix Maildir initialization so that maildir contents
229 are read correctly.
230
Petri Lehtinen3c85fe02011-11-04 21:35:07 +0200231- Issue #3067: locale.setlocale() now raises TypeError if the second
Petri Lehtinen395ca722011-11-05 10:18:50 +0200232 argument is an invalid iterable. Its documentation and docstring
233 were also updated. Initial patch by Jyrki Pulliainen.
Petri Lehtinen3c85fe02011-11-04 21:35:07 +0200234
Florent Xicluna12b66b52011-11-04 10:16:28 +0100235- Issue #13140: Fix the daemon_threads attribute of ThreadingMixIn.
236
Ross Lagerwalldcfde5a2011-11-04 07:09:14 +0200237- Issue #13339: Fix compile error in posixmodule.c due to missing semicolon.
238 Thanks to Robert Xiao.
239
Petri Lehtinenfd6b5822011-11-06 09:24:19 +0200240- Issue #10570: curses.putp() and curses.tparm() are now expecting a byte
Victor Stinnerb3bc7e72011-11-03 20:35:40 +0100241 string, instead of a Unicode string.
Victor Stinner26621332011-11-02 23:45:29 +0100242
Florent Xicluna91d51932011-11-01 23:31:09 +0100243- Issue #2892: preserve iterparse events in case of SyntaxError.
244
Ezio Melotti7de56f62011-11-01 14:12:22 +0200245- Issue #670664: Fix HTMLParser to correctly handle the content of
246 ``<script>...</script>`` and ``<style>...</style>``.
247
248- Issue #10817: Fix urlretrieve function to raise ContentTooShortError even
Senthil Kumarance260142011-11-01 01:35:17 +0800249 when reporthook is None. Patch by Jyrki Pulliainen.
250
Ezio Melotti7de56f62011-11-01 14:12:22 +0200251- Issue #13296: Fix IDLE to clear compile __future__ flags on shell restart.
Ned Deily7aff4512011-10-30 20:01:35 -0700252 (Patch by Roger Serwy)
253
Florent Xicluna93dfee12011-10-30 20:22:25 +0100254- Issue #13293: Better error message when trying to marshal bytes using
255 xmlrpc.client.
256
Florent Xicluna3fa29f72011-10-30 20:18:50 +0100257- Issue #13291: NameError in xmlrpc package.
258
Florent Xicluna5d1155c2011-10-28 14:45:05 +0200259- Issue #13258: Use callable() built-in in the standard library.
260
Ezio Melottif50ffa92011-10-28 13:21:09 +0300261- Issue #13273: fix a bug that prevented HTMLParser to properly detect some
262 tags when strict=False.
263
Charles-François Natalif8859e12011-10-24 18:45:29 +0200264- Issue #10332: multiprocessing: fix a race condition when a Pool is closed
265 before all tasks have completed.
266
Florent Xiclunac45fb252011-10-24 13:14:55 +0200267- Issue #13255: wrong docstrings in array module.
268
Florent Xicluna711f87c2011-10-20 23:03:43 +0200269- Issue #9168: now smtpd is able to bind privileged port.
270
Senthil Kumaranfdd45752011-10-21 00:29:47 +0800271- Issue #12529: fix cgi.parse_header issue on strings with double-quotes and
272 semicolons together. Patch by Ben Darnell and Petri Lehtinen.
273
Ezio Melotti6bfecd12011-10-18 13:20:07 +0300274- Issue #12448: smtplib now flushes stdout while running ``python -m smtplib``
275 in order to display the prompt correctly.
276
Senthil Kumaran29fa9d42011-10-20 01:46:00 +0800277- Issue #6090: zipfile raises a ValueError when a document with a timestamp
278 earlier than 1980 is provided. Patch contributed by Petri Lehtinen.
279
Nadeem Vawdabcb86c52011-10-17 19:34:22 +0200280- Issue #13194: zlib.compressobj().copy() and zlib.decompressobj().copy() are
281 now available on Windows.
282
Lars Gustäbelac3d1372011-10-14 12:46:40 +0200283- Issue #13158: Fix decoding and encoding of GNU tar specific base-256 number
284 fields in tarfile.
285
Raymond Hettinger4b779b32011-10-15 23:50:42 -0700286- Issue #13177: Functools lru_cache() no longer calls the original function
287 inside an exception handler. This makes tracebacks easier to read because
288 chained exceptions are avoided.
289
Victor Stinner82ac9bc2011-10-14 03:03:35 +0200290- Issue #13025: mimetypes is now reading MIME types using the UTF-8 encoding,
291 instead of the locale encoding.
292
Victor Stinnerc1f32ca2011-10-14 02:36:13 +0200293- Issue #10653: On Windows, use strftime() instead of wcsftime() because
294 wcsftime() doesn't format time zone correctly.
295
Éric Araujo8af607b2011-10-09 06:32:38 +0200296- Issue #11171: Fix distutils.sysconfig.get_makefile_filename when Python was
297 configured with different prefix and exec-prefix.
Éric Araujofea2d042011-10-08 01:56:52 +0200298
Éric Araujo47a45212011-10-08 00:34:13 +0200299- Issue #11254: Teach distutils to compile .pyc and .pyo files in
300 PEP 3147-compliant __pycache__ directories.
301
Barry Warsaw78f89d82011-10-07 14:44:49 -0400302- Issue #11250: Back port fix from 3.3 branch, so that 2to3 can handle files
303 with line feeds. This was ported from the sandbox to the 3.3 branch, but
304 didn't make it into 3.2.
305
Ned Deily7b847a42011-10-06 14:31:14 -0700306- Issue #7367: Fix pkgutil.walk_paths to skip directories whose
307 contents cannot be read.
308
Antoine Pitrou1665d2c2011-10-04 13:35:28 +0200309- Issue #13099: Fix sqlite3.Cursor.lastrowid under a Turkish locale.
310 Reported and diagnosed by Thomas Kluyver.
311
Antoine Pitrou1e44fec2011-10-04 12:26:20 +0200312- Issue #13087: BufferedReader.seek() now always raises UnsupportedOperation
313 if the underlying raw stream is unseekable, even if the seek could be
314 satisfied using the internal buffer. Patch by John O'Connor.
315
Antoine Pitrouffd41d92011-10-04 09:23:04 +0200316- Issue #7689: Allow pickling of dynamically created classes when their
317 metaclass is registered with copyreg. Patch by Nicolas M. Thiéry and Craig
318 Citro.
319
R David Murray791744b2011-10-01 16:19:51 -0400320- Issue #4147: minidom's toprettyxml no longer adds whitespace to text nodes.
321
Antoine Pitroud8c347a2011-10-01 19:20:25 +0200322- Issue #13034: When decoding some SSL certificates, the subjectAltName
323 extension could be unreported.
324
Ned Deily79746422011-09-14 14:49:14 -0700325- Issue #9871: Prevent IDLE 3 crash when given byte stings
326 with invalid hex escape sequences, like b'\x0'.
327 (Original patch by Claudiu Popa.)
328
Éric Araujo13e8c8e2011-09-10 01:51:40 +0200329- Issue #8933: distutils' PKG-INFO files will now correctly report
330 Metadata-Version: 1.1 instead of 1.0 if a Classifier or Download-URL field is
331 present.
332
Victor Stinnera1bea6e2011-09-05 23:44:56 +0200333- Issue #9561: distutils now reads and writes egg-info files using UTF-8,
334 instead of the locale encoding.
335
Ezio Melottid9e0b062011-09-05 17:11:06 +0300336- Issue #12888: Fix a bug in HTMLParser.unescape that prevented it to escape
337 more than 128 entities. Patch by Peter Otten.
338
Benjamin Petersonf6f3a352011-09-03 09:26:20 -0400339- Issue #12878: Expose a __dict__ attribute on io.IOBase and its subclasses.
340
Victor Stinner979482a2011-09-02 01:00:40 +0200341- Issue #12636: IDLE reads the coding cookie when executing a Python script.
342
Antoine Pitrou55549ec2011-08-30 00:27:10 +0200343- Issue #12847: Fix a crash with negative PUT and LONG_BINPUT arguments in
344 the C pickle implementation.
345
Antoine Pitrou82be19f2011-08-29 23:09:33 +0200346- Issue #11564: Avoid crashes when trying to pickle huge objects or containers
347 (more than 2**31 items). Instead, in most cases, an OverflowError is raised.
348
Charles-François Nataliaa26b272011-08-28 17:51:43 +0200349- Issue #12287: Fix a stack corruption in ossaudiodev module when the FD is
350 greater than FD_SETSIZE.
351
Antoine Pitroubcb39d42011-08-23 19:46:22 +0200352- Issue #11657: Fix sending file descriptors over 255 over a multiprocessing
353 Pipe.
354
Jesus Ceabc566b02011-09-19 17:08:18 +0200355- Issue #13007: whichdb should recognize gdbm 1.9 magic numbers.
356
Antoine Pitroue05565e2011-08-20 14:39:23 +0200357- Issue #12213: Fix a buffering bug with interleaved reads and writes that
358 could appear on BufferedRandom streams.
359
Charles-François Natali134a8ba2011-08-18 18:49:39 +0200360- Issue #12650: Fix a race condition where a subprocess.Popen could leak
361 resources (FD/zombie) when killed at the wrong time.
Ezio Melottiee8d9982011-08-15 09:09:57 +0300362
Łukasz Langaa5a9a9c2011-10-18 21:17:39 +0200363- Issue #10860: http.client now correctly handles an empty port after port
364 delimiter in URLs.
365
Petri Lehtinenbc74ee02011-11-05 21:04:24 +0200366Build
367-----
368
369- Issue #13326: Clean __pycache__ directories correctly on OpenBSD.
370
Victor Stinnerd2084162011-12-19 13:42:24 +0100371Tools/Demos
372-----------
373
374- Issue #13628: python-gdb.py is now able to retrieve more frames in the Python
375 traceback if Python is optimized.
376
Charles-François Natali6cea35a2011-08-23 19:46:46 +0200377Tests
378-----
379
Meador Ingeb0ae0ac2012-01-14 11:50:33 -0600380- Issue #13786: Remove unimplemented 'trace' long option from regrtest.py.
381
Meador Ingef37c1982012-01-14 09:32:41 -0600382- Issue #13725: Fix regrtest to recognize the documented -d flag.
383 Patch by Erno Tukia.
384
Ned Deily316f5732011-10-31 16:16:35 -0700385- Issue #13304: Skip test case if user site-packages disabled (-s or
386 PYTHONNOUSERSITE). (Patch by Carl Meyer)
387
Barry Warsaw46ae0ef2011-10-28 16:52:17 -0400388- Issue #13218: Fix test_ssl failures on Debian/Ubuntu.
389
Charles-François Natali6cea35a2011-08-23 19:46:46 +0200390- Issue #12821: Fix test_fcntl failures on OpenBSD 5.
391
Barry Warsaw78f89d82011-10-07 14:44:49 -0400392- Re-enable lib2to3's test_parser.py tests, though with an expected failure
393 (see issue 13125).
394
Jesus Ceaaaa89912011-09-10 04:37:07 +0200395Extension Modules
396-----------------
Victor Stinner53ffdc52011-09-23 18:54:40 +0200397
Charles-François Natali366999a2012-01-02 15:47:29 +0100398- Issue #9975: socket: Fix incorrect use of flowinfo and scope_id. Patch by
399 Vilmos Nebehaj.
400
Nadeem Vawdad41a98b2011-10-13 13:34:16 +0200401- Issue #13159: FileIO and BZ2File now use a linear-time buffer growth
402 strategy instead of a quadratic-time one.
403
Charles-François Natali42c28cd2011-10-05 19:53:43 +0200404- Issue #13070: Fix a crash when a TextIOWrapper caught in a reference cycle
405 would be finalized after the reference to its underlying BufferedRWPair's
406 writer got cleared by the GC.
407
Meador Inge1efb33a2011-10-03 21:44:22 -0500408- Issue #12881: ctypes: Fix segfault with large structure field names.
409
Charles-François Natali5a4a1092011-09-29 19:46:37 +0200410- Issue #13058: ossaudiodev: fix a file descriptor leak on error. Patch by
411 Thomas Jarosch.
412
Meador Ingeb86ecf42011-09-27 20:45:30 -0500413- Issue #13013: ctypes: Fix a reference leak in PyCArrayType_from_ctype.
414 Thanks to Suman Saha for finding the bug and providing a patch.
415
Jesus Cea4507e642011-09-21 03:53:25 +0200416- Issue #13022: Fix: _multiprocessing.recvfd() doesn't check that
417 file descriptor was actually received.
418
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbbe46d62011-09-12 21:03:36 +0200419- Issue #12483: ctypes: Fix a crash when the destruction of a callback
420 object triggers the garbage collector.
421
Jesus Ceaaaa89912011-09-10 04:37:07 +0200422- Issue #12950: Fix passing file descriptors in multiprocessing, under
423 OpenIndiana/Illumos.
Charles-François Natali6cea35a2011-08-23 19:46:46 +0200424
Florent Xicluna023611f2011-10-23 22:40:37 +0200425Documentation
426-------------
427
Meador Ingea3443d92012-01-19 22:06:31 -0600428- Issue #12949: Document the kwonlyargcount argument for the PyCode_New
429 C API function.
430
Meador Inge972cfb92012-01-19 00:22:22 -0600431- Issue #2134: The tokenize documentation has been clarified to explain why
432 all operator and delimiter tokens are treated as token.OP tokens.
433
Meador Inge777bebb2011-12-03 12:29:54 -0600434- Issue #13513: Fix io.IOBase documentation to correctly link to the
435 io.IOBase.readline method instead of the readline module.
436
Nick Coghlanc29248f2011-11-08 20:49:23 +1000437- Issue #13237: Reorganise subprocess documentation to emphasise convenience
438 functions and the most commonly needed arguments to Popen.
439
Florent Xicluna023611f2011-10-23 22:40:37 +0200440- Issue #13141: Demonstrate recommended style for socketserver examples.
441
442
Benjamin Petersonc77eccd2011-07-03 13:31:34 -0500443What's New in Python 3.2.2?
444===========================
445
Georg Brandlb0993bc2011-09-03 11:17:55 +0200446*Release date: 03-Sep-2011*
Georg Brandl666ed0b2011-08-13 20:19:09 +0200447
448Core and Builtins
449-----------------
450
Victor Stinner4cf66042011-08-20 14:01:05 +0200451- Issue #12326: sys.platform is now always 'linux2' on Linux, even if Python
452 is compiled on Linux 3.
453
Benjamin Peterson40582112011-08-31 22:13:03 -0400454- Accept bytes for the AST string type. This is temporary until a proper fix in
455 3.3.
456
Georg Brandl666ed0b2011-08-13 20:19:09 +0200457Library
458-------
Victor Stinnera1bea6e2011-09-05 23:44:56 +0200459
Éric Araujobcf99ac2011-09-05 17:44:07 +0200460- Issue #8286: The distutils command sdist will print a warning message instead
461 of crashing when an invalid path is given in the manifest template.
Georg Brandl666ed0b2011-08-13 20:19:09 +0200462
Lars Gustäbel2e7ddd32011-09-05 16:58:14 +0200463- Issue #12841: tarfile unnecessarily checked the existence of numerical user
464 and group ids on extraction. If one of them did not exist the respective id
465 of the current user (i.e. root) was used for the file and ownership
466 information was lost.
467
Éric Araujod5a98112011-08-29 21:48:39 +0200468- Issue #10946: The distutils commands bdist_dumb, bdist_wininst and bdist_msi
469 now respect a --skip-build option given to bdist.
470
Nadeem Vawda97d67922011-08-28 11:26:46 +0200471- Issue #12839: Fix crash in zlib module due to version mismatch.
472 Fix by Richard M. Tew.
473
Georg Brandl89b7af12011-09-03 09:08:49 +0200474Extension Modules
475-----------------
476
477- Issue #9651: Fix a crash when ctypes.create_string_buffer(0) was passed to
478 some functions like file.write().
479
Nadeem Vawda97d67922011-08-28 11:26:46 +0200480
Georg Brandl666ed0b2011-08-13 20:19:09 +0200481
Georg Brandlb3f0ce42011-08-13 11:34:58 +0200482What's New in Python 3.2.2 release candidate 1?
483===============================================
Benjamin Petersonc77eccd2011-07-03 13:31:34 -0500484
Georg Brandlb3f0ce42011-08-13 11:34:58 +0200485*Release date: 14-Aug-2011*
Benjamin Petersonc77eccd2011-07-03 13:31:34 -0500486
487Core and Builtins
488-----------------
489
Benjamin Petersonf413b802011-08-12 22:17:18 -0500490- Issue #12732: In narrow unicode builds, allow Unicode identifiers which fall
491 outside the BMP.
492
Éric Araujocab106c2011-07-26 17:32:50 +0200493- Issue #11603: Fix a crash when __str__ is rebound as __repr__. Patch by
494 Andreas Stührk.
495
496- Issue #11321: Fix a crash with multiple imports of the _pickle module when
497 embedding Python. Patch by Andreas Stührk.
498
Benjamin Peterson2193d2b2011-07-22 10:50:23 -0500499- Verify the types of AST strings and identifiers provided by the user before
500 compiling them.
501
Eric V. Smith12ebefc2011-07-18 14:03:41 -0400502- Issue #12579: str.format_map() now raises a ValueError if used on a
503 format string that contains positional fields. Initial patch by
504 Julian Berman.
505
Barry Warsawd460a762011-07-19 18:28:30 -0400506- Issue #11627: Fix segfault when __new__ on a exception returns a
507 non-exception class.
Benjamin Peterson5afa03a2011-07-15 14:09:26 -0500508
Georg Brandle3bb2cf2011-09-04 08:10:25 +0200509- Issue #12149: Update the method cache after a type's dictionary gets
Antoine Pitrou84f1b172011-07-12 21:57:15 +0200510 cleared by the garbage collector. This fixes a segfault when an instance
511 and its type get caught in a reference cycle, and the instance's
512 deallocator calls one of the methods on the type (e.g. when subclassing
513 IOBase). Diagnosis and patch by Davide Rizzo.
514
Benjamin Petersonac913412011-07-03 16:25:11 -0500515- When a generator yields, do not retain the caller's exception state on the
516 generator.
517
Benjamin Peterson83195c32011-07-03 13:44:00 -0500518- Issue #12475: Prevent generators from leaking their exception state into the
Benjamin Peterson9cf960c2011-07-03 13:49:59 -0500519 caller's frame as they return for the last time.
Benjamin Peterson83195c32011-07-03 13:44:00 -0500520
Benjamin Petersonc77eccd2011-07-03 13:31:34 -0500521Library
522-------
523
Georg Brandl3abb3722011-08-13 11:48:12 +0200524- Issue #11513: Fix exception handling ``tarfile.TarFile.gzopen()`` when
525 the file cannot be opened.
526
Antoine Pitrouf6c7a852011-08-11 21:04:02 +0200527- Issue #12687: Fix a possible buffering bug when unpickling text mode
528 (protocol 0, mostly) pickles.
529
Senthil Kumaran9dc4cad2011-08-11 09:24:37 +0800530- Issue #10087: Fix the html output format of the calendar module.
531
Ned Deilye5cad232011-08-02 18:47:13 -0700532- Issue #12540: Prevent zombie IDLE processes on Windows due to changes
533 in os.kill().
534
Senthil Kumaran2a157d22011-08-03 18:37:22 +0800535- Issue #12683: urlparse updated to include svn as schemes that uses relative
536 paths. (svn from 1.5 onwards support relative path).
537
Éric Araujoab7c1b32011-07-31 04:06:12 +0200538- Issues #11104, #8688: Fix the behavior of distutils' sdist command with
539 manually-maintained MANIFEST files.
540
Charles-François Natalidef35432011-07-29 18:59:24 +0200541- Issue #12464: tempfile.TemporaryDirectory.cleanup() should not follow
542 symlinks: fix it. Patch by Petri Lehtinen.
543
Éric Araujoe64e51b2011-07-29 17:03:55 +0200544- Issue #8887: "pydoc somebuiltin.somemethod" (or help('somebuiltin.somemethod')
545 in Python code) now finds the doc of the method.
546
Charles-François Natali27c4e882011-07-27 19:40:02 +0200547- Issue #12603: Fix pydoc.synopsis() on files with non-negative st_mtime.
548
Raymond Hettinger3a081f52011-07-29 00:02:04 -0700549- Issue #12514: Use try/finally to assure the timeit module restores garbage
550 collections when it is done.
551
Ross Lagerwalld98646e2011-07-27 07:16:31 +0200552- Issue #12607: In subprocess, fix issue where if stdin, stdout or stderr is
553 given as a low fd, it gets overwritten.
554
Ned Deilyf25e3d52011-07-26 18:17:33 -0700555- Issue #12590: IDLE editor window now always displays the first line
556 when opening a long file. With Tk 8.5, the first line was hidden.
557
Senthil Kumaran1299a8f2011-07-27 08:05:58 +0800558- Issue #12576: Fix urlopen behavior on sites which do not send (or obfuscates)
559 Connection:close header.
560
Antoine Pitroucf9d3c02011-07-24 02:27:04 +0200561- Issue #1813: Fix codec lookup under Turkish locales.
562
Antoine Pitrouab85ff32011-07-23 22:03:45 +0200563- Issue #12591: Improve support of "universal newlines" in the subprocess
564 module: the piped streams can now be properly read from or written to.
565
Antoine Pitroue96ec682011-07-23 21:46:35 +0200566- Issue #12591: Allow io.TextIOWrapper to work with raw IO objects (without
567 a read1() method), and add an undocumented *write_through* parameter to
568 mandate unbuffered writes.
569
Éric Araujocab106c2011-07-26 17:32:50 +0200570- Issue #9611, #9015: FileIO.read() clamps the length to INT_MAX on Windows.
571
Nadeem Vawdace7e51e2011-07-23 15:16:23 +0200572- Issue #10883: Fix socket leaks in urllib.request when using FTP.
573
Antoine Pitrouc57ed912011-07-20 00:26:23 +0200574- Issue #12571: Add a plat-linux3 directory mirroring the plat-linux2
575 directory, so that "import DLFCN" and other similar imports work on
576 Linux 3.0.
577
R David Murray46346762011-07-18 21:38:54 -0400578- Issue #7484: smtplib no longer puts <> around addresses in VRFY and EXPN
579 commands; they aren't required and in fact postfix doesn't support that form.
580
Antoine Pitrou0b447952011-07-16 23:52:02 +0200581- Close the call queue in concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor when
582 shutdown() is called, without waiting for the garbage collector to kick in.
583
Charles-François Natali1f0ccfa2011-07-14 19:57:35 +0200584- Issue #12502: asyncore: fix polling loop with AF_UNIX sockets.
585
Éric Araujocab106c2011-07-26 17:32:50 +0200586- Issue #4376: ctypes now supports nested structures with an endianness
587 different than that of the parent structure. Patch by Vlad Riscutia.
Victor Stinner66361212011-07-13 21:43:18 +0200588
Antoine Pitroucb4ae812011-07-13 21:07:49 +0200589- Raise ValueError when attempting to set the _CHUNK_SIZE attribute of a
590 TextIOWrapper to a huge value, not TypeError.
591
Victor Stinner2cfb6f32011-07-05 14:00:56 +0200592- Issue #12493: subprocess: Popen.communicate() now also handles EINTR errors
593 if the process has only one pipe.
594
Victor Stinner91e08772011-07-05 14:30:41 +0200595- Issue #12451: pydoc: html_getfile() now uses tokenize.open() to support
Éric Araujocab106c2011-07-26 17:32:50 +0200596 Python modules using a encoding different than UTF-8 (reading the coding
597 cookie of the module).
Victor Stinner91e08772011-07-05 14:30:41 +0200598
Éric Araujocab106c2011-07-26 17:32:50 +0200599- Issue #12451: pydoc: importfile() now opens the Python module in binary mode,
Victor Stinnere975af62011-07-04 02:08:50 +0200600 instead of text mode using the locale encoding, to avoid encoding issues.
601
Éric Araujocab106c2011-07-26 17:32:50 +0200602- Issue #12451: runpy: run_path() now opens the Python module in binary mode,
Victor Stinner6c471022011-07-04 01:45:39 +0200603 instead of text mode using the locale encoding, to support other encodings
Éric Araujocab106c2011-07-26 17:32:50 +0200604 than UTF-8 (modules using the coding cookie).
Victor Stinner6c471022011-07-04 01:45:39 +0200605
Victor Stinnerbbdc08e2011-07-04 01:25:55 +0200606- Issue #12451: xml.dom.pulldom: parse() now opens files in binary mode instead
607 of the text mode (using the locale encoding) to avoid encoding issues.
608
Barry Warsawd460a762011-07-19 18:28:30 -0400609Extension Modules
610-----------------
611
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc02dd5392011-09-02 20:39:40 +0200612- Issue #12764: Fix a crash in ctypes when the name of a Structure field is not
613 a string.
614
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfaecc382011-08-30 22:02:51 +0200615- Issue #11241: subclasses of ctypes.Array can now be subclassed.
616
Barry Warsawd460a762011-07-19 18:28:30 -0400617- Issue #10309: Define _GNU_SOURCE so that mremap() gets the proper
618 signature. Without this, architectures where sizeof void* != sizeof int are
619 broken. Patch given by Hallvard B Furuseth.
620
Benjamin Petersonc77eccd2011-07-03 13:31:34 -0500621C-API
622-----
623
Éric Araujocab106c2011-07-26 17:32:50 +0200624Build
625-----
626
627- Issue #12560: Build libpython.so on OpenBSD. Patch by Stefan Sperling.
628
629- Issue #12592: Make Python build on OpenBSD 5 (and future major releases).
630
631- Issue #12372: POSIX semaphores are broken on AIX: don't use them.
632
Éric Araujo9e1af032011-07-26 18:25:14 +0200633Tools/Demos
634-----------
635
636- Issue #10639: reindent.py no longer converts newlines and will raise
637 an error if attempting to convert a file with mixed newlines.
Éric Araujocab106c2011-07-26 17:32:50 +0200638
Ned Deily41435352011-07-03 21:56:48 -0700639Tests
640-----
641
Éric Araujo548c0542011-07-31 17:58:46 +0200642- Issue #12331: The test suite for lib2to3 can now run from an installed
643 Python.
644
Antoine Pitroub9c73e82011-07-29 23:53:38 +0200645- Issue #12626: In regrtest, allow to filter tests using a glob filter
646 with the ``-m`` (or ``--match``) option. This works with all test cases
647 using the unittest module. This is useful with long test suites
648 such as test_io or test_subprocess.
649
Antoine Pitrou216a3bc2011-07-23 22:33:39 +0200650- Issue #12624: It is now possible to fail after the first failure when
651 running in verbose mode (``-v`` or ``-W``), by using the ``--failfast``
652 (or ``-G``) option to regrtest. This is useful with long test suites
653 such as test_io or test_subprocess.
654
Ned Deily2ea6fcc2011-07-19 16:15:27 -0700655- Issue #12587: Correct faulty test file and reference in test_tokenize.
656 (Patch by Robert Xiao)
657
Antoine Pitrou707f2282011-07-15 22:29:44 +0200658- Try harder to reap dangling threads in test.support.reap_threads().
659
Antoine Pitrouc081c0c2011-07-15 22:12:24 +0200660- Issue #12573: Add resource checks for dangling Thread and Process objects.
661
Ned Deily58e33502011-07-13 15:07:04 -0700662- Issue #12549: Correct test_platform to not fail when OS X returns 'x86_64'
663 as the processor type on some Mac systems.
664
Antoine Pitrou95531ea2011-07-08 19:43:51 +0200665- Avoid failing in test_robotparser when mueblesmoraleda.com is flaky and
666 an overzealous DNS service (e.g. OpenDNS) redirects to a placeholder
667 Web site.
668
Antoine Pitroub9ac25d2011-07-08 18:47:06 +0200669- Issue #12440: When testing whether some bits in SSLContext.options can be
670 reset, check the version of the OpenSSL headers Python was compiled against,
671 rather than the runtime version of the OpenSSL library.
672
Ned Deilye2d51902011-07-04 19:06:20 -0700673- Issue #12497: Install test/data to prevent failures of the various codecmaps
674 tests.
675
676- Issue #12496: Install test/capath directory to prevent test_connect_capath
Ned Deily8215f5d2011-07-04 17:48:01 -0700677 testcase failure in test_ssl.
678
Victor Stinnere40b3aa2011-07-04 17:35:10 +0200679- Issue #12469: Run "wakeup" signal tests in subprocess to run the test in a
680 fresh process with only one thread and to not change signal handling of the
681 parent process.
682
Ned Deily41435352011-07-03 21:56:48 -0700683- Issue #8716: Avoid crashes caused by Aqua Tk on OSX when attempting to run
684 test_tk or test_ttk_guionly under a username that is not currently logged
685 in to the console windowserver (as may be the case under buildbot or ssh).
686
687
Georg Brandl7d10a2d2011-07-04 08:20:48 +0200688What's New in Python 3.2.1?
689===========================
Antoine Pitroub4410db2011-05-18 18:51:06 +0200690
Georg Brandlcd0dc162011-07-09 08:56:21 +0200691*Release date: 10-Jul-2011*
Antoine Pitroub4410db2011-05-18 18:51:06 +0200692
Georg Brandl7d10a2d2011-07-04 08:20:48 +0200693Library
694-------
695
Victor Stinnerb1b25f02011-07-04 02:43:09 +0200696- Issue #12467: warnings: fix a race condition if a warning is emitted at
697 shutdown, if globals()['__file__'] is None.
698
Antoine Pitrou3aba4982011-07-08 19:19:57 +0200699Tests
700-----
701
Antoine Pitrou9163c472011-07-09 02:31:24 +0200702- Skip network tests when getaddrinfo() returns EAI_AGAIN, meaning a temporary
703 failure in name resolution.
704
Jesus Ceabc91b462011-11-08 16:24:43 +0100705- Issue #11812: Solve transient socket failure to connect to 'localhost'
706 in test_telnetlib.py.
707
Jesus Ceac241df82011-11-08 16:20:46 +0100708- Solved a potential deadlock in test_telnetlib.py. Related to issue #11812.
709
Antoine Pitrou3aba4982011-07-08 19:19:57 +0200710- Avoid failing in test_urllibnet.test_bad_address when some overzealous
711 DNS service (e.g. OpenDNS) resolves a non-existent domain name. The test
712 is now skipped instead.
713
Georg Brandl7d10a2d2011-07-04 08:20:48 +0200714
Antoine Pitroub4410db2011-05-18 18:51:06 +0200715What's New in Python 3.2.1 release candidate 2?
716===============================================
717
Georg Brandld4fa7ed2011-07-03 09:41:27 +0200718*Release date: 03-Jul-2011*
Antoine Pitroub4410db2011-05-18 18:51:06 +0200719
720Core and Builtins
721-----------------
722
Georg Brandl06ddddf2011-07-03 09:42:43 +0200723- Issue #12291: You can now load multiple marshalled objects from a stream, with
724 other data interleaved between marshalled objects.
Vinay Sajip5bdae3b2011-07-02 16:42:47 +0100725
Brian Curtind25aef52011-06-13 15:16:04 -0500726- Issue #12084: os.stat on Windows now works properly with relative symbolic
727 links when called from any directory.
728
Victor Stinner19c52332011-05-30 23:50:04 +0200729- Issue #1195: my_fgets() now always clears errors before calling fgets(). Fix
Victor Stinner4f711012011-05-30 23:46:00 +0200730 the following case: sys.stdin.read() stopped with CTRL+d (end of file),
731 raw_input() interrupted by CTRL+c.
732
Georg Brandl06ddddf2011-07-03 09:42:43 +0200733- Issue #9670: Increase the default stack size for secondary threads on Mac OS X
734 and FreeBSD to reduce the chances of a crash instead of a "maximum recursion
735 depth" RuntimeError exception (patch by Ronald Oussoren).
Ned Deily9a7c5242011-05-28 00:19:56 -0700736
Antoine Pitroub4410db2011-05-18 18:51:06 +0200737Library
738-------
739
R David Murrayac4e5ab2011-07-02 21:03:19 -0400740- Issue #12147: Adjust the new-in-3.2 smtplib.send_message method for better
Georg Brandl06ddddf2011-07-03 09:42:43 +0200741 conformance to the RFCs: correctly handle Sender and Resent headers.
R David Murrayac4e5ab2011-07-02 21:03:19 -0400742
Charles-François Natali778db492011-07-02 14:35:49 +0200743- Issue #12352: Fix a deadlock in multiprocessing.Heap when a block is freed by
744 the garbage collector while the Heap lock is held.
745
Victor Stinnereaf399e2011-06-30 18:10:14 +0200746- Issue #12451: The XInclude default loader of xml.etree now decodes files from
747 UTF-8 instead of the locale encoding if the encoding is not specified. It now
Georg Brandl06ddddf2011-07-03 09:42:43 +0200748 also opens XML files for the parser in binary mode instead of the text mode to
749 avoid encoding issues.
750
751- Issue #12451: doctest.debug_script() doesn't create a temporary file anymore
Victor Stinnereaf399e2011-06-30 18:10:14 +0200752 to avoid encoding issues.
753
Georg Brandl06ddddf2011-07-03 09:42:43 +0200754- Issue #12451: pydoc.synopsis() now reads the encoding cookie if available, to
Éric Araujoaa95ccd2011-07-29 03:28:40 +0200755 read the Python module from the right encoding.
Victor Stinnere6c910e2011-06-30 15:55:43 +0200756
Victor Stinnerdc9b1ea2011-06-30 15:40:22 +0200757- Issue #12451: distutils now opens the setup script in binary mode to read the
758 encoding cookie, instead of opening it in UTF-8.
759
Ned Deily657b2de2011-06-28 19:51:30 -0700760- Issue #9516: On Mac OS X, change Distutils to no longer globally attempt to
761 check or set the MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET environment variable for the
762 interpreter process. This could cause failures in non-Distutils subprocesses
763 and was unreliable since tests or user programs could modify the interpreter
764 environment after Distutils set it. Instead, have Distutils set the the
765 deployment target only in the environment of each build subprocess. It is
766 still possible to globally override the default by setting
767 MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET before launching the interpreter; its value must be
768 greater or equal to the default value, the value with which the interpreter
769 was built.
770
Victor Stinnerf1512a22011-06-21 17:18:38 +0200771- Issue #12383: Fix subprocess module with env={}: don't copy the environment
772 variables, start with an empty environment.
773
Georg Brandl06ddddf2011-07-03 09:42:43 +0200774- Issue #11584: email.header.decode_header no longer fails if the header passed
775 to it is a Header object, and Header/make_header no longer fail if given
776 binary unknown-8bit input.
R David Murray6bdb1762011-06-18 12:30:55 -0400777
R David Murrayc88bce12011-06-17 22:24:05 -0400778- Issue #11700: mailbox proxy object close methods can now be called multiple
779 times without error.
780
R David Murray05ff9902011-06-17 12:54:56 -0400781- Issue #11767: Correct file descriptor leak in mailbox's __getitem__ method.
782
Victor Stinnera4c45d72011-06-17 14:01:18 +0200783- Issue #12133: AbstractHTTPHandler.do_open() of urllib.request closes the HTTP
784 connection if its getresponse() method fails with a socket error. Patch
785 written by Ezio Melotti.
786
Benjamin Peterson9620cc02011-06-11 15:53:11 -0500787- Issue #9284: Allow inspect.findsource() to find the source of doctest
788 functions.
789
Benjamin Peterson9aa68e42011-06-10 12:29:40 -0500790- Issue #12009: Fixed regression in netrc file comment handling.
791
R David Murray4fbb9db2011-06-09 15:50:51 -0400792- Issue #10694: zipfile now ignores garbage at the end of a zipfile.
793
R David Murray0f663d02011-06-09 15:05:57 -0400794- Issue #12283: Fixed regression in smtplib quoting of leading dots in DATA.
795
Vinay Sajip8168d102011-06-09 16:50:49 +0100796- Issue #12168: SysLogHandler now allows NUL termination to be controlled using
797 a new 'append_nul' attribute on the handler.
798
Brian Curtin9c669cc2011-06-08 18:17:18 -0500799- Issue #11583: Speed up os.path.isdir on Windows by using GetFileAttributes
800 instead of os.stat.
801
Raymond Hettinger3d890572011-06-02 23:40:24 -0700802- Named tuples now work correctly with vars().
803
Victor Stinner87b9bc32011-06-01 00:57:47 +0200804- Issue #12085: Fix an attribute error in subprocess.Popen destructor if the
805 constructor has failed, e.g. because of an undeclared keyword argument. Patch
806 written by Oleg Oshmyan.
807
Georg Brandl06ddddf2011-07-03 09:42:43 +0200808- Issue #985064: Make plistlib more resilient to faulty input plists. Patch by
809 Mher Movsisyan.
Ned Deilyb8e59f72011-05-28 02:19:19 -0700810
Victor Stinnera80987f2011-05-25 22:47:16 +0200811- Issue #12175: RawIOBase.readall() now returns None if read() returns None.
812
Victor Stinnerb79f28c2011-05-25 22:09:03 +0200813- Issue #12175: FileIO.readall() now raises a ValueError instead of an IOError
814 if the file is closed.
815
Victor Stinner1273b7c2011-05-24 23:37:07 +0200816- Issue #12070: Fix the Makefile parser of the sysconfig module to handle
817 correctly references to "bogus variable" (e.g. "prefix=$/opt/python").
818
Victor Stinner6bcbef72011-05-24 22:17:55 +0200819- Issue #12100: Don't reset incremental encoders of CJK codecs at each call to
820 their encode() method anymore, but continue to call the reset() method if the
821 final argument is True.
822
Charles-François Natali7b54e752011-05-24 18:23:15 +0200823- Issue #5715: In socketserver, close the server socket in the child process.
824
Benjamin Petersonf5fcd332011-05-23 16:22:42 -0500825- Correct lookup of __dir__ on objects. Among other things, this causes errors
826 besides AttributeError found on lookup to be propagated.
827
Victor Stinner4925cde2011-05-20 00:16:09 +0200828- Issue #12124: zipimport doesn't keep a reference to zlib.decompress() anymore
829 to be able to unload the module.
830
Antoine Pitroub4410db2011-05-18 18:51:06 +0200831- Issue #12065: connect_ex() on an SSL socket now returns the original errno
832 when the socket's timeout expires (it used to return None).
833
Benjamin Peterson0aa71f72011-05-31 19:06:17 -0500834Extension Modules
835-----------------
Ronald Oussoren02a67ac2011-05-17 12:44:54 +0200836
Éric Araujocab106c2011-07-26 17:32:50 +0200837- Issue #12404: Remove C89 incompatible code from mmap module. Patch by Akira
838 Kitada.
839
Benjamin Peterson0aa71f72011-05-31 19:06:17 -0500840- Issue #12221: Replace pyexpat.__version__ with the Python version.
841
Ned Deily6e5fd042011-05-28 05:59:55 -0700842Build
843-----
844
Ned Deily3eb67d52011-06-28 00:00:28 -0700845- Issue #8746: Correct faulty configure checks so that os.chflags() and
Georg Brandl06ddddf2011-07-03 09:42:43 +0200846 os.lchflags() are once again built on systems that support these functions
847 (*BSD and OS X). Also add new stat file flags for OS X (UF_HIDDEN and
848 UF_COMPRESSED).
Ned Deily3eb67d52011-06-28 00:00:28 -0700849
Georg Brandl06ddddf2011-07-03 09:42:43 +0200850- Issue #11217: For 64-bit/32-bit Mac OS X universal framework builds, ensure
851 "make install" creates symlinks in --prefix bin for the "-32" files in the
852 framework bin directory like the installer does.
Antoine Pitroub4410db2011-05-18 18:51:06 +0200853
Jason R. Coombs76748b72011-07-26 11:18:40 -0400854
Victor Stinneree497972011-05-31 00:01:24 +0200855Tests
856-----
857
Antoine Pitrou71cbafb2011-06-30 20:02:54 +0200858- Issue #12407: Explicitly skip test_capi.EmbeddingTest under Windows.
859
Victor Stinnera7c33e52011-06-29 13:00:54 +0200860- Issue #12400: regrtest -W doesn't rerun the tests twice anymore, but captures
861 the output and displays it on failure instead. regrtest -v doesn't print the
862 error twice anymore if there is only one error.
863
Georg Brandl06ddddf2011-07-03 09:42:43 +0200864- Issue #12141: Install a copy of template C module file so that test_build_ext
865 of test_distutils is no longer silently skipped when run outside of a build
866 directory.
Ned Deily58f27b22011-06-28 00:42:50 -0700867
Georg Brandl06ddddf2011-07-03 09:42:43 +0200868- Issue #8746: Add additional tests for os.chflags() and os.lchflags(). Patch
869 by Garrett Cooper.
Ned Deily3eb67d52011-06-28 00:00:28 -0700870
Georg Brandl06ddddf2011-07-03 09:42:43 +0200871- Issue #10736: Fix test_ttk test_widgets failures with Cocoa Tk 8.5.9 on Mac
872 OS X. (Patch by Ronald Oussoren)
Ned Deily11f00f32011-06-27 23:12:20 -0700873
Victor Stinneree497972011-05-31 00:01:24 +0200874- Issue #12057: Add tests for ISO 2022 codecs (iso2022_jp, iso2022_jp_2,
875 iso2022_kr).
876
Victor Stinner4445ec82011-05-20 00:18:58 +0200877
Georg Brandl758b85e2011-05-15 09:49:19 +0200878What's New in Python 3.2.1 release candidate 1?
879===============================================
Martin v. Löwis7be5b782011-02-21 16:26:47 +0000880
Georg Brandl5673e272011-05-15 17:52:42 +0200881*Release date: 15-May-2011*
Martin v. Löwis7be5b782011-02-21 16:26:47 +0000882
883Core and Builtins
884-----------------
885
Victor Stinner2ec6b172011-05-15 10:21:59 +0200886- Issue #12060: Use sig_atomic_t type and volatile keyword in the signal
887 module. Patch written by Charles-François Natali.
888
Gregory P. Smithc9557af2011-05-11 22:18:23 -0700889- Issue #12044: Fixed subprocess.Popen when used as a context manager to
890 wait for the process to end when exiting the context to avoid unintentionally
891 leaving zombie processes around.
892
Victor Stinner4755ab02011-05-10 00:19:53 +0200893- Issue #1195: Fix input() if it is interrupted by CTRL+d and then CTRL+c,
894 clear the end-of-file indicator after CTRL+d.
895
Georg Brandl758b85e2011-05-15 09:49:19 +0200896Library
897-------
898
Ronald Oussoren5ee05672011-05-17 14:48:40 +0200899- Issue #11088: don't crash when using F5 to run a script in IDLE on MacOSX
900 with Tk 8.5.
901
Victor Stinner9cd66262011-05-16 16:32:33 +0200902- Issue #9516: Issue #9516: avoid errors in sysconfig when MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET
Ronald Oussoren447fcfb2011-05-15 16:50:28 +0200903 is set in shell.
904
Georg Brandl758b85e2011-05-15 09:49:19 +0200905- Issue #12012: ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv2 becomes optional.
906
907- Issue #8650: Make zlib module 64-bit clean. compress(), decompress() and
908 their incremental counterparts now raise OverflowError if given an input
909 larger than 4GB, instead of silently truncating the input and returning
910 an incorrect result.
911
912- Issue #12050: zlib.decompressobj().decompress() now clears the unconsumed_tail
913 attribute when called without a max_length argument.
914
915- Issue #12062: Fix a flushing bug when doing a certain type of I/O sequence
916 on a file opened in read+write mode (namely: reading, seeking a bit forward,
917 writing, then seeking before the previous write but still within buffered
918 data, and writing again).
919
920- Issue #1028: Tk returns invalid Unicode null in %A: UnicodeDecodeError.
921 With Tk < 8.5 _tkinter.c:PythonCmd() raised UnicodeDecodeError, caused
922 IDLE to exit. Converted to valid Unicode null in PythonCmd().
923
924- Issue #11169: compileall module uses repr() to format filenames and paths to
925 escape surrogate characters and show spaces.
926
927- Issue #10419, #6011: build_scripts command of distutils handles correctly
928 non-ASCII path (path to the Python executable). Open and write the script in
929 binary mode, but ensure that the shebang is decodable from UTF-8 and from the
930 encoding of the script.
931
932- Issue #8498: In socket.accept(), allow to specify 0 as a backlog value in
933 order to accept exactly one connection. Patch by Daniel Evers.
934
935- Issue #11164: Stop trying to use _xmlplus in the xml module.
936
937Build
938-----
939
940- Issue #11347: Use --no-as-needed when linking libpython3.so.
941
942Tools/Demos
943-----------
944
945- Issue #11996: libpython (gdb), replace "py-bt" command by "py-bt-full" and
946 add a smarter "py-bt" command printing a classic Python traceback.
947
948Tests
949-----
950
Victor Stinner3349bca2011-05-18 00:16:14 +0200951- Issue #12096: Fix a race condition in test_threading.test_waitfor(). Patch
952 written by Charles-François Natali.
953
Victor Stinner9cd66262011-05-16 16:32:33 +0200954- Issue #11614: import __hello__ prints "Hello World!". Patch written by
955 Andreas Stührk.
956
Georg Brandl758b85e2011-05-15 09:49:19 +0200957- Issue #5723: Improve json tests to be executed with and without accelerations.
958
959- Issue #11910: Fix test_heapq to skip the C tests when _heapq is missing.
960
961
962What's New in Python 3.2.1 beta 1?
963==================================
964
965*Release date: 08-May-2011*
966
967Core and Builtins
968-----------------
969
Antoine Pitrou0d5e52d2011-05-04 20:02:30 +0200970- Issue #1856: Avoid crashes and lockups when daemon threads run while the
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +0200971 interpreter is shutting down; instead, these threads are now killed when they
972 try to take the GIL.
Antoine Pitrou0d5e52d2011-05-04 20:02:30 +0200973
Victor Stinner3249dec2011-05-01 23:19:15 +0200974- Issue #9756: When calling a method descriptor or a slot wrapper descriptor,
975 the check of the object type doesn't read the __class__ attribute anymore.
976 Fix a crash if a class override its __class__ attribute (e.g. a proxy of the
Victor Stinner13aaef52011-05-01 23:46:48 +0200977 str type). Patch written by Andreas Stührk.
Victor Stinner3249dec2011-05-01 23:19:15 +0200978
Victor Stinner3cbf14b2011-04-27 00:24:21 +0200979- Issue #10914: Initialize correctly the filesystem codec when creating a new
980 subinterpreter to fix a bootstrap issue with codecs implemented in Python, as
981 the ISO-8859-15 codec.
982
Antoine Pitrou0c759fe2011-04-27 19:28:05 +0200983- Issue #10517: After fork(), reinitialize the TLS used by the PyGILState_*
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +0200984 APIs, to avoid a crash with the pthread implementation in RHEL 5. Patch by
985 Charles-François Natali.
Antoine Pitrou0c759fe2011-04-27 19:28:05 +0200986
Ezio Melottiba42fd52011-04-26 06:09:45 +0300987- Issue #6780: fix starts/endswith error message to mention that tuples are
988 accepted too.
989
Ezio Melotti2df6a932011-04-15 16:38:34 +0300990- Issue #5057: fix a bug in the peepholer that led to non-portable pyc files
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +0200991 between narrow and wide builds while optimizing BINARY_SUBSCR on non-BMP chars
992 (e.g. "\U00012345"[0]).
Ezio Melotti2df6a932011-04-15 16:38:34 +0300993
Ezio Melotti982ef4e2011-04-15 08:15:40 +0300994- Issue #11845: Fix typo in rangeobject.c that caused a crash in
995 compute_slice_indices. Patch by Daniel Urban.
996
Victor Stinner52c950f2011-04-09 15:55:44 +0200997- Issue #11650: PyOS_StdioReadline() retries fgets() if it was interrupted
998 (EINTR), for example if the program is stopped with CTRL+z on Mac OS X. Patch
999 written by Charles-Francois Natali.
1000
Victor Stinnere0daff12011-03-20 23:36:35 +01001001- Issue #11395: io.FileIO().write() clamps the data length to 32,767 bytes on
1002 Windows if the file is a TTY to workaround a Windows bug. The Windows console
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +02001003 returns an error (12: not enough space error) on writing into stdout if stdout
1004 mode is binary and the length is greater than 66,000 bytes (or less, depending
1005 on heap usage).
Victor Stinnere0daff12011-03-20 23:36:35 +01001006
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +02001007- Issue #11320: fix bogus memory management in Modules/getpath.c, leading to a
1008 possible crash when calling Py_SetPath().
Antoine Pitrou819be342011-03-17 23:36:13 +01001009
Raymond Hettinger29dcaad2011-03-15 14:50:16 -07001010- Issue #11510: Fixed optimizer bug which turned "a,b={1,1}" into "a,b=(1,1)".
1011
Gregory P. Smith28edfee2011-03-15 16:02:10 -04001012- Issue #11432: A bug was introduced in subprocess.Popen on posix systems with
1013 3.2.0 where the stdout or stderr file descriptor being the same as the stdin
1014 file descriptor would raise an exception. webbrowser.open would fail. fixed.
1015
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +02001016- Issue #11450: Don't truncate hg version info in Py_GetBuildInfo() when there
1017 are many tags (e.g. when using mq). Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
Antoine Pitrou7983d332011-03-09 12:34:41 +01001018
Victor Stinner2b574a22011-03-01 22:48:49 +00001019- Issue #11246: Fix PyUnicode_FromFormat("%V") to decode the byte string from
1020 UTF-8 (with replace error handler) instead of ISO-8859-1 (in strict mode).
1021 Patch written by Ray Allen.
1022
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +02001023- Issue #11286: Raise a ValueError from calling PyMemoryView_FromBuffer with a
1024 buffer struct having a NULL data pointer.
Antoine Pitrou915605c2011-02-24 20:53:48 +00001025
Victor Stinner02bfdb32011-02-23 12:10:23 +00001026- Issue #11272: On Windows, input() strips '\r' (and not only '\n'), and
1027 sys.stdin uses universal newline (replace '\r\n' by '\n').
1028
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +02001029- issue #11828: startswith and endswith don't accept None as slice index. Patch
1030 by Torsten Becker.
Jesus Ceaac451502011-04-20 17:09:23 +02001031
Victor Stinner659eb842011-02-23 12:14:22 +00001032- Issue #10830: Fix PyUnicode_FromFormatV("%c") for non-BMP characters on
1033 narrow build.
1034
Martin v. Löwis7be5b782011-02-21 16:26:47 +00001035- Check for NULL result in PyType_FromSpec.
1036
Eli Benderskye0c8635d82011-03-04 05:10:57 +00001037- Issue #11386: bytearray.pop() now throws IndexError when the bytearray is
1038 empty, instead of OverflowError.
1039
Antoine Pitrouf3d22752011-02-21 18:09:00 +00001040Library
1041-------
Antoine Pitroubc7f20c2010-12-17 17:44:45 +00001042
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +02001043- Issue #11927: SMTP_SSL now uses port 465 by default as documented. Patch by
1044 Kasun Herath.
Antoine Pitrouc1d52062011-05-07 19:39:37 +02001045
Giampaolo Rodola'24befa82011-05-07 19:09:34 +02001046- Issue #12002: ftplib's abort() method raises TypeError.
1047
Ezio Melotti1c3fd582011-05-08 19:58:08 +03001048- Issue #11999: fixed sporadic sync failure mailbox.Maildir due to its trying to
R David Murraycaed7fe2011-05-06 22:07:19 -04001049 detect mtime changes by comparing to the system clock instead of to the
1050 previous value of the mtime.
1051
Ronald Oussoren6355c162011-05-06 17:11:07 +02001052- ntpath.samefile failed to notice that "a.txt" and "A.TXT" refer to the same
1053 file on Windows XP. As noticed in issue #10684.
1054
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +02001055- Issue #12000: When a SSL certificate has a subjectAltName without any dNSName
1056 entry, ssl.match_hostname() should use the subject's commonName. Patch by
1057 Nicolas Bareil.
Antoine Pitrou1c86b442011-05-06 15:19:49 +02001058
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +02001059- Issue #11647: objects created using contextlib.contextmanager now support more
1060 than one call to the function when used as a decorator. Initial patch by Ysj
1061 Ray.
Nick Coghlan0ded3e32011-05-05 23:49:25 +10001062
Victor Stinnercafa2ef2011-05-02 16:11:28 +02001063- logging: don't define QueueListener if Python has no thread support.
1064
Raymond Hettinger003be522011-05-03 11:01:32 -07001065- functools.cmp_to_key() now works with collections.Hashable().
1066
Victor Stinnera6cd0cf2011-05-02 01:05:37 +02001067- Issue #11277: mmap.mmap() calls fcntl(fd, F_FULLFSYNC) on Mac OS X to get
1068 around a mmap bug with sparse files. Patch written by Steffen Daode Nurpmeso.
1069
Łukasz Langa90759a22011-04-30 09:36:35 +02001070- Issue #11858: configparser.ExtendedInterpolation expected lower-case section
1071 names.
1072
1073- Issue #11324: ConfigParser(interpolation=None) now works correctly.
1074
Ezio Melotti935a5882011-04-27 10:17:34 +03001075- Issue #11763: don't use difflib in TestCase.assertMultiLineEqual if the
1076 strings are too long.
1077
Senthil Kumaran72387f92011-04-26 21:09:49 +08001078- Issue #11236: getpass.getpass responds to ctrl-c or ctrl-z on terminal.
1079
Victor Stinner6c9b35b2011-04-18 16:25:56 +02001080- Issue #11768: The signal handler of the signal module only calls
1081 Py_AddPendingCall() for the first signal to fix a deadlock on reentrant or
1082 parallel calls. PyErr_SetInterrupt() writes also into the wake up file.
1083
R David Murray01581ee2011-04-18 10:04:34 -04001084- Issue #11492: fix several issues with header folding in the email package.
1085
Vinay Sajipe723e962011-04-15 22:27:17 +01001086- Issue #11852: Add missing imports and update tests.
1087
Raymond Hettinger019a97c2011-04-19 10:21:27 -07001088- Issue #11875: collections.OrderedDict's __reduce__ was temporarily
1089 mutating the object instead of just working on a copy.
1090
Ezio Melotti2df6a932011-04-15 16:38:34 +03001091- Issue #11467: Fix urlparse behavior when handling urls which contains scheme
Senthil Kumaran397eb442011-04-15 18:20:24 +08001092 specific part only digits. Patch by Santoso Wijaya.
1093
Raymond Hettinger1c746c22011-04-15 13:16:46 -07001094- collections.Counter().copy() now works correctly for subclasses.
1095
Senthil Kumaran2d2ea1b2011-04-14 13:16:30 +08001096- Issue #11474: Fix the bug with url2pathname() handling of '/C|/' on Windows.
1097 Patch by Santoso Wijaya.
1098
Ezio Melotti04c64232011-04-13 07:18:24 +03001099- Issue #9233: Fix json.loads('{}') to return a dict (instead of a list), when
1100 _json is not available.
Alexander Belopolsky1a20c122011-04-12 23:03:39 -04001101
Ezio Melotti04c64232011-04-13 07:18:24 +03001102- Issue #11830: Remove unnecessary introspection code in the decimal module.
Ezio Melottic7533052011-04-13 07:04:18 +03001103
1104- Issue #11703: urllib2.geturl() does not return correct url when the original
Senthil Kumaran60f02a62011-04-13 09:21:01 +08001105 url contains #fragment.
Ezio Melottic7533052011-04-13 07:04:18 +03001106
R David Murray3dd02d62011-04-12 21:02:45 -04001107- Issue #10019: Fixed regression in json module where an indent of 0 stopped
1108 adding newlines and acted instead like 'None'.
Senthil Kumaran60f02a62011-04-13 09:21:01 +08001109
brian.curtinf7eac1f2011-04-11 18:18:20 -05001110- Issue #5162: Treat services like frozen executables to allow child spawning
1111 from multiprocessing.forking on Windows.
1112
Antoine Pitroubed9a5b2011-04-11 00:20:23 +02001113- Issue #11814: Fix likely typo in multiprocessing.Pool._terminate().
1114
Raymond Hettinger49353d02011-04-11 12:40:58 -07001115- Issue #11747: Fix range formatting in difflib.context_diff() and
1116 difflib.unified_diff().
1117
Antoine Pitrou81dee6b2011-04-11 00:18:59 +02001118- Issue #8428: Fix a race condition in multiprocessing.Pool when terminating
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +02001119 worker processes: new processes would be spawned while the pool is being shut
1120 down. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
Antoine Pitrou81dee6b2011-04-11 00:18:59 +02001121
Ezio Melotti2e3607c2011-04-07 22:03:31 +03001122- Issue #7311: fix html.parser to accept non-ASCII attribute values.
1123
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +02001124- Issue #11605: email.parser.BytesFeedParser was incorrectly converting
Éric Araujof0ab5d62011-05-29 03:43:59 +02001125 multipart subparts with an 8-bit CTE into unicode instead of preserving the
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +02001126 bytes.
R David Murrayc5c14722011-04-06 08:13:02 -04001127
Ross Lagerwall4f61b022011-04-05 15:34:00 +02001128- Issue #10963: Ensure that subprocess.communicate() never raises EPIPE.
1129
Antoine Pitrou9c254862011-04-03 18:15:34 +02001130- Issue #11746: Fix SSLContext.load_cert_chain() to accept elliptic curve
1131 private keys.
1132
Victor Stinner27181ac2011-03-31 13:39:03 +02001133- sys.getfilesystemencoding() raises a RuntimeError if initfsencoding() was not
1134 called yet: detect bootstrap (startup) issues earlier.
1135
Antoine Pitrou7899acf2011-03-31 01:00:32 +02001136- Issue #11618: Fix the timeout logic in threading.Lock.acquire() under Windows.
1137
Benjamin Peterson6a2638b2011-03-28 17:32:31 -05001138- Issue #11256: Fix inspect.getcallargs on functions that take only keyword
1139 arguments.
1140
Martin v. Löwisf8d887e2011-03-27 21:05:51 +02001141- Issue #11696: Fix ID generation in msilib.
1142
Mark Dickinson92b60d52011-03-27 16:25:40 +01001143- Issue #9696: Fix exception incorrectly raised by xdrlib.Packer.pack_int when
1144 trying to pack a negative (in-range) integer.
1145
Mark Dickinsonccd22832011-03-27 15:46:32 +01001146- Issue #11675: multiprocessing.[Raw]Array objects created from an integer size
1147 are now zeroed on creation. This matches the behaviour specified by the
1148 documentation.
1149
Martin v. Löwisa6e0b4f2011-03-27 10:14:57 +02001150- Issue #7639: Fix short file name generation in bdist_msi
Martin v. Löwis9bad3a92011-03-27 10:12:07 +02001151
Ross Lagerwallb8a57692011-03-26 21:19:57 +02001152- Issue #11659: Fix ResourceWarning in test_subprocess introduced by #11459.
1153 Patch by Ben Hayden.
1154
Antoine Pitrouc13d4542011-03-26 19:29:44 +01001155- Issue #11635: Don't use polling in worker threads and processes launched by
1156 concurrent.futures.
1157
Raymond Hettingera0d1d962011-03-21 17:50:28 -07001158- Issue #11628: cmp_to_key generated class should use __slots__
1159
Raymond Hettinger1103d052011-03-25 14:15:24 -07001160- Issue #11666: let help() display named tuple attributes and methods
1161 that start with a leading underscore.
1162
Guido van Rossum20d2ab42011-03-29 12:58:29 -07001163- Issue #11662: Make urllib and urllib2 ignore redirections if the
1164 scheme is not HTTP, HTTPS or FTP (CVE-2011-1521).
1165
Victor Stinner628225c2011-03-21 02:38:51 +01001166- Issue #5537: Fix time2isoz() and time2netscape() functions of
1167 httplib.cookiejar for expiration year greater than 2038 on 32-bit systems.
1168
Senthil Kumaran799c6692011-03-20 09:26:57 +08001169- Issue #11563: Connection:close header is sent by requests using URLOpener
1170 class which helps in closing of sockets after connection is over. Patch
1171 contributions by Jeff McNeil and Nadeem Vawda.
1172
Antoine Pitrou877766d2011-03-19 17:00:37 +01001173- Issue #11459: A ``bufsize`` value of 0 in subprocess.Popen() really creates
1174 unbuffered pipes, such that select() works properly on them.
1175
Antoine Pitrou5e981412011-03-17 22:38:37 +01001176- Issue #5421: Fix misleading error message when one of socket.sendto()'s
1177 arguments has the wrong type. Patch by Nikita Vetoshkin.
Michael Foordf40834f2011-03-17 13:47:12 -04001178
1179- Issue #10979: unittest stdout buffering now works with class and module
1180 setup and teardown.
1181
Nick Coghlanb3c728f2011-03-16 21:26:40 -04001182- Issue #11577: fix ResourceWarning triggered by improved binhex test coverage
1183
R David Murraya2150232011-03-16 21:11:23 -04001184- Issue #11243: fix the parameter querying methods of Message to work if
1185 the headers contain un-encoded non-ASCII data.
1186
R David Murrayde912762011-03-16 18:26:23 -04001187- Issue #11401: fix handling of headers with no value; this fixes a regression
1188 relative to Python2 and the result is now the same as it was in Python2.
1189
R David Murray6d94bd42011-03-16 15:52:22 -04001190- Issue #9298: base64 bodies weren't being folded to line lengths less than 78,
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +02001191 which was a regression relative to Python2. Unlike Python2, the last line of
1192 the folded body now ends with a carriage return.
R David Murray6d94bd42011-03-16 15:52:22 -04001193
Nick Coghlan454e11d2011-03-16 14:19:22 -04001194- Issue #11560: shutil.unpack_archive now correctly handles the format
Nick Coghlan296d9a62011-03-16 14:14:18 -04001195 parameter. Patch by Evan Dandrea.
1196
Michael Foorddcebe0f2011-03-15 19:20:44 -04001197- Issue #11133: fix two cases where inspect.getattr_static can trigger code
Benjamin Petersona78e4e62011-03-16 10:29:19 -05001198 execution. Patch by Andreas Stührk.
Michael Foorddcebe0f2011-03-15 19:20:44 -04001199
Ronald Oussoren0b8753d2011-03-16 09:41:32 -04001200- Issue #11569: use absolute path to the sysctl command in multiprocessing to
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +02001201 ensure that it will be found regardless of the shell PATH. This ensures that
1202 multiprocessing.cpu_count works on default installs of MacOSX.
Ronald Oussoren0b8753d2011-03-16 09:41:32 -04001203
Antoine Pitrou2c50a092011-03-15 21:02:59 +01001204- Issue #11501: disutils.archive_utils.make_zipfile no longer fails if zlib is
1205 not installed. Instead, the zipfile.ZIP_STORED compression is used to create
1206 the ZipFile. Patch by Natalia B. Bidart.
1207
R David Murray56a9d7e2011-03-15 12:20:02 -04001208- Issue #11554: Fixed support for Japanese codecs; previously the body output
1209 encoding was not done if euc-jp or shift-jis was specified as the charset.
1210
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +02001211- Issue #11500: Fixed a bug in the os x proxy bypass code for fully qualified IP
1212 addresses in the proxy exception list.
Ronald Oussorenf2db4de2011-03-14 18:46:50 -04001213
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +02001214- Issue #11491: dbm.error is no longer raised when dbm.open is called with the
1215 "n" as the flag argument and the file exists. The behavior matches the
1216 documentation and general logic.
briancurtin525c25d2011-03-14 16:03:54 -04001217
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +02001218- Issue #11131: Fix sign of zero in decimal.Decimal plus and minus operations
1219 when the rounding mode is ROUND_FLOOR.
Mark Dickinson37a79fb2011-03-12 11:12:52 +00001220
Ned Deilyd2853182011-03-09 02:36:51 -08001221- Issue #5622: Fix curses.wrapper to raise correct exception if curses
1222 initialization fails.
1223
Antoine Pitrou16a0a0b2011-03-06 01:11:03 +01001224- Issue #11391: Writing to a mmap object created with
1225 ``mmap.PROT_READ|mmap.PROT_EXEC`` would segfault instead of raising a
1226 TypeError. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
1227
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +02001228- Issue #11306: mailbox in certain cases adapts to an inability to open certain
1229 files in read-write mode. Previously it detected this by checking for EACCES,
1230 now it also checks for EROFS.
R. David Murray752b9502011-03-03 18:12:34 +00001231
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +02001232- Issue #11265: asyncore now correctly handles EPIPE, EBADF and EAGAIN errors on
1233 accept(), send() and recv().
Giampaolo Rodolà9c9105d2011-03-03 13:59:28 +00001234
Antoine Pitrou86cbfec2011-02-26 23:25:34 +00001235- Issue #11326: Add the missing connect_ex() implementation for SSL sockets,
1236 and make it work for non-blocking connects.
1237
Antoine Pitrou5d5381e2011-02-25 23:14:08 +00001238- Issue #7322: Trying to read from a socket's file-like object after a timeout
1239 occurred now raises an error instead of silently losing data.
1240
Antoine Pitroud843c2d2011-02-25 21:34:39 +00001241- Issue #10956: Buffered I/O classes retry reading or writing after a signal
1242 has arrived and the handler returned successfully.
1243
Lars Gustäbel9f6cbe02011-02-23 11:52:31 +00001244- Issue #11224: Fixed a regression in tarfile that affected the file-like
1245 objects returned by TarFile.extractfile() regarding performance, memory
1246 consumption and failures with the stream interface.
1247
Brett Cannon45b96d32011-02-22 03:35:18 +00001248- Issue #11074: Make 'tokenize' so it can be reloaded.
1249
Antoine Pitrou97696cb2011-02-21 23:46:27 +00001250- Issue #4681: Allow mmap() to work on file sizes and offsets larger than
1251 4GB, even on 32-bit builds. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall, adapted for
1252 32-bit Windows.
1253
Raymond Hettingere6603602011-02-21 19:38:53 +00001254- Issue #11089: Fix performance issue limiting the use of ConfigParser()
Victor Stinner02bfdb32011-02-23 12:10:23 +00001255 with large config files.
Raymond Hettingere6603602011-02-21 19:38:53 +00001256
Antoine Pitrouf3d22752011-02-21 18:09:00 +00001257- Issue #10276: Fix the results of zlib.crc32() and zlib.adler32() on buffers
1258 larger than 4GB. Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
1259
Steven Bethard006ba5c2011-03-26 18:29:48 +01001260- Issue #9348: Raise an early error if argparse nargs and metavar don't match.
1261
Steven Bethardd8f2d502011-03-26 19:50:06 +01001262- Issue #8982: Improve the documentation for the argparse Namespace object.
1263
Steven Bethardd186f992011-03-26 21:49:00 +01001264- Issue #9343: Document that argparse parent parsers must be configured before
1265 their children.
1266
Steven Bethard8a6a1982011-03-27 13:53:53 +02001267- Issue #9026: Fix order of argparse sub-commands in help messages.
1268
Steven Bethard7cb20a82011-04-04 01:53:02 +02001269- Issue #9347: Fix formatting for tuples in argparse type= error messages.
1270
Ned Deilya16b05b2011-02-21 20:52:58 +00001271Build
1272-----
1273
Thomas Wouters6b103432011-03-06 11:51:24 -08001274- Issue #11411: Fix 'make DESTDIR=' with a relative destination.
1275
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +02001276- Issue #11268: Prevent Mac OS X Installer failure if Documentation package had
1277 previously been installed.
Ned Deilya16b05b2011-02-21 20:52:58 +00001278
Raymond Hettingerf6445e82011-04-12 18:30:14 -07001279IDLE
1280----
1281
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +02001282- Issue #11718: IDLE's open module dialog couldn't find the __init__.py file in
1283 a package.
Raymond Hettingerf6445e82011-04-12 18:30:14 -07001284
Antoine Pitrou375ff582011-03-11 20:57:11 +01001285Tools/Demos
1286-----------
1287
1288- Issue #11179: Make ccbench work under Python 3.1 and 2.7 again.
1289
Ezio Melotti06383ee2011-05-07 18:15:34 +03001290Extension Modules
1291-----------------
1292
Ezio Melotti13672652011-05-11 01:02:56 +03001293- Issue #12051: Fix segfault in json.dumps() while encoding highly-nested
1294 objects using the C accelerations.
1295
Ezio Melotti06383ee2011-05-07 18:15:34 +03001296- Issue #12017: Fix segfault in json.loads() while decoding highly-nested
1297 objects using the C accelerations.
Benjamin Peterson1a07f072011-03-26 18:17:05 -05001298
1299- Issue #1838: Prevent segfault in ctypes, when _as_parameter_ on a class is set
1300 to an instance of the class.
1301
Antoine Pitroua47c25d2011-02-21 21:58:42 +00001302Tests
1303-----
1304
R David Murray66a18fd2011-05-05 11:52:44 -04001305- Issue #11873: Change regex in test_compileall to fix occasional failures when
1306 when the randomly generated temporary path happened to match the regex.
1307
Antoine Pitrou72562d02011-04-25 21:22:04 +02001308- Issue #10914: Add a minimal embedding test to test_capi.
1309
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +02001310- Issue #11790: Fix sporadic failures in
1311 test_multiprocessing.WithProcessesTestCondition.
Antoine Pitrouf25a8de2011-04-16 21:02:01 +02001312
Antoine Pitrouee429342011-04-16 18:53:59 +02001313- Fix possible "file already exists" error when running the tests in parallel.
1314
Ross Lagerwall226580e2011-04-09 20:05:04 +02001315- Issue #11719: Fix message about unexpected test_msilib skip on non-Windows
1316 platforms. Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
1317
Antoine Pitroue44b1252011-03-23 23:02:31 +01001318- Issue #11653: fix -W with -j in regrtest.
1319
Nick Coghlanb3c728f2011-03-16 21:26:40 -04001320- Issue #11577: improve test coverage of binhex.py. Patch by Arkady Koplyarov.
1321
Éric Araujof0ab5d62011-05-29 03:43:59 +02001322- Issue #11578: added test for the timeit module. Patch by Michael Henry.
R David Murraya88da672011-03-16 17:32:27 -04001323
Michael Foord07926f02011-03-16 17:19:16 -04001324- Issue #11503: improve test coverage of posixpath.py. Patch by Evan Dandrea.
1325
Nick Coghlan7462fa62011-03-16 14:30:45 -04001326- Issue #11505: improves test coverage of string.py. Patch by Alicia
1327 Arlen.
1328
Nick Coghlan296d9a62011-03-16 14:14:18 -04001329- Issue #11548: Improve test coverage of the shutil module. Patch by
1330 Evan Dandrea.
1331
R David Murray56a9d7e2011-03-15 12:20:02 -04001332- Issue #11554: Reactivated test_email_codecs.
1333
R David Murray384069c2011-03-13 22:26:53 -04001334- Issue #11490: test_subprocess:test_leaking_fds_on_error no longer gives a
1335 false positive if the last directory in the path is inaccessible.
1336
Antoine Pitroud3cccd22011-03-13 19:14:21 +01001337- Issue #11223: Fix test_threadsignals to fail, not hang, when the
1338 non-semaphore implementation of locks is used under POSIX.
1339
Victor Stinnerf0e293c2011-03-01 23:09:57 +00001340- Issue #10911: Add tests on CGI with non-ASCII characters. Patch written by
1341 Pierre Quentel.
1342
Antoine Pitrou4914f9e2011-02-26 16:49:08 +00001343- Issue #9931: Fix hangs in GUI tests under Windows in certain conditions.
1344 Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
1345
Antoine Pitroua47c25d2011-02-21 21:58:42 +00001346- Issue #10826: Prevent sporadic failure in test_subprocess on Solaris due
1347 to open door files.
1348
Ross Lagerwall810b94a2011-04-10 09:30:04 +02001349Documentation
1350-------------
1351
1352- Issue #11818: Fix tempfile examples for Python 3.
1353
Martin v. Löwis7be5b782011-02-21 16:26:47 +00001354
Georg Brandld5852182011-02-14 06:35:00 +00001355What's New in Python 3.2?
1356=========================
1357
1358*Release date: 20-Feb-2011*
1359
1360Core and Builtins
1361-----------------
1362
Georg Brandl032400b2011-02-19 21:47:02 +00001363- Issue #11249: Fix potential crashes when using the limited API.
1364
Georg Brandl9a829be2011-02-15 15:44:51 +00001365Build
1366-----
1367
Georg Brandl6e8d17c2011-02-19 08:47:14 +00001368- Issue #11222: Fix non-framework shared library build on Mac OS X.
1369
Georg Brandl216e4042011-02-19 08:58:23 +00001370- Issue #11184: Fix large-file support on AIX.
1371
Georg Brandl9a829be2011-02-15 15:44:51 +00001372- Issue #941346: Fix broken shared library build on AIX.
1373
Georg Brandl6c9ba242011-02-19 08:44:47 +00001374Documentation
1375-------------
1376
1377- Issue #10709: Add updated AIX notes in Misc/README.AIX.
1378
Georg Brandld5852182011-02-14 06:35:00 +00001379
Georg Brandla6d12ef2011-02-13 10:00:57 +00001380What's New in Python 3.2 Release Candidate 3?
1381=============================================
Georg Brandl6b449ba2011-01-31 10:39:57 +00001382
Georg Brandla6d12ef2011-02-13 10:00:57 +00001383*Release date: 13-Feb-2011*
Georg Brandl6b449ba2011-01-31 10:39:57 +00001384
1385Core and Builtins
1386-----------------
1387
Martin v. Löwiscc7e23a2011-02-11 20:50:24 +00001388- Issue #11134: Add missing fields to typeslots.h.
1389
Martin v. Löwis69168062011-02-11 20:47:49 +00001390- Issue #11135: Remove redundant doc field from PyType_Spec.
1391
Georg Brandl260a7882011-02-20 10:29:04 +00001392- Issue #11067: Add PyType_GetFlags, to support PyUnicode_Check in the limited
1393 ABI.
Martin v. Löwis738236d2011-02-05 20:35:29 +00001394
Martin v. Löwisd77520a2011-02-04 19:09:02 +00001395- Issue #11118: Fix bogus export of None in python3.dll.
1396
Georg Brandl6b449ba2011-01-31 10:39:57 +00001397Library
1398-------
1399
Georg Brandl260a7882011-02-20 10:29:04 +00001400- Issue #11116: any error during addition of a message to a mailbox now causes a
1401 rollback, instead of leaving the mailbox partially modified.
R. David Murrayfc141142011-02-11 22:47:17 +00001402
Georg Brandl260a7882011-02-20 10:29:04 +00001403- Issue #11132: Fix passing of "optimize" parameter when recursing in
1404 compileall.compile_dir().
Georg Brandl45438462011-02-07 12:36:54 +00001405
Brett Cannone1445072011-02-04 20:24:02 +00001406- Issue #11110: Fix a potential decref of a NULL in sqlite3.
1407
Georg Brandl260a7882011-02-20 10:29:04 +00001408- Issue #8275: Fix passing of callback arguments with ctypes under Win64. Patch
1409 by Stan Mihai.
Antoine Pitrou0ea622a2011-01-31 21:08:57 +00001410
Martin v. Löwis9b142aa2011-02-05 20:26:52 +00001411Build
1412-----
1413
Georg Brandl260a7882011-02-20 10:29:04 +00001414- Issue #11079: The /Applications/Python x.x folder created by the Mac OS X
1415 installers now includes a link to the installed documentation and no longer
1416 includes an Extras directory. The Tools directory is now installed in the
1417 framework under share/doc.
Ned Deilyeb698da2011-02-07 16:44:19 +00001418
Martin v. Löwis9b142aa2011-02-05 20:26:52 +00001419- Issue #11121: Fix building with --enable-shared.
1420
Nick Coghlanef316572011-02-07 13:43:07 +00001421Tests
1422-----
1423
Georg Brandl260a7882011-02-20 10:29:04 +00001424- Issue #10971: test_zipimport_support is once again compatible with the refleak
1425 hunter feature of test.regrtest.
Nick Coghlanef316572011-02-07 13:43:07 +00001426
Georg Brandl6b449ba2011-01-31 10:39:57 +00001427
Georg Brandl0c5036f2011-01-16 08:44:50 +00001428What's New in Python 3.2 Release Candidate 2?
1429=============================================
1430
Georg Brandld6e19c32011-01-30 14:03:33 +00001431*Release date: 30-Jan-2011*
Georg Brandl0c5036f2011-01-16 08:44:50 +00001432
1433Core and Builtins
1434-----------------
1435
Antoine Pitrouad62b032011-01-18 18:57:52 +00001436- Issue #10451: memoryview objects could allow to mutate a readable buffer.
1437 Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1438
Georg Brandl0c5036f2011-01-16 08:44:50 +00001439Library
1440-------
1441
R. David Murrayb7deff12011-01-30 06:21:28 +00001442- Issue #9124: mailbox now accepts binary input and reads and writes mailbox
1443 files in binary mode, using the email package's binary support to parse
1444 arbitrary email messages. StringIO and text file input is deprecated,
1445 and string input fails early if non-ASCII characters are used, where
1446 previously it would fail when the email was processed in a later step.
1447
Nick Coghlan793ee1f2011-01-30 01:24:08 +00001448- Issue #10845: Mitigate the incompatibility between the multiprocessing
1449 module on Windows and the use of package, zipfile or directory execution
1450 by special casing main modules that actually *are* called __main__.py.
1451
Éric Araujoac4e58e2011-01-29 20:32:11 +00001452- Issue #11045: Protect logging call against None argument.
1453
Ned Deily5c2d3302011-01-29 19:10:26 +00001454- Issue #11052: Correct IDLE menu accelerators on Mac OS X for Save
1455 commands.
1456
Ned Deily806c9442011-01-29 18:43:56 +00001457- Issue #11053: Fix IDLE "Syntax Error" windows to behave as in 2.x,
1458 preventing a confusing hung appearance on OS X with the windows
1459 obscured.
1460
Ned Deily70063932011-01-29 18:29:01 +00001461- Issue #10940: Workaround an IDLE hang on Mac OS X 10.6 when using the
1462 menu accelerators for Open Module, Go to Line, and New Indent Width.
1463 The accelerators still work but no longer appear in the menu items.
1464
Victor Stinner80f75e62011-01-29 11:31:20 +00001465- Issue #10989: Fix a crash on SSLContext.load_verify_locations(None, True).
1466
Raymond Hettinger8b5eb2f2011-01-27 00:06:54 +00001467- Issue #11020: Command-line pyclbr was broken because of missing 2-to-3
1468 conversion.
1469
R. David Murray7372a072011-01-26 21:21:32 +00001470- Issue #11019: Fixed BytesGenerator so that it correctly handles a Message
1471 with a None body.
1472
Raymond Hettingera63a3122011-01-26 20:34:14 +00001473- Issue #11014: Make 'filter' argument in tarfile.Tarfile.add() into a
1474 keyword-only argument. The preceding positional argument was deprecated,
1475 so it made no sense to add filter as a positional argument.
1476
Raymond Hettinger512d2cc2011-01-25 21:32:39 +00001477- Issue #11004: Repaired edge case in deque.count().
1478
Ned Deily122539e2011-01-24 21:46:44 +00001479- Issue #10974: IDLE no longer crashes if its recent files list includes files
1480 with non-ASCII characters in their path names.
1481
Raymond Hettingerbf1d2bc2011-01-24 04:52:27 +00001482- Have hashlib.algorithms_available and hashlib.algorithms_guaranteed both
1483 return sets instead of one returning a tuple and the other a frozenset.
1484
Antoine Pitroue6d4c5b2011-01-23 17:12:25 +00001485- Issue #10987: Fix the recursion limit handling in the _pickle module.
1486
Georg Brandlc7c199f2011-01-22 22:06:24 +00001487- Issue #10983: Fix several bugs making tunnel requests in http.client.
1488
Victor Stinnerf2e439f2011-01-23 00:11:58 +00001489- Issue #10955: zipimport uses ASCII encoding instead of cp437 to decode
Victor Stinner4ee65a92011-01-22 10:30:29 +00001490 filenames, at bootstrap, if the codec registry is not ready yet. It is still
1491 possible to have non-ASCII filenames using the Unicode flag (UTF-8 encoding)
Victor Stinner137e0f02011-01-22 10:33:01 +00001492 for all file entries in the ZIP file.
Victor Stinner4ee65a92011-01-22 10:30:29 +00001493
Vinay Sajip01241d62011-01-21 23:35:57 +00001494- Issue #10949: Improved robustness of rotating file handlers.
1495
Antoine Pitrou305bc9e2011-01-20 21:07:24 +00001496- Issue #10955: Fix a potential crash when trying to mmap() a file past its
1497 length. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1498
Antoine Pitroue47e0932011-01-19 15:21:35 +00001499- Issue #10898: Allow compiling the posix module when the C library defines
1500 a symbol named FSTAT.
1501
Armin Ronacher8d96d772011-01-22 13:13:05 +00001502- Issue #10980: the HTTP server now encodes headers with iso-8859-1 (latin1)
1503 encoding. This is the preferred encoding of PEP 3333 and the base encoding
1504 of HTTP 1.1.
1505
Armin Ronacher59531282011-01-22 13:44:22 +00001506- To match the behaviour of HTTP server, the HTTP client library now also
1507 encodes headers with iso-8859-1 (latin1) encoding. It was already doing
1508 that for incoming headers which makes this behaviour now consistent in
1509 both incoming and outgoing direction.
1510
Steven Bethardb0270112011-01-24 21:02:50 +00001511- Issue #9509: argparse now properly handles IOErrors raised by
1512 argparse.FileType.
Georg Brandl0c5036f2011-01-16 08:44:50 +00001513
Georg Brandld2f38572011-01-30 08:37:19 +00001514- Issue #10961: The new pydoc server now better handles exceptions raised
1515 during request handling.
1516
Georg Brandl0f6b47a2011-01-30 12:19:35 +00001517- Issue #10680: Fix mutually exclusive arguments for argument groups in
1518 argparse.
1519
Ned Deilye59e4c52011-01-29 18:56:28 +00001520Build
1521-----
1522
1523- Issue #11054: Allow Mac OS X installer builds to again work on 10.5 with
1524 the system-provided Python.
1525
1526
Raymond Hettinger8ebe27f2010-12-21 19:24:26 +00001527What's New in Python 3.2 Release Candidate 1
1528============================================
1529
Georg Brandl3988ed82011-01-15 17:08:53 +00001530*Release date: 16-Jan-2011*
1531
Raymond Hettinger8ebe27f2010-12-21 19:24:26 +00001532Core and Builtins
1533-----------------
1534
Nick Coghlaneea594b2011-01-16 13:08:48 +00001535- Issue #10889: range indexing and slicing now works correctly on ranges with
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001536 a length that exceeds sys.maxsize.
Nick Coghlaneea594b2011-01-16 13:08:48 +00001537
Benjamin Peterson477ba912011-01-12 15:34:01 +00001538- Issue #10892: Don't segfault when trying to delete __abstractmethods__ from a
1539 class.
1540
Antoine Pitrou3be412d2011-01-07 21:47:02 +00001541- Issue #8020: Avoid a crash where the small objects allocator would read
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001542 non-Python managed memory while it is being modified by another thread. Patch
1543 by Matt Bandy.
Antoine Pitrou3be412d2011-01-07 21:47:02 +00001544
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001545- Issue #10841: On Windows, set the binary mode on stdin, stdout, stderr and all
1546 io.FileIO objects (to not translate newlines, \r\n <=> \n). The Python parser
1547 translates newlines (\r\n => \n).
Victor Stinner89e34362011-01-07 18:47:22 +00001548
Martin v. Löwisc83bc3c2011-01-06 19:15:47 +00001549- Remove buffer API from stable ABI for now, see #10181.
1550
Victor Stinnerb3c9e072011-01-04 02:07:34 +00001551- Issue #8651: PyArg_Parse*() functions raise an OverflowError if the file
1552 doesn't have PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN define and the size doesn't fit in an int
1553 (length bigger than 2^31-1 bytes).
1554
Victor Stinnerdc555402011-01-04 13:15:39 +00001555- Issue #9015, #9611: FileIO.readinto(), FileIO.write(), os.write() and
Victor Stinnerc655a722011-07-05 11:31:49 +02001556 stdprinter.write() clamp the length to INT_MAX on Windows.
Victor Stinnere6edec22011-01-04 00:29:35 +00001557
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca251a852011-01-03 00:19:11 +00001558- Issue #8278: On Windows and with a NTFS filesystem, os.stat() and os.utime()
1559 can now handle dates after 2038.
1560
Victor Stinner92be9392010-12-28 00:28:21 +00001561- Issue #10780: PyErr_SetFromWindowsErrWithFilename() and
1562 PyErr_SetExcFromWindowsErrWithFilename() decode the filename from the
1563 filesystem encoding instead of UTF-8.
1564
Victor Stinnercb428f02010-12-27 20:10:36 +00001565- Issue #10779: PyErr_WarnExplicit() decodes the filename from the filesystem
1566 encoding instead of UTF-8.
1567
Georg Brandl8aa7e992010-12-28 18:30:18 +00001568- Add sys.flags attribute for the new -q command-line option.
1569
Benjamin Peterson62f8bcb2011-04-12 18:34:30 -05001570- Issue #11506: Trying to assign to a bytes literal should result in a
1571 SyntaxError.
1572
Raymond Hettinger8ebe27f2010-12-21 19:24:26 +00001573Library
1574-------
1575
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001576- Issue #10916: mmap should not segfault when a file is mapped using 0 as length
1577 and a non-zero offset, and an attempt to read past the end of file is made
1578 (IndexError is raised instead). Patch by Ross Lagerwall.
Antoine Pitrou85f46152011-01-15 16:17:07 +00001579
Ronald Oussoren6edd8c12011-05-17 13:03:54 +02001580- Issue #10154, #10090: change the normalization of UTF-8 to "UTF-8" instead
1581 of "UTF8" in the locale module as the latter is not supported MacOSX and OpenBSD.
1582
Ronald Oussoren78349b02011-05-06 10:57:22 +02001583- Issue #10684: shutil.move used to delete a folder on case insensitive
1584 filesystems when the source and destination name where the same except
1585 for the case.
1586
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001587- Issue #10907: Warn OS X 10.6 IDLE users to use ActiveState Tcl/Tk 8.5, rather
1588 than the currently problematic Apple-supplied one, when running with the
1589 64-/32-bit installer variant.
Ned Deily4ce92b22011-01-15 04:37:12 +00001590
Victor Stinner5c23b8e2011-01-14 13:05:21 +00001591- Issue #4953: cgi.FieldStorage and cgi.parse() parse the request as bytes, not
1592 as unicode, and accept binary files. Add encoding and errors attributes to
Victor Stinnerc5982962011-01-14 14:11:45 +00001593 cgi.FieldStorage. Patch written by Pierre Quentel (with many inputs by Glenn
1594 Linderman).
Victor Stinner5c23b8e2011-01-14 13:05:21 +00001595
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001596- Add encoding and errors arguments to urllib.parse_qs() and urllib.parse_qsl().
Victor Stinnerac71c542011-01-14 12:52:12 +00001597
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001598- Issue #10899: No function type annotations in the standard library. Removed
1599 function type annotations from _pyio.py.
Raymond Hettinger3c940242011-01-12 23:39:31 +00001600
Terry Reedyaacfd4a2011-01-10 21:27:49 +00001601- Issue #10875: Update Regular Expression HOWTO; patch by 'SilentGhost'.
1602
Antoine Pitroua4815ca2011-01-09 20:38:15 +00001603- Issue #10872: The repr() of TextIOWrapper objects now includes the mode
1604 if available.
1605
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001606- Issue #10869: Fixed bug where ast.increment_lineno modified the root node
1607 twice.
Georg Brandl619e7ba2011-01-09 07:38:51 +00001608
R. David Murray5b2d9dd2011-01-09 02:35:24 +00001609- Issue #5871: email.header.Header.encode now raises an error if any
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001610 continuation line in the formatted value has no leading white space and looks
1611 like a header. Since Generator uses Header to format all headers, this check
1612 is made for all headers in any serialized message at serialization time. This
1613 provides protection against header injection attacks.
R. David Murray5b2d9dd2011-01-09 02:35:24 +00001614
Antoine Pitrou67b212e2011-01-08 09:55:31 +00001615- Issue #10859: Make ``contextlib.GeneratorContextManager`` officially
1616 private by renaming it to ``_GeneratorContextManager``.
1617
Raymond Hettinger23f9fc32011-01-08 07:01:56 +00001618- Issue #10042: Fixed the total_ordering decorator to handle cross-type
1619 comparisons that could lead to infinite recursion.
1620
R. David Murray92532142011-01-07 23:25:30 +00001621- Issue #10686: the email package now :rfc:`2047`\ -encodes headers with
Éric Araujof0ab5d62011-05-29 03:43:59 +02001622 non-ASCII bytes (parsed by a BytesParser) when doing conversion to 7bit-clean
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001623 presentation, instead of replacing them with ?s.
R. David Murray92532142011-01-07 23:25:30 +00001624
Éric Araujof0ab5d62011-05-29 03:43:59 +02001625- email.header.Header was incorrectly encoding folding whitespace when
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001626 rfc2047-encoding header values with embedded newlines, leaving them without
1627 folding whitespace. It now uses the continuation_ws, as it does for
1628 continuation lines that it creates itself.
R. David Murray6f0022d2011-01-07 21:57:25 +00001629
Victor Stinner3ec899f2011-01-08 16:37:47 +00001630- Issue #1777412, #10827: Changed the rules for 2-digit years. The
1631 time.asctime(), time.ctime() and time.strftime() functions will now format
1632 any year when ``time.accept2dyear`` is False and will accept years >= 1000
1633 otherwise. ``time.mktime`` and ``time.strftime`` now accept full range
1634 supported by the OS. With Visual Studio or on Solaris, the year is limited to
1635 the range [1; 9999]. Conversion of 2-digit years to 4-digit is deprecated.
Alexander Belopolskyc64708a2011-01-07 19:59:19 +00001636
Antoine Pitroue85da7a2011-01-06 18:25:55 +00001637- Issue #7858: Raise an error properly when os.utime() fails under Windows
1638 on an existing file.
1639
Antoine Pitroub715fac2011-01-06 17:17:04 +00001640- Issue #3839: wsgiref should not override a Content-Length header set by
1641 the application. Initial patch by Clovis Fabricio.
1642
Victor Stinner4bd81722011-01-06 00:49:38 +00001643- Issue #10492: bdb.Bdb.run() only traces the execution of the code, not the
1644 compilation (if the input is a string).
1645
Antoine Pitrou600232b2011-01-05 21:03:42 +00001646- Issue #7995: When calling accept() on a socket with a timeout, the returned
Antoine Pitroudc51a3c2011-01-05 22:43:26 +00001647 socket is now always blocking, regardless of the operating system.
Antoine Pitrou600232b2011-01-05 21:03:42 +00001648
Victor Stinner8786d3d2011-01-05 03:56:22 +00001649- Issue #10756: atexit normalizes the exception before displaying it. Patch by
1650 Andreas Stührk.
Victor Stinner358e11d2011-01-05 03:54:25 +00001651
R. David Murray477efb32011-01-05 01:39:32 +00001652- Issue #10790: email.header.Header.append's charset logic now works correctly
1653 for charsets whose output codec is different from its input codec.
1654
Victor Stinnerc3a51ec2011-01-04 11:00:45 +00001655- Issue #10819: SocketIO.name property returns -1 when its closed, instead of
1656 raising a ValueError, to fix repr().
1657
Victor Stinner8848c7a2011-01-04 02:07:36 +00001658- Issue #8650: zlib.compress() and zlib.decompress() raise an OverflowError if
1659 the input buffer length doesn't fit into an unsigned int (length bigger than
1660 2^32-1 bytes).
1661
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001662- Issue #6643: Reinitialize locks held within the threading module after fork to
1663 avoid a potential rare deadlock or crash on some platforms.
Gregory P. Smith4d419682011-01-03 21:09:23 +00001664
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001665- Issue #10806, issue #9905: Fix subprocess pipes when some of the standard file
1666 descriptors (0, 1, 2) are closed in the parent process. Initial patch by Ross
1667 Lagerwall.
Antoine Pitrouc9c83ba2011-01-03 18:23:55 +00001668
Michael Foord32e1d832011-01-03 17:00:11 +00001669- `unittest.TestCase` can be instantiated without a method name; for simpler
1670 exploration from the interactive interpreter.
1671
Martin v. Löwis9f6d48b2011-01-03 00:07:01 +00001672- Issue #10798: Reject supporting concurrent.futures if the system has too
1673 few POSIX semaphores.
1674
Victor Stinnerb6f42402011-01-02 19:50:36 +00001675- Issue #10807: Remove base64, bz2, hex, quopri, rot13, uu and zlib codecs from
1676 the codec aliases. They are still accessible via codecs.lookup().
1677
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001678- Issue #10801: In zipfile, support different encodings for the header and the
1679 filenames.
Georg Brandl5ba11de2011-01-01 10:09:32 +00001680
Georg Brandld30a0dd2011-01-01 10:07:30 +00001681- Issue #6285: IDLE no longer crashes on missing help file; patch by Scott
1682 David Daniels.
Terry Reedy554e6fa2011-01-01 02:54:11 +00001683
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001684- Fix collections.OrderedDict.setdefault() so that it works in subclasses that
1685 define __missing__().
Raymond Hettingera673b1f2010-12-31 23:16:17 +00001686
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001687- Issue #10786: unittest.TextTestRunner default stream no longer bound at import
1688 time. `sys.stderr` now looked up at instantiation time. Fix contributed by
1689 Mark Roddy.
Michael Foord6f17e2d2010-12-30 19:36:29 +00001690
Éric Araujod8c73c62011-03-21 03:15:22 +01001691- Issue #10753: Characters ';', '=' and ',' in the PATH_INFO environment variable
1692 won't be quoted when the URI is constructed by the wsgiref.util's request_uri
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001693 method. According to RFC 3986, these characters can be a part of params in
1694 PATH component of URI and need not be quoted.
Senthil Kumaran299fa4c2010-12-29 06:25:42 +00001695
Georg Brandld30a0dd2011-01-01 10:07:30 +00001696- Issue #10738: Fix webbrowser.Opera.raise_opts.
Terry Reedydad532f2010-12-28 19:30:19 +00001697
Georg Brandld30a0dd2011-01-01 10:07:30 +00001698- Issue #9824: SimpleCookie now encodes , and ; in values to cater to how
R. David Murraye05ca2a2010-12-28 18:54:13 +00001699 browsers actually parse cookies.
1700
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001701- Issue #9333: os.symlink now available regardless of user privileges. The
1702 function now raises OSError on Windows >=6.0 when the user is unable to create
1703 symbolic links. XP and 2003 still raise NotImplementedError.
Brian Curtin3b4499c2010-12-28 14:31:47 +00001704
Victor Stinnerde3aa7f2010-12-29 02:44:42 +00001705- Issue #10783: struct.pack() no longer implicitly encodes unicode to UTF-8.
Victor Stinnerda9ec992010-12-28 13:26:42 +00001706
Georg Brandl68eb4642010-12-28 11:02:12 +00001707- Issue #10730: Add SVG mime types to mimetypes module.
1708
Georg Brandl780d5e02010-12-28 10:56:20 +00001709- Issue #10768: Make the Tkinter ScrolledText widget work again.
1710
Georg Brandl90b20672010-12-28 10:38:33 +00001711- Issue #10777: Fix "dictionary changed size during iteration" bug in
1712 ElementTree register_namespace().
1713
Vinay Sajip67981ec2010-12-27 18:34:25 +00001714- Issue #10626: test_logging now preserves logger disabled states.
1715
1716- Issue #10774: test_logging now removes temp files created during tests.
1717
R. David Murrayb4ca59b2010-12-26 19:54:29 +00001718- Issue #5258/#10642: if site.py encounters a .pth file that generates an error,
1719 it now prints the filename, line number, and traceback to stderr and skips
1720 the rest of that individual file, instead of stopping processing entirely.
1721
Victor Stinner667d4b52010-12-25 22:40:32 +00001722- Issue #10763: subprocess.communicate() closes stdout and stderr if both are
1723 pipes (bug specific to Windows).
1724
R. David Murraydfd7eb02010-12-24 22:36:49 +00001725- Issue #1693546: fix email.message RFC 2231 parameter encoding to be in better
1726 compliance (no "s around encoded values).
1727
Raymond Hettinger1e7efdf2010-12-24 10:04:00 +00001728- Improved the diff message in the unittest module's assertCountEqual().
1729
R. David Murray4a62e892010-12-23 20:35:46 +00001730- Issue #1155362: email.utils.parsedate_tz now handles a missing space before
1731 the '-' of a timezone field as well as before a '+'.
1732
R. David Murray8d855d82010-12-21 21:53:37 +00001733- Issue #4871: The zipfile module now gives a more useful error message if
1734 an attempt is made to use a string to specify the archive password.
1735
Antoine Pitrou7f8f4182010-12-21 21:20:59 +00001736- Issue #10750: The ``raw`` attribute of buffered IO objects is now read-only.
1737
Raymond Hettinger8dff4ba2010-12-31 23:23:06 +00001738- Deprecated assertDictContainsSubset() in the unittest module.
Raymond Hettinger8ebe27f2010-12-21 19:24:26 +00001739
Antoine Pitrou23683ef2011-01-04 00:00:31 +00001740C-API
1741-----
1742
Antoine Pitrou5ace8e92011-01-15 13:11:48 +00001743- Issue #10913: Deprecate misleading functions PyEval_AcquireLock() and
1744 PyEval_ReleaseLock(). The thread-state aware APIs should be used instead.
1745
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001746- Issue #10333: Remove ancient GC API, which has been deprecated since Python
1747 2.2.
Antoine Pitrou23683ef2011-01-04 00:00:31 +00001748
Georg Brandlff52f762010-12-28 09:51:43 +00001749Build
1750-----
1751
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001752- Issue #10843: Update third-party library versions used in OS X 32-bit
1753 installer builds: bzip2 1.0.6, readline 6.1.2, SQLite 3.7.4 (with FTS3/FTS4
1754 and RTREE enabled), and ncursesw 5.5 (wide-char support enabled).
Ned Deily4f7ff782011-01-15 05:29:12 +00001755
Ned Deily9a1383e2011-01-10 22:14:25 +00001756- Issue #10820: Fix OS X framework installs to support version-specific
1757 scripts (#10679).
1758
Antoine Pitrouf3fcd9f2011-01-03 18:53:50 +00001759- Issue #7716: Under Solaris, don't assume existence of /usr/xpg4/bin/grep in
1760 the configure script but use $GREP instead. Patch by Fabian Groffen.
1761
Antoine Pitrouc2244582011-01-02 19:34:03 +00001762- Issue #10475: Don't hardcode compilers for LDSHARED/LDCXXSHARED on NetBSD
1763 and DragonFly BSD. Patch by Nicolas Joly.
1764
Georg Brandlff52f762010-12-28 09:51:43 +00001765- Issue #10679: The "idle", "pydoc" and "2to3" scripts are now installed with
1766 a version-specific suffix on "make altinstall".
1767
David Malcolmf1397ad2011-01-06 17:01:36 +00001768- Issue #10655: Fix the build on PowerPC on Linux with GCC when building with
1769 timestamp profiling (--with-tsc): the preprocessor test for the PowerPC
1770 support now looks for "__powerpc__" as well as "__ppc__": the latter seems to
1771 only be present on OS X; the former is the correct one for Linux with GCC.
1772
Ronald Oussoren25032492011-03-14 10:11:59 -04001773- Issue #1099: Fix the build on MacOSX when building a framework with pydebug
1774 using GCC 4.0.
1775
Georg Brandl59b44722010-12-30 22:12:40 +00001776Tools/Demos
1777-----------
1778
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001779- Issue #10843: Install the Tools directory on OS X in the applications Extras
1780 (/Applications/Python 3.n/Extras/) where the Demo directory had previous been
1781 installed.
Ned Deily916f2a82011-01-15 05:05:53 +00001782
Georg Brandl59b44722010-12-30 22:12:40 +00001783- Issue #7962: The Demo directory is gone. Most of the old and unmaintained
1784 demos have been removed, others integrated in documentation or a new
1785 Tools/demo subdirectory.
1786
Michael Foord90efac72011-01-03 15:39:49 +00001787- Issue #10502: Addition of the unittestgui tool. Originally by Steve Purcell.
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001788 Updated for test discovery by Mark Roddy and Python 3 compatibility by Brian
1789 Curtin.
Michael Foord90efac72011-01-03 15:39:49 +00001790
Antoine Pitrou3c4402f2011-01-03 20:38:52 +00001791Tests
1792-----
1793
Nadeem Vawda58de6ee2011-04-19 01:38:47 +02001794- Fix test_startfile to wait for child process to terminate before finishing.
1795
Antoine Pitrou318b8f32011-01-12 18:45:27 +00001796- Issue #10822: Fix test_posix:test_getgroups failure under Solaris. Patch
1797 by Ross Lagerwall.
1798
Brett Cannon63eef1e2011-01-06 22:32:41 +00001799- Make the --coverage flag work for test.regrtest.
1800
Antoine Pitrouca023ca2011-01-06 09:05:22 +00001801- Issue #1677694: Refactor and improve test_timeout. Original patch by
1802 Björn Lindqvist.
1803
Antoine Pitrou452196f2011-01-05 18:44:14 +00001804- Issue #5485: Add tests for the UseForeignDTD method of expat parser objects.
1805 Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone and Sandro Tosi.
1806
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001807- Issue #6293: Have regrtest.py echo back sys.flags. This is done by default in
1808 whole runs and enabled selectively using ``--header`` when running an explicit
1809 list of tests. Original patch by Collin Winter.
Antoine Pitrou3c4402f2011-01-03 20:38:52 +00001810
Raymond Hettinger8ebe27f2010-12-21 19:24:26 +00001811
Ronald Oussoren10e05e12010-12-07 15:28:10 +00001812What's New in Python 3.2 Beta 2?
1813================================
1814
Georg Brandl8a60e942010-12-19 10:30:28 +00001815*Release date: 19-Dec-2010*
Ronald Oussoren10e05e12010-12-07 15:28:10 +00001816
R. David Murrayce4b1702010-12-14 23:06:25 +00001817Core and Builtins
1818-----------------
1819
Antoine Pitrou810023d2010-12-15 22:59:16 +00001820- Issue #8844: Regular and recursive lock acquisitions can now be interrupted
1821 by signals on platforms using pthreads. Patch by Reid Kleckner.
1822
R. David Murrayce4b1702010-12-14 23:06:25 +00001823- Issue #4236: PyModule_Create2 now checks the import machinery directly
1824 rather than the Py_IsInitialized flag, avoiding a Fatal Python
1825 error in certain circumstances when an import is done in __del__.
Ronald Oussoren10e05e12010-12-07 15:28:10 +00001826
Ezio Melottiac53ab62010-12-18 14:59:43 +00001827- Issue #5587: add a repr to dict_proxy objects. Patch by David Stanek and
1828 Daniel Urban.
1829
Ronald Oussoren10e05e12010-12-07 15:28:10 +00001830Library
1831-------
Antoine Pitrou988dbd72010-12-17 17:35:56 +00001832
Senthil Kumaran7bc0d872010-12-19 10:49:52 +00001833- Issue #3243: Support iterable bodies in httplib. Patch Contributions by
1834 Xuanji Li and Chris AtLee.
1835
Michael Foordb3468f72010-12-19 03:19:47 +00001836- Issue #10611: SystemExit exception will no longer kill a unittest run.
1837
1838- Issue #9857: It is now possible to skip a test in a setUp, tearDown or clean
1839 up function.
1840
Ezio Melottiaddc6f52010-12-18 20:00:04 +00001841- Issue #10573: use actual/expected consistently in unittest methods.
1842 The order of the args of assertCountEqual is also changed.
1843
R. David Murray63563cd2010-12-18 18:25:38 +00001844- Issue #9286: email.utils.parseaddr no longer concatenates blank-separated
1845 words in the local part of email addresses, thereby preserving the input.
1846
Antoine Pitrou2b37ce72010-12-18 17:59:18 +00001847- Issue #6791: Limit header line length (to 65535 bytes) in http.client
1848 and http.server, to avoid denial of services from the other party.
1849
R. David Murrayb68a7bc2010-12-18 17:19:10 +00001850- Issue #10404: Use ctl-button-1 on OSX for the context menu in Idle.
1851
1852- Issue #9907: Fix tab handling on OSX when using editline by calling
R. David Murray52d1b4e2010-12-18 03:48:32 +00001853 rl_initialize first, then setting our custom defaults, then reading .editrc.
1854
Antoine Pitrou401edd62010-12-17 17:42:16 +00001855- Issue #4188: Avoid creating dummy thread objects when logging operations
1856 from the threading module (with the internal verbose flag activated).
1857
Antoine Pitrou988dbd72010-12-17 17:35:56 +00001858- Issue #10711: Remove HTTP 0.9 support from http.client. The ``strict``
1859 parameter to HTTPConnection and friends is deprecated.
1860
Senthil Kumarandca5b862010-12-17 04:48:45 +00001861- Issue #9721: Fix the behavior of urljoin when the relative url starts with a
1862 ';' character. Patch by Wes Chow.
Ronald Oussoren10e05e12010-12-07 15:28:10 +00001863
Antoine Pitrouc4924372010-12-16 16:48:36 +00001864- Issue #10714: Limit length of incoming request in http.server to 65536 bytes
1865 for security reasons. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1866
Éric Araujo60532bd2010-12-15 21:07:22 +00001867- Issue #9558: Fix distutils.command.build_ext with VS 8.0.
1868
Raymond Hettinger96f34102010-12-15 16:30:37 +00001869- Issue #10667: Fast path for collections.Counter().
1870
R. David Murray32ef70c2010-12-14 14:16:20 +00001871- Issue #10695: passing the port as a string value to telnetlib no longer
1872 causes debug mode to fail.
1873
R. David Murray7ec754b2010-12-13 23:51:19 +00001874- Issue #1078919: add_header now automatically RFC2231 encodes parameters
1875 that contain non-ascii values.
1876
Gregory P. Smithf86aa7c2010-12-13 08:07:14 +00001877- Issue #10188 (partial resolution): tempfile.TemporaryDirectory emits
Nick Coghlan6b22f3f2010-12-12 15:24:21 +00001878 a warning on sys.stderr rather than throwing a misleading exception
1879 if cleanup fails due to nulling out of modules during shutdown.
1880 Also avoids an AttributeError when mkdtemp call fails and issues
1881 a ResourceWarning on implicit cleanup via __del__.
1882
Gregory P. Smithf86aa7c2010-12-13 08:07:14 +00001883- Issue #10107: Warn about unsaved files in IDLE on OSX.
1884
1885- Issue #7213: subprocess.Popen's default for close_fds has been changed.
Gregory P. Smith8edd99d2010-12-14 13:43:30 +00001886 It is now True in most cases other than on Windows when input, output or
1887 error handles are provided.
1888
1889- Issue #6559: subprocess.Popen has a new pass_fds parameter (actually
1890 added in 3.2beta1) to allow specifying a specific list of file descriptors
1891 to keep open in the child process.
Ronald Oussoren10e05e12010-12-07 15:28:10 +00001892
Gregory P. Smithe85db2b2010-12-14 14:38:00 +00001893- Issue #1731717: Fixed the problem where subprocess.wait() could cause an
1894 OSError exception when The OS had been told to ignore SIGCLD in our process
1895 or otherwise not wait for exiting child processes.
1896
R. David Murrayec073312010-12-14 16:20:53 +00001897Tests
1898-----
1899
1900- Issue #775964: test_grp now skips YP/NIS entries instead of failing when
1901 encountering them.
1902
Antoine Pitrou00c6b622010-12-15 15:33:18 +00001903Tools/Demos
1904-----------
1905
Georg Brandlaedd2892010-12-19 10:10:32 +00001906- Issue #6075: IDLE on Mac OS X now works with both Carbon AquaTk and
1907 Cocoa AquaTk.
1908
Antoine Pitrou20f0fb62010-12-16 18:25:24 +00001909- Issue #10710: ``Misc/setuid-prog.c`` is removed from the source tree.
1910
Antoine Pitrou00c6b622010-12-15 15:33:18 +00001911- Issue #10706: Remove outdated script runtests.sh. Either ``make test``
1912 or ``python -m test`` should be used instead.
1913
Martin v. Löwis910a4ed2010-12-17 20:43:27 +00001914Build
1915-----
1916
Martin v. Löwis0e74cac2010-12-17 21:04:09 +00001917- The Windows build now uses Tcl/Tk 8.5.9 and sqlite3 3.7.4.
Martin v. Löwis910a4ed2010-12-17 20:43:27 +00001918
Steven Bethardfd311a72010-12-18 11:19:23 +00001919- Issue #9234: argparse supports alias names for subparsers.
1920
R. David Murrayec073312010-12-14 16:20:53 +00001921
Georg Brandl9b0034d2010-11-16 15:15:56 +00001922What's New in Python 3.2 Beta 1?
1923================================
1924
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00001925*Release date: 05-Dec-2010*
Georg Brandl9b0034d2010-11-16 15:15:56 +00001926
1927Core and Builtins
1928-----------------
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001929
Benjamin Peterson9b4e27e2010-12-07 03:47:37 +00001930- Issue #10630: Return dict views from the dict proxy keys()/values()/items()
1931 methods.
1932
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00001933- Issue #10596: Fix float.__mod__ to have the same behaviour as float.__divmod__
1934 with respect to signed zeros. -4.0 % 4.0 should be 0.0, not -0.0.
Mark Dickinsond2a9b202010-12-04 12:25:30 +00001935
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00001936- Issue #1772833: Add the -q command-line option to suppress copyright and
1937 version output in interactive mode.
Georg Brandl9d871192010-12-04 10:47:18 +00001938
Georg Brandl8334fd92010-12-04 10:26:46 +00001939- Provide an *optimize* parameter in the built-in compile() function.
1940
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00001941- Fixed several corner case issues on Windows in os.stat/os.lstat related to
1942 reparse points.
Hirokazu Yamamoto427d3142010-12-04 10:16:05 +00001943
Martin v. Löwis4d0d4712010-12-03 20:14:31 +00001944- PEP 384 (Defining a Stable ABI) is implemented.
1945
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00001946- Issue #2690: Range objects support negative indices and slicing.
Nick Coghlan37ee8502010-12-03 14:26:13 +00001947
Daniel Stutzbach98338222010-12-02 21:55:33 +00001948- Issue #9915: Speed up sorting with a key.
1949
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001950- Issue #8685: Speed up set difference ``a - b`` when source set ``a`` is much
1951 larger than operand ``b``. Patch by Andrew Bennetts.
Antoine Pitrou715f3cd2010-11-30 22:23:20 +00001952
Antoine Pitroue71362d2010-11-27 22:00:11 +00001953- Issue #10518: Bring back the callable() builtin.
1954
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001955- Issue #7094: Added alternate formatting (specified by '#') to ``__format__``
1956 method of float, complex, and Decimal. This allows more precise control over
1957 when decimal points are displayed.
Eric Smith984bb582010-11-25 16:08:06 +00001958
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001959- Issue #10474: range.count() should return integers.
Benjamin Peterson0b458d52010-11-20 22:35:41 +00001960
R. David Murray6bb99892010-11-20 16:33:30 +00001961- Issue #1574217: isinstance now catches only AttributeError, rather than
1962 masking all errors.
1963
Georg Brandl9b0034d2010-11-16 15:15:56 +00001964Library
1965-------
1966
Vinay Sajip5a27d402010-12-10 11:42:57 +00001967- logging: added "handler of last resort". See http://bit.ly/last-resort-handler
1968
Vinay Sajip129fd042010-12-10 08:19:38 +00001969- test.support: Added TestHandler and Matcher classes for better support of
1970 assertions about logging.
1971
Éric Araujo12159152010-12-04 17:31:49 +00001972- Issue #4391: Use proper plural forms in argparse.
1973
Victor Stinner13d49ee2010-12-04 17:24:33 +00001974- Issue #10601: sys.displayhook uses 'backslashreplace' error handler on
1975 UnicodeEncodeError.
1976
Georg Brandlcbc79c72010-12-04 16:21:42 +00001977- Add the "display" and "undisplay" pdb commands.
1978
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00001979- Issue #7245: Add a SIGINT handler in pdb that allows to break a program again
1980 after a "continue" command.
Georg Brandl44f2b642010-12-04 16:00:47 +00001981
Georg Brandl1acb7462010-12-04 11:20:26 +00001982- Add the "interact" pdb command.
1983
Georg Brandl732324a2010-12-04 11:12:43 +00001984- Issue #7905: Actually respect the keyencoding parameter to shelve.Shelf.
1985
Georg Brandlc29cc6a2010-12-04 11:02:04 +00001986- Issue #1569291: Speed up array.repeat().
1987
Georg Brandl8334fd92010-12-04 10:26:46 +00001988- Provide an interface to set the optimization level of compilation in
1989 py_compile, compileall and zipfile.PyZipFile.
1990
Senthil Kumaran10064e92010-12-04 09:44:30 +00001991- Issue #7904: Changes to urllib.parse.urlsplit to handle schemes as defined by
1992 RFC3986. Anything before :// is considered a scheme and is followed by an
1993 authority (or netloc) and by '/' led path, which is optional.
1994
Georg Brandld9e833c2010-12-04 09:14:36 +00001995- Issue #6045: dbm.gnu databases now support get() and setdefault() methods.
1996
1997- Issue #10620: `python -m unittest` can accept file paths instead of module
Michael Foord37d120a2010-12-04 01:11:21 +00001998 names for running specific tests.
1999
2000- Issue #9424: Deprecate the `unittest.TestCase` methods `assertEquals`,
2001 `assertNotEquals`, `assertAlmostEquals`, `assertNotAlmostEquals` and `assert_`
2002 and replace them with the correct methods in the Python test suite.
2003
Antoine Pitrouc4df7842010-12-03 19:59:41 +00002004- Issue #10272: The ssl module now raises socket.timeout instead of a generic
2005 SSLError on socket timeouts.
2006
Éric Araujobb48a8b2010-12-03 19:41:00 +00002007- Issue #10528: Allow translators to reorder placeholders in localizable
2008 messages from argparse.
2009
Éric Araujoa9c7a8f2010-12-03 19:19:17 +00002010- Issue #10497: Fix incorrect use of gettext in argparse.
2011
Antoine Pitrouf3b68b32010-12-03 18:41:39 +00002012- Issue #10478: Reentrant calls inside buffered IO objects (for example by
2013 way of a signal handler) now raise a RuntimeError instead of freezing the
2014 current process.
2015
Vinay Sajip61561522010-12-03 11:50:38 +00002016- logging: Added getLogRecordFactory/setLogRecordFactory with docs and tests.
2017
Georg Brandl9bd45f992010-12-03 09:58:38 +00002018- Issue #10549: Fix pydoc traceback when text-documenting certain classes.
2019
Nick Coghlan7bb30b72010-12-03 09:29:11 +00002020- Issue #2001: New HTML server with enhanced Web page features. Patch by Ron
2021 Adam.
2022
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002023- Issue #10360: In WeakSet, do not raise TypeErrors when testing for membership
2024 of non-weakrefable objects.
Georg Brandlf8de3fe2010-12-03 07:55:44 +00002025
Georg Brandld80d5f42010-12-03 07:47:22 +00002026- Issue #940286: pydoc.Helper.help() ignores input/output init parameters.
2027
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002028- Issue #1745035: Add a command size and data size limit to smtpd.py, to prevent
2029 DoS attacks. Patch by Savio Sena.
Georg Brandl1e5c5f82010-12-03 07:38:22 +00002030
Georg Brandl106a54d2010-12-03 07:37:16 +00002031- Issue #4925: Add filename to error message when executable can't be found in
2032 subprocess.
2033
2034- Issue #10391: Don't dereference invalid memory in error messages in the ast
2035 module.
2036
2037- Issue #10027: st_nlink was not being set on Windows calls to os.stat or
2038 os.lstat. Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
2039
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002040- Issue #9333: Expose os.symlink only when the SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege is
2041 held by the user's account, i.e., when the function can actually be used.
Georg Brandl106a54d2010-12-03 07:37:16 +00002042
2043- Issue #8879: Add os.link support for Windows.
2044
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002045- Issue #7911: ``unittest.TestCase.longMessage`` defaults to True for improved
Georg Brandl106a54d2010-12-03 07:37:16 +00002046 failure messages by default. Patch by Mark Roddy.
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002047
2048- Issue #1486713: HTMLParser now has an optional tolerant mode where it tries to
2049 guess at the correct parsing of invalid html.
R. David Murrayb579dba2010-12-03 04:06:39 +00002050
Brian Curtin79cdb662010-12-03 02:46:02 +00002051- Issue #10554: Add context manager support to subprocess.Popen objects.
2052
R. David Murraya0b44b52010-12-02 21:47:19 +00002053- Issue #8989: email.utils.make_msgid now has a domain parameter that can
2054 override the domain name used in the generated msgid.
2055
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002056- Issue #9299: Add exist_ok parameter to os.makedirs to suppress the 'File
2057 exists' exception when a target directory already exists with the specified
2058 mode. Patch by Ray Allen.
Terry Reedy5a22b652010-12-02 07:05:56 +00002059
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002060- Issue #9573: os.fork() now works correctly when triggered as a side effect of
2061 a module import.
Nick Coghlanb2ddf792010-12-02 04:11:46 +00002062
R. David Murrayd2bb8302010-12-02 02:58:07 +00002063- Issue #10464: netrc now correctly handles lines with embedded '#' characters.
2064
Raymond Hettinger482ba772010-12-01 22:48:00 +00002065- Added itertools.accumulate().
2066
Alexander Belopolsky41e422a2010-12-01 20:05:49 +00002067- Issue #4113: Added custom ``__repr__`` method to ``functools.partial``.
2068 Original patch by Daniel Urban.
2069
Ezio Melottied3a7d22010-12-01 02:32:32 +00002070- Issue #10273: Rename `assertRegexpMatches` and `assertRaisesRegexp` to
2071 `assertRegex` and `assertRaisesRegex`.
2072
Ezio Melottif10c4002010-12-01 01:45:53 +00002073- Issue #10535: Enable silenced warnings in unittest by default.
2074
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002075- Issue #9873: The URL parsing functions in urllib.parse now accept ASCII byte
2076 sequences as input in addition to character strings.
Nick Coghlan9fc443c2010-11-30 15:48:08 +00002077
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002078- Issue #10586: The statistics API for the new functools.lru_cache has been
2079 changed to a single cache_info() method returning a named tuple.
Nick Coghlan234515a2010-11-30 06:19:46 +00002080
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002081- Issue #10323: itertools.islice() now consumes the minimum number of inputs
2082 before stopping. Formerly, the final state of the underlying iterator was
2083 undefined.
Raymond Hettinger69b34bf2010-11-30 02:49:29 +00002084
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002085- Issue #10565: The collections.Iterator ABC now checks for both __iter__ and
2086 __next__.
Raymond Hettingeread22222010-11-29 03:56:12 +00002087
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002088- Issue #10242: Fixed implementation of unittest.ItemsEqual and gave it a new
2089 more informative name, unittest.CountEqual.
Raymond Hettinger6e165b32010-11-27 09:31:37 +00002090
Senthil Kumaran6f107042010-11-29 11:54:17 +00002091- Issue #10561: In pdb, clear the breakpoints by the breakpoint number.
2092
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002093- Issue #2986: difflib.SequenceMatcher gets a new parameter, autojunk, which can
2094 be set to False to turn off the previously undocumented 'popularity'
Terry Reedy99f96372010-11-25 06:12:34 +00002095 heuristic. Patch by Terry Reedy and Eli Bendersky.
2096
Georg Brandl68eb4642010-12-28 11:02:12 +00002097- Issue #10534: in difflib, expose bjunk and bpopular sets; deprecate
2098 undocumented and now redundant isbjunk and isbpopular methods.
Terry Reedy4b9b1972010-12-03 22:50:06 +00002099
Łukasz Langae61602f2010-11-23 00:19:53 +00002100- Issue #9846: zipfile is now correctly closing underlying file objects.
2101
Martin v. Löwis5cbc71e2010-11-22 09:00:02 +00002102- Issue #10459: Update CJK character names to Unicode 6.0.
2103
Senthil Kumaran249d7e32010-11-22 05:08:13 +00002104- Issue #4493: urllib.request adds '/' in front of path components which does not
Senthil Kumaranc2958622010-11-22 04:48:26 +00002105 start with '/. Common behavior exhibited by browsers and other clients.
2106
Brian Curtinf9916422010-11-21 23:45:10 +00002107- Issue #6378: idle.bat now runs with the appropriate Python version rather than
2108 the system default. Patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
2109
Michael Foord086f3082010-11-21 21:28:01 +00002110- Issue #10470: 'python -m unittest' will now run test discovery by default,
2111 when no extra arguments have been provided.
2112
Senthil Kumarane4dad4f2010-11-21 14:36:14 +00002113- Issue #3709: BaseHTTPRequestHandler will buffer the headers and write to
2114 output stream only when end_headers is invoked. This is a speedup and an
2115 internal optimization. Patch by endian.
2116
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002117- Issue #10220: Added inspect.getgeneratorstate. Initial patch by Rodolpho
2118 Eckhardt.
Nick Coghlane0f04652010-11-21 03:44:04 +00002119
R. David Murray650f1472010-11-20 21:18:51 +00002120- Issue #10453: compileall now uses argparse instead of getopt, and thus
2121 provides clean output when called with '-h'.
2122
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002123- Issue #8078: Add constants for higher baud rates in the termios module. Patch
2124 by Rodolpho Eckhardt.
Antoine Pitroua78f74c2010-11-20 20:03:08 +00002125
Éric Araujoe7606642010-11-20 19:37:28 +00002126- Issue #10407: Fix two NameErrors in distutils.
2127
Ezio Melottib3aedd42010-11-20 19:04:17 +00002128- Issue #10371: Deprecated undocumented functions in the trace module.
Alexander Belopolsky44454af2010-11-20 18:21:07 +00002129
Benjamin Petersonfa735552010-11-20 17:24:04 +00002130- Issue #10467: Fix BytesIO.readinto() after seeking into a position after the
2131 end of the file.
2132
Łukasz Langa71b37a52010-12-17 21:56:32 +00002133- configparser: 100% test coverage.
2134
Łukasz Langa1ac0d7a2010-12-16 01:42:36 +00002135- Issue #10499: configparser supports pluggable interpolation handlers. The
2136 default classic interpolation handler is called BasicInterpolation. Another
Łukasz Langab6a6f5f2010-12-03 16:28:00 +00002137 interpolation handler added (ExtendedInterpolation) which supports the syntax
2138 used by zc.buildout (e.g. interpolation between sections).
2139
Łukasz Langa1ac0d7a2010-12-16 01:42:36 +00002140- configparser: the SafeConfigParser class has been renamed to ConfigParser.
2141 The legacy ConfigParser class has been removed but its interpolation mechanism
2142 is still available as LegacyInterpolation.
Michael Foordb3468f72010-12-19 03:19:47 +00002143
Łukasz Langa1ac0d7a2010-12-16 01:42:36 +00002144- configparser: Usage of RawConfigParser is now discouraged for new projects
2145 in favor of ConfigParser(interpolation=None).
2146
Łukasz Langa45ec4262010-11-20 16:16:24 +00002147- Issue #1682942: configparser supports alternative option/value delimiters.
2148
2149- Issue #5412: configparser supports mapping protocol access.
2150
2151- Issue #9411: configparser supports specifying encoding for read operations.
2152
2153- Issue #9421: configparser's getint(), getfloat() and getboolean() methods
2154 accept vars and default arguments just like get() does.
2155
Łukasz Langa71b37a52010-12-17 21:56:32 +00002156- Issue #9452: configparser supports reading from strings and dictionaries
2157 (thanks to the mapping protocol API, the latter can be used to copy data
2158 between parsers).
Łukasz Langa45ec4262010-11-20 16:16:24 +00002159
2160- configparser: accepted INI file structure is now customizable, including
2161 comment prefixes, name of the DEFAULT section, empty lines in multiline
2162 values, and indentation.
2163
Éric Araujod8c73c62011-03-21 03:15:22 +01002164- Issue #10326: unittest.TestCase instances can be pickled.
Michael Foord8ca6d982010-11-20 15:34:26 +00002165
Éric Araujod8c73c62011-03-21 03:15:22 +01002166- Issue #9926: Wrapped TestSuite subclass does not get __call__ executed.
Michael Foordc610e3e2010-11-20 17:50:34 +00002167
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002168- Issue #9920: Skip tests for cmath.atan and cmath.atanh applied to complex
2169 zeros on systems where the log1p function fails to respect the sign of zero.
2170 This fixes a test failure on AIX.
Mark Dickinson4ccc1372010-11-20 11:08:27 +00002171
Michael Foord95fc51d2010-11-20 15:07:30 +00002172- Issue #9732: Addition of getattr_static to the inspect module.
2173
Alexander Belopolsky9a4030e2010-11-18 03:50:18 +00002174- Issue #10446: Module documentation generated by pydoc now links to a
2175 version-specific online reference manual.
2176
Brett Cannon0ffe6a92010-11-18 03:03:04 +00002177- Make the 'No module named' exception message from importlib consistent.
2178
Antoine Pitrou664c2d12010-11-17 20:29:42 +00002179- Issue #10443: Add the SSLContext.set_default_verify_paths() method.
2180
Antoine Pitroub6d4ee52010-11-17 16:19:35 +00002181- Issue #10440: Support RUSAGE_THREAD as a constant in the resource module.
2182 Patch by Robert Collins.
2183
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002184- Issue #10429: IMAP.starttls() stored the capabilities as bytes objects, rather
2185 than strings.
Antoine Pitroudbe75192010-11-16 17:55:26 +00002186
Benjamin Petersonf6096542010-11-17 22:33:12 +00002187C-API
2188-----
2189
Alexander Belopolsky942af5a2010-12-04 03:38:46 +00002190- Issue #10557: Added a new API function, PyUnicode_TransformDecimalToASCII(),
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00002191 which transforms non-ASCII decimal digits in a Unicode string to their ASCII
2192 equivalents.
Alexander Belopolsky942af5a2010-12-04 03:38:46 +00002193
Georg Brandl106a54d2010-12-03 07:37:16 +00002194- Issue #9518: Extend the PyModuleDef_HEAD_INIT macro to explicitly
2195 zero-initialize all fields, fixing compiler warnings seen when building
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002196 extension modules with gcc with "-Wmissing-field-initializers" (implied by
2197 "-W").
Georg Brandl106a54d2010-12-03 07:37:16 +00002198
2199- Issue #10255: Fix reference leak in Py_InitializeEx(). Patch by Neil
2200 Schemenauer.
2201
Georg Brandl71c23d42010-11-30 09:30:54 +00002202- structseq.h is now included in Python.h.
2203
Benjamin Petersonf6096542010-11-17 22:33:12 +00002204- Loosen PyArg_ValidateKeywordArguments to allow dict subclasses.
2205
Brian Curtin8fb9b862010-11-18 02:15:28 +00002206Tests
2207-----
2208
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002209- regrtest.py once again ensures the test directory is removed from sys.path
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00002210 when it is invoked directly as the __main__ module.
Nick Coghlan4c4c0f22010-12-03 07:44:33 +00002211
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00002212- `python -m test` can be used to run the test suite as well as `python -m
2213 test.regrtest`.
Michael Foord3ab34cc2010-12-03 12:27:40 +00002214
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002215- Do not fail test_socket when the IP address of the local hostname cannot be
2216 looked up.
Georg Brandl89197fe2010-11-20 14:16:17 +00002217
Łukasz Langa45ec4262010-11-20 16:16:24 +00002218- Issue #8886: Use context managers throughout test_zipfile. Patch by Eric
2219 Carstensen.
Brian Curtin8fb9b862010-11-18 02:15:28 +00002220
Mark Dickinson6646cd42010-11-20 10:43:10 +00002221Build
2222-----
2223
2224- Issue #10325: Fix two issues in the fallback definitions for PY_ULLONG_MAX and
2225 PY_LLONG_MAX that made them unsuitable for use in preprocessor conditionals.
2226
Ezio Melotti17f9b3d2010-11-24 22:02:18 +00002227Documentation
2228-------------
2229
2230- Issue #10299: List the built-in functions in a table in functions.rst.
2231
Georg Brandl9b0034d2010-11-16 15:15:56 +00002232
Georg Brandlb8bbffd2010-11-08 16:57:52 +00002233What's New in Python 3.2 Alpha 4?
2234=================================
Martin v. Löwise8930222010-10-11 22:38:01 +00002235
Georg Brandl24854ca2010-11-13 06:39:58 +00002236*Release date: 13-Nov-2010*
Martin v. Löwise8930222010-10-11 22:38:01 +00002237
2238Core and Builtins
2239-----------------
2240
Antoine Pitroucf9f9802010-11-10 13:55:25 +00002241- Issue #10372: Import the warnings module only after the IO library is
2242 initialized, so as to avoid bootstrap issues with the '-W' option.
2243
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002244- Issue #10293: Remove obsolete field in the PyMemoryView structure, unused
2245 undocumented value PyBUF_SHADOW, and strangely-looking code in
Antoine Pitrouaeb6cee2010-11-04 20:30:33 +00002246 PyMemoryView_GetContiguous.
2247
Georg Brandl54445ad2010-11-20 10:24:34 +00002248- Issue #6081: Add str.format_map(), similar to ``str.format(**mapping)``.
Eric Smith27bbca62010-11-04 17:06:58 +00002249
Benjamin Petersonbbb04122010-10-30 23:16:28 +00002250- If FileIO.__init__ fails, close the file descriptor.
2251
Raymond Hettingerdd421542010-10-30 08:10:29 +00002252- Issue #10221: dict.pop(k) now has a key error message that includes the
2253 missing key (same message d[k] returns for missing keys).
2254
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002255- Issue #5437: A preallocated MemoryError instance should not keep traceback
Antoine Pitrou07e20ef2010-10-28 22:56:58 +00002256 data (including local variables caught in the stack trace) alive infinitely.
2257
Benjamin Peterson503d6c52010-10-24 02:52:05 +00002258- Issue #10186: Fix the SyntaxError caret when the offset is equal to the length
2259 of the offending line.
2260
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002261- Issue #10089: Add support for arbitrary -X options on the command line. They
2262 can be retrieved through a new attribute ``sys._xoptions``.
Antoine Pitrou9583cac2010-10-21 13:42:28 +00002263
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002264- Issue #4388: On Mac OS X, decode command line arguments from UTF-8, instead of
2265 the locale encoding. If the LANG (and LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE) environment
Victor Stinnerf933e1a2010-10-20 22:58:25 +00002266 variable is not set, the locale encoding is ISO-8859-1, whereas most programs
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002267 (including Python) expect UTF-8. Python already uses UTF-8 for the filesystem
Victor Stinnerf933e1a2010-10-20 22:58:25 +00002268 encoding and to encode command line arguments on this OS.
2269
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002270- Issue #9713, #10114: Parser functions (e.g. PyParser_ASTFromFile) expect
2271 filenames encoded to the filesystem encoding with the surrogateescape error
Victor Stinner4c7c8c32010-10-16 13:14:10 +00002272 handler (to support undecodable bytes), instead of UTF-8 in strict mode.
2273
Benjamin Peterson230b2062010-10-16 03:45:45 +00002274- Issue #9997: Don't let the name "top" have special significance in scope
2275 resolution.
2276
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002277- Issue #9862: Compensate for broken PIPE_BUF in AIX by hard coding its value as
2278 the default 512 when compiling on AIX.
R. David Murraye16cda92010-10-15 23:12:57 +00002279
Victor Stinnerf3170cc2010-10-15 12:04:23 +00002280- Use locale encoding instead of UTF-8 to encode and decode filenames if
2281 Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding is not set.
2282
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002283- Issue #10095: fp_setreadl() doesn't reopen the file, instead reuse the file
Victor Stinner22a351a2010-10-14 12:04:34 +00002284 descriptor.
2285
Georg Brandl66c221e2010-10-14 07:04:07 +00002286- Issue #9418: Moved private string methods ``_formatter_parser`` and
2287 ``_formatter_field_name_split`` into a new ``_string`` module.
2288
Victor Stinner8f6b6b02010-10-13 22:02:27 +00002289- Issue #9992: Remove PYTHONFSENCODING environment variable.
2290
Martin v. Löwise8930222010-10-11 22:38:01 +00002291Library
2292-------
2293
Georg Brandl9f1c1dc2010-11-20 11:25:01 +00002294- Issue #10465: fix broken delegating of attributes by gzip._PaddedFile.
2295
Stefan Krahdc817b22010-11-17 11:16:34 +00002296- Issue #10356: Decimal.__hash__(-1) should return -2.
2297
Vinay Sajip8593ae62010-11-14 21:33:04 +00002298- Issue #1553375: logging: Added stack_info kwarg to display stack information.
2299
Senthil Kumaran74ebd9e2010-11-13 12:27:49 +00002300- Issue #5111: IPv6 Host in the Header is wrapped inside [ ]. Patch by Chandru.
2301
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002302- Fix Fraction.__hash__ so that Fraction.__hash__(-1) is -2. (See also issue
2303 #10356.)
Mark Dickinsonfec66202010-11-13 10:27:38 +00002304
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002305- Issue #4471: Add the IMAP.starttls() method to enable encryption on standard
2306 IMAP4 connections. Original patch by Lorenzo M. Catucci.
Antoine Pitrouf3b001f2010-11-12 18:49:16 +00002307
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002308- Issue #1466065: Add 'validate' option to base64.b64decode to raise an error if
2309 there are non-base64 alphabet characters in the input.
R. David Murray64951362010-11-11 20:09:20 +00002310
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002311- Issue #10386: Add __all__ to token module; this simplifies importing in
Georg Brandl54445ad2010-11-20 10:24:34 +00002312 tokenize module and prevents leaking of private names through ``import *``.
Alexander Belopolskyb9d10d02010-11-11 14:07:41 +00002313
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002314- Issue #4471: Properly shutdown socket in IMAP.shutdown(). Patch by Lorenzo
2315 M. Catucci.
Antoine Pitroud79f3c82010-11-09 23:10:33 +00002316
Antoine Pitroub1436f12010-11-09 22:55:55 +00002317- Fix IMAP.login() to work properly.
2318
Ask Soleme912f5a2010-11-09 21:14:53 +00002319- Issue #9244: multiprocessing pool worker processes could terminate
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002320 unexpectedly if the return value of a task could not be pickled. Only the
2321 ``repr`` of such errors are now sent back, wrapped in an
Ask Soleme912f5a2010-11-09 21:14:53 +00002322 ``MaybeEncodingError`` exception.
2323
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002324- Issue #9244: The ``apply_async()`` and ``map_async()`` methods of
2325 ``multiprocessing.Pool`` now accepts a ``error_callback`` argument. This can
2326 be a callback with the signature ``callback(exc)``, which will be called if
2327 the target raises an exception.
Ask Soleme912f5a2010-11-09 21:14:53 +00002328
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002329- Issue #10022: The dictionary returned by the ``getpeercert()`` method of SSL
2330 sockets now has additional items such as ``issuer`` and ``notBefore``.
Antoine Pitroufb046912010-11-09 20:21:19 +00002331
Antoine Pitrou859c4ef2010-11-09 18:58:42 +00002332- ``usenetrc`` is now false by default for NNTP objects.
2333
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002334- Issue #1926: Add support for NNTP over SSL on port 563, as well as STARTTLS.
2335 Patch by Andrew Vant.
Antoine Pitrou1cb121e2010-11-09 18:54:37 +00002336
Victor Stinner58c07522010-11-09 01:08:59 +00002337- Issue #10335: Add tokenize.open(), detect the file encoding using
2338 tokenize.detect_encoding() and open it in read only mode.
2339
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002340- Issue #10321: Add support for binary data to smtplib.SMTP.sendmail, and a new
2341 method send_message to send an email.message.Message object.
R. David Murray7dff9e02010-11-08 17:15:13 +00002342
Éric Araujoa5633922010-11-08 17:13:03 +00002343- Issue #6011: sysconfig and distutils.sysconfig use the surrogateescape error
2344 handler to parse the Makefile file. Avoid a UnicodeDecodeError if the source
2345 code directory name contains a non-ASCII character and the locale encoding is
2346 ASCII.
2347
Victor Stinner64bc3b22010-11-07 15:47:36 +00002348- Issue #10329: The trace module writes reports using the input Python script
Éric Araujoa5633922010-11-08 17:13:03 +00002349 encoding, instead of the locale encoding. Patch written by Alexander
Victor Stinner64bc3b22010-11-07 15:47:36 +00002350 Belopolsky.
2351
Éric Araujoe7cf9542010-11-06 15:01:07 +00002352- Issue #10126: Fix distutils' test_build when Python was built with
2353 --enable-shared.
2354
Éric Araujoba7209f2010-11-06 04:48:05 +00002355- Issue #9281: Prevent race condition with mkdir in distutils. Patch by
2356 Arfrever.
2357
Éric Araujo909ddbd2010-11-06 04:24:00 +00002358- Issue #10229: Fix caching error in gettext.
2359
Éric Araujo89c04782010-11-05 23:58:34 +00002360- Issue #10252: Close file objects in a timely manner in distutils code and
2361 tests. Patch by Brian Brazil, completed by Éric Araujo.
2362
Antoine Pitrou243757e2010-11-05 21:15:39 +00002363- Issue #10180: Pickling file objects is now explicitly forbidden, since
2364 unpickling them produced nonsensical results.
2365
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002366- Issue #10311: The signal module now restores errno before returning from its
2367 low-level signal handler. Patch by Hallvard B Furuseth.
Antoine Pitrou39a65912010-11-05 19:47:27 +00002368
Antoine Pitroua0781152010-11-05 19:16:37 +00002369- Issue #10282: Add a ``nntp_implementation`` attribute to NNTP objects.
2370
Antoine Pitrou08eeada2010-11-04 21:36:15 +00002371- Issue #10283: Add a ``group_pattern`` argument to NNTP.list().
2372
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002373- Issue #10155: Add IISCGIHandler to wsgiref.handlers to support IIS CGI
2374 environment better, and to correct unicode environment values for WSGI 1.0.1.
Phillip J. Ebyb6d4a8e2010-11-03 22:39:01 +00002375
Antoine Pitrou4103bc02010-11-03 18:18:43 +00002376- Issue #10281: nntplib now returns None for absent fields in the OVER/XOVER
2377 response, instead of raising an exception.
2378
Phillip J. Ebya01799f2010-11-03 00:46:45 +00002379- wsgiref now implements and validates PEP 3333, rather than an experimental
2380 extension of PEP 333. (Note: earlier versions of Python 3.x may have
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002381 incorrectly validated some non-compliant applications as WSGI compliant; if
2382 your app validates with Python <3.2b1+, but not on this version, it is likely
2383 the case that your app was not compliant.)
Phillip J. Ebya01799f2010-11-03 00:46:45 +00002384
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002385- Issue #10280: NNTP.nntp_version should reflect the highest version advertised
2386 by the server.
Antoine Pitrouf80b3f72010-11-02 22:31:52 +00002387
Martin v. Löwis16f344d2010-11-01 21:39:13 +00002388- Issue #10184: Touch directories only once when extracting a tarfile.
2389
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002390- Issue #10199: New package, ``turtledemo`` now contains selected demo scripts
2391 that were formerly found under Demo/turtle.
Alexander Belopolskyea13d9d2010-11-01 17:39:37 +00002392
Antoine Pitrou4d984892010-10-31 21:27:04 +00002393- Issue #10265: Close file objects explicitly in sunau. Patch by Brian Brazil.
2394
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002395- Issue #10266: uu.decode didn't close in_file explicitly when it was given as a
2396 filename. Patch by Brian Brazil.
Antoine Pitrouf5698262010-10-31 16:04:14 +00002397
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002398- Issue #10110: Queue objects didn't recognize full queues when the maxsize
2399 parameter had been reduced.
Raymond Hettinger189316a2010-10-31 17:57:52 +00002400
Antoine Pitroue9745712010-10-31 15:26:04 +00002401- Issue #10160: Speed up operator.attrgetter. Patch by Christos Georgiou.
2402
Vinay Sajip65b4af32010-10-31 15:11:43 +00002403- logging: Added style option to basicConfig() to allow %, {} or $-formatting.
2404
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002405- Issue #5729: json.dumps() now supports using a string such as '\t' for
2406 pretty-printing multilevel objects.
Raymond Hettingerb643ef82010-10-31 08:00:16 +00002407
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002408- Issue #10253: FileIO leaks a file descriptor when trying to open a file for
2409 append that isn't seekable. Patch by Brian Brazil.
Antoine Pitrou8d2b51b2010-10-30 16:19:14 +00002410
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002411- Support context manager protocol for file-like objects returned by mailbox
2412 ``get_file()`` methods.
Georg Brandl6ce29fa2010-10-30 14:33:28 +00002413
Antoine Pitroubfa34702010-10-30 13:03:56 +00002414- Issue #10246: uu.encode didn't close file objects explicitly when filenames
2415 were given to it. Patch by Brian Brazil.
2416
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002417- Issue #10198: fix duplicate header written to wave files when writeframes() is
2418 called without data.
Georg Brandlcc2adbc2010-10-30 08:29:28 +00002419
Brett Cannon028011f2010-10-30 00:26:48 +00002420- Close file objects in modulefinder in a timely manner.
2421
Brett Cannon01105782010-10-30 00:18:54 +00002422- Close a io.TextIOWrapper object in email.parser in a timely manner.
2423
2424- Close a file object in distutils.sysconfig in a timely manner.
2425
2426- Close a file object in pkgutil in a timely manner.
2427
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002428- Issue #10233: Close file objects in a timely manner in the tarfile module and
2429 its test suite.
Antoine Pitroue1eca4e2010-10-29 23:49:49 +00002430
Antoine Pitroue033e062010-10-29 10:38:18 +00002431- Issue #10093: ResourceWarnings are now issued when files and sockets are
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002432 deallocated without explicit closing. These warnings are silenced by default,
2433 except in pydebug mode.
Antoine Pitroue033e062010-10-29 10:38:18 +00002434
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002435- tarfile.py: Add support for all missing variants of the GNU sparse extensions
2436 and create files with holes when extracting sparse members.
Lars Gustäbel9cbdd752010-10-29 09:08:19 +00002437
Georg Brandlb9a43912010-10-28 09:03:20 +00002438- Issue #10218: Return timeout status from ``Condition.wait`` in threading.
2439
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002440- Issue #7351: Add ``zipfile.BadZipFile`` spelling of the exception name and
2441 deprecate the old name ``zipfile.BadZipfile``.
Georg Brandl4d540882010-10-28 06:42:33 +00002442
Antoine Pitrou6b03ee62010-10-27 18:33:30 +00002443- Issue #5027: The standard ``xml`` namespace is now understood by
2444 xml.sax.saxutils.XMLGenerator as being bound to
2445 http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace. Patch by Troy J. Farrell.
2446
Georg Brandl7424dd32010-10-27 07:27:06 +00002447- Issue #5975: Add csv.unix_dialect class.
2448
2449- Issue #7761: telnetlib.interact failures on Windows fixed.
R. David Murrayba488d12010-10-26 12:42:24 +00002450
Vinay Sajipa39c5712010-10-25 13:57:39 +00002451- logging: Added style option to Formatter to allow %, {} or $-formatting.
2452
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002453- Issue #5178: Added tempfile.TemporaryDirectory class that can be used as a
2454 context manager.
Nick Coghlan543af752010-10-24 11:23:25 +00002455
R. David Murray8451c4b2010-10-23 22:19:56 +00002456- Issue #1349106: Generator (and BytesGenerator) flatten method and Header
2457 encode method now support a 'linesep' argument.
2458
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002459- Issue #5639: Add a *server_hostname* argument to ``SSLContext.wrap_socket`` in
2460 order to support the TLS SNI extension. ``HTTPSConnection`` and ``urlopen()``
2461 also use this argument, so that HTTPS virtual hosts are now supported.
Antoine Pitroud5323212010-10-22 18:19:07 +00002462
Georg Brandl83938432010-10-22 06:28:01 +00002463- Issue #10166: Avoid recursion in pstats Stats.add() for many stats items.
2464
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002465- Issue #10163: Skip unreadable registry keys during mimetypes initialization.
Brian Curtin000f9742010-10-21 14:11:48 +00002466
Vinay Sajip2a20dfc2010-10-20 20:05:38 +00002467- logging: Made StreamHandler terminator configurable.
2468
Vinay Sajip6dbed2e2010-10-19 20:53:01 +00002469- logging: Allowed filters to be just callables.
2470
Vinay Sajip6fac8172010-10-19 20:44:14 +00002471- logging: Added tests for _logRecordClass changes.
2472
Georg Brandl7004bd12010-10-19 18:54:25 +00002473- Issue #10092: Properly reset locale in calendar.Locale*Calendar classes.
2474
Vinay Sajip062d56b2010-10-19 15:26:24 +00002475- logging: Added _logRecordClass, getLogRecordClass, setLogRecordClass to
2476 increase flexibility of LogRecord creation.
2477
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002478- Issue #5117: Case normalization was needed on ntpath.relpath(). Also fixed
2479 root directory issue on posixpath.relpath(). (Ported working fixes from
2480 ntpath.)
Hirokazu Yamamotob08820a2010-10-18 12:13:18 +00002481
R. David Murraya90032a2010-10-17 22:46:45 +00002482- Issue #1343: xml.sax.saxutils.XMLGenerator now has an option
2483 short_empty_elements to direct it to use self-closing tags when appropriate.
2484
Barry Warsawf6219a52010-10-16 01:20:45 +00002485- Issue #9807 (part 1): Expose the ABI flags in sys.abiflags. Add --abiflags
2486 switch to python-config for command line access.
2487
Georg Brandl3844f0d2010-10-15 18:00:35 +00002488- Issue #6098: Don't claim DOM level 3 conformance in minidom.
2489
Georg Brandlb9cd72a2010-10-15 17:58:45 +00002490- Issue #5762: Fix AttributeError raised by ``xml.dom.minidom`` when an empty
2491 XML namespace attribute is encountered.
2492
Georg Brandl1f7fffb2010-10-15 15:57:45 +00002493- Issue #2830: Add the ``html.escape()`` function, which quotes all problematic
Victor Stinner4c7c8c32010-10-16 13:14:10 +00002494 characters by default. Deprecate ``cgi.escape()``.
Georg Brandl1f7fffb2010-10-15 15:57:45 +00002495
Georg Brandld2413422010-10-15 16:42:14 +00002496- Issue #9409: Fix the regex to match all kind of filenames, for interactive
Florent Xiclunad9f57632010-10-14 20:56:20 +00002497 debugging in doctests.
2498
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002499- Issue #9183: ``datetime.timezone(datetime.timedelta(0))`` will now return the
2500 same instance as ``datetime.timezone.utc``.
Alexander Belopolsky1bcbaab2010-10-14 17:03:51 +00002501
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002502- Issue #7523: Add SOCK_CLOEXEC and SOCK_NONBLOCK to the socket module, where
2503 supported by the system. Patch by Nikita Vetoshkin.
Antoine Pitroub1c54962010-10-14 15:05:38 +00002504
2505- Issue #10063: file:// scheme will stop accessing remote hosts via ftp
Senthil Kumaran383c32d2010-10-14 11:57:35 +00002506 protocol. file:// urls had fallback to access remote hosts via ftp. This was
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002507 not correct, change is made to raise a URLError when a remote host is tried to
2508 access via file:// scheme.
Senthil Kumaran383c32d2010-10-14 11:57:35 +00002509
Georg Brandl268e4d42010-10-14 06:59:45 +00002510- Issue #1710703: Write structures for an empty ZIP archive when a ZipFile is
2511 created in modes 'a' or 'w' and then closed without adding any files. Raise
2512 BadZipfile (rather than IOError) when opening small non-ZIP files.
2513
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002514- Issue #10041: The signature of optional arguments in socket.makefile() didn't
2515 match that of io.open(), and they also didn't get forwarded properly to
2516 TextIOWrapper in text mode. Patch by Kai Zhu.
Antoine Pitrou834bd812010-10-13 16:17:14 +00002517
Antoine Pitrou803e6d62010-10-13 10:36:15 +00002518- Issue #9003: http.client.HTTPSConnection, urllib.request.HTTPSHandler and
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002519 urllib.request.urlopen now take optional arguments to allow for server
2520 certificate checking, as recommended in public uses of HTTPS.
Antoine Pitrou803e6d62010-10-13 10:36:15 +00002521
Victor Stinner11b1f3d2010-10-12 22:42:37 +00002522- Issue #6612: Fix site and sysconfig to catch os.getcwd() error, eg. if the
2523 current directory was deleted. Patch written by W. Trevor King.
2524
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002525- Issue #3873: Speed up unpickling from file objects that have a peek() method.
Antoine Pitrou04248a82010-10-12 20:51:21 +00002526
Antoine Pitroub0182c82010-10-12 20:09:02 +00002527- Issue #10075: Add a session_stats() method to SSLContext objects.
2528
Martin v. Löwise8930222010-10-11 22:38:01 +00002529- Issue #9948: Fixed problem of losing filename case information.
2530
Hirokazu Yamamoto35adf5d2010-11-07 11:32:01 +00002531Extension Modules
2532-----------------
Martin v. Löwise8930222010-10-11 22:38:01 +00002533
Alexander Belopolskyef4a03f2011-01-11 21:44:00 +00002534- Issue #5109: array.array constructor will now use fast code when
2535 initial data is provided in an array object with correct type.
2536
Hirokazu Yamamoto4ae5f132010-11-07 14:29:26 +00002537- Issue #6317: Now winsound.PlaySound only accepts unicode.
2538
Hirokazu Yamamotoc08c9bc2010-11-07 09:23:15 +00002539- Issue #6317: Now winsound.PlaySound can accept non ascii filename.
2540
Martin v. Löwis72f48422010-10-29 18:20:08 +00002541- Issue #9377: Use Unicode API for gethostname on Windows.
2542
Jesus Cea7e9065c2010-10-25 13:02:04 +00002543- Issue #10143: Update "os.pathconf" values.
2544
Georg Brandl1e908af2010-10-23 17:31:52 +00002545- Issue #6518: Support context manager protcol for ossaudiodev types.
2546
R. David Murraye194dd62010-10-18 01:14:06 +00002547- Issue #678250: Make mmap flush a noop on ACCESS_READ and ACCESS_COPY.
2548
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002549- Issue #9054: Fix a crash occurring when using the pyexpat module with expat
2550 version 2.0.1.
Georg Brandlc01537f2010-10-15 16:26:08 +00002551
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002552- Issue #5355: Provide mappings from Expat error numbers to string descriptions
2553 and backwards, in order to actually make it possible to analyze error codes
2554 provided by ExpatError.
Georg Brandlb4dac712010-10-15 14:46:48 +00002555
Martin v. Löwis44270f12010-10-11 22:50:33 +00002556- The Unicode database was updated to 6.0.0.
2557
Benjamin Peterson8f67d082010-10-17 20:54:53 +00002558C-API
2559-----
2560
David Malcolm96960882010-11-05 17:23:41 +00002561- Issue #10288: The deprecated family of "char"-handling macros
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002562 (ISLOWER()/ISUPPER()/etc) have now been removed: use Py_ISLOWER() etc instead.
David Malcolm96960882010-11-05 17:23:41 +00002563
Benjamin Peterson8f67d082010-10-17 20:54:53 +00002564- Issue #9778: Hash values are now always the size of pointers. A new Py_hash_t
2565 type has been introduced.
2566
Benjamin Petersonaa965922010-10-13 21:59:36 +00002567Tools/Demos
2568-----------
2569
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002570- Issue #10117: Tools/scripts/reindent.py now accepts source files that use
2571 encoding other than ASCII or UTF-8. Source encoding is preserved when
2572 reindented code is written to a file.
Alexander Belopolsky4a98e3b2010-10-18 14:43:38 +00002573
Benjamin Petersonaa965922010-10-13 21:59:36 +00002574- Issue #7287: Demo/imputil/knee.py was removed.
2575
Victor Stinner9d396392010-10-16 21:54:59 +00002576Tests
2577-----
2578
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002579- Issue #3699: Fix test_bigaddrspace and extend it to test bytestrings as well
2580 as unicode strings. Initial patch by Sandro Tosi.
Antoine Pitrou99c48302010-11-04 20:48:37 +00002581
Brett Cannoned82ca12010-11-02 19:27:59 +00002582- Issue #10294: Remove dead code form test_unicode_file.
2583
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002584- Issue #10123: Don't use non-ascii filenames in test_doctest tests. Add a new
2585 test specific to unicode (non-ascii name and filename).
Victor Stinner9d396392010-10-16 21:54:59 +00002586
Matthias Klose3fbfea12010-10-14 15:24:22 +00002587Build
2588-----
2589
Benjamin Peterson076ed002010-10-31 17:11:02 +00002590- Issue #10268: Add a --enable-loadable-sqlite-extensions option to configure.
2591
Antoine Pitroub156a462010-10-27 20:13:57 +00002592- Issue #8852: Allow the socket module to build on OpenSolaris.
2593
Martin v. Löwisc980ffd2010-10-17 19:36:54 +00002594- Drop -OPT:Olimit compiler option.
2595
Matthias Klose3fbfea12010-10-14 15:24:22 +00002596- Issue #10094: Use versioned .so files on GNU/kfreeBSD and the GNU Hurd.
2597
Matthias Klose8690ae52010-10-17 13:22:33 +00002598- Accept Oracle Berkeley DB 5.0 and 5.1 as backend for the dbm extension.
2599
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002600- Issue #7473: avoid link errors when building a framework with a different set
2601 of architectures than the one that is currently installed.
Ronald Oussorenf3500e12010-10-20 13:10:12 +00002602
Martin v. Löwise8930222010-10-11 22:38:01 +00002603
Georg Brandlbad09252010-09-05 21:29:17 +00002604What's New in Python 3.2 Alpha 3?
2605=================================
2606
Georg Brandl002fa2d2010-10-10 09:40:34 +00002607*Release date: 09-Oct-2010*
Georg Brandlbad09252010-09-05 21:29:17 +00002608
2609Core and Builtins
2610-----------------
2611
Benjamin Peterson5c4bfc42010-10-12 22:57:59 +00002612- Issue #10068: Global objects which have reference cycles with their module's
2613 dict are now cleared again. This causes issue #7140 to appear again.
2614
Victor Stinner257d38f2010-10-09 10:12:11 +00002615- Issue #9738: Document PyErr_SetString() and PyErr_SetFromErrnoWithFilename()
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002616 encodings.
Victor Stinner257d38f2010-10-09 10:12:11 +00002617
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002618- ast.literal_eval() can now handle negative numbers. It is also a little more
2619 liberal in what it accepts without compromising the safety of the evaluation.
2620 For example, 3j+4 and 3+4+5 are both accepted.
Raymond Hettingerbc959732010-10-08 00:47:45 +00002621
Benjamin Peterson970d1882010-10-02 17:55:47 +00002622- Issue #10006: type.__abstractmethods__ now raises an AttributeError. As a
2623 result metaclasses can now be ABCs (see #9533).
2624
Victor Stinneraef57e32010-10-02 11:50:49 +00002625- Issue #8670: ctypes.c_wchar supports non-BMP characters with 32 bits wchar_t.
2626
Victor Stinner5593d8a2010-10-02 11:11:27 +00002627- Issue #8670: PyUnicode_AsWideChar() and PyUnicode_AsWideCharString() replace
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002628 UTF-16 surrogate pairs by single non-BMP characters for 16 bits Py_UNICODE and
2629 32 bits wchar_t (eg. Linux in narrow build).
Victor Stinner5593d8a2010-10-02 11:11:27 +00002630
Brian Curtin9e88b5a2010-10-01 14:49:24 +00002631- Issue #10003: Allow handling of SIGBREAK on Windows. Fixes a regression
Victor Stinner5593d8a2010-10-02 11:11:27 +00002632 introduced by issue #9324.
Brian Curtin9e88b5a2010-10-01 14:49:24 +00002633
Victor Stinner137c34c2010-09-29 10:25:54 +00002634- Issue #9979: Create function PyUnicode_AsWideCharString().
2635
Brett Cannon5305a992010-09-27 21:08:38 +00002636- Issue #7397: Mention that importlib.import_module() is probably what someone
2637 really wants to be using in __import__'s docstring.
2638
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002639- Issue #8521: Allow CreateKeyEx, OpenKeyEx, and DeleteKeyEx functions of winreg
2640 to use named arguments.
Brian Curtin1771b542010-09-27 17:56:36 +00002641
Mark Dickinsonb09a3d62010-09-23 20:11:19 +00002642- Issue #9930: Remove bogus subtype check that was causing (e.g.)
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002643 float.__rdiv__(2.0, 3) to return NotImplemented instead of the expected 1.5.
Mark Dickinsonb09a3d62010-09-23 20:11:19 +00002644
Brian Curtine8e4b3b2010-09-23 20:04:14 +00002645- Issue #9808: Implement os.getlogin for Windows. Patch by Jon Anglin.
2646
Benjamin Peterson0dc97ed2010-09-21 21:28:47 +00002647- Issue #9901: Destroying the GIL in Py_Finalize() can fail if some other
2648 threads are still running. Instead, reinitialize the GIL on a second call to
2649 Py_Initialize().
2650
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002651- All SyntaxErrors now have a column offset and therefore a caret when the error
2652 is printed.
Antoine Pitroub0b384b2010-09-20 20:13:48 +00002653
Brett Cannonbc2eff32010-09-19 21:39:02 +00002654- Issue #9252: PyImport_Import no longer uses a fromlist hack to return the
2655 module that was imported, but instead gets the module from sys.modules.
2656
Nick Coghlan37ee8502010-12-03 14:26:13 +00002657- Issue #9213: The range type_items now provides index() and count() methods, to
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002658 conform to the Sequence ABC. Patch by Daniel Urban and Daniel Stutzbach.
Daniel Stutzbach9f0cbf12010-09-13 21:16:29 +00002659
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002660- Issue #7994: Issue a PendingDeprecationWarning if object.__format__ is called
2661 with a non-empty format string. This is an effort to future-proof user
2662 code. If a derived class does not currently implement __format__ but later
2663 adds its own __format__, it would most likely break user code that had
2664 supplied a format string. This will be changed to a DeprecationWaring in
2665 Python 3.3 and it will be an error in Python 3.4.
Eric Smithe4d63172010-09-13 20:48:43 +00002666
Antoine Pitrou1df15362010-09-13 14:16:46 +00002667- Issue #9828: Destroy the GIL in Py_Finalize(), so that it gets properly
2668 re-created on a subsequent call to Py_Initialize(). The problem (a crash)
2669 wouldn't appear in 3.1 or 2.7 where the GIL's structure is more trivial.
2670
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb73072010-09-12 22:42:57 +00002671- Issue #9210: Configure option --with-wctype-functions was removed. Using the
2672 functions from the libc caused the methods .upper() and lower() to become
2673 locale aware and created subtly wrong results.
2674
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002675- Issue #9738: PyUnicode_FromFormat() and PyErr_Format() raise an error on a
2676 non-ASCII byte in the format string.
Victor Stinner1205f272010-09-11 00:54:47 +00002677
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcba117ef2010-09-10 21:39:53 +00002678- Issue #4617: Previously it was illegal to delete a name from the local
2679 namespace if it occurs as a free variable in a nested block. This limitation
2680 of the compiler has been lifted, and a new opcode introduced (DELETE_DEREF).
2681
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002682- Issue #9804: ascii() now always represents unicode surrogate pairs as a single
2683 ``\UXXXXXXXX``, regardless of whether the character is printable or not.
2684 Also, the "backslashreplace" error handler now joins surrogate pairs into a
2685 single character on UCS-2 builds.
Antoine Pitroue4a18922010-09-09 20:30:23 +00002686
Antoine Pitrou6e6cc832010-09-09 12:59:39 +00002687- Issue #9757: memoryview objects get a release() method to release the
2688 underlying buffer (previously this was only done when deallocating the
2689 memoryview), and gain support for the context management protocol.
2690
Antoine Pitrou079ce542010-09-08 12:37:10 +00002691- Issue #9797: pystate.c wrongly assumed that zero couldn't be a valid
2692 thread-local storage key.
2693
Georg Brandlbad09252010-09-05 21:29:17 +00002694Library
2695-------
2696
Éric Araujo0cfba092010-11-08 21:48:23 +00002697- Issue #2236: distutils' mkpath ignored the mode parameter.
2698
Éric Araujoe7cf9542010-11-06 15:01:07 +00002699- Fix typo in one sdist option (medata-check).
2700
2701- Issue #9199: Fix incorrect use of distutils.cmd.Command.announce.
2702
2703- Issue #1718574: Fix options that were supposed to accept arguments but did
2704 not in build_clib.
2705
Antoine Pitroudbec7802010-10-10 09:37:12 +00002706- Issue #9437: Fix building C extensions with non-default LDFLAGS.
2707
R. David Murray96fd54e2010-10-08 15:55:28 +00002708- Issue #4661: email can now parse bytes input and generate either converted
2709 7bit output or bytes output. Email version bumped to 5.1.0.
2710
Antoine Pitrou59fdd672010-10-08 10:37:08 +00002711- Issue #1589: Add ssl.match_hostname(), to help implement server identity
2712 verification for higher-level protocols.
2713
Antoine Pitrou7980eaa2010-10-06 21:21:18 +00002714- Issue #9759: GzipFile now raises ValueError when an operation is attempted
2715 after the file is closed. Patch by Jeffrey Finkelstein.
2716
Éric Araujo6108bf52010-10-04 23:52:37 +00002717- Issue #9042: Fix interaction of custom translation classes and caching in
2718 gettext.
2719
Éric Araujoef777bd2010-10-05 00:04:20 +00002720- Issue #6706: asyncore.dispatcher now provides a handle_accepted() method
Giampaolo Rodolà977c7072010-10-04 21:08:36 +00002721 returning a (sock, addr) pair which is called when a connection has been
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002722 established with a new remote endpoint. This is supposed to be used as a
Giampaolo Rodolà977c7072010-10-04 21:08:36 +00002723 replacement for old handle_accept() and avoids the user to call accept()
2724 directly.
2725
Lars Gustäbel331b8002010-10-04 15:18:47 +00002726- Issue #9065: tarfile no longer uses "root" as the default for the uname and
2727 gname field.
2728
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002729- Issue #8980: Fixed a failure in distutils.command check that was shadowed by
2730 an environment that does not have docutils. Patch by Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadé4bcceef2010-10-03 14:18:09 +00002731
R. David Murray5397e862010-10-02 15:58:26 +00002732- Issue #1050268: parseaddr now correctly quotes double quote and backslash
2733 characters that appear inside quoted strings in email addresses.
2734
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002735- Issue #10004: quoprimime no longer generates a traceback when confronted with
2736 invalid characters after '=' in a Q-encoded word.
R. David Murray31e984c2010-10-01 15:40:20 +00002737
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002738- Issue #1491: BaseHTTPServer nows send a ``100 Continue`` response before
2739 sending a 200 OK for the Expect: 100-continue request header.
Senthil Kumaran0f476d42010-09-30 06:09:18 +00002740
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002741- Issue #9360: Cleanup and improvements to the nntplib module. The API now
2742 conforms to the philosophy of bytes and unicode separation in Python 3. A
2743 test suite has also been added.
Antoine Pitrou69ab9512010-09-29 15:03:40 +00002744
Antoine Pitrouc3ed2e72010-09-29 10:49:46 +00002745- Issue #9962: GzipFile now has the peek() method.
2746
Antoine Pitrou3e1fd272010-09-28 21:23:11 +00002747- Issue #9090: When a socket with a timeout fails with EWOULDBLOCK or EAGAIN,
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002748 retry the select() loop instead of bailing out. This is because select() can
2749 incorrectly report a socket as ready for reading (for example, if it received
2750 some data with an invalid checksum).
Antoine Pitrou3e1fd272010-09-28 21:23:11 +00002751
Hirokazu Yamamotocc868d42010-09-28 21:08:38 +00002752- Issue #3612: Added new types to ctypes.wintypes. (CHAR and pointers)
2753
Antoine Pitrou6d7df632010-09-27 17:52:25 +00002754- Issue #9950: Fix socket.sendall() crash or misbehaviour when a signal is
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002755 received. Now sendall() properly calls signal handlers if necessary, and
2756 retries sending if these returned successfully, including on sockets with a
2757 timeout.
Antoine Pitrou6d7df632010-09-27 17:52:25 +00002758
Vinay Sajip9fdd11b2010-09-25 17:48:25 +00002759- Issue #9947: logging: Fixed locking bug in stopListening.
2760
Vinay Sajip32fb6a82010-09-25 17:42:36 +00002761- Issue #9945: logging: Fixed locking bugs in addHandler/removeHandler.
2762
Alexander Belopolskyff09ce22010-09-24 18:03:12 +00002763- Issue #9936: Fixed executable lines' search in the trace module.
2764
Brian Curtin0dac8082010-09-23 20:38:14 +00002765- Issue #9790: Rework imports necessary for samefile and sameopenfile
2766 in ntpath.
2767
Antoine Pitrou70c60442010-09-23 19:51:39 +00002768- Issue #9928: Properly initialize the types exported by the bz2 module.
2769
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002770- Issue #1675951: Allow GzipFile to work with unseekable file objects. Patch by
2771 Florian Festi.
Antoine Pitrou7b969842010-09-23 16:22:51 +00002772
Vinay Sajip0637d492010-09-23 08:15:54 +00002773- Logging: Added QueueListener class to facilitate logging usage for
2774 performance-critical threads.
2775
Barry Warsaw31c604d2010-09-22 20:58:04 +00002776- Issue #9916: Add some missing errno symbols.
2777
Benjamin Peterson0dc97ed2010-09-21 21:28:47 +00002778- Issue #9877: Expose sysconfig.get_makefile_filename()
2779
2780- logging: Added hasHandlers() method to Logger and LoggerAdapter.
2781
Antoine Pitrou38425292010-09-21 18:19:07 +00002782- Issue #9908: Fix os.stat() on bytes paths under Windows 7.
2783
Antoine Pitrou52d42502010-09-21 16:08:27 +00002784- Issue #2643: msync() is not called anymore when deallocating an open mmap
2785 object, only munmap().
2786
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002787- logging: Changed LoggerAdapter implementation internally, to make it easier to
2788 subclass in a useful way.
Vinay Sajip212b5902010-09-21 11:31:32 +00002789
Vinay Sajipc84f0162010-09-21 11:25:39 +00002790- logging: hasHandlers method was added to Logger, and isEnabledFor,
2791 getEffectiveLevel, hasHandlers and setLevel were added to LoggerAdapter.
2792 LoggerAdapter was introduced into the unit tests for logging.
2793
Florent Xiclunaeb19dce2010-09-18 23:34:07 +00002794- Issue #1686: Fix string.Template when overriding the pattern attribute.
2795
Antoine Pitrou98b46702010-09-18 22:59:00 +00002796- Issue #9854: SocketIO objects now observe the RawIOBase interface in
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002797 non-blocking mode: they return None when an operation would block (instead of
2798 raising an exception).
Antoine Pitrou98b46702010-09-18 22:59:00 +00002799
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd61d0772010-09-17 23:27:09 +00002800- Issue #1730136: Fix the comparison between a tk.font.Font and an object of
2801 another kind.
2802
Vinay Sajip19ec67a2010-09-17 18:57:36 +00002803- Issue #9441: logging has better coverage for rotating file handlers.
2804
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002805- Issue #9865: collections.OrderedDict now has a __sizeof__ method.
Raymond Hettinger35c87f22010-09-16 19:10:17 +00002806
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002807- Issue #9854: The default read() implementation in io.RawIOBase now handles
2808 non-blocking readinto() returning None correctly.
Antoine Pitrou328ec742010-09-14 18:37:24 +00002809
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002810- Issue #1552: socket.socketpair() now returns regular socket.socket objects
2811 supporting the whole socket API (rather than the "raw" _socket.socket
2812 objects).
Antoine Pitrou9e0b8642010-09-14 18:00:02 +00002813
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002814- Issue #9853: Fix the signature of SSLSocket.recvfrom() and SSLSocket.sendto()
2815 to match the corresponding socket methods.
Antoine Pitroua468adc2010-09-14 14:43:44 +00002816
Éric Araujod8c73c62011-03-21 03:15:22 +01002817- Issue #9840: Added a decorator to reprlib for wrapping __repr__ methods to make
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002818 them handle recursive calls within the same thread.
Raymond Hettinger98a5f3f2010-09-13 21:36:00 +00002819
Vinay Sajipaf9d10a2010-09-13 20:40:30 +00002820- logging: Enhanced HTTPHandler with secure and credentials initializers.
2821
Victor Stinnere797c162010-09-17 23:34:26 +00002822- Issue #767645: Set os.path.supports_unicode_filenames to True on Mac OS X.
Victor Stinnerccb706c2010-09-13 19:41:36 +00002823
Antoine Pitrou6464d5f2010-09-12 14:51:20 +00002824- Issue #9837: The read() method of ZipExtFile objects (as returned by
2825 ZipFile.open()) could return more bytes than requested.
2826
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002827- Issue #9826: OrderedDict.__repr__ can now handle self-referential values:
2828 d['x'] = d.
Raymond Hettingerdc08a142010-09-12 05:15:22 +00002829
Raymond Hettingerfa11db02010-09-12 04:12:42 +00002830- Issue #9825: Using __del__ in the definition of collections.OrderedDict made
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002831 it possible for the user to create self-referencing ordered dictionaries which
2832 become permanently uncollectable GC garbage. Reinstated the Python 3.1
Raymond Hettingerfa11db02010-09-12 04:12:42 +00002833 approach of using weakref proxies so that reference cycles never get created
2834 in the first place.
2835
Victor Stinnercb043522010-09-10 23:49:04 +00002836- Issue #9579, #9580: Fix os.confstr() for value longer than 255 bytes and
2837 encode the value with filesystem encoding and surrogateescape (instead of
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002838 utf-8 in strict mode) . Patch written by David Watson.
Victor Stinnercb043522010-09-10 23:49:04 +00002839
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002840- Issue #9632: Remove sys.setfilesystemencoding() function: use PYTHONFSENCODING
2841 environment variable to set the filesystem encoding at Python startup.
2842 sys.setfilesystemencoding() creates inconsistencies because it is unable to
2843 reencode all filenames in all objects.
Victor Stinner5b519e02010-09-10 21:57:59 +00002844
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002845- Issue #9410: Various optimizations to the pickle module, leading to speedups
2846 up to 4x (depending on the benchmark). Mostly ported from Unladen Swallow;
2847 initial patch by Alexandre Vassalotti.
Antoine Pitrouea99c5c2010-09-09 18:33:21 +00002848
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002849- The pprint module now supports printing OrderedDicts in their given order
2850 (formerly, it would sort the keys).
Raymond Hettingerbad3c882010-09-09 12:31:00 +00002851
Vinay Sajip121a1c42010-09-08 10:46:15 +00002852- Logging: Added QueueHandler class to facilitate logging usage with
2853 multiprocessing.
2854
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002855- Issue #9707: Rewritten reference implementation of threading.local which is
2856 friendlier towards reference cycles. This change is not normally visible
2857 since an optimized C implementation (_thread._local) is used instead.
Antoine Pitrou783eea72010-09-07 22:06:17 +00002858
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc4b6fdf32010-09-07 21:31:17 +00002859- Issue #6394: os.getppid() is now supported on Windows. Note that it will
2860 still return the id of the parent process after it has exited. This process
2861 id may even have been reused by another unrelated process.
2862
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002863- Issue #9792: In case of connection failure, socket.create_connection() would
2864 swallow the exception and raise a new one, making it impossible to fetch the
2865 original errno, or to filter timeout errors. Now the original error is
2866 re-raised.
Antoine Pitrou4b92b5f2010-09-07 21:05:49 +00002867
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002868- Issue #9758: When fcntl.ioctl() was called with mutable_flag set to True, and
2869 the passed buffer was exactly 1024 bytes long, the buffer wouldn't be updated
2870 back after the system call. Original patch by Brian Brazil.
Antoine Pitrou5e38aae2010-09-07 16:30:09 +00002871
Raymond Hettinger435cb0f2010-09-06 23:36:31 +00002872- Updates to the random module:
2873
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002874 * Document which parts of the module are guaranteed to stay the same across
2875 versions and which parts are subject to change.
Raymond Hettinger435cb0f2010-09-06 23:36:31 +00002876
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002877 * Update the seed() method to use all of the bits in a string instead of just
2878 the hash value. This makes better use of the seed value and assures the
2879 seeding is platform independent. Issue #7889.
Raymond Hettinger05156612010-09-07 04:44:52 +00002880
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002881 * Improved the random()-->integer algorithm used in choice(), shuffle(),
2882 sample(), randrange(), and randint(). Formerly, it used int(n*random())
2883 which has a slight bias whenever n is not a power of two. Issue #9025.
Raymond Hettinger05156612010-09-07 04:44:52 +00002884
2885 * Improved documentation of arguments to randrange(). Issue #9379.
Raymond Hettingerf763a722010-09-07 00:38:15 +00002886
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002887- collections.OrderedDict now supports a new method for repositioning keys to
2888 either end.
Raymond Hettingerf45abc92010-09-06 21:26:09 +00002889
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002890- Issue #9754: Similarly to assertRaises and assertRaisesRegexp, unittest test
2891 cases now also have assertWarns and assertWarnsRegexp methods to check that a
2892 given warning type was triggered by the code under test.
Antoine Pitrou4bc12ef2010-09-06 19:25:46 +00002893
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002894- Issue #5506: BytesIO objects now have a getbuffer() method exporting a view of
2895 their contents without duplicating them. The view is both readable and
2896 writable.
Antoine Pitrou972ee132010-09-06 18:48:21 +00002897
Brian Curtin62857742010-09-06 17:07:27 +00002898- Issue #7566: Implement os.path.sameopenfile for Windows.
2899
Antoine Pitrou0d739d72010-09-05 23:01:12 +00002900- Issue #9293: I/O streams now raise ``io.UnsupportedOperation`` when an
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002901 unsupported operation is attempted (for example, writing to a file open only
2902 for reading).
Antoine Pitrou0d739d72010-09-05 23:01:12 +00002903
Gregory P. Smith13b55292010-09-06 08:30:23 +00002904- hashlib has two new constant attributes: algorithms_guaranteed and
2905 algorithms_avaiable that respectively list the names of hash algorithms
2906 guaranteed to exist in all Python implementations and the names of hash
2907 algorithms available in the current process.
2908
Brian Quinlanaf38dc52010-09-21 12:28:43 +00002909- A new package ``concurrent.futures`` as defined by PEP 3148.
2910
Benjamin Peterson568867a2010-09-11 16:02:03 +00002911C-API
2912-----
2913
Benjamin Peterson2bc5c0b2010-09-20 23:01:33 +00002914- Add PyErr_SyntaxLocationEx, which supports passing a column offset.
2915
Benjamin Peterson568867a2010-09-11 16:02:03 +00002916- Issue #9834: Don't segfault in PySequence_GetSlice, PySequence_SetSlice, or
2917 PySequence_DelSlice when the object doesn't have any mapping operations
2918 defined.
2919
Antoine Pitroub41e1282010-09-08 20:57:48 +00002920Tools/Demos
2921-----------
2922
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002923- Issue #9188: The gdb extension now handles correctly narrow (UCS2) as well as
2924 wide (UCS4) unicode builds for both the host interpreter (embedded inside gdb)
2925 and the interpreter under test.
Antoine Pitroub41e1282010-09-08 20:57:48 +00002926
Florent Xiclunadc69e722010-09-13 16:35:02 +00002927Tests
2928-----
2929
Alexander Belopolskye8f58322010-10-15 16:28:20 +00002930- Issue #9308: Added tests for importing encoded modules that do not
2931 depend on specific stdlib modules being encoded in a certain way.
2932
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002933- Issue #1051: Add a script (Lib/test/make_ssl_certs.py) to generate the custom
2934 certificate and private key files used by SSL-related certs.
Antoine Pitrou81564092010-10-08 23:06:24 +00002935
Hirokazu Yamamoto54c950f2010-10-08 08:38:15 +00002936- Issue #9978: Wait until subprocess completes initialization. (Win32KillTests
2937 in test_os)
2938
R. David Murray11cabcf2010-09-29 01:08:05 +00002939- Issue #7110: regrtest now sends test failure reports and single-failure
2940 tracebacks to stderr rather than stdout.
2941
R. David Murrayb78b4892010-09-28 22:25:18 +00002942- Issue #9628: fix runtests.sh -x option so more than one test can be excluded.
2943
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002944- Issue #9899: Fix test_tkinter.test_font on various platforms. Patch by Ned
2945 Deily.
Antoine Pitroub3bfc3d2010-09-21 16:26:09 +00002946
Antoine Pitrou679e0f22010-09-18 17:56:02 +00002947- Issue #9894: Do not hardcode ENOENT in test_subprocess.
2948
Alexander Belopolsky4d770172010-09-13 18:14:34 +00002949- Issue #9315: Added tests for the trace module. Patch by Eli Bendersky.
2950
Florent Xiclunadc69e722010-09-13 16:35:02 +00002951- Issue #9323: Make test.regrtest.__file__ absolute, this was not always the
2952 case when running profile or trace, for example.
2953
Ronald Oussoren01c42892010-09-28 14:38:31 +00002954- Issue #9568: Fix test_urllib2_localnet on OS X 10.3.
2955
Antoine Pitroua3000072010-09-07 14:52:42 +00002956Build
2957-----
2958
Antoine Pitrou19f8edc2010-10-10 08:37:22 +00002959- Issue #10062: Allow building on platforms which do not have sem_timedwait.
2960
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002961- Issue #10054: Some platforms provide uintptr_t in inttypes.h. Patch by Akira
2962 Kitada.
Antoine Pitrou1bf29b72010-10-10 08:10:16 +00002963
Antoine Pitrou5b0e9e82010-10-09 15:24:28 +00002964- Issue #10055: Make json C89-compliant in UCS4 mode.
2965
Hirokazu Yamamoto2f816e62010-09-21 18:23:05 +00002966- Issue #9552: Avoid unnecessary rebuild of OpenSSL. (Windows)
2967
Antoine Pitrouf6350d22010-09-21 15:19:14 +00002968- Issue #1633863: Don't ignore $CC under AIX.
2969
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002970- Issue #9810: Compile bzip2 source files in Python's project file directly. It
2971 used to be built with bzip2's makefile.
Hirokazu Yamamoto234f88d2010-09-16 17:50:57 +00002972
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002973- Issue #9848: Stopping trying to build _weakref in setup.py as it is a built-in
2974 module.
Brett Cannonb82489d2010-09-14 19:41:23 +00002975
Georg Brandlb084b482010-09-12 17:14:26 +00002976- Issue #9806: python-config now has an ``--extension-suffix`` option that
2977 outputs the suffix for dynamic libraries including the ABI version name
2978 defined by PEP 3149.
2979
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002980- Issue #941346: Improve the build process under AIX and allow Python to be
2981 built as a shared library. Patch by Sébastien Sablé.
Antoine Pitrou8e6b4072010-09-10 19:44:44 +00002982
Antoine Pitroua3000072010-09-07 14:52:42 +00002983- Issue #4026: Make the fcntl extension build under AIX. Patch by Sébastien
2984 Sablé.
2985
Ronald Oussoren9af73802010-09-28 13:57:58 +00002986- Issue #9701: The MacOSX installer can patch the shell profile to ensure that
2987 the "bin" directory inside the framework is on the shell's search path. This
2988 feature now also supports the ZSH shell.
2989
Georg Brandlbad09252010-09-05 21:29:17 +00002990
Georg Brandlee449c42010-07-31 18:05:35 +00002991What's New in Python 3.2 Alpha 2?
2992=================================
2993
Georg Brandl58a7b462010-09-05 08:30:40 +00002994*Release date: 05-Sep-2010*
Georg Brandlee449c42010-07-31 18:05:35 +00002995
2996Core and Builtins
2997-----------------
2998
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002999- Issue #9225: Remove the ROT_FOUR and DUP_TOPX opcode, the latter replaced by
3000 the new (and simpler) DUP_TOP_TWO. Performance isn't changed, but our
3001 bytecode is a bit simplified. Patch by Demur Rumed.
Antoine Pitrou74a69fa2010-09-04 18:43:52 +00003002
Brett Cannonef0e6c32010-09-04 18:24:04 +00003003- Issue #9766: Rename poorly named variables exposed by _warnings to prevent
3004 confusion with the proper variables names from 'warnings' itself.
3005
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003006- Issue #9212: dict_keys and dict_items now provide the isdisjoint() method, to
3007 conform to the Set ABC. Patch by Daniel Urban.
Daniel Stutzbach045b3ba2010-09-02 15:06:06 +00003008
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003009- Issue #9737: Fix a crash when trying to delete a slice or an item from a
3010 memoryview object.
Antoine Pitroue0793ba2010-09-01 21:14:16 +00003011
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003012- Issue #9549: sys.setdefaultencoding() and PyUnicode_SetDefaultEncoding() are
3013 now removed, since their effect was inexistent in 3.x (the default encoding is
3014 hardcoded to utf-8 and cannot be changed).
Antoine Pitroufce7fd62010-09-01 18:54:56 +00003015
Antoine Pitroub0fa8312010-09-01 15:10:12 +00003016- Issue #7415: PyUnicode_FromEncodedObject() now uses the new buffer API
3017 properly. Patch by Stefan Behnel.
3018
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003019- Issue #5553: The Py_LOCAL_INLINE macro now results in inlining on most
3020 platforms. Previously, it inlined only when using Microsoft Visual C.
Daniel Stutzbacha606faa2010-08-31 19:51:07 +00003021
Benjamin Peterson33856de2010-08-30 14:41:20 +00003022- Issue #9712: Fix tokenize on identifiers that start with non-ascii names.
3023
Benjamin Peterson0e102062010-08-25 23:13:17 +00003024- Issue #9688: __basicsize__ and __itemsize__ must be accessed as Py_ssize_t.
3025
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003026- Issue #9684: Added a definition for SIZEOF_WCHAR_T to PC/pyconfig.h, to match
3027 the pyconfig.h generated by configure on other systems.
Daniel Stutzbach864078a2010-08-25 19:18:59 +00003028
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003029- Issue #9666: Only catch AttributeError in hasattr(). All other exceptions that
3030 occur during attribute lookup are now propagated to the caller.
Benjamin Peterson17689992010-08-24 03:26:23 +00003031
Victor Stinner94908bb2010-08-18 21:23:25 +00003032- Issue #8622: Add PYTHONFSENCODING environment variable to override the
3033 filesystem encoding.
3034
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc324ac652010-08-18 20:44:58 +00003035- Issue #5127: The C functions that access the Unicode Database now accept and
3036 return characters from the full Unicode range, even on narrow unicode builds
3037 (Py_UNICODE_TOLOWER, Py_UNICODE_ISDECIMAL, and others). A visible difference
3038 in Python is that unicodedata.numeric() now returns the correct value for
3039 large code points, and repr() may consider more characters as printable.
3040
Victor Stinner6c00c142010-08-17 23:37:11 +00003041- Issue #9425: Create PyModule_GetFilenameObject() function to get the filename
3042 as a unicode object, instead of a byte string. Function needed to support
3043 unencodable filenames. Deprecate PyModule_GetFilename() in favor on the new
3044 function.
3045
Victor Stinner6961bd62010-08-17 22:26:51 +00003046- Issue #8063: Call _PyGILState_Init() earlier in Py_InitializeEx().
3047
Antoine Pitrou671b4d92010-08-17 17:55:07 +00003048- Issue #9612: The set object is now 64-bit clean under Windows.
3049
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003050- Issue #8202: sys.argv[0] is now set to '-m' instead of '-c' when searching for
3051 the module file to be executed with the -m command line option.
Nick Coghland26c18a2010-08-17 13:06:11 +00003052
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003053- Issue #9599: Create PySys_FormatStdout() and PySys_FormatStderr() functions to
3054 write a message formatted by PyUnicode_FromFormatV() to sys.stdout and
Victor Stinner79766632010-08-16 17:36:42 +00003055 sys.stderr.
3056
Victor Stinner47fcb5b2010-08-13 23:59:58 +00003057- Issue #9542: Create PyUnicode_FSDecoder() function, a ParseTuple converter:
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003058 decode bytes objects to unicode using PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefaultAndSize(); str
3059 objects are output as-is.
Victor Stinner47fcb5b2010-08-13 23:59:58 +00003060
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003061- Issue #9203: Computed gotos are now enabled by default on supported compilers
3062 (which are detected by the configure script). They can still be disable
3063 selectively by specifying --without-computed-gotos.
Antoine Pitrou042b1282010-08-13 21:15:58 +00003064
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003065- Issue #9425: Create PyErr_WarnFormat() function, similar to PyErr_WarnEx() but
3066 use PyUnicode_FromFormatV() to format the warning message.
Victor Stinner4a2b7a12010-08-13 14:03:48 +00003067
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003068- Issue #8530: Prevent stringlib fastsearch from reading beyond the front of an
3069 array.
Florent Xiclunaeb6f3ea2010-08-08 22:07:16 +00003070
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003071- Issue #5319: Print an error if flushing stdout fails at interpreter shutdown.
Antoine Pitroubddc9fe2010-08-08 20:46:42 +00003072
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003073- Issue #9337: The str() of a float or complex number is now identical to its
3074 repr().
Mark Dickinson388122d2010-08-04 20:56:28 +00003075
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003076- Issue #9416: Fix some issues with complex formatting where the output with no
3077 type specifier failed to match the str output:
Mark Dickinson5b65df72010-08-01 10:41:49 +00003078
3079 - format(complex(-0.0, 2.0), '-') omitted the real part from the output,
3080 - format(complex(0.0, 2.0), '-') included a sign and parentheses.
3081
Hirokazu Yamamoto35adf5d2010-11-07 11:32:01 +00003082Extension Modules
3083-----------------
Georg Brandl0bccc182010-08-01 14:50:00 +00003084
Alexander Belopolskyb9588b52011-01-04 16:34:30 +00003085- Issue #8013: time.asctime and time.ctime no longer call system
3086 asctime and ctime functions. The year range for time.asctime is now
3087 1900 through maxint. The range for time.ctime is the same as for
3088 time.localtime. The string produced by these functions is longer
3089 than 24 characters when year is greater than 9999.
3090
Alexander Belopolsky38e29962010-10-01 14:18:49 +00003091- Issue #6608: time.asctime is now checking struct tm fields its input
3092 before passing it to the system asctime. Patch by MunSic Jeong.
3093
Antoine Pitrou00492492010-09-04 20:53:29 +00003094- Issue #8734: Avoid crash in msvcrt.get_osfhandle() when an invalid file
3095 descriptor is provided. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
3096
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003097- Issue #7736: Release the GIL around calls to opendir() and closedir() in the
3098 posix module. Patch by Marcin Bachry.
Antoine Pitroud3ccde82010-09-04 17:21:57 +00003099
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003100- Issue #4835: make PyLong_FromSocket_t() and PyLong_AsSocket_t() private to the
3101 socket module, and fix the width of socket descriptors to be correctly
3102 detected under 64-bit Windows.
Antoine Pitrou67c7ce42010-08-28 20:42:55 +00003103
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003104- Issue #1027206: Support IDNA in gethostbyname, gethostbyname_ex, getaddrinfo
3105 and gethostbyaddr. getnameinfo is now restricted to numeric addresses as
3106 input.
Martin v. Löwisfc0275a2010-08-22 19:33:47 +00003107
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003108- Issue #9214: Set operations on a KeysView or ItemsView in collections now
3109 correctly return a set. Patch by Eli Bendersky.
Raymond Hettinger9117c752010-08-22 07:44:24 +00003110
Antoine Pitroub85e1652010-08-18 21:05:19 +00003111- Issue #5737: Add Solaris-specific mnemonics in the errno module. Patch by
3112 Matthew Ahrens.
3113
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003114- Restore GIL in nis_cat in case of error. Decode NIS data to fs encoding, using
3115 the surrogate error handler.
Martin v. Löwisdfaf9ec2010-08-18 16:12:23 +00003116
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003117- Issue #665761: ``functools.reduce()`` will no longer mask exceptions other
3118 than ``TypeError`` raised by the iterator argument.
Alexander Belopolskye29e6bf2010-08-16 18:55:46 +00003119
Benjamin Petersond4efbf92010-08-11 19:20:42 +00003120- Issue #9570: Use PEP 383 decoding in os.mknod and os.mkfifo.
3121
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003122- Issue #6915: Under Windows, os.listdir() didn't release the Global Interpreter
3123 Lock around all system calls. Original patch by Ryan Kelly.
Antoine Pitroub73caab2010-08-09 23:39:31 +00003124
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003125- Issue #8524: Add a detach() method to socket objects, so as to put the socket
3126 into the closed state without closing the underlying file descriptor.
Antoine Pitroue43f9d02010-08-08 23:24:50 +00003127
Georg Brandl08be72d2010-10-24 15:11:22 +00003128- Issue #477863: Emit a ResourceWarning at shutdown if gc.garbage is not empty.
Antoine Pitrou696e0352010-08-08 22:18:46 +00003129
Thomas Hellerbf4cc5d2010-08-08 18:16:20 +00003130- Issue #6869: Fix a refcount problem in the _ctypes extension.
3131
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003132- Issue #5504: ctypes should now work with systems where mmap can't be
3133 PROT_WRITE and PROT_EXEC.
Thomas Heller864cc672010-08-08 17:58:53 +00003134
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003135- Issue #9507: Named tuple repr will now automatically display the right name in
3136 a tuple subclass.
Raymond Hettingerd331ce92010-08-08 01:13:42 +00003137
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003138- Issue #9324: Add parameter validation to signal.signal on Windows in order to
3139 prevent crashes.
Brian Curtinef9efbd2010-08-06 19:27:32 +00003140
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003141- Issue #9526: Remove some outdated (int) casts that were preventing the array
3142 module from working correctly with arrays of more than 2**31 elements.
Mark Dickinson4f3086f2010-08-06 09:38:58 +00003143
Mark Dickinsondf7f2fd2010-08-03 18:44:16 +00003144- Fix memory leak in ssl._ssl._test_decode_cert.
3145
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003146- Issue #8065: Fix memory leak in readline module (from failure to free the
3147 result of history_get_history_state()).
Mark Dickinson6b54e1f2010-08-03 16:49:49 +00003148
Mark Dickinson29b238e2010-08-03 16:08:16 +00003149- Issue #9450: Fix memory leak in readline.replace_history_item and
3150 readline.remove_history_item for readline version >= 5.0.
3151
Brian Curtinea47eaa2010-08-01 15:26:26 +00003152- Issue #8105: Validate file descriptor passed to mmap.mmap on Windows.
3153
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003154- Issue #8046: Add context manager protocol support and .closed property to mmap
3155 objects.
Georg Brandl0bccc182010-08-01 14:50:00 +00003156
Georg Brandlee449c42010-07-31 18:05:35 +00003157Library
3158-------
3159
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003160- Issue #7451: Improve decoding performance of JSON objects, and reduce the
3161 memory consumption of said decoded objects when they use the same strings as
3162 keys.
Antoine Pitrou7d6e0762010-09-04 20:16:53 +00003163
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003164- Issue #1100562: Fix deep-copying of objects derived from the list and dict
3165 types. Patch by Michele Orrù and Björn Lindqvist.
Antoine Pitrou3941a8f2010-09-04 17:40:21 +00003166
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003167- Issue #9753: Fixed socket.dup, which did not always work correctly on Windows.
Daniel Stutzbach6c765282010-09-03 12:38:33 +00003168
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003169- Issue #9421: Made the get<type> methods consistently accept the vars and
3170 default arguments on all parser classes.
Fred Drakecc645b92010-09-04 04:35:34 +00003171
Fred Drake88444412010-09-03 04:22:36 +00003172- Issue #7005: Fixed output of None values for RawConfigParser.write and
3173 ConfigParser.write.
3174
Antoine Pitrou1ce3eb52010-09-01 20:29:34 +00003175- Issue #8990: array.fromstring() and array.tostring() get renamed to
3176 frombytes() and tobytes(), respectively, to avoid confusion. Furthermore,
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003177 array.frombytes(), array.extend() as well as the array.array() constructor now
3178 accept bytearray objects. Patch by Thomas Jollans.
Antoine Pitrou1ce3eb52010-09-01 20:29:34 +00003179
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003180- Issue #808164: Fixed socket.close to avoid references to globals, to avoid
3181 issues when socket.close is called from a __del__ method.
Daniel Stutzbach19d6a4f2010-08-31 20:08:07 +00003182
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003183- Issue #9706: ssl module provides a better error handling in various
Giampaolo Rodolà51078b12010-08-29 19:31:49 +00003184 circumstances.
3185
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003186- Issue #1868: Eliminate subtle timing issues in thread-local objects by getting
3187 rid of the cached copy of thread-local attribute dictionary.
Antoine Pitrou1a9a9d52010-08-28 18:17:03 +00003188
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003189- Issue #1512791: In setframerate() in the wave module, non-integral frame rates
3190 are rounded to the nearest integer.
Mark Dickinson64a38c02010-08-28 17:22:16 +00003191
Senthil Kumaran4bb5c272010-08-26 06:16:22 +00003192- Issue #8797: urllib2 does a retry for Basic Authentication failure instead of
3193 falling into recursion.
3194
R. David Murray219d1c82010-08-25 00:45:55 +00003195- Issue #1194222: email.utils.parsedate now returns RFC2822 compliant four
3196 character years even if the message contains RFC822 two character years.
3197
Benjamin Petersonf52c2c62010-08-24 21:03:37 +00003198- Issue #8750: Fixed MutableSet's methods to correctly handle reflexive
3199 operations on its self, namely x -= x and x ^= x.
Daniel Stutzbach31da5b22010-08-24 20:49:57 +00003200
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003201- Issue #9129: smtpd.py is vulnerable to DoS attacks deriving from missing error
3202 handling when accepting a new connection.
Giampaolo Rodolà9cf5ef42010-08-23 22:28:13 +00003203
Barry Warsawaa44b2b2010-09-03 18:36:11 +00003204- Issue #9601: ftplib now provides a workaround for non-compliant
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003205 implementations such as IIS shipped with Windows server 2003 returning invalid
3206 response codes for MKD and PWD commands.
Giampaolo Rodolàbbc47822010-08-23 22:10:32 +00003207
Giampaolo Rodolà76fc8c72010-08-23 21:53:41 +00003208- Issue #658749: asyncore's connect() method now correctly interprets winsock
Giampaolo Rodolàbbc47822010-08-23 22:10:32 +00003209 errors.
Giampaolo Rodolà76fc8c72010-08-23 21:53:41 +00003210
Vinay Sajipde6e9d62010-08-23 17:50:30 +00003211- Issue #9501: Fixed logging regressions in cleanup code.
3212
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003213- Fix functools.total_ordering() to skip methods inherited from object.
Benjamin Peterson06b8b102010-08-23 17:47:43 +00003214
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003215- Issue #9572: Importlib should not raise an exception if a directory it thought
3216 it needed to create was done concurrently by another process.
Brett Cannonee6d6472010-08-22 22:19:11 +00003217
Antoine Pitroub46b9d52010-08-21 19:09:32 +00003218- Issue #9617: Signals received during a low-level write operation aren't
3219 ignored by the buffered IO layer anymore.
3220
Benjamin Peterson23110e72010-08-21 02:54:44 +00003221- Issue #843590: Make "macintosh" an alias to the "mac_roman" encoding.
3222
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003223- Create os.fsdecode(): decode from the filesystem encoding with surrogateescape
3224 error handler, or strict error handler on Windows.
Victor Stinnere8d51452010-08-19 01:05:19 +00003225
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003226- Issue #3488: Provide convenient shorthand functions ``gzip.compress`` and
3227 ``gzip.decompress``. Original patch by Anand B. Pillai.
Antoine Pitrou79c5ef12010-08-17 21:10:05 +00003228
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003229- Issue #8807: poplib.POP3_SSL class now accepts a context parameter, which is a
3230 ssl.SSLContext object allowing bundling SSL configuration options,
Giampaolo Rodolà42382fe2010-08-17 16:09:53 +00003231 certificates and private keys into a single (potentially long-lived)
3232 structure.
3233
Giampaolo Rodolàccfb91c2010-08-17 15:30:23 +00003234- Issue #8866: parameters passed to socket.getaddrinfo can now be specified as
3235 single keyword arguments.
3236
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003237- Address XXX comment in dis.py by having inspect.py prefer to reuse the dis.py
3238 compiler flag values over defining its own.
Nick Coghlan09c81232010-08-17 10:18:16 +00003239
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003240- Issue #9147: Added dis.code_info() which is similar to show_code() but returns
3241 formatted code information in a string rather than displaying on screen.
Nick Coghlaneae2da12010-08-17 08:03:36 +00003242
Nick Coghlan98876832010-08-17 06:17:18 +00003243- Issue #9567: functools.update_wrapper now adds a __wrapped__ attribute
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003244 pointing to the original callable.
Nick Coghlan98876832010-08-17 06:17:18 +00003245
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003246- Issue #3445: functools.update_wrapper now tolerates missing attributes on
3247 wrapped callables.
Nick Coghlan98876832010-08-17 06:17:18 +00003248
Benjamin Peterson45c257f2010-08-17 00:52:52 +00003249- Issue #5867: Add abc.abstractclassmethod and abc.abstractstaticmethod.
3250
Victor Stinnere039ffe2010-08-15 09:33:08 +00003251- Issue #9605: posix.getlogin() decodes the username with file filesystem
3252 encoding and surrogateescape error handler. Patch written by David Watson.
3253
Victor Stinner61ec5dc2010-08-15 09:22:44 +00003254- Issue #9604: posix.initgroups() encodes the username using the fileystem
3255 encoding and surrogateescape error handler. Patch written by David Watson.
3256
Victor Stinner5fe6de82010-08-15 09:12:51 +00003257- Issue #9603: posix.ttyname() and posix.ctermid() decode the terminal name
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003258 using the filesystem encoding and surrogateescape error handler. Patch written
3259 by David Watson.
Victor Stinner5fe6de82010-08-15 09:12:51 +00003260
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003261- Issue #7647: The posix module now has the ST_RDONLY and ST_NOSUID constants,
3262 for use with the statvfs() function. Patch by Adam Jackson.
Andrew M. Kuchling4ea04a32010-08-18 22:30:34 +00003263
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003264- Issue #8688: MANIFEST files created by distutils now include a magic comment
3265 indicating they are generated. Manually maintained MANIFESTs without this
3266 marker will not be overwritten or removed.
Éric Araujoda668ff2010-08-14 02:30:34 +00003267
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003268- Issue #7467: when reading a file from a ZIP archive, its CRC is checked and a
3269 BadZipfile error is raised if it doesn't match (as used to be the case in
3270 Python 2.5 and earlier).
Antoine Pitrou7c8bcb62010-08-12 15:11:50 +00003271
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003272- Issue #9550: a BufferedReader could issue an additional read when the original
3273 read request had been satisfied, which could block indefinitely when the
3274 underlying raw IO channel was e.g. a socket. Report and original patch by
3275 Jason V. Miller.
Antoine Pitrou32cfede2010-08-11 13:31:33 +00003276
Antoine Pitrou5af4f4b2010-08-09 22:38:19 +00003277- Issue #3757: thread-local objects now support cyclic garbage collection.
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003278 Thread-local objects involved in reference cycles will be deallocated timely
3279 by the cyclic GC, even if the underlying thread is still running.
Antoine Pitrou5af4f4b2010-08-09 22:38:19 +00003280
Victor Stinner4a2b7a12010-08-13 14:03:48 +00003281- Issue #9452: Add read_file, read_string, and read_dict to the configparser
Fred Drakea4923622010-08-09 12:52:45 +00003282 API; new source attribute to exceptions.
3283
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003284- Issue #6231: Fix xml.etree.ElementInclude to include the tail of the current
3285 node.
Florent Xiclunaba8a9862010-08-08 23:08:41 +00003286
Florent Xiclunac17f1722010-08-08 19:48:29 +00003287- Issue #8047: Fix the xml.etree serializer to return bytes by default. Use
3288 ``encoding="unicode"`` to generate a Unicode string.
3289
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003290- Issue #8280: urllib2's Request method will remove fragments in the url. This
3291 is how it is supposed to work, wget and curl do the same. Previous behavior
3292 was wrong.
Senthil Kumaranc41e1fa2010-08-08 11:50:22 +00003293
Gerhard Häring1c5471f2010-08-05 14:08:44 +00003294- Issue #6683: For SMTP logins we now try all authentication methods advertised
Florent Xicluna09245d82010-08-14 16:56:27 +00003295 by the server. Many servers are buggy and advertise authentication methods
3296 they do not support in reality.
Gerhard Häring1c5471f2010-08-05 14:08:44 +00003297
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003298- Issue #8814: function annotations (the ``__annotations__`` attribute) are now
3299 included in the set of attributes copied by default by functools.wraps and
3300 functools.update_wrapper. Patch by Terrence Cole.
Antoine Pitrou560f7642010-08-04 18:28:02 +00003301
Giampaolo Rodolà934abdd2010-08-04 09:02:27 +00003302- Issue #2944: asyncore doesn't handle connection refused correctly.
3303
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003304- Issue #4184: Private attributes on smtpd.SMTPChannel made public and deprecate
3305 the private attributes. Add tests for smtpd module.
Richard Jonesdd24cf62010-08-04 01:19:22 +00003306
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003307- Issue #3196: email header decoding is now forgiving if an RFC2047 encoded word
3308 encoded in base64 is lacking padding.
R. David Murrayc4e69cc2010-08-03 22:14:10 +00003309
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003310- Issue #9444: Argparse now uses the first element of prefix_chars as the option
3311 character for the added 'h/help' option if prefix_chars does not contain a
3312 '-', instead of raising an error.
R. David Murray88c49fe2010-08-03 17:56:09 +00003313
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003314- Issue #7372: Fix pstats regression when stripping paths from profile data
3315 generated with the profile module.
Georg Brandl2d3c4e72010-08-02 17:24:49 +00003316
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003317- Issue #9428: Fix running scripts with the profile/cProfile modules from the
3318 command line.
Georg Brandl8e43fbf2010-08-02 12:20:23 +00003319
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003320- Issue #7781: Fix restricting stats by entry counts in the pstats interactive
3321 browser.
Georg Brandlb1a97af2010-08-02 12:06:18 +00003322
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003323- Issue #9209: Do not crash in the pstats interactive browser on invalid regular
3324 expressions.
Georg Brandlb1a97af2010-08-02 12:06:18 +00003325
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003326- Update collections.OrderedDict to match the implementation in Py2.7 (based on
3327 lists instead of weakly referenced Link objects).
Raymond Hettinger5be21b72010-08-01 22:10:57 +00003328
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003329- Issue #8397: Raise an error when attempting to mix iteration and regular reads
3330 on a BZ2File object, rather than returning incorrect results.
Antoine Pitrou7ffa1962010-08-01 20:08:46 +00003331
Antoine Pitrouc881f152010-08-01 16:53:42 +00003332- Issue #9448: Fix a leak of OS resources (mutexes or semaphores) when
3333 re-initializing a buffered IO object by calling its ``__init__`` method.
3334
Georg Brandle6c59502010-08-01 15:30:56 +00003335- Issue #1713: Fix os.path.ismount(), which returned true for symbolic links
3336 across devices.
3337
Georg Brandlb16e38b2010-08-01 09:06:34 +00003338- Issue #8826: Properly load old-style "expires" attribute in http.cookies.
3339
Georg Brandl8f9f4662010-08-01 08:35:29 +00003340- Issue #1690103: Fix initial namespace for code run with trace.main().
3341
Georg Brandl920bc0f2010-08-01 08:10:08 +00003342- Issue #7395: Fix tracebacks in pstats interactive browser.
3343
Georg Brandlf325e032010-08-01 08:07:49 +00003344- Issue #8230: Fix Lib/test/sortperf.py.
3345
Terry Reedy74901002010-12-29 19:02:07 +00003346- Issue #8620: when a cmd.Cmd() is fed input that reaches EOF without a final
3347 newline, it no longer truncates the last character of the last command line.
R. David Murray7905d612010-08-01 03:31:09 +00003348
Georg Brandl05245f72010-07-31 22:32:52 +00003349- Issue #5146: Handle UID THREAD command correctly in imaplib.
3350
Georg Brandl87a15642010-07-31 22:11:11 +00003351- Issue #5147: Fix the header generated for cookie files written by
3352 http.cookiejar.MozillaCookieJar.
3353
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003354- Issue #8198: In pydoc, output all help text to the correct stream when
3355 sys.stdout is reassigned.
Georg Brandl78aa3962010-07-31 21:51:48 +00003356
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003357- Issue #7909: Do not touch paths with the special prefixes ``\\.\`` or ``\\?\``
3358 in ntpath.normpath().
Georg Brandlcfb68212010-07-31 21:40:15 +00003359
Georg Brandl6cb7b652010-07-31 20:08:15 +00003360- Issue #1286: Allow using fileinput.FileInput as a context manager.
3361
Nick Coghlan632a0c12010-08-17 05:22:50 +00003362- Add lru_cache() decorator to the functools module.
Georg Brandlebb280c2010-07-31 18:09:46 +00003363
Antoine Pitrouf767f082010-08-03 17:09:36 +00003364Tools/Demos
3365-----------
3366
Florent Xiclunac7eaede2010-08-09 12:26:44 +00003367- Fix ``Tools/scripts/checkpyc.py`` after PEP 3147.
3368
Antoine Pitrouf767f082010-08-03 17:09:36 +00003369- Issue #8867: Fix ``Tools/scripts/serve.py`` to work with files containing
3370 non-ASCII content.
3371
Giampaolo Rodolàb5c23762010-08-04 09:28:05 +00003372Tests
3373-----
3374
Giampaolo Rodolàbbc47822010-08-23 22:10:32 +00003375- Issue #9601: Provide a test case for ftplib.parse257.
3376
Giampaolo Rodolà419f7042010-08-14 16:45:41 +00003377- Issue #8857: Provide a test case for socket.getaddrinfo.
3378
Florent Xicluna39d795d2010-08-08 18:06:13 +00003379- Issue #7564: Skip test_ioctl if another process is attached to /dev/tty.
3380
Mark Dickinsonaf43e9a2010-08-07 12:33:36 +00003381- Issue #8433: Fix test_curses failure with newer versions of ncurses.
3382
Antoine Pitrou482e66a2010-08-04 15:43:16 +00003383- Issue #9496: Provide a test suite for the rlcompleter module. Patch by
3384 Michele Orrù.
3385
Giampaolo Rodolàb5c23762010-08-04 09:28:05 +00003386- Issue #8687: provide a test suite for sched.py module.
3387
Martin v. Löwis907229a2010-08-15 15:47:25 +00003388Build
3389-----
3390
Martin v. Löwisa5e31092010-09-04 14:38:09 +00003391- Issue #1303434: Generate ZIP file containing all PDBs.
3392
Barry Warsawaa44b2b2010-09-03 18:36:11 +00003393- Issue #9193: PEP 3149 is accepted.
3394
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003395- Issue #3101: Helper functions _add_one_to_index_C() and _add_one_to_index_F()
3396 become _Py_add_one_to_index_C() and _Py_add_one_to_index_F(), respectively.
Antoine Pitrouf68c2a72010-09-01 12:58:21 +00003397
Antoine Pitrou33a29942010-08-30 14:52:00 +00003398- Issue #9700: define HAVE_BROKEN_POSIX_SEMAPHORES under AIX 6.x. Patch by
3399 Sébastien Sablé.
3400
Martin v. Löwis907229a2010-08-15 15:47:25 +00003401- Don't run pgen twice when using make -j.
3402
Georg Brandlee449c42010-07-31 18:05:35 +00003403
Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +00003404What's New in Python 3.2 Alpha 1?
3405=================================
3406
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003407*Release date: 01-Aug-2010*
Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +00003408
3409Core and Builtins
3410-----------------
3411
Victor Stinner8182b712010-07-28 00:40:58 +00003412- Issue #8991: convertbuffer() rejects discontigious buffers.
3413
Antoine Pitrou1ac745b2010-07-11 12:12:00 +00003414- Issue #7616: Fix copying of overlapping memoryview slices with the Intel
3415 compiler.
3416
Benjamin Petersonccabcd42010-07-07 20:54:01 +00003417- Issue #8413: structsequence now subclasses tuple.
3418
Ezio Melotti57221d02010-07-01 07:32:02 +00003419- Issue #8271: during the decoding of an invalid UTF-8 byte sequence, only the
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003420 start byte and the continuation byte(s) are now considered invalid, instead of
3421 the number of bytes specified by the start byte. E.g.:
3422 '\xf1\x80AB'.decode('utf-8', 'replace') now returns u'\ufffdAB' and replaces
3423 with U+FFFD only the start byte ('\xf1') and the continuation byte ('\x80')
3424 even if '\xf1' is the start byte of a 4-bytes sequence. Previous versions
3425 returned a single u'\ufffd'.
Ezio Melotti57221d02010-07-01 07:32:02 +00003426
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003427- Issue #9011: A negated imaginary literal (e.g., "-7j") now has real part -0.0
3428 rather than 0.0. So "-7j" is now exactly equivalent to "-(7j)".
Mark Dickinson50b79a82010-06-30 11:13:36 +00003429
Benjamin Peterson88968ad2010-06-25 19:30:21 +00003430- Be more specific in error messages about positional arguments.
3431
Victor Stinner4aae1eb2010-06-24 22:08:25 +00003432- Issue #8949: "z" format of PyArg_Parse*() functions doesn't accept bytes
3433 objects, as described in the documentation.
3434
Victor Stinner0fe25a42010-06-17 23:08:50 +00003435- Issue #6543: Write the traceback in the terminal encoding instead of utf-8.
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003436 Fix the encoding of the modules filename. Patch written by Amaury Forgeot
Victor Stinner2cd12522010-06-17 23:17:37 +00003437 d'Arc.
Victor Stinner0fe25a42010-06-17 23:08:50 +00003438
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003439- Issue #9011: Remove buggy and unnecessary (in 3.x) ST->AST compilation code
3440 dealing with unary minus applied to a constant. The removed code was mutating
3441 the ST, causing a second compilation to fail.
Mark Dickinsond35a32e2010-06-17 12:33:22 +00003442
Victor Stinner554f3f02010-06-16 23:33:54 +00003443- Issue #850997: mbcs encoding (Windows only) handles errors argument: strict
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003444 mode raises unicode errors. The encoder only supports "strict" and "replace"
Victor Stinner554f3f02010-06-16 23:33:54 +00003445 error handlers, the decoder only supports "strict" and "ignore" error
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003446 handlers. Patch written by Mark Hammond.
Victor Stinner554f3f02010-06-16 23:33:54 +00003447
Victor Stinner25e8ec42010-06-25 00:02:38 +00003448- Issue #8850: Remove "w" and "w#" formats from PyArg_Parse*() functions, use
3449 "w*" format instead. Add tests for "w*" format.
3450
Victor Stinner06e49dd2010-06-13 18:21:50 +00003451- Issue #8592: PyArg_Parse*() functions raise a TypeError for "y", "u" and "Z"
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003452 formats if the string contains a null byte/character. Write unit tests for
Victor Stinner06e49dd2010-06-13 18:21:50 +00003453 string formats.
3454
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003455- Issue #7490: To facilitate sharing of doctests between 2.x and 3.x test
Nick Coghlan5e76e942010-06-12 13:42:46 +00003456 suites, the IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL directive now also ignores the module
3457 location of the raised exception.
3458
Victor Stinner313a1202010-06-11 23:56:51 +00003459- Issue #8969: On Windows, use mbcs codec in strict mode to encode and decode
3460 filenames and enable os.fsencode().
3461
Benjamin Peterson285a6892010-06-22 19:21:52 +00003462- Issue #9058: Remove assertions about INT_MAX in UnicodeDecodeError.
3463
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003464- Issue #8941: Decoding big endian UTF-32 data in UCS-2 builds could crash the
3465 interpreter with characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane (higher than
3466 0x10000).
Antoine Pitroucc0cfd32010-06-11 21:46:32 +00003467
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003468- Issue #8950: (See also issue #5080). Py_ArgParse*() functions now raise
3469 TypeError instead of giving a DeprecationWarning when a float is parsed using
3470 the 'L' code (for long long). (All other integer codes already raise
3471 TypeError in this case.)
Mark Dickinsonc7301312010-06-10 16:05:10 +00003472
Victor Stinner600d3be2010-06-10 12:00:55 +00003473- Issue #8922: Normalize the encoding name in PyUnicode_AsEncodedString() to
3474 enable shortcuts for upper case encoding name. Add also a shortcut for
3475 "iso-8859-1" in PyUnicode_AsEncodedString() and PyUnicode_Decode().
3476
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003477- Issue #8838: Remove codecs.charbuffer_encode() function. The buffer protocol
3478 doesn't support "char buffer" anymore in Python 3.
Victor Stinner3dcb5ac2010-06-08 22:54:19 +00003479
3480- Issue #8339: Remove "t#" format of PyArg_Parse*() functions, use "s#" or "s*"
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003481 instead. codecs.charbuffer_encode() now accepts modifiable buffer objects
Victor Stinner3dcb5ac2010-06-08 22:54:19 +00003482 like bytearray.
3483
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003484- Issue #8837: Remove "O?" format of PyArg_Parse*() functions. The format is no
Victor Stinner33109a12010-05-28 21:55:10 +00003485 used anymore and it was never documented.
3486
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003487- In str.format(), raise a ValueError when indexes to arguments are too large.
Benjamin Peterson59a1b2f2010-06-07 22:31:26 +00003488
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003489- Issue #2844: Make int('42', n) consistently raise ValueError for invalid
3490 integers n (including n = -909).
Mark Dickinsonf9a5a8e2010-05-26 20:07:58 +00003491
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003492- Issue #8188: Introduce a new scheme for computing hashes of numbers (instances
3493 of int, float, complex, decimal.Decimal and fractions.Fraction) that makes it
3494 easy to maintain the invariant that hash(x) == hash(y) whenever x and y have
3495 equal value.
Mark Dickinsondc787d22010-05-23 13:33:13 +00003496
Mark Dickinsoncc6a9822010-05-21 14:55:26 +00003497- Issue #8748: Fix two issues with comparisons between complex and integer
3498 objects. (1) The comparison could incorrectly return True in some cases
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003499 (2**53+1 == complex(2**53) == 2**53), breaking transitivity of equality.
3500 (2) The comparison raised an OverflowError for large integers, leading to
3501 unpredictable exceptions when combining integers and complex objects in sets
3502 or dicts.
Mark Dickinsoncc6a9822010-05-21 14:55:26 +00003503
Victor Stinner7d79b8b2010-05-19 20:40:50 +00003504- Issue #8766: Initialize _warnings module before importing the first module.
3505 Fix a crash if an empty directory called "encodings" exists in sys.path.
3506
Victor Stinner9ca9c252010-05-19 16:53:30 +00003507- Issue #8589: Decode PYTHONWARNINGS environment variable with the file system
Victor Stinnere039ffe2010-08-15 09:33:08 +00003508 encoding and surrogateescape error handler instead of the locale encoding to
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003509 be consistent with os.environ. Add PySys_AddWarnOptionUnicode() function.
Victor Stinner9ca9c252010-05-19 16:53:30 +00003510
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003511- PyObject_Dump() encodes unicode objects to utf8 with backslashreplace (instead
3512 of strict) error handler to escape surrogates.
Victor Stinner372ac5e2010-05-17 01:26:01 +00003513
Victor Stinnerae6265f2010-05-15 16:27:27 +00003514- Issue #8715: Create PyUnicode_EncodeFSDefault() function: Encode a Unicode
3515 object to Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding with the "surrogateescape" error
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003516 handler, and return bytes. If Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding is not set, fall
Benjamin Peterson0c3d21d2010-05-15 17:43:57 +00003517 back to UTF-8.
Victor Stinnerae6265f2010-05-15 16:27:27 +00003518
Victor Stinner59e62db2010-05-15 13:14:32 +00003519- Enable shortcuts for common encodings in PyUnicode_AsEncodedString() for any
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003520 error handler, not only the default error handler (strict).
Victor Stinner59e62db2010-05-15 13:14:32 +00003521
Victor Stinnerb744ba12010-05-15 12:27:16 +00003522- Issue #8610: Load file system codec at startup, and display a fatal error on
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003523 failure. Set the file system encoding to utf-8 (instead of None) if getting
Victor Stinnerb744ba12010-05-15 12:27:16 +00003524 the locale encoding failed, or if nl_langinfo(CODESET) function is missing.
3525
Victor Stinner0964ee12010-04-30 16:48:45 +00003526- PyFile_FromFd() uses PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefault() instead of
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003527 PyUnicode_FromString() to support surrogates in the filename and use the right
3528 encoding.
Victor Stinner0964ee12010-04-30 16:48:45 +00003529
Georg Brandl8569e582010-05-19 20:57:08 +00003530- Issue #7507: Quote "!" in pipes.quote(); it is special to some shells.
3531
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003532- PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefaultAndSize() uses surrogateescape error handler.
Victor Stinnerb9a20ad2010-04-30 16:37:52 +00003533
Benjamin Petersonfb886362010-04-24 18:21:17 +00003534- Issue #8419: Prevent the dict constructor from accepting non-string keyword
3535 arguments.
3536
Victor Stinner14284c22010-04-23 12:02:30 +00003537- Issue #8124: PySys_WriteStdout() and PySys_WriteStderr() don't execute
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003538 indirectly Python signal handlers anymore because mywrite() ignores exceptions
3539 (KeyboardInterrupt).
Victor Stinner14284c22010-04-23 12:02:30 +00003540
Victor Stinner31be90b2010-04-22 19:38:16 +00003541- Issue #8092: Fix PyUnicode_EncodeUTF8() to support error handler producing
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003542 unicode string (eg. backslashreplace).
Victor Stinner31be90b2010-04-22 19:38:16 +00003543
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003544- Issue #8485: PyUnicode_FSConverter() doesn't accept byteearray objects
3545 anymore, you have to convert your bytearray filenames to bytes.
Victor Stinnerdcb24032010-04-22 12:08:36 +00003546
Antoine Pitrou5bc7ec92010-04-21 22:56:22 +00003547- Issue #7332: Remove the 16KB stack-based buffer in
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003548 PyMarshal_ReadLastObjectFromFile, which doesn't bring any noticeable benefit
3549 compared to the dynamic memory allocation fallback. Patch by Charles-François
3550 Natali.
Antoine Pitrou5bc7ec92010-04-21 22:56:22 +00003551
Benjamin Peterson8380dd52010-04-16 22:51:37 +00003552- Issue #8417: Raise an OverflowError when an integer larger than sys.maxsize is
3553 passed to bytes or bytearray.
3554
Philip Jenvey0805ca32010-04-07 04:04:10 +00003555- Issue #7301: Add environment variable $PYTHONWARNINGS.
3556
Benjamin Petersond856ab62010-04-06 21:55:16 +00003557- Issue #8329: Don't return the same lists from select.select when no fds are
3558 changed.
3559
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003560- Issue #8259: 1L << (2**31) no longer produces an 'outrageous shift error' on
3561 64-bit machines. The shift count for either left or right shift is permitted
3562 to be up to sys.maxsize.
Mark Dickinson3318d292010-04-06 16:53:17 +00003563
Benjamin Peterson8daa49e2010-04-03 22:55:48 +00003564- Ensure that tokenization of identifiers is not affected by locale.
3565
Tarek Ziadé03d788d2010-04-03 08:46:49 +00003566- Issue #1222585: Added LDCXXSHARED for C++ support. Patch by Arfrever.
3567
Benjamin Peterson80d8fd82010-04-03 01:40:24 +00003568- Raise a TypeError when trying to delete a T_STRING_INPLACE struct member.
3569
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003570- Issue #8211: Save/restore CFLAGS around AC_PROG_CC in configure.in, in case it
3571 is set.
Victor Stinner00d6a1d2010-03-25 01:02:29 +00003572
Victor Stinner120c2122010-03-25 00:30:28 +00003573- Issue #8226: sys.setfilesystemencoding() raises a LookupError if the encoding
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003574 is unknown.
Victor Stinner120c2122010-03-25 00:30:28 +00003575
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003576- Issue #1583863: A str subclass can now override the __str__ method.
Victor Stinner808fc0a2010-03-22 12:50:40 +00003577
Mark Dickinsond59b4162010-03-13 11:34:40 +00003578- Issue #8014: Setting a T_UINT or T_PYSSIZET attribute of an object with
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003579 PyMemberDefs could produce an internal error; raise TypeError instead.
Mark Dickinsond59b4162010-03-13 11:34:40 +00003580
Mark Dickinsonf673f0c2010-03-13 09:48:39 +00003581- Issue #7845: Rich comparison methods on the complex type now return
3582 NotImplemented rather than raising a TypeError when comparing with an
3583 incompatible type; this allows user-defined classes to implement their own
3584 comparisons with complex.
3585
Victor Stinner52f6dd72010-03-12 14:45:56 +00003586- Issue #3137: Don't ignore errors at startup, especially a keyboard interrupt
3587 (SIGINT). If an error occurs while importing the site module, the error is
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003588 printed and Python exits. Initialize the GIL before importing the site module.
Victor Stinner52f6dd72010-03-12 14:45:56 +00003589
Benjamin Petersonae5f2f42010-03-07 17:10:51 +00003590- Issue #7173: Generator finalization could invalidate sys.exc_info().
3591
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003592- Issue #7544: Preallocate thread memory before creating the thread to avoid a
3593 fatal error in low memory condition.
Victor Stinner45b9be52010-03-03 23:28:07 +00003594
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003595- Issue #7820: The parser tokenizer restores all bytes in the right if the BOM
3596 check fails.
Victor Stinner6aa278e2010-03-03 00:18:49 +00003597
Benjamin Peterson23e018a2010-02-27 17:40:01 +00003598- Handle errors from looking up __prepare__ correctly.
3599
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003600- Issue #5939: Add additional runtime checking to ensure a valid capsule in
3601 Modules/_ctypes/callproc.c.
Larry Hastings1373a072010-02-24 22:49:58 +00003602
Eric Smith0facd772010-02-24 15:42:29 +00003603- Issue #7309: Fix unchecked attribute access when converting
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003604 UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError, and UnicodeTranslateError to strings.
Eric Smith0facd772010-02-24 15:42:29 +00003605
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003606- Issue #6902: Fix problem with built-in types format incorrectly with 0
3607 padding.
Eric Smithabb28c62010-02-23 00:22:24 +00003608
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003609- Issue #7988: Fix default alignment to be right aligned for complex.__format__.
3610 Now it matches other numeric types.
Eric Smith4e260c52010-02-22 18:54:44 +00003611
Eric Smith68af50b2010-02-22 14:58:30 +00003612- Issue #5988: Remove deprecated functions PyOS_ascii_formatd,
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003613 PyOS_ascii_strtod, and PyOS_ascii_atof. Use PyOS_double_to_string and
3614 PyOS_string_to_double instead. See issue #5835 for the original deprecations.
Eric Smith68af50b2010-02-22 14:58:30 +00003615
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003616- Issue #7385: Fix a crash in `MemoryView_FromObject` when `PyObject_GetBuffer`
3617 fails. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou05b7c562010-02-02 22:47:00 +00003618
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003619- Issue #7788: Fix an interpreter crash produced by deleting a list slice with
3620 very large step value.
Mark Dickinsonbc099642010-01-29 17:27:24 +00003621
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003622- Issue #7766: Change sys.getwindowsversion() return value to a named tuple and
3623 add the additional members returned in an OSVERSIONINFOEX structure. The new
3624 members are service_pack_major, service_pack_minor, suite_mask, and
3625 product_type.
Eric Smithf7bb5782010-01-27 00:44:57 +00003626
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003627- Issue #7561: Operations on empty bytearrays (such as `int(bytearray())`) could
3628 crash in many places because of the PyByteArray_AS_STRING() macro returning
3629 NULL. The macro now returns a statically allocated empty string instead.
Antoine Pitroufc8d6f42010-01-17 12:38:54 +00003630
Antoine Pitroub7fbcd32010-01-16 18:37:38 +00003631- Issue #6690: Optimize the bytecode for expressions such as `x in {1, 2, 3}`,
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003632 where the right hand operand is a set of constants, by turning the set into a
3633 frozenset and pre-building it as a constant. The comparison operation is made
3634 against the constant instead of building a new set each time it is executed (a
3635 similar optimization already existed which turned a list of constants into a
3636 pre-built tuple). Patch and additional tests by Dave Malcolm.
Antoine Pitroub7fbcd32010-01-16 18:37:38 +00003637
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003638- Issue #7622: Improve the split(), rsplit(), splitlines() and replace() methods
3639 of bytes, bytearray and unicode objects by using a common implementation based
3640 on stringlib's fast search. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrouf2c54842010-01-13 08:07:53 +00003641
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003642- Issue #7632: Fix various str -> float conversion bugs present in 2.7 alpha 2,
3643 including: (1) a serious 'wrong output' bug that could occur for long (> 40
3644 digit) input strings, (2) a crash in dtoa.c that occurred in debug builds when
3645 parsing certain long numeric strings corresponding to subnormal values, (3) a
3646 memory leak for some values large enough to cause overflow, and (4) a number
3647 of flaws that could lead to incorrectly rounded results.
Mark Dickinson81612e82010-01-12 23:04:19 +00003648
Benjamin Petersonaea44282010-01-04 01:10:28 +00003649- The __complex__ method is now looked up on the class of instances to make it
3650 consistent with other special methods.
3651
Antoine Pitrouda2ecaf2010-01-02 21:40:36 +00003652- Issue #7462: Implement the stringlib fast search algorithm for the `rfind`,
3653 `rindex`, `rsplit` and `rpartition` methods. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
3654
Benjamin Petersond12362a2009-12-30 19:44:54 +00003655- Issue #7604: Deleting an unset slotted attribute did not raise an
3656 AttributeError.
3657
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003658- Issue #7534: Fix handling of IEEE specials (infinities, nans, negative zero)
3659 in ** operator. The behaviour now conforms to that described in C99 Annex F.
Mark Dickinson9ab44b52009-12-30 16:22:49 +00003660
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003661- Issue #1811: improve accuracy and cross-platform consistency for true division
3662 of integers: the result of a/b is now correctly rounded for ints a and b (at
3663 least on IEEE 754 platforms), and in particular does not depend on the
3664 internal representation of an int.
Mark Dickinsoncbb62742009-12-27 15:09:50 +00003665
Ronald Oussoren6f6c5622009-12-24 14:03:19 +00003666- Issue #6834: replace the implementation for the 'python' and 'pythonw'
3667 executables on OSX.
3668
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003669 These executables now work properly with the arch(1) command: ``arch -ppc
3670 python`` will start a universal binary version of python in PPC mode (unlike
3671 previous releases).
Ronald Oussoren6f6c5622009-12-24 14:03:19 +00003672
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003673- Issue #7466: Segmentation fault when the garbage collector is called in the
3674 middle of populating a tuple. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou6b7dfc92009-12-12 19:18:27 +00003675
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc64f3ca42009-12-01 21:59:18 +00003676- Issue #7419: setlocale() could crash the interpreter on Windows when called
3677 with invalid values.
3678
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7d0bddd2009-11-30 00:08:56 +00003679- Issue #6077: On Windows, files opened with tempfile.TemporaryFile in "wt+"
3680 mode would appear truncated on the first '0x1a' byte (aka. Ctrl+Z).
3681
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003682- Issue #7085: Fix crash when importing some extensions in a thread on MacOSX
3683 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren3c1928a2009-11-19 17:15:31 +00003684
Philip Jenvey1309adb2009-11-17 03:43:14 +00003685- Issue #1757126: Fix the cyrillic-asian alias for the ptcp154 encoding.
3686
Mark Dickinson6f1d0492009-11-15 13:58:49 +00003687- Issue #6970: Remove redundant calls when comparing objects that don't
3688 implement the relevant rich comparison methods.
3689
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003690- Issue #7298: Fixes for range and reversed(range(...)). Iteration over
3691 range(a, b, c) incorrectly gave an empty iterator when a, b and c fit in C
3692 long but the length of the range did not. Also fix several cases where
3693 reversed(range(a, b, c)) gave wrong results, and fix a refleak for
3694 reversed(range(a, b, c)) with large arguments.
Mark Dickinsond550c9a2009-11-15 09:57:26 +00003695
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003696- Issue #7244: itertools.izip_longest() no longer ignores exceptions raised
3697 during the formation of an output tuple.
Raymond Hettingerfc438512009-11-01 20:55:33 +00003698
Benjamin Petersonb2e796a2009-10-28 21:59:39 +00003699- Issue #3297: On wide unicode builds, do not split unicode characters into
3700 surrogates.
3701
Mark Dickinsonf9724882009-10-26 21:51:18 +00003702- Remove length limitation when constructing a complex number from a string.
3703
Mark Dickinson27a87a22009-10-25 20:43:34 +00003704- Issue #1087418: Boost performance of bitwise operations for longs.
3705
Antoine Pitroub6ef9632009-10-24 20:47:05 +00003706- Support for AtheOS has been completely removed from the code base. It was
3707 disabled since Python 3.0.
3708
3709- Support for several legacy threading libraries has been disabled. These
3710 libraries are: Mach C threads, SunOS LWP, GNU pth, Irix threads. Support code
3711 will be entirely removed in 3.3.
3712
Jesus Cea6a792292010-05-03 21:18:48 +00003713- Support for OSF* has been disabled. If nobody stands up, support will be
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003714 removed in 3.3. See <http://bugs.python.org/issue8606>.
Jesus Cea6a792292010-05-03 21:18:48 +00003715
Raymond Hettingeraf7adad2009-10-22 11:22:50 +00003716- Peephole constant folding had missed UNARY_POSITIVE.
3717
Antoine Pitrou011bd622009-10-20 21:52:47 +00003718- Issue #1722344: threading._shutdown() is now called in Py_Finalize(), which
3719 fixes the problem of some exceptions being thrown at shutdown when the
3720 interpreter is killed. Patch by Adam Olsen.
3721
Antoine Pitrou671141d2009-10-19 19:37:25 +00003722- Issue #7147: Remove support for compiling Python without complex number
Skip Montanaroba1e0f42009-10-18 14:25:35 +00003723 support.
3724
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003725- Issue #7120: logging: Removed import of multiprocessing which is causing crash
3726 in GAE.
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +00003727
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003728- Issue #1754094: Improve the stack depth calculation in the compiler. There
3729 should be no other effect than a small decrease in memory use. Patch by
3730 Christopher Tur Lesniewski-Laas.
Neil Schemenauere441cb72009-10-14 19:14:38 +00003731
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003732- Issue #7065: Fix a crash in bytes.maketrans and bytearray.maketrans when using
3733 byte values greater than 127. Patch by Derk Drukker.
Antoine Pitrou403ce782009-10-14 17:14:16 +00003734
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7d520792009-10-06 21:03:20 +00003735- Issue #1571184: The Unicode database contains properties for more characters.
3736 The tables for code points representing numeric values, white spaces or line
3737 breaks are now generated from the official Unicode Character Database files,
3738 and include information from the Unihan.txt file.
3739
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003740- Issue #7019: Raise ValueError when unmarshalling bad long data, instead of
3741 producing internally inconsistent Python longs.
Mark Dickinson2683ab02009-09-29 19:21:35 +00003742
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003743- Issue #6990: Fix threading.local subclasses leaving old state around after a
3744 reference cycle GC which could be recycled by new locals.
Philip Jenvey26713ca2009-09-29 04:57:18 +00003745
Benjamin Peterson4905e802009-09-27 02:43:28 +00003746- Issue #5460: Fix an ambiguity in the grammar.
3747
Mark Dickinson3e124ae2009-09-22 21:47:24 +00003748- Issue #1766304: Improve performance of membership tests on range objects.
3749
Mark Dickinson0a1efd02009-09-16 21:23:34 +00003750- Issue #6713: Improve performance of integer -> string conversions.
3751
Mark Dickinson54a3db92009-09-06 10:19:23 +00003752- Issue #6846: Fix bug where bytearray.pop() returns negative integers.
3753
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003754- Issue #6750: A text file opened with io.open() could duplicate its output when
3755 writing from multiple threads at the same time.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcccd686a2009-08-29 23:00:38 +00003756
Benjamin Peterson14327712009-08-15 13:23:05 +00003757- Issue #6707: dir() on an uninitialized module caused a crash.
3758
Georg Brandl953152f2009-07-22 12:03:59 +00003759- Issue #6540: Fixed crash for bytearray.translate() with invalid parameters.
3760
Raymond Hettingere805ecc2009-07-27 20:16:37 +00003761- Issue #6573: set.union() stopped processing inputs if an instance of self
3762 occurred in the argument chain.
3763
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003764- Issue #6070: On posix platforms import no longer copies the execute bit from
3765 the .py file to the .pyc file if it is set.
R. David Murray046f7232009-07-19 02:22:05 +00003766
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc8b84ea02009-07-13 20:38:21 +00003767- Issue #1616979: Added the cp720 (Arabic DOS) encoding.
3768
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003769- Issue #6428: Since Python 3.0, the __bool__ method must return a bool object,
3770 and not an int. Fix the corresponding error message, and the documentation.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc097cd072009-07-07 00:43:08 +00003771
Benjamin Petersonf1664ae2009-07-01 01:28:55 +00003772- The deprecated PyCObject has been removed.
3773
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003774- Issue #6347: Include inttypes.h as well as stdint.h in pyport.h. This fixes a
3775 build failure on HP-UX: int32_t and uint32_t are defined in inttypes.h instead
3776 of stdint.h on that platform.
Mark Dickinson835a6c82009-06-30 15:45:17 +00003777
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003778- Issue #6373: Fixed a SystemError when encoding with the latin-1 codec and the
3779 'surrogateescape' error handler, a string which contains unpaired surrogates.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc84ec8d92009-06-29 22:36:49 +00003780
Hirokazu Yamamoto892a37a2009-06-28 11:07:03 +00003781- Issue #4856: Remove checks for win NT.
3782
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003783- Issue #6687: PyBytes_FromObject() no longer accepts an integer as its argument
3784 to construct a null-initialized bytes object.
Alexandre Vassalottieb6f8de2009-12-31 03:56:09 +00003785
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003786- Issue #1023290: Add from_bytes() and to_bytes() methods to integers. These
3787 methods allow the conversion of integers to bytes, and vice-versa.
Alexandre Vassalottic36c3782010-01-09 20:35:09 +00003788
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003789- Issue #7382: Fix bug in bytes.__getnewargs__ that prevented bytes instances
3790 from being copied with copy.copy(), and bytes subclasses from being pickled
3791 properly.
Alexandre Vassalotti41f58a72010-01-12 01:23:09 +00003792
Collin Winter4222e9c2010-03-18 22:46:40 +00003793- Code objects now support weak references.
3794
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003795- Issue #7072: isspace(0xa0) is true on Mac OS X.
Ronald Oussoren501aeff2010-04-18 15:02:38 +00003796
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003797- Issue #8084: PEP 370 now conforms to system conventions for framework builds
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00003798 on MacOS X. That is, "python setup.py install --user" will install into
3799 "~/Library/Python/2.7" instead of "~/.local".
Ronald Oussoren501aeff2010-04-18 15:02:38 +00003800
Benjamin Peterson466a7822009-07-02 21:44:01 +00003801C-API
3802-----
3803
Alexander Belopolskyf0f45142010-08-11 17:31:17 +00003804- Issue #2443: A new macro, `Py_VA_COPY`, copies the state of the
3805 variable argument list. `Py_VA_COPY` is equivalent to C99
3806 `va_copy`, but available on all python platforms.
3807
Mark Dickinsone6fc7402010-08-06 18:55:26 +00003808- PySlice_GetIndicesEx now clips the step to [-PY_SSIZE_T_MAX, PY_SSIZE_T_MAX]
3809 instead of [-PY_SSIZE_T_MAX-1, PY_SSIZE_T_MAX]. This makes it safe to do
3810 "step = -step" when reversing a slice.
3811
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003812- Issue #5753: A new C API function, `PySys_SetArgvEx`, allows embedders of the
3813 interpreter to set sys.argv without also modifying sys.path. This helps fix
3814 `CVE-2008-5983
Antoine Pitrouf978fac2010-05-21 17:25:34 +00003815 <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5983>`_.
3816
Benjamin Petersonfb886362010-04-24 18:21:17 +00003817- Add PyArg_ValidateKeywordArguments, which checks if all keyword arguments are
3818 strings in an efficient manner.
3819
Antoine Pitrou8689a102010-04-01 16:53:15 +00003820- Issue #8276: PyEval_CallObject() is now only available in macro form. The
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003821 function declaration, which was kept for backwards compatibility reasons, is
3822 now removed (the macro was introduced in 1997!).
Antoine Pitrou8689a102010-04-01 16:53:15 +00003823
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003824- Issue #7767: New function PyLong_AsLongLongAndOverflow added, analogous to
3825 PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow.
Mark Dickinson93f562c2010-01-30 10:30:15 +00003826
Benjamin Peterson8667a9b2010-01-09 21:45:28 +00003827- Make PyUnicode_CompareWithASCIIString return not equal if the Python string
3828 has '\0' at the end.
3829
Mark Dickinsonde604012010-01-01 19:27:32 +00003830- Issue #5080: The argument parsing functions PyArg_ParseTuple,
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003831 PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords, PyArg_VaParse, PyArg_VaParseTupleAndKeywords and
3832 PyArg_Parse now raise a DeprecationWarning for float arguments passed with the
3833 'L' format code. This will become a TypeError in a future version of Python,
Mark Dickinsonde604012010-01-01 19:27:32 +00003834 to match the behaviour of the other integer format codes.
3835
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003836- Issue #7033: Function ``PyErr_NewExceptionWithDoc()`` added.
Georg Brandl1e28a272009-12-28 08:41:01 +00003837
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003838- Issue #7414: 'C' code wasn't being skipped properly (for keyword arguments) in
3839 PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords.
Mark Dickinsonf08173b2009-12-03 10:59:46 +00003840
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003841- Issue #7228: Add '%lld' and '%llu' support to PyString_FromFormat(V) and
3842 PyErr_Format, on machines with HAVE_LONG_LONG defined.
Mark Dickinson6ce4a9a2009-11-16 17:00:11 +00003843
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003844- Issue #6151: Made PyDescr_COMMON conform to standard C (like PyObject_HEAD in
3845 PEP 3123). The PyDescr_TYPE and PyDescr_NAME macros should be should used for
3846 accessing the d_type and d_name members of structures using PyDescr_COMMON.
Alexandre Vassalotti2db046d2009-07-22 03:56:36 +00003847
3848- Issue #6405: Remove duplicate type declarations in descrobject.h.
Benjamin Peterson89b89172009-07-03 13:30:25 +00003849
Benjamin Peterson466a7822009-07-02 21:44:01 +00003850- The code flags for old __future__ features are now available again.
3851
Alexandre Vassalotti7b82b402009-07-21 04:30:03 +00003852- Issue #5954: Add a PyFrame_GetLineNumber() function to replace most uses of
3853 PyCode_Addr2Line().
3854
3855- Issue #5959: Add a PyCode_NewEmpty() function to create a new empty code
3856 object at a specified file, function, and line number.
3857
3858- Issue #1419652: Change the first argument to PyImport_AppendInittab() to
3859 ``const char *`` as the string is stored beyond the call.
3860
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003861- Issue #2422: When compiled with the ``--with-valgrind`` option, the pymalloc
3862 allocator will be automatically disabled when running under Valgrind. This
3863 gives improved memory leak detection when running under Valgrind, while taking
3864 advantage of pymalloc at other times.
Benjamin Peterson05159c42009-12-03 03:01:27 +00003865
Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +00003866Library
3867-------
3868
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003869- In pdb, when Ctrl-C is entered while defining commands for a breakpoint, the
3870 old commands are restored.
Georg Brandlb90ffd82010-07-30 22:20:16 +00003871
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003872- For traceback debugging, the pdb listing now also shows the locations where
3873 the exception was originally (re)raised, if it differs from the last line
3874 executed (e.g. in case of finally clauses).
Georg Brandl0a9c3e92010-07-30 18:46:38 +00003875
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003876- The pdb command "source" has been added. It displays the source code for a
3877 given object, if possible.
Georg Brandle59ca2a2010-07-30 17:04:28 +00003878
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003879- The pdb command "longlist" has been added. It displays the whole source code
3880 for the current function.
Georg Brandle59ca2a2010-07-30 17:04:28 +00003881
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003882- Issue #1503502: Make pdb.Pdb easier to subclass by putting message and error
3883 output into methods.
Georg Brandle59ca2a2010-07-30 17:04:28 +00003884
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003885- Issue #809887: Make the output of pdb's breakpoint deletions more consistent;
3886 emit a message when a breakpoint is enabled or disabled.
Georg Brandl7410dd12010-07-30 12:01:20 +00003887
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003888- Issue #5294: Fix the behavior of pdb's "continue" command when called in the
3889 top-level debugged frame.
Georg Brandl3f940892010-07-30 10:29:19 +00003890
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003891- Issue #5727: Restore the ability to use readline when calling into pdb in
3892 doctests.
Georg Brandld72e0432010-07-30 09:59:28 +00003893
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003894- Issue #6719: In pdb, do not stop somewhere in the encodings machinery if the
3895 source file to be debugged is in a non-builtin encoding.
Georg Brandl34cc0f52010-07-30 09:43:00 +00003896
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003897- Issue #8048: Prevent doctests from failing when sys.displayhook has been
3898 reassigned.
Georg Brandl25fbb892010-07-30 09:23:23 +00003899
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003900- Issue #8015: In pdb, do not crash when an empty line is entered as a
3901 breakpoint command.
Georg Brandl44f8bf92010-07-30 08:54:49 +00003902
Georg Brandl2dfec552010-07-30 08:43:32 +00003903- In pdb, allow giving a line number to the "until" command.
3904
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003905- Issue #1437051: For pdb, allow "continue" and related commands in .pdbrc
3906 files. Also, add a command-line option "-c" that runs a command as if given
3907 in .pdbrc.
Georg Brandle0230912010-07-30 08:29:39 +00003908
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003909- Issue #4179: In pdb, allow "list ." as a command to return to the currently
3910 debugged line.
Georg Brandla91a94b2010-07-30 07:14:01 +00003911
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00003912- Issue #4108: In urllib.robotparser, if there are multiple ``User-agent: *``
Georg Brandl0a0fc072010-07-29 17:55:01 +00003913 entries, consider the first one.
3914
Georg Brandl056cb932010-07-29 17:16:10 +00003915- Issue #6630: Allow customizing regex flags when subclassing the
3916 string.Template class.
3917
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003918- Issue #9411: Allow specifying an encoding for config files in the configparser
3919 module.
Georg Brandl8dcaa732010-07-29 12:17:40 +00003920
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003921- Issue #1682942: Improvements to configparser: support alternate delimiters,
3922 alternate comment prefixes and empty lines in values.
Georg Brandl96a60ae2010-07-28 13:13:46 +00003923
Georg Brandlcbb0ae42010-07-28 08:19:35 +00003924- Issue #9354: Provide getsockopt() in asyncore's file_wrapper.
3925
Victor Stinnercf448832010-07-28 00:15:03 +00003926- Issue #8966: ctypes: Remove implicit bytes-unicode conversion.
3927
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003928- Issue #9378: python -m pickle <pickle file> will now load and display the
3929 first object in the pickle file.
Alexander Belopolsky455f7bd2010-07-27 23:02:38 +00003930
Florent Xiclunaf1046ca2010-07-27 21:20:15 +00003931- Issue #4770: Restrict binascii module to accept only bytes (as specified).
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003932 And fix the email package to encode to ASCII instead of ``raw-unicode-escape``
3933 before ASCII-to-binary decoding.
Florent Xiclunaf1046ca2010-07-27 21:20:15 +00003934
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003935- Issue #9384: ``python -m tkinter`` will now display a simple demo applet.
Alexander Belopolskyc02cc272010-07-27 14:16:32 +00003936
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003937- The default size of the re module's compiled regular expression cache has been
3938 increased from 100 to 500 and the cache replacement policy has changed from
Antoine Pitrou3060c452010-08-13 16:27:38 +00003939 simply clearing the entire cache on overflow to forgetting the least recently
3940 used cached compiled regular expressions. This is a performance win for
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003941 applications that use a lot of regular expressions and limits the impact of
3942 the performance hit anytime the cache is exceeded.
Gregory P. Smith5a631832010-07-27 05:31:29 +00003943
Brian Curtin0f0c3322010-07-26 02:36:32 +00003944- Issue #7113: Speed up loading in configparser. Patch by Łukasz Langa.
3945
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003946- Issue #9032: XML-RPC client retries the request on EPIPE error. The EPIPE
Victor Stinner756f5472010-07-24 02:24:55 +00003947 error occurs when the server closes the socket and the client sends a big
3948 XML-RPC request.
3949
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003950- Issue #4629: getopt raises an error if an argument ends with "=", whereas
3951 getopt doesn't accept a value (eg. --help= is rejected if getopt uses
3952 ['help='] long options).
Victor Stinnereccc5fa2010-07-24 00:49:20 +00003953
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003954- Issue #7989: Added pure python implementation of the `datetime` module. The C
3955 module is renamed to `_datetime` and if available, overrides all classes
3956 defined in datetime with fast C impementation. Python implementation is based
3957 on the original python prototype for the datetime module by Tim Peters with
3958 minor modifications by the PyPy project. The test suite now tests `datetime`
3959 module with and without `_datetime` acceleration using the same test cases.
Alexander Belopolskycf86e362010-07-23 19:25:47 +00003960
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003961- Issue #7895: platform.mac_ver() no longer crashes after calling os.fork().
Ronald Oussorene186e382010-07-23 11:54:59 +00003962
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003963- Issue #9323: Fixed a bug in trace.py that resulted in loosing the name of the
3964 script being traced. Patch by Eli Bendersky.
Alexander Belopolsky3f8ecab2010-07-21 17:43:42 +00003965
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003966- Issue #9282: Fixed --listfuncs option of trace.py. Thanks Eli Bendersky for
3967 the patch.
Alexander Belopolsky533a1672010-07-20 19:55:18 +00003968
Gregory P. Smith41e6c3d2010-07-19 23:17:22 +00003969- Issue #3704: http.cookiejar was not properly handling URLs with a / in the
3970 parameters.
3971
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003972- Issue #9268: ``pickletools.dis()`` now has an optional *annotate* argument
3973 which controls printing of opcode descriptions in ``dis()`` output.
Alexander Belopolsky929d3842010-07-17 15:51:21 +00003974
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003975- Issue #1555570: email no longer inserts extra blank lines when a \r\n combo
3976 crosses an 8192 byte boundary.
R. David Murray45bf773f2010-07-17 01:19:57 +00003977
Victor Stinnere9ebde42010-07-13 23:04:56 +00003978- Issue #9243: Fix sndhdr module and add unit tests, contributed by James Lee.
3979
Benjamin Peterson5ef96e52010-07-11 23:06:06 +00003980- ``ast.literal_eval()`` now allows byte literals.
3981
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003982- Issue #9137: Fix issue in MutableMapping.update, which incorrectly treated
3983 keyword arguments called 'self' or 'other' specially.
Mark Dickinsonb214e902010-07-11 18:53:06 +00003984
Georg Brandl492f3fc2010-07-11 09:41:21 +00003985- ``ast.literal_eval()`` now allows set literals.
3986
3987- Issue #9164: Ensure that sysconfig handles duplicate -arch flags in CFLAGS.
Ronald Oussorend3950522010-07-11 09:05:07 +00003988
R. David Murrayea340a32010-07-09 12:23:21 +00003989- Issue #7646: The fnmatch pattern cache no longer grows without bound.
3990
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003991- Issue #9136: Fix 'dictionary changed size during iteration' RuntimeError
3992 produced when profiling the decimal module. This was due to a dangerous
3993 iteration over 'locals()' in Context.__init__.
Mark Dickinson0dd8f782010-07-08 21:15:36 +00003994
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003995- Fix extreme speed issue in Decimal.pow when the base is an exact power of 10
3996 and the exponent is tiny (for example, ``Decimal(10) **
3997 Decimal('1e-999999999')``).
Mark Dickinsona1236312010-07-08 19:03:34 +00003998
Mark Dickinsonbe64d952010-07-07 16:21:29 +00003999- Issue #9186: Fix math.log1p(-1.0) to raise ValueError, not OverflowError.
4000
Mark Dickinson2cc8a5e2010-07-04 18:11:51 +00004001- Issue #9130: Fix validation of relative imports in parser module.
4002
Mark Dickinson2bd61a92010-07-04 16:37:31 +00004003- Issue #9128: Fix validation of class decorators in parser module.
4004
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004005- Issue #9094: python -m pickletools will now disassemble pickle files listed in
4006 the command line arguments. See output of python -m pickletools -h for more
4007 details.
Alexander Belopolsky60c762b2010-07-03 20:35:53 +00004008
Senthil Kumarandf022da2010-07-03 17:48:22 +00004009- Issue #5468: urlencode to handle bytes type and other encodings in its query
4010 parameter. Patch by Dan Mahn.
4011
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004012- Issue #7673: Fix security vulnerability (CVE-2010-2089) in the audioop module,
4013 ensure that the input string length is a multiple of the frame size.
Victor Stinnerbc5c54b2010-07-03 13:44:22 +00004014
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004015- Issue #6507: Accept source strings in dis.dis(). Original patch by Daniel
4016 Urban.
Nick Coghlan5c8b54e2010-07-03 07:36:51 +00004017
Brett Cannon8315fd12010-07-02 22:03:00 +00004018- Issue #7829: Clearly document that the dis module is exposing an
4019 implementation detail that is not stable between Python VMs or releases.
4020
Victor Stinnerbc5c54b2010-07-03 13:44:22 +00004021- Issue #6589: cleanup asyncore.socket_map in case smtpd.SMTPServer constructor
Giampaolo Rodolà610aa4f2010-06-30 17:47:39 +00004022 raises an exception.
4023
Michael Foordb3a89842010-06-30 12:17:50 +00004024- Issue #9110: Addition of ContextDecorator to contextlib, for creating APIs
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004025 that act as both context managers and decorators. contextmanager changes to
4026 use ContextDecorator.
Michael Foordb3a89842010-06-30 12:17:50 +00004027
Brett Cannonf23e3742010-06-27 23:57:46 +00004028- Implement importlib.abc.SourceLoader and deprecate PyLoader and PyPycLoader
4029 for removal in Python 3.4.
4030
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004031- Issue #9064: pdb's "up" and "down" commands now accept an optional argument
4032 giving the number of frames to go.
Georg Brandleb1f4aa2010-06-27 10:37:48 +00004033
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004034- Issue #9018: os.path.normcase() now raises a TypeError if the argument is not
4035 ``str`` or ``bytes``.
Ezio Melotti5a3ef5b2010-06-25 10:56:11 +00004036
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004037- Issue #9075: In the ssl module, remove the setting of a ``debug`` flag on an
4038 OpenSSL structure.
Antoine Pitrou6186bfb2010-06-25 00:07:34 +00004039
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004040- Issue #8682: The ssl module now temporary increments the reference count of a
4041 socket object got through ``PyWeakref_GetObject``, so as to avoid possible
Antoine Pitrou8bae4ec2010-06-24 22:34:04 +00004042 deallocation while the object is still being used.
4043
Senthil Kumaran80f1b052010-06-18 15:08:18 +00004044- Issue #1368368: FancyURLOpener class changed to throw an Exception on wrong
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004045 password instead of presenting an interactive prompt. Older behavior can be
Senthil Kumaran80f1b052010-06-18 15:08:18 +00004046 obtained by passing retry=True to http_error_xxx methods of FancyURLOpener.
4047
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004048- Issue #8720: Fix regression caused by fix for #4050 by making getsourcefile
R. David Murraya1b37402010-06-17 02:04:29 +00004049 smart enough to find source files in the linecache.
4050
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004051- Issue #5610: feedparser no longer eats extra characters at the end of a body
4052 part if the body part ends with a ``\r\n``.
R. David Murray45e0e142010-06-16 02:19:40 +00004053
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004054- Issue #8986: math.erfc was incorrectly raising OverflowError for values
4055 between -27.3 and -30.0 on some platforms.
Mark Dickinsonbcdf9da2010-06-13 10:52:38 +00004056
Victor Stinner0f35e2c2010-06-11 23:46:47 +00004057- Issue #8784: Set tarfile default encoding to 'utf-8' on Windows.
4058
Victor Stinnerda0eca42010-06-11 21:50:30 +00004059- Issue #8966: If a ctypes structure field is an array of c_char, convert its
4060 value to bytes instead of str (as done for c_char and c_char_p).
4061
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004062- Issue #8188: Comparisons between Decimal and Fraction objects are now
4063 permitted, returning a result based on the exact numerical values of the
4064 operands. This builds on issue #2531, which allowed Decimal-to-float
4065 comparisons; all comparisons involving numeric types (bool, int, float,
4066 complex, Decimal, Fraction) should now act as expected.
Mark Dickinson08ade6f2010-06-11 10:44:52 +00004067
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004068- Issue #8897: Fix sunau module, use bytes to write the header. Patch written by
4069 Thomas Jollans.
Victor Stinner7f3652e2010-06-07 20:14:04 +00004070
Raymond Hettinger48f3bd32010-12-16 00:30:53 +00004071- Issue #8899: time.struct_time now has class and attribute docstrings.
Alexander Belopolsky69f3fd02010-06-05 15:04:51 +00004072
Martin v. Löwis2d5157e2010-06-04 19:50:26 +00004073- Issue #6470: Drop UNC prefix in FixTk.
4074
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004075- Issue #4768: base64 encoded email body parts were incorrectly stored as binary
4076 strings. They are now correctly converted to strings.
R. David Murray7da8f062010-06-04 16:11:08 +00004077
Lars Gustäbel2470ff12010-06-03 10:11:52 +00004078- Issue #8833: tarfile created hard link entries with a size field != 0 by
4079 mistake.
4080
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004081- Charset.body_encode now correctly handles base64 encoding by encoding with the
4082 output_charset before calling base64mime.encode. Passes the tests from 2.x
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00004083 issue #1368247.
R. David Murray850fc852010-06-03 01:58:28 +00004084
R. David Murrayd35251d2010-06-01 01:32:12 +00004085- Issue #8845: sqlite3 Connection objects now have a read-only in_transaction
4086 attribute that is True iff there are uncommitted changes.
4087
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004088- Issue #1289118: datetime.timedelta objects can now be multiplied by float and
4089 divided by float and int objects. Results are rounded to the nearest multiple
4090 of timedelta.resolution with ties resolved using round-half-to-even method.
Alexander Belopolsky1790bc42010-05-31 17:33:47 +00004091
Alexander Belopolskyf03a6162010-05-27 21:42:58 +00004092- Issue #7150: Raise OverflowError if the result of adding or subtracting
4093 timedelta from date or datetime falls outside of the MINYEAR:MAXYEAR range.
4094
Giampaolo Rodolàa67299e2010-05-26 18:06:04 +00004095- Issue #8806: add SSL contexts support to ftplib.
4096
Victor Stinner479736b2010-05-25 21:12:34 +00004097- Issue #4769: Fix main() function of the base64 module, use sys.stdin.buffer
4098 and sys.stdout.buffer (instead of sys.stdin and sys.stdout) to use the bytes
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004099 API.
Victor Stinner479736b2010-05-25 21:12:34 +00004100
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004101- Issue #8770: Now sysconfig displays information when it's called as a script.
4102 Initial idea by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
Tarek Ziadéa7514992010-05-25 09:44:36 +00004103
Victor Stinnere021f4b2010-05-24 21:46:25 +00004104- Issue #6662: Fix parsing of malformatted charref (&#bad;), patch written by
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004105 Fredrik Håård.
Victor Stinnere021f4b2010-05-24 21:46:25 +00004106
Mark Dickinsonb1d8e322010-05-22 18:35:36 +00004107- Issue #8540: Decimal module: rename the Context._clamp attribute to
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004108 Context.clamp and make it public. This is useful in creating contexts that
4109 correspond to the decimal interchange formats specified in IEEE 754.
Mark Dickinsonb1d8e322010-05-22 18:35:36 +00004110
Victor Stinnera92ad7e2010-05-22 16:59:09 +00004111- Issue #6268: Fix seek() method of codecs.open(), don't read or write the BOM
4112 twice after seek(0). Fix also reset() method of codecs, UTF-16, UTF-32 and
4113 StreamWriter classes.
Victor Stinner3fed0872010-05-22 02:16:27 +00004114
Victor Stinner7126dbc2010-05-21 23:45:42 +00004115- Issue #3798: sys.exit(message) writes the message to sys.stderr file, instead
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004116 of the C file stderr, to use stderr encoding and error handler.
Victor Stinner7126dbc2010-05-21 23:45:42 +00004117
Benjamin Petersonaada7b82010-05-21 21:45:06 +00004118- Issue #8782: Add a trailing newline in linecache.updatecache to the last line
4119 of files without one.
4120
Benjamin Peterson4ad6bd52010-05-21 20:55:22 +00004121- Issue #8729: Return NotImplemented from collections.Mapping.__eq__ when
4122 comparing to a non-mapping.
4123
Victor Stinnerf0feec22010-05-21 10:52:08 +00004124- Issue #8774: tabnanny uses the encoding cookie (#coding:...) to use the
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004125 correct encoding.
Victor Stinnerf0feec22010-05-21 10:52:08 +00004126
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004127- Issue #4870: Add an `options` attribute to SSL contexts, as well as several
4128 ``OP_*`` constants to the `ssl` module. This allows to selectively disable
4129 protocol versions, when used in combination with `PROTOCOL_SSLv23`.
Antoine Pitroub5218772010-05-21 09:56:06 +00004130
Tarek Ziadé06710a82010-05-19 22:25:00 +00004131- Issue #8759: Fixed user paths in sysconfig for posix and os2 schemes.
4132
Victor Stinner2ca03c12010-05-19 17:00:07 +00004133- Issue #8663: distutils.log emulates backslashreplace error handler. Fix
4134 compilation in a non-ASCII directory if stdout encoding is ASCII (eg. if
4135 stdout is not a TTY).
4136
Victor Stinnerb745a742010-05-18 17:17:23 +00004137- Issue #8513: os.get_exec_path() supports b'PATH' key and bytes value.
4138 subprocess.Popen() and os._execvpe() support bytes program name. Add
4139 os.supports_bytes_environ flag: True if the native OS type of the environment
4140 is bytes (eg. False on Windows).
4141
Lars Gustäbel1465cc22010-05-17 18:02:50 +00004142- Issue #8633: tarfile is now able to read and write archives with "raw" binary
4143 pax headers as described in POSIX.1-2008.
4144
Florent Xiclunac7b8e862010-05-17 17:33:07 +00004145- Issue #1285086: Speed up urllib.parse functions: quote, quote_from_bytes,
4146 unquote, unquote_to_bytes.
4147
Tarek Ziadéc16a85c2010-05-17 10:38:53 +00004148- Issue #8688: Distutils now recalculates MANIFEST everytime.
4149
Victor Stinnerf9faaad2010-05-16 21:36:37 +00004150- Issue #8477: ssl.RAND_egd() and ssl._test_decode_cert() support str with
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004151 surrogates and bytes for the filename.
Victor Stinner3800e1e2010-05-16 21:23:48 +00004152
Antoine Pitrou152efa22010-05-16 18:19:27 +00004153- Issue #8550: Add first class ``SSLContext`` objects to the ssl module.
4154
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004155- Issue #8681: Make the zlib module's error messages more informative when the
4156 zlib itself doesn't give any detailed explanation.
Antoine Pitrou53b21662010-05-11 23:46:02 +00004157
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004158- The audioop module now supports sound fragments of length greater than 2**31
4159 bytes on 64-bit machines, and is PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN.
Mark Dickinson81fece22010-05-11 13:34:35 +00004160
Giampaolo Rodolàbd576b72010-05-10 14:53:29 +00004161- Issue #4972: Add support for the context manager protocol to the ftplib.FTP
4162 class.
4163
Benjamin Petersone87c0fc2010-05-08 19:52:49 +00004164- Issue #8664: In py_compile, create __pycache__ when the compiled path is
4165 given.
4166
Victor Stinner449c4662010-05-08 11:10:09 +00004167- Issue #8514: Add os.fsencode() function (Unix only): encode a string to bytes
4168 for use in the file system, environment variables or the command line.
4169
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004170- Issue #8571: Fix an internal error when compressing or decompressing a chunk
4171 larger than 1GB with the zlib module's compressor and decompressor objects.
Antoine Pitrou89562712010-05-07 17:04:02 +00004172
Benjamin Peterson225168e2010-05-06 22:29:53 +00004173- Issue #8603: Support bytes environmental variables on Unix: Add os.environb
4174 mapping and os.getenvb() function. os.unsetenv() encodes str argument to the
4175 file system encoding with the surrogateescape error handler (instead of
4176 utf8/strict) and accepts bytes. posix.environ keys and values are now bytes.
Victor Stinner84ae1182010-05-06 22:05:07 +00004177
Giampaolo Rodolà8d2dc852010-05-06 18:06:30 +00004178- Issue #8573: asyncore _strerror() function might throw ValueError.
4179
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004180- Issue #8483: asyncore.dispatcher's __getattr__ method produced confusing error
4181 messages when accessing undefined class attributes because of the cheap
4182 inheritance with the underlying socket object. The cheap inheritance has been
4183 deprecated.
Giampaolo Rodolà8d2dc852010-05-06 18:06:30 +00004184
Tarek Ziadéae4d5c62010-05-05 22:27:31 +00004185- Issue #4265: shutil.copyfile() was leaking file descriptors when disk fills.
4186 Patch by Tres Seaver.
4187
Victor Stinnerd17f2192010-08-15 09:56:07 +00004188- Issue #8390: tarfile uses surrogateescape as the default error handler
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004189 (instead of replace in read mode or strict in write mode).
Victor Stinnerde629d42010-05-05 21:43:57 +00004190
Barry Warsaw83d89982010-05-05 16:18:31 +00004191- Issue #7755: Use an unencumbered audio file for tests.
4192
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004193- Issue #8621: uuid.uuid4() returned the same sequence of values in the parent
4194 and any children created using ``os.fork`` on MacOS X 10.6.
Ronald Oussorenac764d32010-05-05 15:32:33 +00004195
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004196- Issue #8567: Fix precedence of signals in Decimal module: when a Decimal
4197 operation raises multiple signals and more than one of those signals is
4198 trapped, the specification determines the order in which the signals should be
4199 handled. In many cases this order wasn't being followed, leading to the wrong
4200 Python exception being raised.
Mark Dickinsonc69160e2010-05-04 14:35:33 +00004201
Antoine Pitrou6be88762010-05-03 16:48:20 +00004202- Issue #7865: The close() method of :mod:`io` objects should not swallow
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004203 exceptions raised by the implicit flush(). Also qensure that calling close()
4204 several times is supported. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
Antoine Pitrou6be88762010-05-03 16:48:20 +00004205
Antoine Pitrou6e20a1b2010-05-02 19:59:47 +00004206- Issue #4687: Fix accuracy of garbage collection runtimes displayed with
4207 gc.DEBUG_STATS.
4208
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004209- Issue #8354: The siginterrupt setting is now preserved for all signals, not
4210 just SIGCHLD.
Jean-Paul Calderone6f137ca2010-05-09 03:18:57 +00004211
Georg Brandl25106ce2010-05-21 21:49:47 +00004212- Issue #7192: webbrowser.get("firefox") now works on Mac OS X, as does
Ronald Oussoren4d39f6e2010-05-02 09:54:35 +00004213 webbrowser.get("safari").
4214
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004215- Issue #8464: tarfile no longer creates files with execute permissions set when
4216 mode="w|" is used.
Lars Gustäbeld6eb70b2010-04-29 15:37:02 +00004217
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004218- Issue #7834: Fix connect() of Bluetooth L2CAP sockets with recent versions of
4219 the Linux kernel. Patch by Yaniv Aknin.
Antoine Pitroubf043492010-04-29 10:11:46 +00004220
Tarek Ziadé6ac91722010-04-28 17:51:36 +00004221- Issue #8295: Added shutil.unpack_archive.
4222
Senthil Kumaran71fb6c82010-04-28 17:39:48 +00004223- Issue #6312: Fixed http HEAD request when the transfer encoding is chunked.
4224 It should correctly return an empty response now.
4225
Benjamin Peterson95e392c2010-04-27 21:07:21 +00004226- Issue #8546: Reject None given as the buffering argument to _pyio.open.
4227
Antoine Pitrou06e34a92010-04-27 19:14:15 +00004228- Issue #8549: Fix compiling the _ssl extension under AIX. Patch by
4229 Sridhar Ratnakumar.
4230
R. David Murrayad78d152010-04-27 02:45:53 +00004231- Issue #6656: fix locale.format_string to handle escaped percents
4232 and mappings.
4233
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004234- Issue #2302: Fix a race condition in SocketServer.BaseServer.shutdown, where
4235 the method could block indefinitely if called just before the event loop
4236 started running. This also fixes the occasional freezes witnessed in
4237 test_httpservers.
Antoine Pitrou3bcba8e2010-04-25 22:01:43 +00004238
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004239- Issue #8524: When creating an SSL socket, the timeout value of the original
4240 socket wasn't retained (instead, a socket with a positive timeout would be
4241 turned into a non-blocking SSL socket).
Antoine Pitrou40f08742010-04-24 22:04:40 +00004242
Antoine Pitroud3f8ab82010-04-24 21:26:44 +00004243- Issue #5103: SSL handshake would ignore the socket timeout and block
4244 indefinitely if the other end didn't respond.
4245
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004246- The do_handshake() method of SSL objects now adjusts the blocking mode of the
4247 SSL structure if necessary (as other methods already do).
Antoine Pitroud3f8ab82010-04-24 21:26:44 +00004248
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004249- Issue #8391: os.execvpe() and os.getenv() supports unicode with surrogates and
4250 bytes strings for environment keys and values.
Victor Stinner13bb71c2010-04-23 21:41:56 +00004251
Victor Stinner4d078042010-04-23 19:28:32 +00004252- Issue #8467: Pure Python implementation of subprocess encodes the error
4253 message using surrogatepass error handler to support surrogates in the
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004254 message.
Victor Stinner4d078042010-04-23 19:28:32 +00004255
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004256- Issue #8468: bz2.BZ2File() accepts str with surrogates and bytes filenames.
Victor Stinner349fd522010-04-23 10:56:17 +00004257
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004258- Issue #8451: Syslog module now uses basename(sys.argv[0]) instead of the
4259 string "python" as the *ident*. openlog() arguments are all optional and
4260 keywords.
Sean Reifscheider13daf122010-04-23 09:29:52 +00004261
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004262- Issue #8108: Fix the unwrap() method of SSL objects when the socket has a
4263 non-infinite timeout. Also make that method friendlier with applications
Antoine Pitrou2c4f98b2010-04-23 00:16:21 +00004264 wanting to continue using the socket in clear-text mode, by disabling
4265 OpenSSL's internal readahead. Thanks to Darryl Miles for guidance.
4266
Antoine Pitrou7062db82010-04-22 13:30:10 +00004267- Issue #8496: make mailcap.lookup() always return a list, rather than an
4268 iterator. Patch by Gregory Nofi.
4269
Victor Stinner35466c52010-04-22 11:23:23 +00004270- Issue #8195: Fix a crash in sqlite Connection.create_collation() if the
4271 collation name contains a surrogate character.
4272
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004273- Issue #8484: Load all ciphers and digest algorithms when initializing the _ssl
4274 extension, such that verification of some SSL certificates doesn't fail
4275 because of an "unknown algorithm".
Antoine Pitroufec12ff2010-04-21 19:46:23 +00004276
Tarek Ziadéfb437512010-04-20 08:57:33 +00004277- Issue #6547: Added the ignore_dangling_symlinks option to shutil.copytree.
4278
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004279- Issue #1540112: Now allowing the choice of a copy function in shutil.copytree.
Tarek Ziadé5340db32010-04-19 22:30:51 +00004280
Giampaolo Rodolà5fb313b2010-04-19 22:05:54 +00004281- Issue #4814: timeout parameter is now applied also for connections resulting
4282 from PORT/EPRT commands.
4283
Tarek Ziadé10a51af2010-04-19 21:31:42 +00004284- Issue #8463: added missing reference to bztar in shutil's documentation.
4285
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004286- Issue #7154: urllib.request can now detect the proxy settings on OSX 10.6 (as
4287 long as the user didn't specify 'automatic proxy configuration').
Ronald Oussoren84151202010-04-18 20:46:11 +00004288
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004289- Issue #3817: ftplib.FTP.abort() method now considers 225 a valid response code
4290 as stated in RFC-959 at chapter 5.4.
Giampaolo Rodolàceb513a2010-04-18 13:36:35 +00004291
Victor Stinner738446f02010-04-18 00:00:44 +00004292- Issue #8394: _ctypes.dlopen() accepts bytes, bytearray and str with
4293 surrogates.
4294
Antoine Pitrou0454af92010-04-17 23:51:58 +00004295- Issue #850728: Add a *timeout* parameter to the `acquire()` method of
Antoine Pitroua7ecfe72010-04-17 23:52:21 +00004296 `threading.Semaphore` objects. Original patch by Torsten Landschoff.
Antoine Pitrou0454af92010-04-17 23:51:58 +00004297
Antoine Pitrou2d9cb9c2010-04-17 17:40:45 +00004298- Issue #8322: Add a *ciphers* argument to SSL sockets, so as to change the
4299 available cipher list. Helps fix test_ssl with OpenSSL 1.0.0.
4300
Victor Stinner0e59cc32010-04-16 23:49:32 +00004301- Issue #8393: subprocess accepts bytes, bytearray and str with surrogates for
4302 the current working directory.
4303
Victor Stinner5bfe1462010-04-16 13:28:05 +00004304- Issue #7606: XML-RPC traceback stored in X-traceback is now encoded to ASCII
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004305 using backslashreplace error handler.
Victor Stinner5bfe1462010-04-16 13:28:05 +00004306
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004307- Issue #8412: os.system() now accepts bytes, bytearray and str with surrogates.
Victor Stinnercfa72782010-04-16 11:45:13 +00004308
Senthil Kumaranad02d232010-04-16 03:02:13 +00004309- Issue #2987: RFC2732 support for urlparse (IPv6 addresses). Patch by Tony
4310 Locke and Hans Ulrich Niedermann.
4311
R. David Murrayd48739f2010-04-14 18:59:18 +00004312- Issue #5277: Fix quote counting when parsing RFC 2231 encoded parameters.
4313
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004314- Issue #7316: The acquire() method of lock objects in the :mod:`threading`
Antoine Pitrou7c3e5772010-04-14 15:44:10 +00004315 module now takes an optional timeout argument in seconds. Timeout support
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004316 relies on the system threading library, so as to avoid a semi-busy wait loop.
Antoine Pitrou7c3e5772010-04-14 15:44:10 +00004317
Victor Stinner485fb562010-04-13 11:07:24 +00004318- Issue #8383: pickle and pickletools use surrogatepass error handler when
4319 encoding unicode as utf8 to support lone surrogates and stay compatible with
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004320 Python 2.x and 3.x.
Victor Stinner485fb562010-04-13 11:07:24 +00004321
R. David Murrayb2416e52010-04-12 16:58:02 +00004322- Issue #7585: difflib context and unified diffs now place a tab between
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004323 filename and date, conforming to the 'standards' they were originally designed
4324 to follow. This improves compatibility with patch tools.
R. David Murrayb2416e52010-04-12 16:58:02 +00004325
R. David Murrayef3d6bd2010-04-12 14:48:58 +00004326- Issue #7472: Fixed typo in email.encoders module; messages using ISO-2022
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004327 character sets will now consistently use a Content-Transfer-Encoding of 7bit
4328 rather than sometimes being marked as 8bit.
R. David Murrayef3d6bd2010-04-12 14:48:58 +00004329
Tarek Ziadé46cd93a2010-04-12 08:23:49 +00004330- Issue #8375: test_distutils now checks if the temporary directory are still
4331 present before it cleans them.
4332
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004333- Issue #8374: Update the internal alias table in the :mod:`locale` module to
4334 cover recent locale changes and additions.
Antoine Pitrou0c70d2d2010-04-11 22:35:34 +00004335
Antoine Pitrou04f6a322010-04-05 21:40:07 +00004336- Issue #8321: Give access to OpenSSL version numbers from the `ssl` module,
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004337 using the new attributes `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION`, `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_INFO` and
4338 `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER`.
Antoine Pitrou04f6a322010-04-05 21:40:07 +00004339
Raymond Hettingerc50846a2010-04-05 18:56:31 +00004340- Add functools.total_ordering() and functools.cmp_to_key().
4341
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004342- Issue #8257: The Decimal construct now accepts a float instance directly,
4343 converting that float to a Decimal of equal value:
Mark Dickinson089b00c2010-04-03 15:51:03 +00004344
4345 >>> Decimal(1.1)
4346 Decimal('1.100000000000000088817841970012523233890533447265625')
4347
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004348- Issue #8294: The Fraction constructor now accepts Decimal and float instances
4349 directly.
Mark Dickinson98127c32010-04-03 11:18:52 +00004350
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004351- Issue #7279: Comparisons involving a Decimal signaling NaN now signal
4352 InvalidOperation instead of returning False. (Comparisons involving a quiet
4353 NaN are unchanged.) Also, Decimal quiet NaNs are now hashable; Decimal
4354 signaling NaNs remain unhashable.
Mark Dickinsonac256ab2010-04-03 11:08:14 +00004355
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004356- Issue #2531: Comparison operations between floats and Decimal instances now
4357 return a result based on the numeric values of the operands; previously they
4358 returned an arbitrary result based on the relative ordering of id(float) and
4359 id(Decimal). See also issue #8188, which adds Decimal-to-Fraction
4360 comparisons.
Mark Dickinsonac256ab2010-04-03 11:08:14 +00004361
Raymond Hettinger9c01e442010-04-03 10:32:58 +00004362- Added a subtract() method to collections.Counter().
4363
Barry Warsawd5f9bf52010-03-31 21:36:22 +00004364- Issue #8233: When run as a script, py_compile.py optionally takes a single
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004365 argument `-` which tells it to read files to compile from stdin. Each line is
4366 read on demand and the named file is compiled immediately. (Original patch by
4367 Piotr Ożarowski).
Barry Warsawd5f9bf52010-03-31 21:36:22 +00004368
Florent Xicluna806d8cf2010-03-30 19:34:18 +00004369- Backwards incompatible change: Unicode codepoints line tabulation (0x0B) and
4370 form feed (0x0C) are now considered linebreaks, as specified in Unicode
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004371 Standard Annex #14. See issue #7643. http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr14/
Florent Xicluna806d8cf2010-03-30 19:34:18 +00004372
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004373- Comparisons using one of <, <=, >, >= between a complex instance and a
4374 Fractions instance now raise TypeError instead of returning True/False. This
4375 makes Fraction <=> complex comparisons consistent with int <=> complex, float
4376 <=> complex, and complex <=> complex comparisons.
Mark Dickinsonab4d63b2010-03-27 11:16:00 +00004377
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004378- Issue #8139: ossaudiodev didn't initialize its types properly, therefore some
4379 methods (such as oss_mixer_device.fileno()) were not available. Initial patch
4380 by Bertrand Janin.
Antoine Pitrou39b35432010-03-23 00:25:54 +00004381
Florent Xiclunafd1b0932010-03-28 00:25:02 +00004382- Issue #8205: Remove the "Modules" directory from sys.path when Python is
4383 running from the build directory (POSIX only).
4384
Antoine Pitrou910bd512010-03-22 20:11:09 +00004385- Issue #7512: shutil.copystat() could raise an OSError when the filesystem
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004386 didn't support chflags() (for example ZFS under FreeBSD). The error is now
4387 silenced.
Antoine Pitrou910bd512010-03-22 20:11:09 +00004388
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004389- Issue #7860: platform.uname now reports the correct 'machine' type when Python
4390 is running in WOW64 mode on 64 bit Windows.
R. David Murrayca2edce2010-03-22 17:48:48 +00004391
Antoine Pitrou3c0fac22010-03-26 19:36:14 +00004392- Issue #3890, #8222: Fix recv() and recv_into() on non-blocking SSL sockets.
4393 Also, enable the SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY flag on SSL sockets, so that blocking
4394 reads and writes are always retried by OpenSSL itself.
Antoine Pitrou5733c082010-03-22 14:49:10 +00004395
Victor Stinnere3a1f6d2010-03-22 01:58:35 +00004396- Issue #4282: Fix the main function of the profile module for a non-ASCII
4397 script, open the file in binary mode and not in text mode with the default
4398 (utf8) encoding.
4399
Florent Xicluna54467e02010-03-21 12:29:50 +00004400- Issue #8179: Fix macpath.realpath() on a non-existing path.
4401
Florent Xiclunafaa663f2010-03-19 13:37:08 +00004402- Issue #8024: Update the Unicode database to 5.2.
4403
Benjamin Peterson00888932010-03-18 22:37:38 +00004404- Issue #8168: py_compile now handles files with utf-8 BOMS.
4405
Benjamin Peterson689a5582010-03-18 22:29:52 +00004406- ``tokenize.detect_encoding`` now returns ``'utf-8-sig'`` when a UTF-8 BOM is
4407 detected.
4408
Martin v. Löwis4b003072010-03-16 13:19:21 +00004409- Issue #6716/2: Backslash-replace error output in compilall.
4410
Matthias Klosea6d9abf2010-03-16 10:51:28 +00004411- Issue #4961: Inconsistent/wrong result of askyesno function in tkMessageBox
4412 with Tcl/Tk-8.5.
4413
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004414- Issue #8140: extend compileall to compile single files. Add -i option.
Matthias Klosec33b9022010-03-16 00:36:26 +00004415
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004416- Issue #7356: ctypes.util: Make parsing of ldconfig output independent of the
4417 locale.
Matthias Klose82f60912010-03-15 13:46:04 +00004418
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004419- The internals of the subprocess module on POSIX systems have been replaced by
4420 an extension module (_posixsubprocess) so that the fork()+exec() can be done
4421 safely without the possibility of deadlock in multithreaded applications.
Gregory P. Smitha31f57c2010-03-14 06:52:18 +00004422
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004423- subprocess.Popen now has restore_signals and start_new_session features. The
4424 default of restore_signals=True is a new behavior compared to earlier Python
4425 versions. This means that signals such as SIGPIPE are not ignored by default
4426 in subprocesses launched by Python (Issue #1652).
Gregory P. Smith580d60c2010-03-14 07:13:25 +00004427
Florent Xiclunaf15351d2010-03-13 23:24:31 +00004428- Issue #6472: The xml.etree package is updated to ElementTree 1.3. The
4429 cElementTree module is updated too.
4430
Victor Stinnerb33062c2010-03-12 14:27:16 +00004431- Issue #7774: Set sys.executable to an empty string if argv[0] has been set to
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004432 an non existent program name and Python is unable to retrieve the real program
4433 name.
Victor Stinnerb33062c2010-03-12 14:27:16 +00004434
Florent Xiclunaa4707382010-03-11 00:05:17 +00004435- Issue #7880: Fix sysconfig when the python executable is a symbolic link.
4436
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004437- Issue #6509: fix re.sub to work properly when the pattern, the string, and the
4438 replacement were all bytes. Patch by Antoine Pitrou.
Ezio Melottib92ed7c2010-03-06 15:24:08 +00004439
Gerhard Häringf9cee222010-03-05 15:20:03 +00004440- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.6.0. This fixes several obscure
4441 bugs and allows loading SQLite extensions from shared libraries.
4442
Ezio Melottida227042010-03-14 11:51:00 +00004443- Issue #1054943: Fix ``unicodedata.normalize('NFC', text)`` for the Public
4444 Review Issue #29 (http://unicode.org/review/pr-29.html).
Victor Stinner7ed9c4c2010-03-04 12:14:57 +00004445
Victor Stinnercee3ae82010-03-04 00:29:24 +00004446- Issue #7494: fix a crash in _lsprof (cProfile) after clearing the profiler,
4447 reset also the pointer to the current pointer context.
4448
Lars Gustäbel01385812010-03-03 12:08:54 +00004449- Issue #7232: Add support for the context manager protocol to the TarFile
4450 class.
4451
Barry Warsawb1938262010-03-01 21:53:00 +00004452- Issue #7250: Fix info leak of os.environ across multi-run uses of
4453 wsgiref.handlers.CGIHandler.
4454
Florent Xicluna59250852010-02-27 14:21:57 +00004455- Issue #1729305: Fix doctest to handle encode error with "backslashreplace".
4456
Florent Xiclunac279ebf2010-02-27 11:31:21 +00004457- Issue #691291: codecs.open() should not convert end of lines on reading and
4458 writing.
4459
Vinay Sajipdb81c4c2010-02-25 23:13:06 +00004460- Issue #7869: logging: improved diagnostic for format-time errors.
4461
4462- Issue #7868: logging: added loggerClass attribute to Manager.
4463
4464- logging: Implemented PEP 391.
4465
R. David Murraybe0698b2010-02-23 22:57:58 +00004466- Issue #1537721: Add a writeheader() method to csv.DictWriter.
4467
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004468- Issue #7959: ctypes callback functions are now registered correctly with the
4469 cycle garbage collector.
Thomas Heller5117b0b2010-02-23 20:25:02 +00004470
Tarek Ziadé8e615ae2010-02-23 06:00:04 +00004471- Issue #5801: removed spurious empty lines in wsgiref.
4472
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004473- Issue #6666: fix bug in trace.py that applied the list of directories to be
4474 ignored only to the first file. Noted by Bogdan Opanchuk.
Andrew M. Kuchlinge1f9beb2010-02-22 22:16:58 +00004475
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004476- Issue #7597: curses.use_env() can now be called before initscr(). Noted by
4477 Kan-Ru Chen.
Andrew M. Kuchlingfbacb062010-02-22 16:52:52 +00004478
Ezio Melotti19e4acf2010-02-22 15:59:01 +00004479- Issue #7310: fix the __repr__ of os.environ to show the environment variables.
4480
R. David Murray57c45ac2010-02-21 04:39:40 +00004481- Issue #7970: email.Generator.flatten now correctly flattens message/rfc822
4482 messages parsed by email.Parser.HeaderParser.
4483
Brett Cannonef7d6722010-02-19 16:04:36 +00004484- Issue #7361: Importlib was not properly checking the number of bytes in
4485 bytecode file when it was less then 8 bytes.
4486
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004487- Issue #7633: In the decimal module, Context class methods (with the exception
4488 of canonical and is_canonical) now accept instances of int and long wherever a
4489 Decimal instance is accepted, and implicitly convert that argument to Decimal.
4490 Previously only some arguments were converted.
Mark Dickinson84230a12010-02-18 14:49:50 +00004491
R. David Murray1f449142010-02-11 00:15:05 +00004492- Issue #7835: shelve should no longer produce mysterious warnings during
4493 interpreter shutdown.
4494
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004495- Issue #2746: Don't escape ampersands and angle brackets ("&", "<", ">") in XML
4496 processing instructions and comments. These raw characters are allowed by the
4497 XML specification, and are necessary when outputting e.g. PHP code in a
4498 processing instruction. Patch by Neil Muller.
Antoine Pitrou99f69ee2010-02-09 17:25:47 +00004499
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004500- Issue #6233: ElementTree failed converting unicode characters to XML entities
4501 when they could't be represented in the requested output encoding. Patch by
4502 Jerry Chen.
Antoine Pitrouc77dd322010-02-09 16:51:16 +00004503
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004504- Issue #6003: add an argument to ``zipfile.Zipfile.writestr`` to specify the
4505 compression type.
Ronald Oussorenee5c8852010-02-07 20:24:02 +00004506
Antoine Pitroub6375f12010-02-04 20:23:24 +00004507- Issue #4772: Raise a ValueError when an unknown Bluetooth protocol is
4508 specified, rather than fall through to AF_PACKET (in the `socket` module).
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004509 Also, raise ValueError rather than TypeError when an unknown TIPC address type
4510 is specified. Patch by Brian Curtin.
Antoine Pitroub6375f12010-02-04 20:23:24 +00004511
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004512- Issue #6939: Fix file I/O objects in the `io` module to keep the original file
4513 position when calling `truncate()`. It would previously change the file
4514 position to the given argument, which goes against the tradition of
Antoine Pitrou905a2ff2010-01-31 22:47:27 +00004515 ftruncate() and other truncation APIs. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
4516
Antoine Pitroua32f9a22010-01-27 21:18:57 +00004517- Issue #7610: Reworked implementation of the internal
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004518 :class:`zipfile.ZipExtFile` class used to represent files stored inside an
4519 archive. The new implementation is significantly faster and can be wrapped in
4520 a :class:`io.BufferedReader` object for more speedups. It also solves an
4521 issue where interleaved calls to `read()` and `readline()` give wrong results.
4522 Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitroua32f9a22010-01-27 21:18:57 +00004523
Jesse Noller1f0b6582010-01-27 03:36:01 +00004524- Issue #6963: Added "maxtasksperchild" argument to multiprocessing.Pool,
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004525 allowing for a maximum number of tasks within the pool to be completed by the
4526 worker before that worker is terminated, and a new one created to replace it.
Jesse Noller1f0b6582010-01-27 03:36:01 +00004527
Benjamin Petersond6326642010-01-27 02:25:58 +00004528- Issue #7792: Registering non-classes to ABCs raised an obscure error.
4529
Benjamin Peterson9a11a362010-01-27 01:51:29 +00004530- Issue #7785: Don't accept bytes in FileIO.write().
Benjamin Peterson255058f2010-01-27 01:47:14 +00004531
Ezio Melotti38f00332010-01-25 12:39:47 +00004532- Removed the functions 'verify' and 'vereq' from Lib/test/support.py.
4533
Benjamin Peterson25001472010-01-25 03:37:42 +00004534- Issue #7773: Fix an UnboundLocalError in platform.linux_distribution() when
4535 the release file is empty.
4536
Antoine Pitrou1119a642010-01-17 12:16:23 +00004537- Issue #7561: Fix crashes when using bytearray objects with the posix
4538 module.
4539
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004540- Issue #1670765: Prevent email.generator.Generator from re-wrapping headers in
4541 multipart/signed MIME parts, which fixes one of the sources of invalid
4542 modifications to such parts by Generator.
R. David Murraya8f480f2010-01-16 18:30:03 +00004543
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004544- Issue #7703: Add support for the new buffer API to `binascii.a2bhqx`. Patch
4545 by Florent Xicluna, along with some additional tests.
Antoine Pitrou747e8b32010-01-16 17:55:52 +00004546
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004547- Issue #7701: Fix crash in binascii.b2a_uu() in debug mode when given a 1-byte
4548 argument. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou2843aa82010-01-15 00:27:43 +00004549
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004550- Issue #3299: Fix possible crash in the _sre module when given bad argument
4551 values in debug mode. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou82feb1f2010-01-14 17:34:48 +00004552
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004553- Issue #2846: Add support for gzip.GzipFile reading zero-padded files. Patch
4554 by Brian Curtin.
Antoine Pitrou8e33fd72010-01-13 14:37:26 +00004555
Benjamin Peterson5efea042010-01-13 03:49:50 +00004556- Issue #7681: Use floor division in appropiate places in the wave module.
4557
Tarek Ziadéac4e6ea2010-01-11 23:15:52 +00004558- Issue #5372: Drop the reuse of .o files in Distutils' ccompiler (since
4559 Extension extra options may change the output without changing the .c
4560 file). Initial patch by Collin Winter.
4561
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004562- Issue #7617: Make sure distutils.unixccompiler.UnixCCompiler recognizes gcc
4563 when it has a fully qualified configuration prefix. Initial patch by Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadéaf77a2f2010-01-08 23:57:53 +00004564
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004565- Issue #7105: Make WeakKeyDictionary and WeakValueDictionary robust against the
4566 destruction of weakref'ed objects while iterating.
Antoine Pitrouc1baa602010-01-08 17:54:23 +00004567
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004568- Issue #7455: Fix possible crash in cPickle on invalid input. Patch by Victor
4569 Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou01a15ea2010-01-07 17:57:31 +00004570
Gregory P. Smithaafdca82010-01-04 04:50:36 +00004571- Issue #1628205: Socket file objects returned by socket.socket.makefile() now
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004572 properly handles EINTR within the read, readline, write & flush methods. The
4573 socket.sendall() method now properly handles interrupted system calls.
Gregory P. Smithaafdca82010-01-04 04:50:36 +00004574
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004575- Issue #7471: Improve the performance of GzipFile's buffering mechanism, and
4576 make it implement the `io.BufferedIOBase` ABC to allow for further speedups by
4577 wrapping it in an `io.BufferedReader`. Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitroub1f88352010-01-03 22:37:40 +00004578
4579- Issue #3972: http.client.HTTPConnection now accepts an optional source_address
Gregory P. Smithb4066372010-01-03 03:28:29 +00004580 parameter to allow specifying where your connections come from.
4581
4582- socket.create_connection now accepts an optional source_address parameter.
4583
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004584- Issue #5511: now zipfile.ZipFile can be used as a context manager. Initial
4585 patch by Brian Curtin.
Ezio Melottifaa6b7f2009-12-30 12:34:59 +00004586
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004587- Issue #7556: Make sure Distutils' msvc9compile reads and writes the MSVC XML
4588 Manifest file in text mode so string patterns can be used in regular
4589 expressions.
Tarek Ziadéc60ea322009-12-21 23:12:41 +00004590
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004591- Issue #7552: Removed line feed in the base64 Authorization header in the
4592 Distutils upload command to avoid an error when PyPI reads it. This occurs on
4593 long passwords. Initial patch by JP St. Pierre.
Tarek Ziadé8b9361a2009-12-21 00:02:20 +00004594
Senthil Kumaran47fff872009-12-20 07:10:31 +00004595- Issue #7231: urllib2 cannot handle https with proxy requiring auth. Patch by
4596 Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa.
4597
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004598- Issue #4757: `zlib.compress` and other methods in the zlib module now raise a
4599 TypeError when given an `str` object (rather than a `bytes`-like object).
4600 Patch by Victor Stinner and Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou77b338b2009-12-14 18:00:06 +00004601
Benjamin Petersonbf5ff762009-12-13 19:25:34 +00004602- Issue #7349: Make methods of file objects in the io module accept None as an
4603 argument where file-like objects (ie StringIO and BytesIO) accept them to mean
4604 the same as passing no argument.
4605
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004606- Issue #7357: tarfile no longer suppresses fatal extraction errors by default.
Lars Gustäbel365aff32009-12-13 11:42:29 +00004607
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004608- Issue #5949: added check for correct lineends in input from IMAP server in
4609 imaplib.
R. David Murraye8dc2582009-12-10 02:08:06 +00004610
Raymond Hettinger44459de2010-04-03 23:20:46 +00004611- Add count() and reverse() methods to collections.deque().
Raymond Hettingere5fdedb2009-12-10 00:47:21 +00004612
Raymond Hettinger3f9afd82009-12-10 03:03:02 +00004613- Fix variations of extending deques: d.extend(d) d.extendleft(d) d+=d
4614
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004615- Issue #6986: Fix crash in the JSON C accelerator when called with the wrong
4616 parameter types. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou781eba72009-12-08 15:57:31 +00004617
Victor Stinnere125f132010-05-15 21:04:43 +00004618- Issue #7457: added a read_pkg_file method to
Tarek Ziadéb88a4962009-12-08 09:45:25 +00004619 distutils.dist.DistributionMetadata.
4620
Vinay Sajip540f2152009-12-06 17:57:11 +00004621- logging: Added optional `secure` parameter to SMTPHandler, to enable use of
4622 TLS with authentication credentials.
4623
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004624- Issue #1923: Fixed the removal of meaningful spaces when PKG-INFO is generated
4625 in Distutils. Patch by Stephen Emslie.
Tarek Ziadédf872d42009-12-06 09:28:17 +00004626
Martin v. Löwis1679ea82009-12-03 20:57:49 +00004627- Issue #4120: Drop reference to CRT from manifest when building extensions with
4628 msvc9compiler.
4629
Antoine Pitroub7572f02009-12-02 20:46:48 +00004630- Issue #7333: The `posix` module gains an `initgroups()` function providing
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004631 access to the initgroups(3) C library call on Unix systems which implement it.
4632 Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone.
Antoine Pitroub7572f02009-12-02 20:46:48 +00004633
Tarek Ziadéacafc2d2009-11-29 22:24:57 +00004634- Issue #7408: Fixed distutils.tests.sdist so it doesn't check for group
4635 ownership when the group is not forced, because the group may be different
4636 from the user's group and inherit from its container when the test is run.
4637
Antoine Pitrou7b0d4a22009-11-28 16:12:28 +00004638- Issue #4486: When an exception has an explicit cause, do not print its
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004639 implicit context too. This affects the `traceback` module as well as built-in
4640 exception printing.
Antoine Pitrou7b0d4a22009-11-28 16:12:28 +00004641
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004642- Issue #1515: Enable use of deepcopy() with instance methods. Patch by Robert
4643 Collins.
Antoine Pitrou1fc0d2b2009-11-28 15:58:27 +00004644
Vinay Sajip03f6c112009-11-27 14:03:36 +00004645- Issue #7403: logging: Fixed possible race condition in lock creation.
4646
Antoine Pitrou648bcd72009-11-27 13:23:26 +00004647- Issue #6845: Add restart support for binary upload in ftplib. The
4648 `storbinary()` method of FTP and FTP_TLS objects gains an optional `rest`
4649 argument. Patch by Pablo Mouzo.
4650
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004651- Issue #5788: `datetime.timedelta` objects get a new `total_seconds()` method
4652 returning the total number of seconds in the duration. Patch by Brian
4653 Quinlan.
Antoine Pitroube6859d2009-11-25 23:02:32 +00004654
Antoine Pitrou7d7aede2009-11-25 18:55:32 +00004655- Issue #7133: SSL objects now support the new buffer API.
4656
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004657- Issue #1488943: difflib.Differ() doesn't always add hints for tab characters.
Senthil Kumaran758025c2009-11-23 19:02:52 +00004658
Lars Gustäbel9520a432009-11-22 18:48:49 +00004659- Issue #6123: tarfile now opens empty archives correctly and consistently
4660 raises ReadError on empty files.
4661
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004662- Issue #7354: distutils.tests.test_msvc9compiler - dragfullwindows can be 2.
Tarek Ziadé26afd482009-11-19 05:39:00 +00004663
Benjamin Peterson3ec9b6e2009-11-19 21:22:27 +00004664- Issue #5037: Proxy the __bytes__ special method instead to __bytes__ instead
4665 of __str__.
Benjamin Peterson32019772009-11-19 03:08:32 +00004666
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004667- Issue #7341: Close the internal file object in the TarFile constructor in case
4668 of an error.
Lars Gustäbel7b465392009-11-18 20:29:25 +00004669
Tarek Ziadé11c9d252009-11-18 09:32:34 +00004670- Issue #7293: distutils.test_msvc9compiler is fixed to work on any fresh
4671 Windows box. Help provided by David Bolen.
4672
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004673- Issue #2054: ftplib now provides an FTP_TLS class to do secure FTP using TLS
4674 or SSL. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.
Antoine Pitrouf988cd02009-11-17 20:21:14 +00004675
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004676- Issue #7328: pydoc no longer corrupts sys.path when run with the '-m' switch.
Nick Coghlan106274b2009-11-15 23:04:33 +00004677
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004678- Issue #4969: The mimetypes module now reads the MIME database from the
4679 registry under Windows. Patch by Gabriel Genellina.
Antoine Pitroub8108e22009-11-15 14:25:16 +00004680
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004681- Issue #6816: runpy now provides a run_path function that allows Python code to
4682 execute file paths that refer to source or compiled Python files as well as
4683 zipfiles, directories and other valid sys.path entries that contain a
4684 __main__.py file. This allows applications that run other Python scripts to
Nick Coghlan260bd3e2009-11-16 06:49:25 +00004685 support the same flexibility as the CPython command line itself.
4686
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004687- Issue #7318: multiprocessing now uses a timeout when it fails to establish a
4688 connection with another process, rather than looping endlessly. The default
4689 timeout is 20 seconds, which should be amply sufficient for local connections.
Antoine Pitrou45d61a32009-11-13 22:35:18 +00004690
Antoine Pitrouc63ecee2009-11-10 21:34:48 +00004691- Issue #7197: Allow unittest.TextTestRunner objects to be pickled and
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004692 unpickled. This fixes crashes under Windows when trying to run
Antoine Pitrouc63ecee2009-11-10 21:34:48 +00004693 test_multiprocessing in verbose mode.
4694
Michael Foord34c94622010-02-10 15:51:42 +00004695- Issue #7893: ``unittest.TextTestResult`` is made public and a ``resultclass``
4696 argument added to the TextTestRunner constructor allowing a different result
4697 class to be used without having to subclass.
Victor Stinnere125f132010-05-15 21:04:43 +00004698
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00004699- Issue #7588: ``unittest.TextTestResult.getDescription`` now includes the test
Michael Foord34c94622010-02-10 15:51:42 +00004700 name in failure reports even if the test has a docstring.
4701
Antoine Pitrou434736a2009-11-10 18:46:01 +00004702- Issue #3001: Add a C implementation of recursive locks which is used by
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004703 default when instantiating a `threading.RLock` object. This makes recursive
4704 locks as fast as regular non-recursive locks (previously, they were slower by
4705 10x to 15x).
Antoine Pitrou434736a2009-11-10 18:46:01 +00004706
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004707- Issue #7282: Fix a memory leak when an RLock was used in a thread other than
4708 those started through `threading.Thread` (for example, using
Antoine Pitroub0872682009-11-09 16:08:16 +00004709 `_thread.start_new_thread()`).
4710
Brett Cannone52c9192009-11-07 23:55:05 +00004711- Issue #7187: Importlib would not silence the IOError raised when trying to
4712 write new bytecode when it was made read-only.
4713
Antoine Pitroubdec11f2009-11-05 13:49:14 +00004714- Issue #7264: Fix a possible deadlock when deallocating thread-local objects
4715 which are part of a reference cycle.
4716
Antoine Pitroud83f1e62009-11-04 21:10:38 +00004717- Issue #7211: Allow 64-bit values for the `ident` and `data` fields of kevent
4718 objects on 64-bit systems. Patch by Michael Broghton.
4719
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004720- Issue #6896: mailbox.Maildir now invalidates its internal cache each time a
4721 modification is done through it. This fixes inconsistencies and test failures
4722 on systems with slightly bogus mtime behaviour.
Antoine Pitrou03f13442009-11-02 11:36:51 +00004723
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004724- Issue #7246 & Issue #7208: getpass now properly flushes input before reading
4725 from stdin so that existing input does not confuse it and lead to incorrect
4726 entry or an IOError. It also properly flushes it afterwards to avoid the
4727 terminal echoing the input afterwards on OSes such as Solaris.
Gregory P. Smith50467882009-11-01 18:42:17 +00004728
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004729- Issue #7233: Fix a number of two-argument Decimal methods to make sure that
4730 they accept an int or long as the second argument. Also fix buggy handling of
4731 large arguments (those with coefficient longer than the current precision) in
4732 shift and rotate.
Mark Dickinsona2d1fe02009-10-29 12:23:02 +00004733
Lars Gustäbel1440df22009-10-29 09:39:47 +00004734- Issue #4750: Store the basename of the original filename in the gzip FNAME
4735 header as required by RFC 1952.
4736
Tarek Ziadéc7c71ff2009-10-27 23:12:01 +00004737- Issue #1180: Added a new global option to ignore ~/.pydistutils.cfg in
4738 Distutils.
4739
Tarek Ziadé8c0e2172009-10-27 21:24:21 +00004740- Issue #7218: Fix test_site for win32, the directory comparison was done with
4741 an uppercase.
4742
Antoine Pitrouc66363f2009-10-27 17:47:14 +00004743- Issue #7205: Fix a possible deadlock when using a BZ2File object from
4744 several threads at once.
4745
Vinay Sajip42ead482009-10-21 20:22:14 +00004746- Issue #7077: logging: SysLogHandler now treats Unicode as per RFC 5424.
4747
Mark Dickinson06bb6742009-10-20 13:38:04 +00004748- Issue #7099: Decimal.is_normal now returns True for numbers with exponent
4749 larger than emax.
4750
Antoine Pitrou6a448d42009-10-19 19:43:09 +00004751- Issue #7080: locale.strxfrm() raises a MemoryError on 64-bit non-Windows
4752 platforms, and assorted locale fixes by Derk Drukker.
4753
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004754- Issue #5833: Fix extra space character in readline completion with the GNU
4755 readline library version 6.0.
Antoine Pitroudc0900b2009-10-19 18:22:37 +00004756
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004757- Issue #6894: Fixed the issue urllib2 doesn't respect "no_proxy" environment.
Senthil Kumaran7bb04972009-10-11 04:58:55 +00004758
Vinay Sajipcbabd7e2009-10-10 20:32:36 +00004759- Issue #7086: Added TCP support to SysLogHandler, and tidied up some
4760 anachronisms in the code which were a relic of 1.5.2 compatibility.
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +00004761
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004762- Issue #7082: When falling back to the MIME 'name' parameter, the correct place
4763 to look for it is the Content-Type header.
R. David Murraybf2e0aa2009-10-10 00:13:32 +00004764
Benjamin Petersond3afada2009-10-09 21:43:09 +00004765- Make tokenize.detect_coding() normalize utf-8 and iso-8859-1 variants like the
4766 builtin tokenizer.
4767
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004768- Issue #7048: Force Decimal.logb to round its result when that result is too
4769 large to fit in the current precision.
Mark Dickinson56df8872009-10-07 19:23:50 +00004770
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004771- Issue #6236, #6348: Fix various failures in the I/O library under AIX and
4772 other platforms, when using a non-gcc compiler. Patch by Derk Drukker.
Antoine Pitrouca767bd2009-09-21 21:37:02 +00004773
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004774- Issue #4606: Passing 'None' if ctypes argtype is set to POINTER(...) does now
4775 always result in NULL.
Thomas Heller69b639f2009-09-18 20:08:39 +00004776
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004777- Issue #5042: Structure sub-subclass does now initialize correctly with base
4778 class positional arguments.
Thomas Hellerd7cb1b92009-09-18 19:05:13 +00004779
Eric Smith81fd8042009-09-18 13:23:13 +00004780- Issue #6882: Import uuid creates zombies processes.
4781
Matthias Klosef6b76b02009-09-13 15:18:53 +00004782- Issue #6635: Fix profiler printing usage message.
4783
Lars Gustäbel049d2aa2009-09-12 10:44:00 +00004784- Issue #6856: Add a filter keyword argument to TarFile.add().
4785
Benjamin Petersonbe74a372009-09-11 21:17:13 +00004786- Issue #6888: pdb's alias command was broken when no arguments were given.
4787
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004788- Issue #6857: Default format() alignment should be '>' for Decimal instances.
Mark Dickinson46ab5d02009-09-08 20:22:46 +00004789
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004790- Issue #6795: int(Decimal('nan')) now raises ValueError instead of returning
4791 NaN or raising InvalidContext. Also, fix infinite recursion in
4792 long(Decimal('nan')).
Mark Dickinson825fce32009-09-07 18:08:12 +00004793
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004794- Issue #6850: Fix bug in Decimal._parse_format_specifier for formats with no
4795 type specifier.
Mark Dickinson7718d2b2009-09-07 16:21:56 +00004796
Thomas Heller8b939522009-09-04 18:24:41 +00004797- Issue #6239: ctypes.c_char_p return value must return bytes.
4798
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004799- Issue #6838: Use a list to accumulate the value instead of repeatedly
4800 concatenating strings in http.client's HTTPResponse._read_chunked providing a
4801 significant speed increase when downloading large files servend with a
4802 Transfer-Encoding of 'chunked'.
Chris Withers9c33cbf2009-09-04 17:04:16 +00004803
Brett Cannon1c1dcbf2009-08-30 20:22:21 +00004804- Trying to import a submodule from a module that is not a package, ImportError
4805 should be raised, not AttributeError.
4806
Brett Cannonde4ebfe2009-08-30 19:53:48 +00004807- When the globals past to importlib.__import__() has __package__ set to None,
4808 fall back to computing what __package__ should be instead of giving up.
4809
Brett Cannon6afbaef2009-08-30 19:08:58 +00004810- Raise a TypeError when the name of a module to be imported for
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004811 importlib.__import__ is not a string (was raising an AttributeError before).
Brett Cannon6afbaef2009-08-30 19:08:58 +00004812
Brett Cannon9e0e1a62009-08-30 18:28:46 +00004813- Allow the fromlist passed into importlib.__import__ to be any iterable.
4814
Brett Cannon4d75fc12009-08-30 03:47:36 +00004815- Have importlib raise ImportError if None is found in sys.modules.
4816
Lars Gustäbelbfdfdda2009-08-28 19:59:59 +00004817- Issue #6054: Do not normalize stored pathnames in tarfile.
4818
Mark Dickinsond314e1b2009-08-28 13:39:53 +00004819- Issue #6794: Fix Decimal.compare_total and Decimal.compare_total_mag: NaN
4820 payloads are now ordered by integer value rather than lexicographically.
4821
Guilherme Polobcd03df2009-08-18 15:35:57 +00004822- Issue #1356969: Add missing info methods in tix.HList.
4823
4824- Issue #1522587: New constants and methods for the tix.Grid widget.
4825
4826- Issue #1250469: Fix the return value of tix.PanedWindow.panes.
4827
4828- Issue #1119673: Do not override tkinter.Text methods when creating a
4829 ScrolledText.
4830
Gregory P. Smith01099702009-08-16 18:58:46 +00004831- Issue #6665: Fix fnmatch to properly match filenames with newlines in them.
4832
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004833- Issue #1135: Add the XView and YView mix-ins to avoid duplicating the xview*
4834 and yview* methods.
Guilherme Poloc3b2ae42009-08-16 14:46:16 +00004835
Antoine Pitroua0ceb732009-08-06 20:29:56 +00004836- Issue #6629: Fix a data corruption issue in the new I/O library, which could
4837 occur when writing to a BufferedRandom object (e.g. a file opened in "rb+" or
4838 "wb+" mode) after having buffered a certain amount of data for reading. This
4839 bug was not present in the pure Python implementation.
4840
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004841- Issue #6622: Fix "local variable 'secret' referenced before assignment" bug in
4842 POP3.apop.
Mark Dickinsonea1158f2009-08-06 16:06:25 +00004843
Mark Dickinson45f799f2009-08-02 20:08:54 +00004844- Issue #2715: Remove remnants of Carbon.File from binhex module.
4845
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004846- Issue #6595: The Decimal constructor now allows arbitrary Unicode decimal
4847 digits in input, as recommended by the standard. Previously it was restricted
4848 to accepting [0-9].
Mark Dickinson345adc42009-08-02 10:14:23 +00004849
Jack Diederich36596a32009-07-26 22:23:04 +00004850- Issue #6106: telnetlib.Telnet.process_rawq doesn't handle default WILL/WONT
4851 DO/DONT correctly.
4852
Senthil Kumaran67305382009-07-26 04:46:00 +00004853- Issue #1424152: Fix for http.client, urllib.request to support SSL while
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004854 working through proxy. Original patch by Christopher Li, changes made by
4855 Senthil Kumaran.
Senthil Kumaran97f0c6b2009-07-25 04:24:38 +00004856
Brett Cannon69194272009-07-20 04:23:48 +00004857- Add importlib.abc.ExecutionLoader to represent the PEP 302 protocol for
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004858 loaders that allow for modules to be executed. Both importlib.abc.PyLoader and
4859 PyPycLoader inherit from this class and provide implementations in relation to
4860 other methods required by the ABCs.
Brett Cannon69194272009-07-20 04:23:48 +00004861
Brett Cannon64ef00f2009-07-20 03:19:18 +00004862- importlib.abc.PyLoader did not inherit from importlib.abc.ResourceLoader like
4863 the documentation said it did even though the code in PyLoader relied on the
4864 abstract method required by ResourceLoader.
4865
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004866- Issue #6431: Make Fraction type return NotImplemented when it doesn't know how
4867 to handle a comparison without loss of precision. Also add correct handling
4868 of infinities and nans for comparisons with float.
Mark Dickinson85424c92009-07-18 14:41:42 +00004869
Antoine Pitrouf3637322009-08-06 21:00:37 +00004870- Issue #6415: Fixed warnings.warn segfault on bad formatted string.
Hirokazu Yamamoto1c0c0032009-07-17 06:55:42 +00004871
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004872- Issue #6358: The exit status of a command started with os.popen() was reported
4873 differently than it did with python 2.x.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc97e5f282009-07-11 09:35:13 +00004874
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004875- Issue #6323: The pdb debugger did not exit when running a script with a syntax
4876 error.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc2de11152009-07-09 23:07:52 +00004877
Gregory P. Smithd06fa472009-07-04 02:46:54 +00004878- Issue #3392: The subprocess communicate() method no longer fails in select()
4879 when file descriptors are large; communicate() now uses poll() when possible.
4880
Antoine Pitrou54923952009-07-01 14:53:06 +00004881- Issue #6369: Fix an RLE decompression bug in the binhex module.
4882
Hirokazu Yamamoto7a9e1bd2009-06-29 14:54:12 +00004883- Issue #6344: Fixed a crash of mmap.read() when passed a negative argument.
4884
Benjamin Peterson5a6deb42009-06-28 21:35:31 +00004885- The deprecated function string.maketrans has been removed.
4886
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +00004887- Issue #4005: Fixed a crash of pydoc when there was a zip file present in
4888 sys.path.
4889
Alexandre Vassalotticf76e1a2009-07-22 03:24:36 +00004890- Issue #6218: io.StringIO and io.BytesIO instances are now picklable.
4891
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004892- The os.get_exec_path() function to return the list of directories that will be
4893 searched for an executable when launching a subprocess was added.
Gregory P. Smithb6e8c7e2010-02-27 07:22:22 +00004894
Gregory P. Smith3fdd9642010-02-28 18:57:46 +00004895- Issue #7481: When a threading.Thread failed to start it would leave the
4896 instance stuck in initial state and present in threading.enumerate().
4897
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004898- Issue #1068268: The subprocess module now handles EINTR in internal os.waitpid
4899 and os.read system calls where appropriate.
Gregory P. Smitha59c59f2010-03-01 00:17:40 +00004900
Gregory P. Smith1a530912010-03-01 04:59:27 +00004901- Issue #6729: Added ctypes.c_ssize_t to represent ssize_t.
4902
Steven Bethard6d265692010-03-02 09:22:57 +00004903- Issue #6247: The argparse module has been added to the standard library.
4904
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004905- Issue #8235: _socket: Add the constant ``SO_SETFIB``. SO_SETFIB is a socket
4906 option available on FreeBSD 7.1 and newer.
Larry Hastingsf0f37952010-04-02 11:47:10 +00004907
Alexander Belopolsky4d770172010-09-13 18:14:34 +00004908- Issue #9315: Fix for the trace module to record correct class name
4909 for tracing methods.
4910
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +00004911Extension Modules
4912-----------------
Mark Dickinson12c4bdb2009-09-28 19:21:11 +00004913
Mark Dickinsonfa41e602010-09-28 07:22:27 +00004914- Issue #9959: Tweak formula used for computing math.log of an integer,
4915 making it marginally more accurate for exact powers of 2.
4916
Mark Dickinsoncf28b952010-07-29 21:41:59 +00004917- Issue #9422: Fix memory leak when re-initializing a struct.Struct object.
4918
Ronald Oussorenb6ee4f52010-07-23 13:53:51 +00004919- Issue #7900: The getgroups(2) system call on MacOSX behaves rather oddly
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004920 compared to other unix systems. In particular, os.getgroups() does not reflect
4921 any changes made using os.setgroups() but basicly always returns the same
4922 information as the id command. os.getgroups() can now return more than 16
4923 groups on MacOSX.
Ronald Oussorenb6ee4f52010-07-23 13:53:51 +00004924
Martin v. Löwisc9e1c7d2010-07-23 12:16:41 +00004925- Issue #6095: Make directory argument to os.listdir optional.
4926
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004927- Issue #9277: Fix bug in struct.pack for bools in standard mode (e.g.,
4928 struct.pack('>?')): if conversion to bool raised an exception then that
4929 exception wasn't properly propagated on machines where char is unsigned.
Mark Dickinsone26660f2010-07-18 07:48:20 +00004930
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004931- Issue #5180: Fixed a bug that prevented loading 2.x pickles in 3.x python when
4932 they contain instances of old-style classes.
Alexander Belopolskyd92f0402010-07-17 22:50:45 +00004933
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004934- Issue #9165: Add new functions math.isfinite and cmath.isfinite, to accompany
4935 existing isinf and isnan functions.
Mark Dickinson8e0c9962010-07-11 17:38:24 +00004936
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004937- Issue #1578269: Implement os.symlink for Windows 6.0+. Patch by Jason
4938 R. Coombs.
Brian Curtind40e6f72010-07-08 21:39:08 +00004939
Benjamin Petersona9800a82010-07-07 19:04:48 +00004940- In struct.pack, correctly propogate exceptions from computing the truth of an
4941 object in the '?' format.
4942
Alexander Belopolskya11d8c02010-07-06 23:19:45 +00004943- Issue #9000: datetime.timezone objects now have eval-friendly repr.
4944
Benjamin Petersonf751bc92010-07-02 13:46:42 +00004945- In the math module, correctly lookup __trunc__, __ceil__, and __floor__ as
4946 special methods.
Benjamin Peterson8bb9cde2010-07-01 15:16:55 +00004947
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004948- Issue #9005: Prevent utctimetuple() from producing year 0 or year 10,000.
4949 Prior to this change, timezone adjustment in utctimetuple() could produce
4950 tm_year value of 0 or 10,000. Now an OverflowError is raised in these edge
4951 cases.
Alexander Belopolsky75f94c22010-06-21 15:21:14 +00004952
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004953- Issue #6641: The ``datetime.strptime`` method now supports the ``%z``
4954 directive. When the ``%z`` directive is present in the format string, an
4955 aware ``datetime`` object is returned with ``tzinfo`` bound to a
4956 ``datetime.timezone`` instance constructed from the parsed offset. If both
4957 ``%z`` and ``%Z`` are present, the data in ``%Z`` field is used for timezone
4958 name, but ``%Z`` data without ``%z`` is discarded.
Alexander Belopolskyca94f552010-06-17 18:30:34 +00004959
Alexander Belopolsky4e749a12010-06-14 14:15:50 +00004960- Issue #5094: The ``datetime`` module now has a simple concrete class
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004961 implementing ``datetime.tzinfo`` interface. Instances of the new class,
4962 ``datetime.timezone``, return fixed name and UTC offset from their
4963 ``tzname(dt)`` and ``utcoffset(dt)`` methods. The ``dst(dt)`` method always
4964 returns ``None``. A class attribute, ``utc`` contains an instance
4965 representing the UTC timezone. Original patch by Rafe Kaplan.
Alexander Belopolsky4e749a12010-06-14 14:15:50 +00004966
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004967- Issue #8973: Add __all__ to struct module; this ensures that help(struct)
4968 includes documentation for the struct.Struct class.
Mark Dickinson4b80ef52010-06-12 15:17:02 +00004969
Alexander Belopolskyfcdc79a2010-06-12 17:18:45 +00004970- Issue #3129: Trailing digits in struct format string are no longer ignored.
Victor Stinnerda0eca42010-06-11 21:50:30 +00004971 For example, "1" or "ilib123" are now invalid formats and cause
Alexander Belopolskyfcdc79a2010-06-12 17:18:45 +00004972 ``struct.error`` to be raised. Patch by Caleb Deveraux.
Alexander Belopolsky177e8532010-06-11 16:04:59 +00004973
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004974- Issue #7384: If the system readline library is linked against ncurses, the
4975 curses module must be linked against ncurses as well. Otherwise it is not safe
4976 to load both the readline and curses modules in an application.
Stefan Kraha3ac44e2010-06-08 14:00:52 +00004977
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004978- Issue #2810: Fix cases where the Windows registry API returns ERROR_MORE_DATA,
4979 requiring a re-try in order to get the complete result.
Brian Curtin60853212010-05-26 17:43:50 +00004980
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004981- Issue #8692: Optimize math.factorial: replace the previous naive algorithm
4982 with an improved 'binary-split' algorithm that uses fewer multiplications and
4983 allows many of the multiplications to be performed using plain C integer
4984 arithmetic instead of PyLong arithmetic. Also uses a lookup table for small
4985 arguments.
Mark Dickinson4c8a9a22010-05-15 17:02:38 +00004986
Mark Dickinson85eacea2010-05-10 16:27:45 +00004987- Issue #8674: Fixed a number of incorrect or undefined-behaviour-inducing
4988 overflow checks in the audioop module.
4989
Mark Dickinson0381e3f2010-05-08 14:35:02 +00004990- Issue #8644: The accuracy of td.total_seconds() has been improved (by
4991 calculating with integer arithmetic instead of float arithmetic internally):
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004992 the result is now always correctly rounded, and is equivalent to ``td /
4993 timedelta(seconds=1)``.
Mark Dickinson0381e3f2010-05-08 14:35:02 +00004994
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004995- Issue #2706: Allow division of a timedelta by another timedelta: timedelta /
4996 timedelta, timedelta % timedelta, timedelta // timedelta and divmod(timedelta,
4997 timedelta) are all supported.
Mark Dickinson7c186e22010-04-20 22:32:49 +00004998
Victor Stinnerfebecd82010-04-16 12:07:30 +00004999- Issue #8314: Fix unsigned long long bug in libffi on Sparc v8.
5000
Mark Dickinsonc5935772010-04-03 15:54:36 +00005001- Issue #8300: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with any
5002 integer format code, struct.pack first attempts to convert the non-integer
5003 using its __index__ method. If that method is non-existent or raises
5004 TypeError it goes on to try the __int__ method, as described below.
5005
Matthias Klosea8349752010-03-15 13:25:28 +00005006- Issue #8142: Update libffi to the 3.0.9 release.
5007
Matthias Klose9550aa12010-03-15 12:49:46 +00005008- Issue #6949: Allow the _dbm extension to be built with db 4.8.x.
5009
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005010- Issue #6544: Fix a reference leak in the kqueue implementation's error
Georg Brandlc0e22b72010-03-14 10:51:01 +00005011 handling.
5012
Martin v. Löwis3afc62e2010-02-18 16:27:43 +00005013- Stop providing crtassem.h symbols when compiling with Visual Studio 2010, as
5014 msvcr100.dll is not a platform assembly anymore.
5015
Martin v. Löwis7aed61a2009-11-27 14:09:49 +00005016- Issue #6508: Add posix.{getresuid,getresgid,setresuid,setresgid}.
5017
Mark Dickinson40714af2009-10-08 15:59:20 +00005018- Issue #7078: Set struct.__doc__ from _struct.__doc__.
5019
Mark Dickinson45f992a2009-12-19 11:20:49 +00005020- Issue #3366: Add erf, erfc, expm1, gamma, lgamma functions to math module.
Mark Dickinson12c4bdb2009-09-28 19:21:11 +00005021
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005022- Issue #6877: It is now possible to link the readline extension to the libedit
5023 readline emulation on OSX 10.5 or later.
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +00005024
Mark Dickinson5ea7d642009-09-06 21:24:55 +00005025- Issue #6848: Fix curses module build failure on OS X 10.6.
5026
Brett Cannon2f827382009-08-13 19:58:01 +00005027- Fix a segfault that could be triggered by expat with specially formed input.
5028
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005029- Issue #6561: '\d' in a regex now matches only characters with Unicode category
5030 'Nd' (Number, Decimal Digit). Previously it also matched characters with
5031 category 'No'.
Mark Dickinson1f268282009-07-28 17:22:36 +00005032
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005033- Issue #4509: Array objects are no longer modified after an operation failing
5034 due to the resize restriction in-place when the object has exported buffers.
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +00005035
Alexandre Vassalottiad077152009-07-15 17:49:23 +00005036- Issue #2389: Array objects are now pickled in a portable manner.
5037
Matthias Klosea50ffe52010-01-22 01:10:19 +00005038- Expat: Fix DoS via XML document with malformed UTF-8 sequences
5039 (CVE_2009_3560).
5040
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005041- Issue #7242: On Solaris 9 and earlier calling os.fork() from within a thread
5042 could raise an incorrect RuntimeError about not holding the import lock. The
5043 import lock is now reinitialized after fork.
Gregory P. Smith24cec9f2010-03-01 06:18:41 +00005044
Gregory P. Smithc78d79c2010-03-01 05:54:14 +00005045- Issue #7999: os.setreuid() and os.setregid() would refuse to accept a -1
5046 parameter on some platforms such as OS X.
5047
Matthias Klose4c4b0782010-04-21 22:21:03 +00005048- Build the ossaudio extension on GNU/kFreeBSD.
5049
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005050- Issue #7347: winreg: Add CreateKeyEx and DeleteKeyEx, as well as fix a bug in
5051 the return value of QueryReflectionKey.
Brian Curtinb4e8ca12010-04-22 01:52:50 +00005052
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00005053- Issue #7567: PyCurses_setupterm: Don't call ``setupterm`` twice.
Matthias Klose635edd12010-07-30 21:40:57 +00005054
Martin v. Löwis95c46012009-06-28 09:36:14 +00005055Build
5056-----
5057
Martin v. Löwise38de852010-07-30 17:30:51 +00005058- Use OpenSSL 1.0.0a on Windows.
5059
Benjamin Petersonbbda0c52010-07-17 20:39:23 +00005060- Issue #9280: Make sharedinstall depend on sharedmods.
5061
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005062- Issue #9189: Make a user-specified CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS, or LDFLAGS setting
5063 override the configure and makefile defaults, without deleting options the
5064 user didn't intend to override. Developers should no longer need to specify
5065 OPT or EXTRA_CFLAGS, although those variables are still present for
5066 backward-compatibility.
Jeffrey Yasskind4fcdb12010-07-09 16:30:58 +00005067
Benjamin Peterson31b16a52010-06-21 15:37:16 +00005068- Issue #8854: Fix finding Visual Studio 2008 on Windows x64.
5069
Martin v. Löwisec78d0a2010-06-04 17:20:56 +00005070- Issue #1759169, #8864: Drop _XOPEN_SOURCE on Solaris, define it for
5071 multiprocessing only.
Martin v. Löwis1a415762010-05-28 15:44:20 +00005072
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005073- Issue #8625: Turn off optimization in --with-pydebug builds with gcc.
5074 (Optimization was unintentionally turned on in gcc --with-pydebug builds as a
5075 result of the issue #1628484 fix, combined with autoconf's strange choice of
5076 default CFLAGS produced by AC_PROG_CC for gcc.)
Mark Dickinsonb2153e92010-05-05 22:31:36 +00005077
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005078- Issue #3646: It is now easily possible to install a Python framework into your
5079 home directory on MacOSX, see Mac/README for more information.
Ronald Oussoren86b33c82010-04-30 11:41:56 +00005080
Jesus Cea740f53a2010-04-28 11:35:30 +00005081- Issue #3928: os.mknod() now available in Solaris, also.
5082
Benjamin Petersone6c9d242010-03-30 17:34:47 +00005083- Issue #3326: Build Python without -fno-strict-aliasing when the gcc does not
5084 give false warnings.
5085
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005086- Issue #1628484: The Makefile doesn't ignore the CFLAGS environment variable
5087 anymore. It also forwards the LDFLAGS settings to the linker when building a
5088 shared library.
Antoine Pitrou7a61ba92010-03-21 19:25:26 +00005089
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005090- Issue #6716: Quote -x arguments of compileall in MSI installer. Exclude 2to3
5091 tests from compileall.
Martin v. Löwis09c86af2010-03-16 11:03:13 +00005092
Martin v. Löwis19ed3c82010-02-15 21:45:06 +00005093- Issue #3920, #7903: Define _BSD_SOURCE on OpenBSD 4.4 through 4.9.
Martin v. Löwis7671efc2010-02-15 08:35:16 +00005094
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005095- Issue #7632: When Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER is defined, disable the private
5096 memory allocation scheme in dtoa.c and use PyMem_Malloc and PyMem_Free
5097 instead. Also disable caching of powers of 5.
Mark Dickinsonde508002010-01-17 21:02:55 +00005098
Benjamin Petersond78735d2010-01-01 16:04:23 +00005099- Issue #6491: Allow --with-dbmliborder to specify that no dbms will be built.
5100
5101- Issue #6943: Use pkg-config to find the libffi headers when the
5102 --with-system-ffi flag is used.
5103
Benjamin Petersonb2d90462009-12-31 03:23:10 +00005104- Issue #7609: Add a --with-system-expat option that causes the system's expat
5105 library to be used for the pyexpat module instead of the one included with
5106 Python.
5107
Benjamin Petersone57d6762009-12-30 03:02:03 +00005108- Issue #7589: Only build the nis module when the correct header files are
5109 found.
5110
Martin v. Löwis7df3b9e2010-01-02 10:06:19 +00005111- Switch to OpenSSL 0.9.8l and sqlite 3.6.21 on Windows.
Martin v. Löwise5692cd2009-12-22 08:57:39 +00005112
Mark Dickinsonf4243f62009-11-15 13:47:27 +00005113- Issue #5792: Extend the short float repr support to x86 systems using
5114 icc or suncc.
5115
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005116- Issue #6603: Change READ_TIMESTAMP macro in ceval.c so that it compiles
5117 correctly under gcc on x86-64. This fixes a reported problem with the
5118 --with-tsc build on x86-64.
Mark Dickinsona25b1312009-10-31 10:18:44 +00005119
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005120- Issue #6802: Fix build issues on MacOSX 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren5bbab3e2009-09-06 11:01:15 +00005121
Guilherme Polo5d377bd2009-08-16 14:44:14 +00005122- Issue #6244: Allow detect_tkinter to look for Tcl/Tk 8.6.
5123
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00005124- Issue #4601: 'make install' did not set the appropriate permissions on
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc321e5332009-07-02 23:08:45 +00005125 directories.
5126
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00005127- Issue #5390: Add uninstall icon independent of whether file extensions are
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005128 installed.
Martin v. Löwis95c46012009-06-28 09:36:14 +00005129
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005130- Issue #7541: When using ``python-config`` with a framework install the
Florent Xicluna3f88c0e2010-03-19 14:40:31 +00005131 compiler might use the wrong library.
Ronald Oussoren585c1732009-12-24 14:21:55 +00005132
Collin Winterbf199072010-03-19 21:17:17 +00005133- python-config now supports multiple options on the same command line.
5134
Matthias Klosec80c93f2010-04-24 17:04:35 +00005135- Issue #8509: Fix quoting in help strings and code snippets in configure.in.
5136
Matthias Kloseb9621712010-04-24 17:59:49 +00005137- Issue #8510: Update to autoconf2.65.
5138
Mark Dickinsond3aa6462009-09-17 00:06:41 +00005139Documentation
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00005140-------------
Tarek Ziadéf3b33222009-08-21 14:22:45 +00005141
Matthias Klose62d52fd2010-09-12 16:31:58 +00005142- Issue #9817: Add expat COPYING file; add expat, libffi and expat licenses
5143 to Doc/license.rst.
5144
Brian Curtinf045d772010-08-05 18:56:00 +00005145- Issue #9524: Document that two CTRL* signals are meant for use only
5146 with os.kill.
5147
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00005148- Issue #9255: Document that the 'test' package is meant for internal Python use
Brett Cannon3a4e50c2010-07-23 11:31:31 +00005149 only.
5150
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005151- A small WSGI server was added as Tools/scripts/serve.py, and is used to
R. David Murraye821cb62010-03-08 17:48:38 +00005152 implement a local documentation server via 'make serve' in the doc directory.
5153
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005154- Updating `Using Python` documentation to include description of CPython's -J
5155 and -X options.
Barry Warsaw615368f2010-02-05 19:12:30 +00005156
Brett Cannon757df6e2009-08-30 04:00:12 +00005157- Document that importing a module that has None in sys.modules triggers an
5158 ImportError.
5159
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005160- Issue #6556: Fixed the Distutils configuration files location explanation for
5161 Windows.
Florent Xiclunaf089fd62010-03-19 14:25:03 +00005162
Matthias Klosec8b16f82010-01-31 16:14:37 +00005163- Update python manual page (options -B, -O0, -s, environment variables
5164 PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE, PYTHONNOUSERSITE).
Tarek Ziadéf3b33222009-08-21 14:22:45 +00005165
Tarek Ziadé7047eb72010-06-06 20:18:42 +00005166- Issue #8909: Added the size of the bitmap used in the installer created by
5167 distutils' bdist_wininst. Patch by Anatoly Techtonik.
5168
Brett Cannonb49c70c2009-07-15 04:08:33 +00005169Tests
5170-----
5171
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005172- Issue #9251: test_threaded_import didn't fail when run through regrtest if the
5173 import lock was disabled.
Antoine Pitrou1f9dea02010-07-14 11:52:38 +00005174
Antoine Pitrouf48ea7c2010-07-08 18:51:30 +00005175- Issue #8605: Skip test_gdb if Python is compiled with optimizations.
5176
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005177- Issue #7449: Skip test_socketserver if threading support is disabled.
Victor Stinner5f22e722010-05-26 17:33:03 +00005178
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005179- Issue #8672: Add a zlib test ensuring that an incomplete stream can be handled
5180 by a decompressor object without errors (it returns incomplete uncompressed
5181 data).
Antoine Pitrouc09c92f2010-05-11 23:36:40 +00005182
Victor Stinnerf58087b2010-05-02 17:24:51 +00005183- Issue #8533: regrtest uses backslashreplace error handler for stdout to avoid
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005184 UnicodeEncodeError (write non-ASCII character to stdout using ASCII encoding).
Victor Stinner0d80a582010-05-02 09:37:08 +00005185
Antoine Pitrou043bad02010-04-30 23:20:15 +00005186- Issue #8576: Remove use of find_unused_port() in test_smtplib and
5187 test_multiprocessing. Patch by Paul Moore.
5188
Victor Stinner45df8202010-04-28 22:31:17 +00005189- Issue #7449: Fix many tests to support Python compiled without thread
5190 support. Patches written by Jerry Seutter.
5191
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005192- Issue #8108: test_ftplib's non-blocking SSL server now has proper handling of
5193 SSL shutdowns.
Antoine Pitrou2c4f98b2010-04-23 00:16:21 +00005194
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005195- Issues #8279, #8330, #8437, #8480, #8495: Fix test_gdb failures, patch written
5196 by Dave Malcolm.
Victor Stinnere7ed1d72010-04-21 13:55:23 +00005197
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005198- Issue #3864: Skip three test_signal tests on freebsd6 because they fail if any
5199 thread was previously started, most likely due to a platform bug.
R. David Murrayedcfeba2010-04-21 01:51:57 +00005200
Antoine Pitrou90ee4df2010-04-06 17:23:13 +00005201- Issue #8193: Fix test_zlib failure with zlib 1.2.4.
5202
Antoine Pitrou503ab332010-03-30 18:56:19 +00005203- Issue #8248: Add some tests for the bool type. Patch by Gregory Nofi.
5204
Florent Xiclunad6995eb2010-03-30 19:43:09 +00005205- Issue #8263: Now regrtest.py will report a failure if it receives a
5206 KeyboardInterrupt (SIGINT).
5207
Florent Xiclunafd1b0932010-03-28 00:25:02 +00005208- Issue #8180 and #8207: Fix test_pep277 on OS X and add more tests for special
5209 Unicode normalization cases.
Florent Xiclunaeb136182010-03-21 18:49:50 +00005210
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005211- Issue #7783: test.support.open_urlresource invalidates the outdated files from
5212 the local cache.
Florent Xiclunaf089fd62010-03-19 14:25:03 +00005213
Florent Xiclunab14930c2010-03-13 15:26:44 +00005214- Issue #7849: Now the utility ``check_warnings`` verifies if the warnings are
5215 effectively raised.
5216
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005217- The four path modules (genericpath, macpath, ntpath, posixpath) share a common
5218 TestCase for some tests: test_genericpath.CommonTest.
Florent Xiclunac9c79782010-03-08 12:24:53 +00005219
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005220- Print platform information when running the whole test suite, or using the
5221 --verbose flag.
Florent Xicluna0e62a142010-03-06 17:34:48 +00005222
Florent Xicluna683a7e72010-03-03 00:06:37 +00005223- Issue #767675: enable test_pep277 on POSIX platforms with Unicode-friendly
5224 filesystem encoding.
5225
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005226- Issue #6292: for the moment at least, the test suite runs cleanly if python is
5227 run with the -OO flag. Tests requiring docstrings are skipped.
R. David Murray378c0cf2010-02-24 01:46:21 +00005228
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005229- Issue #7712: test.support gained a new `temp_cwd` context manager which is now
5230 also used by regrtest to run all the tests in a temporary directory. The
5231 original CWD is saved in `support.SAVEDCWD`. Thanks to Florent Xicluna who
5232 helped with the patch.
Ezio Melotti184bdfb2010-02-18 09:37:05 +00005233
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005234- Issue #7924: Fix an intermittent 'XXX undetected error' failure in test_capi
5235 (only seen so far on platforms where the curses module wasn't built), due to
5236 an uncleared exception.
Mark Dickinsonedff7af2010-02-13 18:34:53 +00005237
Florent Xicluna3f88c0e2010-03-19 14:40:31 +00005238- Issue #7728: test_timeout was changed to use support.bind_port instead of a
5239 hard coded port.
R. David Murraye9e95932010-02-06 05:00:15 +00005240
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005241- Issue #7376: Instead of running a self-test (which was failing) when called
R. David Murray445448c2009-12-20 17:28:31 +00005242 with no arguments, doctest.py now gives a usage message.
5243
R. David Murrayef1992b2009-12-16 15:19:27 +00005244- Issue #7396: fix regrtest -s, which was broken by the -j enhancement.
5245
R. David Murray596da442009-12-14 23:06:11 +00005246- Issue #7498: test_multiprocessing now uses test.support.find_unused_port
R. David Murray83396232009-12-14 22:45:15 +00005247 instead of a hardcoded port number in test_rapid_restart.
5248
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005249- Issue #7431: Use TESTFN in test_linecache instead of trying to create a file
5250 in the Lib/test directory, which might be read-only for the user running the
5251 tests.
R. David Murrayba311052009-12-04 00:09:14 +00005252
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005253- Issue #7324: Add a sanity check to regrtest argument parsing to catch the case
5254 of an option with no handler.
R. David Murray35768ad2009-11-15 00:23:21 +00005255
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005256- Issue #7312: Add a -F flag to run the selected tests in a loop until a test
5257 fails. Can be combined with -j.
R. David Murray7dc72cc2009-11-14 16:13:02 +00005258
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005259- Issue #6551: test_zipimport could import and then destroy some modules of the
5260 encodings package, which would make other tests fail further down the road
5261 because the internally cached encoders and decoders would point to empty
5262 global variables.
Antoine Pitrou060cee22009-11-13 16:29:04 +00005263
Antoine Pitrou941ee882009-11-11 20:59:38 +00005264- Issue #7295: Do not use a hardcoded file name in test_tarfile.
5265
Antoine Pitrou557934f2009-11-06 22:41:14 +00005266- Issue #7270: Add some dedicated unit tests for multi-thread synchronization
5267 primitives such as Lock, RLock, Condition, Event and Semaphore.
5268
Brett Cannoncfed0292009-11-05 01:26:57 +00005269- Issue #7248 (part 2): Use a unique temporary directory for importlib source
5270 tests instead of tempfile.tempdir. This prevents the tests from sharing state
5271 between concurrent executions on the same system.
5272
Brett Cannon0ae45112009-11-05 01:17:22 +00005273- Issue #7248: In importlib.test.source.util a try/finally block did not make
5274 sure that some referenced objects actually were created in the block before
5275 calling methods on the object.
5276
Antoine Pitrou65c9c642009-10-30 17:25:12 +00005277- Issue #7222: Make thread "reaping" more reliable so that reference
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005278 leak-chasing test runs give sensible results. The previous method of reaping
5279 threads could return successfully while some Thread objects were still
5280 referenced. This also introduces a new private function:
Antoine Pitrou65c9c642009-10-30 17:25:12 +00005281 :func:`_thread._count()`.
5282
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005283- Issue #7151: Fixed regrtest -j so that output to stderr from a test no longer
5284 runs the risk of causing the worker thread to fail.
R. David Murray27144602009-10-19 15:26:16 +00005285
Antoine Pitrou4de39cd2009-10-10 21:08:31 +00005286- Issue #7055: test___all__ now greedily detects all modules which have an
5287 __all__ attribute, rather than using a hardcoded and incomplete list.
5288
R. David Murray0bc11ae2009-10-18 22:18:17 +00005289- Issue #7058: Added save/restore for things like sys.argv and cwd to
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005290 runtest_inner in regrtest, with warnings if the called test modifies them, and
5291 a new section in the summary report at the end.
R. David Murray097e51f2009-10-07 23:38:55 +00005292
Mark Dickinson2e304402009-10-04 18:43:54 +00005293- Issue #7042: Fix test_signal (test_itimer_virtual) failure on OS X 10.6.
5294
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005295- Fixed tests in importlib.test.source.test_abc_loader that were masking the
5296 proper exceptions that should be raised for missing or improper code object
5297 bytecode.
Brett Cannon3c273842009-07-20 00:14:29 +00005298
Brett Cannonb49c70c2009-07-15 04:08:33 +00005299- Removed importlib's custom test discovery code and switched to
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005300 unittest.TestLoader.discover().
Brett Cannonb49c70c2009-07-15 04:08:33 +00005301
Antoine Pitroua69ba652010-01-18 21:20:53 +00005302Tools/Demos
5303-----------
5304
Martin v. Löwis25fcd392010-07-11 17:39:46 +00005305- Issue #5464, #8974: Implement plural forms in msgfmt.py.
Martin v. Löwiscb081b82010-06-04 18:14:42 +00005306
Antoine Pitroua69ba652010-01-18 21:20:53 +00005307- iobench (a file I/O benchmark) and ccbench (a concurrency benchmark) were
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005308 added to the `Tools/` directory. They were previously living in the sandbox.
Antoine Pitroua69ba652010-01-18 21:20:53 +00005309
Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +00005310
Benjamin Peterson01bf2362009-06-13 14:50:22 +00005311What's New in Python 3.1?
5312=========================
5313
5314*Release date: 27-June-2009*
5315
5316Core and Builtins
5317-----------------
5318
Mark Dickinsonad195562009-06-24 19:01:32 +00005319- Issue #6334: Fix bug in range length calculation for ranges with
5320 large arguments.
5321
Raymond Hettinger159eac92009-06-23 20:38:54 +00005322- Issue #6329: Fixed iteration for memoryview objects (it was being blocked
5323 because it wasn't recognized as a sequence).
5324
Benjamin Peterson01bf2362009-06-13 14:50:22 +00005325Library
5326-------
5327
Georg Brandld07ac642009-08-13 07:50:57 +00005328- Issue #6126: Fixed pdb command-line usage.
5329
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00005330- Issue #6314: logging: performs extra checks on the "level" argument.
Vinay Sajip0f6eac22009-06-21 17:46:49 +00005331
Facundo Batista10706e22009-06-19 20:34:30 +00005332- Issue #6274: Fixed possible file descriptors leak in subprocess.py
5333
Benjamin Peterson6a38ced2009-06-14 18:32:19 +00005334- Accessing io.StringIO.buffer now raises an AttributeError instead of
5335 io.UnsupportedOperation.
5336
Vinay Sajip0f6eac22009-06-21 17:46:49 +00005337- Issue #6271: mmap tried to close invalid file handle (-1) when anonymous.
Hirokazu Yamamoto3d8827d2009-06-14 04:58:16 +00005338 (On Unix)
5339
Gregory P. Smithe88749b2009-06-26 08:05:13 +00005340- Issue #1202: zipfile module would cause a struct.error when attempting to
5341 store files with a CRC32 > 2**31-1.
5342
Matthias Kloseab2b7552009-06-22 13:05:52 +00005343Extension Modules
5344-----------------
5345
5346- Issue #5590: Remove unused global variable in pyexpat extension.
5347
Benjamin Peterson01bf2362009-06-13 14:50:22 +00005348
Antoine Pitrou3b1b8072009-05-30 21:01:23 +00005349What's New in Python 3.1 Release Candidate 2?
5350=============================================
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00005351
Benjamin Petersonc7c12282009-06-13 13:15:04 +00005352*Release date: 13-June-2009*
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00005353
5354Core and Builtins
5355-----------------
5356
Raymond Hettinger94f55832009-06-12 18:40:16 +00005357- Fixed SystemError triggered by "range([], 1, -1)".
5358
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc66f8c432009-06-09 21:30:01 +00005359- Issue #5924: On Windows, a large PYTHONPATH environment variable
5360 (more than 255 characters) would be completely ignored.
5361
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc24e581f2009-06-01 21:28:37 +00005362- Issue #4547: When debugging a very large function, it was not always
5363 possible to update the lineno attribute of the current frame.
5364
Antoine Pitrou8e124f32009-05-30 21:41:10 +00005365- Issue #5330: C functions called with keyword arguments were not reported by
Alexandre Vassalottiea3714e2009-07-17 09:34:31 +00005366 the various profiling modules (profile, cProfile). Patch by Hagen Fürstenau.
Antoine Pitrou8e124f32009-05-30 21:41:10 +00005367
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00005368Library
5369-------
5370
Tarek Ziadéc9e6cec2009-07-12 08:27:26 +00005371- Issue #6438: Fixed distutils.cygwinccompiler.get_versions : the regular
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00005372 expression string pattern was trying to match against a bytes returned by
Tarek Ziadéc9e6cec2009-07-12 08:27:26 +00005373 Popen. Tested under win32 to build the py-postgresql project.
5374
Martin v. Löwis83eacca2009-06-12 17:31:41 +00005375- Issue #6258: Support AMD64 in bdist_msi.
5376
R. David Murray58641de2009-06-12 15:33:19 +00005377- Issue #6195: fixed doctest to no longer try to read 'source' data from
5378 binary files.
5379
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00005380- Issue #5262: Fixed bug in next rollover time computation in
5381 TimedRotatingFileHandler.
5382
Benjamin Peterson0926ad12009-06-06 18:02:12 +00005383- Issue #6217: The C implementation of io.TextIOWrapper didn't include the
5384 errors property. Additionally, the errors and encoding properties of StringIO
5385 are always None now.
5386
Antoine Pitroud9dfaa92009-06-04 20:32:06 +00005387- Issue #6137: The pickle module now translates module names when loading
5388 or dumping pickles with a 2.x-compatible protocol, in order to make data
5389 sharing and migration easier. This behaviour can be disabled using the
5390 new `fix_imports` optional argument.
5391
Raymond Hettinger40925d22009-06-04 18:32:39 +00005392- Removed the ipaddr module.
5393
Georg Brandlb54d8012009-06-04 09:11:51 +00005394- Issue #3613: base64.{encode,decode}string are now called
5395 base64.{encode,decode}bytes which reflects what type they accept and return.
5396 The old names are still there as deprecated aliases.
5397
Georg Brandl317185a2009-06-04 09:00:56 +00005398- Issue #5767: Remove sgmlop support from xmlrpc.client.
5399
Martin v. Löwis74b7e442009-06-01 04:23:07 +00005400- Issue #6150: Fix test_unicode on wide-unicode builds.
5401
Antoine Pitrouc06de472009-05-30 21:04:26 +00005402- Issue #6149: Fix initialization of WeakValueDictionary objects from non-empty
5403 parameters.
5404
Martin v. Löwis79b13872009-06-01 04:13:14 +00005405Windows
5406-------
5407
Martin v. Löwisb7a51562009-06-07 17:55:17 +00005408- Issue #6221: Delete test registry key before running the test.
5409
Martin v. Löwis79b13872009-06-01 04:13:14 +00005410- Issue #6158: Package Sine-1000Hz-300ms.aif in MSI file.
5411
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc11729992009-06-01 21:16:17 +00005412C-API
5413-----
5414
5415- Issue #5735: Python compiled with --with-pydebug should throw an
5416 ImportError when trying to import modules compiled without
5417 --with-pydebug, and vice-versa.
5418
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00005419
Brett Cannonc6d936e2009-06-07 20:09:53 +00005420Build
5421-----
5422
5423- Issue #6154: Make sure the intl library is added to LIBS if needed. Also
5424 added LIBS to OS X framework builds.
5425
Ronald Oussoren99aab652009-06-08 21:22:57 +00005426- Issue #5809: Specifying both --enable-framework and --enable-shared is
5427 an error. Configure now explicity tells you about this.
5428
5429
Brett Cannonc6d936e2009-06-07 20:09:53 +00005430
Mark Dickinson4eb88b32009-05-11 16:41:34 +00005431What's New in Python 3.1 release candidate 1?
5432=============================================
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00005433
Benjamin Petersone6ad3872009-05-30 15:30:16 +00005434*Release date: 2009-05-30*
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00005435
5436Core and Builtins
5437-----------------
5438
Martin v. Löwis8ed91b22009-05-29 16:22:26 +00005439- Issue #6097: Escape UTF-8 surrogates resulting from mbstocs conversion
5440 of the command line.
5441
Martin v. Löwisc15bdef2009-05-29 14:47:46 +00005442- Issue #6012: Add cleanup support to O& argument parsing.
5443
Eric Smith41669ca2009-05-23 14:23:22 +00005444- Issue #6089: Fixed str.format with certain invalid field specifiers
5445 that would raise SystemError.
5446
Raymond Hettinger2bcde142009-05-29 04:52:27 +00005447- Issue #5982: staticmethod and classmethod now expose the wrapped
5448 function with __func__.
5449
Raymond Hettinger91e3b9d2009-05-28 22:20:03 +00005450- Added support for multiple context managers in the same with-statement.
5451 Deprecated contextlib.nested() which is no longer needed.
Georg Brandl0c315622009-05-25 21:10:36 +00005452
Mark Dickinson6b1e43b2009-05-20 18:41:04 +00005453- Issue #5829: complex("1e500") no longer raises OverflowError. This
5454 makes it consistent with float("1e500") and interpretation of real
5455 and imaginary literals.
5456
Hirokazu Yamamoto8223c242009-05-17 04:21:53 +00005457- Issue #3527: Removed Py_WIN_WIDE_FILENAMES which is not used any more.
5458
R. David Murraydd226ea2009-05-13 12:27:21 +00005459- Issue #5994: the marshal module now has docstrings.
5460
Mark Dickinsond1ec8b22009-05-11 15:45:15 +00005461- Issue #5981: Fix three minor inf/nan issues in float.fromhex:
5462 (1) inf and nan strings with trailing whitespace were incorrectly
5463 rejected; (2) parsing of strings representing infinities and nans
5464 was locale aware; and (3) the interpretation of fromhex('-nan')
5465 didn't match that of float('-nan').
5466
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00005467Library
5468-------
5469
Martin v. Löwisb6a748b2009-05-29 15:23:17 +00005470- Issue #4859: Implement PEP 383 for pwd, spwd, and grp.
5471
R. David Murrayfb123912009-05-28 18:19:00 +00005472- smtplib 'login' and 'cram-md5' login are also fixed (see Issue #5259).
5473
R. David Murray1f1b9d32009-05-27 20:56:59 +00005474- Issue #6121: pydoc now ignores leading and trailing spaces in the
5475 argument to the 'help' function.
5476
Georg Brandlfaf41492009-05-26 18:31:11 +00005477- Issue #6118: urllib.parse.quote_plus ignored the encoding and errors
5478 arguments for strings with a space in them.
5479
Raymond Hettinger089ba7f2009-05-27 00:38:24 +00005480- collections.namedtuple() was not working with the following field
5481 names: cls, self, tuple, itemgetter, and property.
5482
Benjamin Peterson14a3dd72009-05-25 00:51:58 +00005483- In unittest, using a skipping decorator on a class is now equivalent to
5484 skipping every test on the class. The ClassTestSuite class has been removed.
5485
Martin v. Löwis70ccd162009-05-24 19:47:22 +00005486- Issue #6050: Don't fail extracting a directory from a zipfile if
5487 the directory already exists.
5488
Antoine Pitrou61f77b52009-05-24 15:46:13 +00005489- Issue #1309352: fcntl now converts its third arguments to a C `long` rather
5490 than an int, which makes some operations possible under 64-bit Linux (e.g.
5491 DN_MULTISHOT with F_NOTIFY).
5492
Antoine Pitrou716c4442009-05-23 19:04:03 +00005493- Issue #5761: Add the name of the underlying file to the repr() of various
5494 IO objects.
5495
R. David Murraycaa27b72009-05-23 18:49:56 +00005496- Issue #5259: smtplib plain auth login no longer gives a traceback. Fix
5497 by Musashi Tamura, tests by Marcin Bachry.
5498
Antoine Pitrouc3ee1662009-05-23 16:02:33 +00005499- Issue #1983: Fix functions taking or returning a process identifier to use
5500 the dedicated C type ``pid_t`` instead of a C ``int``. Some platforms have
5501 a process identifier type wider than the standard C integer type.
5502
R. David Murray87e20742009-05-23 01:30:26 +00005503- Issue #4066: smtplib.SMTP_SSL._get_socket now correctly returns the socket.
5504 Patch by Farhan Ahmad, test by Marcin Bachry.
5505
Antoine Pitrou6e610062009-05-15 17:04:50 +00005506- Issue #2116: Weak references and weak dictionaries now support copy()ing and
5507 deepcopy()ing.
5508
Antoine Pitrouc1d09362009-05-15 12:15:51 +00005509- Issue #1655: Make imaplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
5510
Antoine Pitrou37d1c182009-05-14 21:54:00 +00005511- Issue #5918: Fix a crash in the parser module.
5512
Antoine Pitrou2ca24f02009-05-14 21:30:46 +00005513- Issue #1664: Make nntplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
5514
Antoine Pitroue4501852009-05-14 18:55:55 +00005515- Issue #5006: Better handling of unicode byte-order marks (BOM) in the io
5516 library. This means, for example, that opening an UTF-16 text file in
5517 append mode doesn't add a BOM at the end of the file if the file isn't
5518 empty.
5519
R. David Murray74b89242009-05-13 17:33:03 +00005520- Issue #4050: inspect.findsource/getsource now raise an IOError if the 'source'
5521 file is a binary. Patch by Brodie Rao, tests by Daniel Diniz. This fix
5522 corrects a pydoc regression.
5523
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00005524- Issue #5955: aifc's close method did not close the file it wrapped,
R. David Murray99352742009-05-07 18:24:38 +00005525 now it does. This also means getfp method now returns the real fp.
5526
Benjamin Peterson932073a2009-05-23 16:14:33 +00005527Installation
5528------------
5529
5530- Issue #6047: fullinstall has been removed because Python 3's executable will
5531 now be known as python3.
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00005532
Ronald Oussorenbe7149e2009-05-26 21:39:08 +00005533- Lib/smtpd.py is no longer installed as a script.
5534
Martin v. Löwisdb1c3992009-05-23 10:38:26 +00005535Extension Modules
5536-----------------
5537
Martin v. Löwisa6a9c4d2009-05-30 06:15:30 +00005538- Issue #3061: Use wcsftime for time.strftime where available.
Martin v. Löwis1b01ccd2009-05-30 06:13:40 +00005539
Martin v. Löwise23c8682009-05-29 16:01:34 +00005540- Issue #4873: Fix resource leaks in error cases of pwd and grp.
5541
Martin v. Löwisdb1c3992009-05-23 10:38:26 +00005542- Issue #6093: Fix off-by-one error in locale.strxfrm.
5543
Benjamin Peterson744af442009-05-23 18:51:49 +00005544- The _functools and _locale modules are now built into the libpython shared
5545 library instead of as extension modules.
Benjamin Peterson3dc22e82009-05-23 17:09:43 +00005546
Antoine Pitrou20327222009-05-24 20:39:11 +00005547Build
5548-----
5549
5550- Issue #3585: Add pkg-config support. It creates a python-2.7.pc file
5551 and a python3.pc symlink in the $(LIBDIR)/pkgconfig directory. Patch by
5552 Clinton Roy.
5553
Brett Cannon1262e7c2009-05-11 01:47:11 +00005554Tests
5555-----
5556
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00005557- Issue #5442: Tests for importlib were not properly skipping case-sensitivity
Brett Cannon1262e7c2009-05-11 01:47:11 +00005558 tests on darwin even when the OS was installed on a case-sensitive
5559 filesystem. Also fixed tests that should not be run when
5560 sys.dont_write_bytecode is true.
5561
5562
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00005563What's New in Python 3.1 beta 1?
5564================================
5565
Benjamin Peterson5c5f3de2009-05-06 20:43:28 +00005566*Release date: 2009-05-06*
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00005567
5568Core and Builtins
5569-----------------
5570
Mark Dickinson865e01a2009-05-07 16:37:01 +00005571- Issue #5914: Add new C API function PyOS_string_to_double, and
5572 deprecate PyOS_ascii_strtod and PyOS_ascii_atof.
5573
Eric Smith741191f2009-05-06 13:08:15 +00005574- Issue #3382: float.__format__, complex.__format__, and %-formatting
5575 no longer map 'F' to 'f'. Because of issue #5859 (below), this only
5576 affects nan -> NAN and inf -> INF.
5577
Mark Hammond5a607a32009-05-06 08:04:54 +00005578- Issue #5799: ntpath (ie, os.path on Windows) fully supports UNC pathnames
5579 in all operations, including splitdrive, split, etc. splitunc() now issues
5580 a PendingDeprecation warning.
5581
Eric Smith63376222009-05-05 14:04:18 +00005582- Issue #5920: For float.__format__, change the behavior with the
5583 empty presentation type (that is, not one of 'e', 'f', 'g', or 'n')
5584 to be like 'g' but with at least one decimal point and with a
5585 default precision of 12. Previously, the behavior the same but with
5586 a default precision of 6. This more closely matches str(), and
5587 reduces surprises when adding alignment flags to the empty
5588 presentation type. This also affects the new complex.__format__ in
5589 the same way.
5590
Martin v. Löwis011e8422009-05-05 04:43:17 +00005591- Implement PEP 383, Non-decodable Bytes in System Character Interfaces.
5592
R. David Murrayb18500d2009-05-04 22:59:07 +00005593- Issue #5890: in subclasses of 'property' the __doc__ attribute was
5594 shadowed by classtype's, even if it was None. property now
5595 inserts the __doc__ into the subclass instance __dict__.
5596
Antoine Pitrou244651a2009-05-04 18:56:13 +00005597- Issue #4426: The UTF-7 decoder was too strict and didn't accept some legal
5598 sequences. Patch by Nick Barnes and Victor Stinner.
5599
Martin v. Löwise0a2b722009-05-10 08:08:56 +00005600- Issue #3672: Reject surrogates in utf-8 codec; add surrogatepass error handler.
Martin v. Löwisdb12d452009-05-02 18:52:14 +00005601
Benjamin Petersond2e0c792009-05-01 20:40:59 +00005602- Issue #5883: In the io module, the BufferedIOBase and TextIOBase ABCs have
5603 received a new method, detach(). detach() disconnects the underlying stream
5604 from the buffer or text IO and returns it.
5605
Mark Dickinson33841c32009-05-01 15:37:04 +00005606- Issue #5859: Remove switch from '%f' to '%g'-style formatting for
5607 floats with absolute value over 1e50. Also remove length
5608 restrictions for float formatting: '%.67f' % 12.34 and '%.120e' %
5609 12.34 no longer raise an exception.
Mark Dickinsonf489caf2009-05-01 11:42:00 +00005610
Eric Smith741191f2009-05-06 13:08:15 +00005611- Issue #1588: Add complex.__format__. For example,
Eric Smith58a42242009-04-30 01:00:33 +00005612 format(complex(1, 2./3), '.5') now produces a sensible result.
5613
Mark Dickinsond3ca5572009-04-29 18:47:07 +00005614- Issue #5864: Fix empty format code formatting for floats so that it
5615 never gives more than the requested number of significant digits.
5616
Eric Smith6dc46f52009-04-27 20:39:49 +00005617- Issue #5793: Rationalize isdigit / isalpha / tolower, etc. Includes
5618 new Py_ISDIGIT / Py_ISALPHA / Py_TOLOWER, etc. in pctypes.h.
5619
Eric Smithcc32a112009-04-26 21:35:14 +00005620- Issue #5835: Deprecate PyOS_ascii_formatd.
5621
Martin v. Löwis71efeb72009-04-26 01:02:07 +00005622- Issue #4971: Fix titlecase for characters that are their own
5623 titlecase, but not their own uppercase.
5624
Benjamin Peterson193152c2009-04-25 01:08:45 +00005625- Issue #5283: Setting __class__ in __del__ caused a segfault.
5626
Mark Dickinsonad476da2009-04-23 19:14:16 +00005627- Issue #5816: complex(repr(z)) now recovers z exactly, even when
5628 z involves nans, infs or negative zeros.
5629
Mark Dickinson4a16e3a2009-04-23 19:15:48 +00005630- Issue #3166: Make int -> float conversions correctly rounded.
Mark Dickinsonc6300392009-04-20 21:38:00 +00005631
Mark Dickinsone6a076d2009-04-18 11:48:33 +00005632- Issue #1869 (and many duplicates): make round(x, n) correctly
5633 rounded for a float x, by using the decimal <-> binary conversions
5634 from Python/dtoa.c. As a consequence, (e.g.) round(x, 2) now
5635 consistently agrees with format(x, '.2f').
5636
Benjamin Petersonae937c02009-04-18 20:54:08 +00005637- Issue #5787: object.__getattribute__(some_type, "__bases__") segfaulted on
5638 some builtin types.
5639
Eric Smith0923d1d2009-04-16 20:16:10 +00005640- Issue #5772: format(1e100, '<') produces '1e+100', not '1.0e+100'.
5641
Eric Smith35e84722009-04-16 20:21:28 +00005642- Issue #5515: str.format() type 'n' combined with commas and leading
5643 zeros no longer gives odd results with ints and floats.
Eric Smith0923d1d2009-04-16 20:16:10 +00005644
5645- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for
5646 floats.
5647
Mark Dickinson3370cce2009-04-17 22:40:53 +00005648- The str function switches to exponential notation at
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00005649 1e11, not 1e12. This avoids printing 13 significant digits in
5650 situations where only 12 of them are correct. Example problem
5651 value: str(1e11 + 0.5). (This minor issue has existed in 2.x for a
5652 long time.)
5653
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00005654- Issue #1580: On most platforms, use a 'short' float repr: for a
5655 finite float x, repr(x) now outputs a string based on the shortest
5656 sequence of decimal digits that rounds to x. Previous behaviour was
5657 to output 17 significant digits and then strip trailing zeros.
Mark Dickinson3370cce2009-04-17 22:40:53 +00005658 Another minor difference is that the new repr switches to
5659 exponential notation at 1e16 instead of the previous 1e17; this
5660 avoids misleading output in some cases.
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00005661
5662 There's a new sys attribute sys.float_repr_style, which takes
5663 the value 'short' to indicate that we're using short float repr,
5664 and 'legacy' if the short float repr isn't available for one
5665 reason or another.
5666
5667 The float repr change involves incorporating David Gay's 'perfect
5668 rounding' code into the Python core (it's in Python/dtoa.c). As a
5669 secondary consequence, all string-to-float and float-to-string
5670 conversions (including all float formatting operations) will be
5671 correctly rounded on these platforms.
5672
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00005673 See issue #1580 discussions for details of platforms for which
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00005674 this change does not apply.
5675
Benjamin Peterson2808d3c2009-04-15 21:34:27 +00005676- Issue #5759: float() didn't call __float__ on str subclasses.
5677
Georg Brandlabc38772009-04-12 15:51:51 +00005678- The string.maketrans() function is deprecated; there is a new static method
5679 maketrans() on the bytes and bytearray classes. This removes confusion about
5680 the types string.maketrans() is supposed to work with, and mirrors the
5681 methods available on the str class.
5682
R. David Murraydc6da8a2009-04-09 22:16:43 +00005683- Issue #2170: refactored xml.dom.minidom.normalize, increasing both
5684 its clarity and its speed.
5685
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00005686- Issue #1113244: Py_XINCREF, Py_DECREF, Py_XDECREF: Add ``do { ... } while (0)``
Matthias Klose091c7b12009-04-07 13:24:27 +00005687 to avoid compiler warnings.
5688
Walter Dörwald8dc33d52009-05-06 14:41:26 +00005689- Issue #3739: The unicode-internal encoder now reports the number of characters
5690 consumed like any other encoder (instead of the number of bytes).
5691
Benjamin Peterson0b4915e2009-04-25 21:11:45 +00005692Installation
5693------------
5694
5695- Issue #5756: Install idle and pydoc with a 3 suffix.
5696
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00005697Library
5698-------
5699
Victor Stinner870f09a2010-06-17 21:43:33 +00005700- Issue #8203: Fix IDLE Credits dialog: view_file() uses its encoding argument.
5701
Martin v. Löwis403117a2009-05-24 19:19:17 +00005702- Issue #5311: bdist_msi can now build packages that do not depend on a
5703 specific Python version.
5704
Raymond Hettingereb816952009-05-29 01:22:18 +00005705- Issue #5150: IDLE's format menu now has an option to strip trailing
5706 whitespace.
5707
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00005708- Issue #5940: distutils.command.build_clib.check_library_list was not doing
Tarek Ziadédd9f65f2009-05-06 07:26:24 +00005709 the right type checkings anymore.
5710
Thomas Heller00cfc372009-05-05 19:04:40 +00005711- Issue #4875: On win32, ctypes.util.find_library does no longer
5712 return directories.
5713
Georg Brandl243ad662009-05-05 09:00:19 +00005714- Issue #5142: Add the ability to skip modules while stepping to pdb.
5715
Georg Brandl991f9202009-05-05 08:31:54 +00005716- Issue #1309567: Fix linecache behavior of stripping subdirectories when
5717 looking for files given by a relative filename.
5718
Georg Brandleaa84ef2009-05-05 08:14:33 +00005719- Issue #5923: Update the ``turtle`` module to version 1.1, add two new
5720 turtle demos in Demo/turtle.
5721
Antoine Pitrou3c33e082009-05-04 21:21:36 +00005722- Issue #5692: In :class:`zipfile.Zipfile`, fix wrong path calculation when
5723 extracting a file to the root directory.
5724
Hirokazu Yamamotobbb9be72009-05-04 05:56:46 +00005725- Issue #5913: os.listdir() should fail for empty path on windows.
5726
Antoine Pitroua9f48a02009-05-02 21:41:14 +00005727- Issue #5084: unpickling now interns the attribute names of pickled objects,
5728 saving memory and avoiding growth in size of subsequent pickles. Proposal
5729 and original patch by Jake McGuire.
5730
Benjamin Petersonc6b607d2009-05-02 12:36:44 +00005731- The json module now works exclusively with str and not bytes.
5732
Gregory P. Smithe54dff52009-05-01 22:13:48 +00005733- Issue #3959: The ipaddr module has been added to the standard library.
5734 Contributed by Google.
5735
Antoine Pitrou7fff0962009-05-01 21:09:44 +00005736- Issue #3002: ``shutil.copyfile()`` and ``shutil.copytree()`` now raise an
5737 error when a named pipe is encountered, rather than blocking infinitely.
5738
Raymond Hettinger1f0db402009-04-29 00:38:08 +00005739- Issue #5857: tokenize.tokenize() now returns named tuples.
5740
Thomas Hellerc1edc2d2009-04-28 19:55:58 +00005741- Issue #4305: ctypes should now build again on mipsel-linux-gnu
5742
Antoine Pitrou7a0fedf2009-04-27 22:31:40 +00005743- Issue #1734234: Massively speedup ``unicodedata.normalize()`` when the
5744 string is already in normalized form, by performing a quick check beforehand.
5745 Original patch by Rauli Ruohonen.
5746
Antoine Pitrou57f3d932009-04-27 21:04:19 +00005747- Issue #5853: calling a function of the mimetypes module from several threads
5748 at once could hit the recursion limit if the mimetypes database hadn't been
5749 initialized before.
5750
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00005751- Issue #5854: Updated __all__ to include some missing names and remove some
5752 names which should not be exported.
5753
Thomas Heller34596a92009-04-24 20:50:00 +00005754- Issue #3102: All global symbols that the _ctypes extension defines
5755 are now prefixed with 'Py' or '_ctypes'.
5756
5757- Issue #5041: ctypes does now allow pickling wide character.
5758
Mark Dickinsond4d95f82009-04-24 14:06:19 +00005759- Issue #5812: For the two-argument form of the Fraction constructor,
5760 Fraction(m, n), m and n are permitted to be arbitrary Rational
5761 instances.
5762
Mark Dickinsoncf63f2f2009-04-22 17:50:21 +00005763- Issue #5812: Fraction('1e6') is valid: more generally, any string
5764 that's valid for float() is now valid for Fraction(), with the
5765 exception of strings representing NaNs and infinities.
5766
Antoine Pitroucf4c7492009-04-19 00:09:36 +00005767- Issue #5734: BufferedRWPair was poorly tested and had several glaring
5768 bugs. Patch by Brian Quinlan.
5769
R. David Murray9e94ddf2009-04-13 17:06:33 +00005770- Issue #1161031: fix readwrite select flag handling: POLLPRI now
5771 results in a handle_expt_event call, not handle_read_event, and POLLERR
5772 and POLLNVAL now call handle_close, not handle_expt_event. Also,
5773 dispatcher now has an 'ignore_log_types' attribute for suppressing
5774 log messages, which is set to 'warning' by default.
5775
Matthias Klosea3d29e82009-04-07 13:13:10 +00005776- Issue #2703: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher.__init__: Provide default values for
5777 new arguments introduced in 2.5.
5778
Walter Dörwald1b08b302009-04-25 14:13:56 +00005779- Issue #5828 (Invalid behavior of unicode.lower): Fixed bogus logic in
5780 makeunicodedata.py and regenerated the Unicode database (This fixes
5781 u'\u1d79'.lower() == '\x00').
5782
Matthias Klose535336f2009-04-07 13:49:45 +00005783Extension Modules
5784-----------------
5785
Benjamin Petersone04b6272009-05-04 22:25:21 +00005786- Issue #5881: Remove old undocumented compatibility interfaces in hashlib and
5787 pwd.
5788
Mark Dickinsonea835e72009-04-19 20:40:33 +00005789- Issue #5463: In struct module, remove deprecated float coercion
5790 for integer type codes: struct.pack('L', 0.3) should now raise
5791 an error. The _PY_STRUCT_FLOAT_COERCE constant has been removed.
5792 The version number has been bumped to 0.3.
5793
Georg Brandlbb190152010-07-31 21:41:42 +00005794- Issue #5359: Readd the Berkeley DB detection code to allow _dbm be built
5795 using Berkeley DB.
Matthias Klose535336f2009-04-07 13:49:45 +00005796
Nick Coghlan47384702009-04-22 16:13:36 +00005797Tests
5798-----
5799
5800- Issue #5354: New test support function import_fresh_module() makes
5801 it easy to import both normal and optimised versions of modules.
5802 test_heapq and test_warnings have been adjusted to use it, tests for
5803 other modules with both C and Python implementations in the stdlib
5804 can be adjusted to use it over time.
5805
Walter Dörwald4ba80132009-04-25 12:48:43 +00005806- Issue #5837: Certain sequences of calls to set() and unset() for
5807 support.EnvironmentVarGuard objects restored the environment variables
5808 incorrectly on __exit__.
5809
Benjamin Petersonb173f782009-05-05 22:31:58 +00005810C-API
5811-----
5812
5813- Issue #5630: A replacement PyCObject API, PyCapsule, has been added.
5814
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00005815
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00005816What's New in Python 3.1 alpha 2?
5817=================================
5818
Benjamin Peterson88f14352009-04-04 21:06:52 +00005819*Release date: 2009-4-4*
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00005820
5821Core and Builtins
5822-----------------
Benjamin Petersone099b372009-04-04 17:09:35 +00005823
Eric Smith1e1d7d22009-04-03 22:25:33 +00005824- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for
5825 integers.
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00005826
Benjamin Peterson8f76b492009-04-03 22:22:42 +00005827- Issue #5666: Py_BuildValue's 'c' code should create byte strings.
5828
Benjamin Peterson7fe98532009-04-02 00:33:55 +00005829- Issue #5499: The 'c' code for argument parsing functions now only accepts a
5830 byte, and the 'C' code only accepts a unicode character.
5831
Georg Brandl406b3d82009-04-11 21:24:37 +00005832- Fix a problem in PyErr_NormalizeException that leads to "undetected errors"
5833 when hitting the recursion limit under certain circumstances.
5834
Brett Cannon0759dd62009-04-01 18:13:07 +00005835- Issue #1665206: Remove the last eager import in _warnings.c and make it lazy.
5836
Georg Brandlab6f2f62009-03-31 04:16:10 +00005837- Fix a segfault when running test_exceptions with coverage, caused by
5838 insufficient checks in accessors of Exception.__context__.
5839
Guido van Rossum0ad59d42009-03-30 22:01:35 +00005840- Issue #5604: non-ASCII characters in module name passed to
5841 imp.find_module() were converted to UTF-8 while the path is
5842 converted to the default filesystem encoding, causing nonsense.
5843
Benjamin Peterson09832742009-03-26 17:15:46 +00005844- Issue #5126: str.isprintable() returned False for space characters.
5845
Ronald Oussorenfa1fcd12009-03-30 23:16:10 +00005846- Issue #4865: On MacOSX /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages is added to
5847 the end sys.path, for compatibility with the system install of Python.
5848
Antoine Pitrou3a652b12009-03-23 18:52:06 +00005849- Issue #4688: Add a heuristic so that tuples and dicts containing only
5850 untrackable objects are not tracked by the garbage collector. This can
5851 reduce the size of collections and therefore the garbage collection overhead
5852 on long-running programs, depending on their particular use of datatypes.
5853
Mark Dickinson17e4fdd2009-03-23 18:44:57 +00005854- Issue #5512: Rewrite PyLong long division algorithm (x_divrem) to
5855 improve its performance. Long divisions and remainder operations
5856 are now between 50% and 150% faster.
5857
Mark Dickinsonbd792642009-03-18 20:06:12 +00005858- Issue #4258: Make it possible to use base 2**30 instead of base
5859 2**15 for the internal representation of integers, for performance
5860 reasons. Base 2**30 is enabled by default on 64-bit machines. Add
5861 --enable-big-digits option to configure, which overrides the
5862 default. Add sys.int_info structseq to provide information about
5863 the internal format.
5864
Mark Dickinson081dfee2009-03-18 14:47:41 +00005865- Issue #4474: PyUnicode_FromWideChar now converts characters outside
5866 the BMP to surrogate pairs, on systems with sizeof(wchar_t) == 4
5867 and sizeof(Py_UNICODE) == 2.
5868
Eric Smith8ec90442009-03-14 12:29:34 +00005869- Issue #5237: Allow auto-numbered fields in str.format(). For
5870 example: '{} {}'.format(1, 2) == '1 2'.
5871
Antoine Pitrou652e7072009-03-13 19:25:20 +00005872- Issue #5392: when a very low recursion limit was set, the interpreter would
5873 abort with a fatal error after the recursion limit was hit twice.
5874
Matthias Klose042f1332009-04-04 14:32:42 +00005875- Issue #3845: In PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags avoid invalid memory access with
5876 short file names.
5877
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00005878Library
5879-------
5880
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00005881- Issue #2625: added missing items() call to the for loop in
R. David Murray548ac412009-04-02 19:44:43 +00005882 mailbox.MH.get_message().
5883
Hye-Shik Chang944820b2009-04-02 10:33:16 +00005884- Issue #5640: Fix _multibytecodec so that CJK codecs don't repeat
5885 error substitutions from non-strict codec error callbacks in
5886 incrementalencoder and StreamWriter.
5887
Georg Brandl33c28812009-04-01 23:07:29 +00005888- Issue #5656: Fix the coverage reporting when running the test suite with
5889 the -T argument.
5890
Raymond Hettinger3f10a952009-04-01 19:05:50 +00005891- Issue #5647: MutableSet.__iand__() no longer mutates self during iteration.
5892
Georg Brandl4ed72ac2009-04-01 04:28:33 +00005893- Issue #5624: Fix the _winreg module name still used in several modules.
5894
Benjamin Petersona1b49012009-03-31 23:11:32 +00005895- Issue #5628: Fix io.TextIOWrapper.read() with a unreadable buffer.
5896
Jesse Nollera9314042009-03-31 22:36:44 +00005897- Issue #5619: Multiprocessing children disobey the debug flag and causes
5898 popups on windows buildbots. Patch applied to work around this issue.
5899
Jesse Noller32d68c22009-03-31 18:48:42 +00005900- Issue #5400: Added patch for multiprocessing on netbsd compilation/support
5901
Hirokazu Yamamoto16caab02009-03-31 13:44:06 +00005902- Issue #5387: Fixed mmap.move crash by integer overflow.
5903
Jesse Nollerf8d00852009-03-31 03:25:07 +00005904- Issue #5261: Patch multiprocessing's semaphore.c to support context
5905 manager use: "with multiprocessing.Lock()" works now.
5906
Brett Cannon7f6b4f82009-03-30 21:30:26 +00005907- Issue #5236: Change time.strptime() to only take strings. Didn't work with
5908 bytes already but the failure was non-obvious.
5909
Jesse Noller7af4ef82009-03-30 16:47:15 +00005910- Issue #5177: Multiprocessing's SocketListener class now uses
5911 socket.SO_REUSEADDR on all connections so that the user no longer needs
5912 to wait 120 seconds for the socket to expire.
5913
Benjamin Peterson48e24782009-03-29 13:02:52 +00005914- Issue #5595: Fix UnboundedLocalError in ntpath.ismount().
5915
Antoine Pitrou66994e12009-03-29 00:45:26 +00005916- Issue #1174606: Calling read() without arguments of an unbounded file
5917 (typically /dev/zero under Unix) could crash the interpreter.
5918
Benjamin Peterson59406a92009-03-26 17:10:29 +00005919- The max_buffer_size arguments of io.BufferedWriter, io.BufferedRWPair, and
5920 io.BufferedRandom have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.2.
5921
Lars Gustäbel42e00912009-03-22 20:34:29 +00005922- Issue #5068: Fixed the tarfile._BZ2Proxy.read() method that would loop
5923 forever on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used
5924 with mode 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or
5925 partial bzip2 compressed data.
5926
Mark Dickinson79f52032009-03-17 23:12:51 +00005927- Issue #2110: Add support for thousands separator and 'n' type
5928 specifier to Decimal.__format__
5929
Mark Dickinson9c59fe02009-03-17 18:15:08 +00005930- Fix Decimal.__format__ bug that swapped the meanings of the '<' and
5931 '>' alignment characters.
5932
Antoine Pitrou0ae29cf2009-03-13 22:33:17 +00005933- The error detection code in FileIO.close() could fail to reflect the `errno`
5934 value, and report it as -1 instead.
5935
Antoine Pitroua28fcfd2009-03-13 23:42:55 +00005936- Issue #5016: FileIO.seekable() could return False if the file position
5937 was negative when truncated to a C int. Patch by Victor Stinner.
5938
Mark Dickinsonae681df2009-03-21 10:26:31 +00005939Extension Modules
5940-----------------
5941
Benjamin Petersone099b372009-04-04 17:09:35 +00005942- Issue #5391: mmap now deals exclusively with bytes.
5943
Mark Dickinsonae681df2009-03-21 10:26:31 +00005944- Issue #5463: In struct module, remove deprecated overflow wrapping
5945 when packing an integer: struct.pack('=L', -1) now raises
Mark Dickinsonb40b9472009-03-29 16:58:21 +00005946 struct.error instead of returning b'\xff\xff\xff\xff'. The
5947 _PY_STRUCT_RANGE_CHECKING and _PY_STRUCT_OVERFLOW_MASKING constants
5948 have been removed from the struct module.
Mark Dickinsonae681df2009-03-21 10:26:31 +00005949
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00005950
Benjamin Petersona58a6262009-03-07 16:34:40 +00005951What's New in Python 3.1 alpha 1
Barry Warsaw97f005d2008-12-03 16:46:14 +00005952================================
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00005953
Benjamin Petersona58a6262009-03-07 16:34:40 +00005954*Release date: 2009-03-07*
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00005955
5956Core and Builtins
5957-----------------
5958
Benjamin Peterson4fa88fa2009-03-04 00:14:51 +00005959- The io module has been reimplemented in C for speed.
5960
Raymond Hettingerb0d56af2009-03-03 10:52:49 +00005961- Give dict views an informative __repr__.
5962
Eric Smith5e5c0db2009-02-20 14:25:03 +00005963- Issue #5247: Improve error message when unknown format codes are
5964 used when using str.format() with str, int, and float arguments.
5965
Hirokazu Yamamoto575d1332009-02-16 09:13:20 +00005966- Issue #5249: time.strftime returned malformed string when format string
5967 contained non ascii character on windows.
5968
Benjamin Petersonf5b52242009-03-02 23:31:26 +00005969- Issue #4626: compile(), exec(), and eval() ignore the coding cookie if the
5970 source has already been decoded into str.
5971
Antoine Pitrou79eee6b2009-02-13 14:01:05 +00005972- Issue #5186: Reduce hash collisions for objects with no __hash__ method by
5973 rotating the object pointer by 4 bits to the right.
5974
Mark Dickinson87ec0852009-02-09 17:15:59 +00005975- Issue #4575: Fix Py_IS_INFINITY macro to work correctly on x87 FPUs:
5976 it now forces its argument to double before testing for infinity.
5977
Benjamin Petersonee1ae7c2009-02-08 21:07:20 +00005978- Issue #5137: Make len() correctly raise a TypeError when a __len__ method
5979 returns a non-number type.
5980
Benjamin Peterson87618552009-02-08 15:00:52 +00005981- Issue #5182: Removed memoryview.__str__.
5982
Mark Dickinsonc008a172009-02-01 13:59:22 +00005983- Issue #1717: Removed builtin cmp() function, dropped tp_compare
5984 slot, the C API functions PyObject_Compare and PyUnicode_Compare and
Mark Dickinsone94c6792009-02-02 20:36:42 +00005985 the type definition cmpfunc. The tp_compare slot has been renamed
5986 to tp_reserved, and is reserved for future usage.
Mark Dickinsonf02e0aa2009-02-01 12:13:56 +00005987
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00005988- Issue #1242657: the __len__() and __length_hint__() calls in several tools
Raymond Hettingere8364232009-02-02 22:55:09 +00005989 were suppressing all exceptions. These include list() and bytearray().
5990
Mark Dickinson1124e712009-01-28 21:25:58 +00005991- Issue #4707: round(x, n) now returns an integer if x is an integer.
5992 Previously it returned a float.
5993
Antoine Pitroub52ec782009-01-25 16:34:23 +00005994- Issue #4753: By enabling a configure option named '--with-computed-gotos'
5995 on compilers that support it (notably: gcc, SunPro, icc), the bytecode
5996 evaluation loop is compiled with a new dispatch mechanism which gives
5997 speedups of up to 20%, depending on the system, on various benchmarks.
5998
Antoine Pitrou81fabdb2009-01-22 10:11:36 +00005999- Issue #4874: Most builtin decoders now reject unicode input.
6000
Mark Dickinson9ffc0202009-01-20 20:45:53 +00006001- Issue #4842: Don't allow trailing 'L' when constructing an integer
6002 from a string.
6003
Benjamin Peterson05e782f2009-01-19 15:15:02 +00006004- Issue #4991: os.fdopen now raises an OSError for invalid file descriptors.
6005
Antoine Pitroue4bc7f62009-01-17 21:06:43 +00006006- Issue #4838: When a module is deallocated, free the memory backing the
6007 optional module state data.
6008
Mark Dickinson8055afd2009-01-17 10:04:45 +00006009- Issue #4910: Rename nb_long slot to nb_reserved, and change its
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00006010 type to ``(void *)``.
Mark Dickinson8055afd2009-01-17 10:04:45 +00006011
Antoine Pitrou8d4e5052009-01-13 22:59:11 +00006012- Issue #4935: The overflow checking code in the expandtabs() method common
6013 to str, bytes and bytearray could be optimized away by the compiler, letting
6014 the interpreter segfault instead of raising an error.
6015
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf343e012009-01-12 23:58:21 +00006016- Issue #3720: Fix a crash when an iterator modifies its class and removes its
6017 __next__ method.
6018
Mark Dickinsone5e298f2009-01-12 20:49:19 +00006019- Issue #4910: Builtin int() function and PyNumber_Long/PyNumber_Int API
6020 function no longer attempt to call the __long__ slot to convert an object
6021 to an integer. Only the __int__ and __trunc__ slots are examined.
6022
Martin v. Löwis7c2b66c2009-01-12 08:21:03 +00006023- Issue #4893: Use NT threading on CE.
6024
Martin v. Löwisec59d042009-01-12 07:59:10 +00006025- Issue #4915: Port sysmodule to Windows CE.
6026
Antoine Pitrouab868312009-01-10 15:40:25 +00006027- Issue #4868: utf-8, utf-16 and latin1 decoding are now 2x to 4x faster. The
6028 common cases are optimized thanks to a dedicated fast path and a moderate
6029 amount of loop unrolling.
6030
Antoine Pitrou14b78f52009-01-09 22:27:08 +00006031- Issue #4074: Change the criteria for doing a full garbage collection (i.e.
6032 collecting the oldest generation) so that allocating lots of objects without
6033 destroying them does not show quadratic performance. Based on a proposal by
6034 Martin von Löwis at
6035 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080579.html.
6036
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00006037- Issue #4604: Some objects of the I/O library could still be used after
Antoine Pitrou8043cf82009-01-09 19:54:29 +00006038 having been closed (for instance, a read() call could return some
6039 previously buffered data). Patch by Dmitry Vasiliev.
6040
Antoine Pitrou05608432009-01-09 18:53:14 +00006041- Issue #4705: Fix the -u ("unbuffered binary stdout and stderr") command-line
6042 flag to work properly. Furthermore, when specifying -u, the text stdout
6043 and stderr streams have line-by-line buffering enabled (the default being
6044 to buffer arbitrary chunks of data).
6045
Raymond Hettinger35631532009-01-09 03:58:09 +00006046- The internal table, _PyLong_DigitValue, is now an array of unsigned chars
6047 instead of ints (reducing its size from 4 to 8 times thereby reducing
6048 Python's overall memory).
6049
Antoine Pitroud35cbf62009-01-06 19:02:24 +00006050- Issue #1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with
6051 an existing .py counterpart, override the co_filename attributes of all
6052 code objects if the original filename is obsolete (which can happen if the
6053 file has been renamed, moved, or if it is accessed through different paths).
6054 Patch by Ziga Seilnacht and Jean-Paul Calderone.
6055
Antoine Pitrouc3b39242009-01-03 16:59:18 +00006056- Issue #4580: Fix slicing of memoryviews when the item size is greater than
6057 one byte. Also fixes the meaning of len() so that it returns the number of
6058 items, rather than the size in bytes.
6059
Martin v. Löwis5c88d812009-01-02 20:47:48 +00006060- Issue #4075: Use OutputDebugStringW in Py_FatalError.
6061
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc374e2202009-01-01 23:05:36 +00006062- Issue #4747: When the terminal does not use utf-8, executing a script with
6063 non-ascii characters in its name could fail with a "SyntaxError: None" error.
6064
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00006065- Issue #4797: IOError.filename was not set when ``_fileio.FileIO`` failed
6066 to open file with a bytes filename on Windows.
Hirokazu Yamamoto0f22d692009-01-01 16:03:45 +00006067
Antoine Pitrou7ddda782009-01-01 15:35:33 +00006068- Issue #3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator
6069 did not get collected.
6070
Nick Coghlanf1f2f682008-12-30 07:29:12 +00006071- Issue #4701: PyObject_Hash now implicitly calls PyType_Ready on types
6072 where the tp_hash and tp_dict slots are both NULL.
6073
Georg Brandlccc47b62008-12-28 11:44:14 +00006074- Issue #4759: None is now allowed as the first argument of
6075 bytearray.translate(). It was always allowed for bytes.translate().
6076
Skip Montanaro80072cb2008-12-23 03:51:14 +00006077- Added test case to ensure attempts to read from a file opened for writing
6078 fail.
6079
Antoine Pitrou51f3ef92008-12-20 13:14:23 +00006080- Issue #3106: Speedup some comparisons (str/str and int/int).
6081
Antoine Pitrouf289ae62008-12-18 11:06:25 +00006082- Issue #2183: Simplify and optimize bytecode for list, dict and set
6083 comprehensions. Original patch for list comprehensions by Neal Norwitz.
6084
Antoine Pitrou621601a2008-12-17 23:18:19 +00006085- Issue #2467: gc.DEBUG_STATS reported invalid elapsed times. Also, always
6086 print elapsed times, not only when some objects are uncollectable /
6087 unreachable. Original patch by Neil Schemenauer.
6088
Mark Dickinson54bc1ec2008-12-17 16:19:07 +00006089- Issue #3439: Add a bit_length method to int.
6090
Mark Dickinsonda2706b2008-12-11 18:03:03 +00006091- Issue #2173: When getting device encoding, check that return value of
6092 nl_langinfo is not the empty string. This was causing silent build
6093 failures on OS X.
6094
Jeffrey Yasskinb9083f32008-12-11 06:18:33 +00006095- Issue #4597: Fixed several opcodes that weren't always propagating
6096 exceptions.
6097
6098- Issue #4589: Fixed exception handling when the __exit__ function of a
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc10b24e82008-12-10 23:49:33 +00006099 context manager returns a value that cannot be converted to a bool.
6100
Mark Dickinsonfd24b322008-12-06 15:33:31 +00006101- Issue #4445: Replace "sizeof(PyBytesObject)" with
6102 "offsetof(PyBytesObject, ob_sval) + 1" when allocating memory for
6103 bytes instances. On a typical machine this saves 3 bytes of memory
6104 (on average) per allocation of a bytes instance.
6105
Christian Heimesa872de52008-12-05 08:26:55 +00006106- Issue #4533: File read operation was dreadfully slow due to a slowly
6107 growing read buffer. Fixed by using the same growth rate algorithm as
6108 Python 2.x.
6109
Antoine Pitrou5504e892008-12-06 21:27:53 +00006110- Issue #4509: Various issues surrounding resize of bytearray objects to
6111 which there are buffer exports (e.g. memoryview instances).
6112
Georg Brandlf9734072008-12-07 15:30:06 +00006113- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()``
6114 method on file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still
6115 kept open but the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO``
6116 object also got a new readonly attribute ``closefd``.
Matthias Klose7e1b8fa2008-11-26 17:22:04 +00006117
Antoine Pitroubc420402008-12-07 20:14:49 +00006118- Issue #4569: Interpreter crash when mutating a memoryview with an item size
6119 larger than 1.
6120
Benjamin Peterson371ccfb2008-12-27 19:03:36 +00006121- Issue #4748: Lambda generators no longer return a value.
6122
Gregory P. Smithccc5ae72009-03-02 05:21:55 +00006123- The re.sub(), re.subn() and re.split() functions now accept a flags parameter.
6124
Walter Dörwaldc1651a02009-05-03 22:55:55 +00006125- Issue #5108: Handle %s like %S, %R and %A in PyUnicode_FromFormatV(): Call
6126 PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8() once, remember the result and output it in a second
6127 step. This avoids problems with counting UTF-8 bytes that ignores the effect
6128 of using the replace error handler in PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8().
6129
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00006130Library
6131-------
Tarek Ziadé38e3d512009-02-27 12:58:56 +00006132
Tarek Ziadé04fe7c02009-10-25 23:08:47 +00006133- Issue #7071: byte-compilation in Distutils is now done with respect to
6134 sys.dont_write_bytecode.
6135
Victor Stinnere125f132010-05-15 21:04:43 +00006136- Issue #7066: archive_util.make_archive now restores the cwd if an error is
Tarek Ziadé978cca62009-10-24 13:38:27 +00006137 raised. Initial patch by Ezio Melotti.
6138
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +00006139- Issue #6516: Added owner/group support when creating tar archives in
Tarek Ziadé05b30342009-10-02 23:56:02 +00006140 Distutils.
6141
Tarek Ziadé31d46072009-09-21 13:55:19 +00006142- Issue #6954: Fixed crash when using DISTUTILS_DEBUG flag in Distutils.
6143
Tarek Ziadé165581c2009-09-09 08:48:07 +00006144- Issue #6163: Fixed HP-UX runtime library dir options in
6145 distutils.unixcompiler. Initial patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar and
6146 Michael Haubenwallner.
6147
Tarek Ziadé4a608c02009-08-20 21:28:05 +00006148- Issue #6693: New functions in site.py to get user/global site packages paths.
6149
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbc347802009-07-28 22:18:57 +00006150- Issue #6511: ZipFile now raises BadZipfile (instead of an IOError) when
6151 opening an empty or very small file.
6152
6153- Issue #6545: Removed assert statements in distutils.Extension, so the
Tarek Ziadé2f19bb12009-07-22 08:57:28 +00006154 behavior is similar when used with -O.
6155
Benjamin Petersonbed7d042009-07-19 21:01:52 +00006156- unittest has been split up into a package. All old names should still work.
6157
Tarek Ziadéf8926b22009-07-16 16:18:19 +00006158- Issue #6466: now distutils.cygwinccompiler and distutils.emxccompiler
6159 uses the same refactored function to get gcc/ld/dllwrap versions numbers.
6160 It's `distutils.util.get_compiler_versions`. Added deprecation warnings
6161 for the obsolete get_versions() functions.
6162
Alexandre Vassalottie52e3782009-07-17 09:18:18 +00006163- Issue #6433: fixed issues with multiprocessing.pool.map hanging on empty list
6164
6165- Issue #6314: logging: Extra checks on the "level" argument in more places.
6166
Florent Xiclunae7eaec62010-08-08 18:03:44 +00006167- Issue #2622: Fixed an ImportError when importing email.message from a
Alexandre Vassalottie52e3782009-07-17 09:18:18 +00006168 standalone application built with py2exe or py2app.
6169
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00006170- Issue #6455: Fixed test_build_ext under win32.
Tarek Ziadéb7815e32009-07-10 09:14:31 +00006171
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00006172- Issue #6377: Enabled the compiler option, and deprecate its usage as an
Tarek Ziadédd07ebb2009-07-06 13:52:17 +00006173 attribute.
6174
Tarek Ziadé05bf01a2009-07-04 02:04:21 +00006175- Issue #6413: Fixed the log level in distutils.dist for announce.
6176
Tarek Ziadée10d6de2009-07-03 08:33:28 +00006177- Issue #6403: Fixed package path usage in build_ext.
6178
Alexandre Vassalottie52e3782009-07-17 09:18:18 +00006179- Issues #5155, 5313, 5331: multiprocessing.Process._bootstrap was
6180 unconditionally calling "os.close(sys.stdin.fileno())" resulting in file
6181 descriptor errors
6182
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00006183- Issue #6365: Distutils build_ext inplace mode was copying the compiled
Tarek Ziadé0156f912009-06-29 16:19:22 +00006184 extension in a subdirectory if the extension name had dots.
6185
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00006186- Issue #6164: Added an AIX specific linker argument in Distutils
Tarek Ziadé8f480e52009-06-28 21:30:52 +00006187 unixcompiler. Original patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
6188
Tarek Ziadé25bd2062009-06-28 21:26:27 +00006189- Issue #6286: Now Distutils upload command is based on urllib2 instead of
6190 httplib, allowing the usage of http_proxy.
6191
Tarek Ziadé5e06a652009-06-16 07:43:42 +00006192- Issue #6287: Added the license field in Distutils documentation.
6193
Tarek Ziadéff543362009-06-11 09:25:41 +00006194- Issue #6263: Fixed syntax error in distutils.cygwincompiler.
6195
Tarek Ziadéabcc3f42009-06-11 08:31:17 +00006196- Issue #5201: distutils.sysconfig.parse_makefile() now understands `$$`
6197 in Makefiles. This prevents compile errors when using syntax like:
6198 `LDFLAGS='-rpath=\$$LIB:/some/other/path'`. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
6199
Hirokazu Yamamoto2703fd92009-05-29 09:14:04 +00006200- Issue #6131: test_modulefinder leaked when run after test_distutils.
6201 Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
6202
Tarek Ziadé77c8b372009-05-28 13:01:13 +00006203- Issue #6048: Now Distutils uses the tarfile module in archive_util.
6204
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00006205- Issue #6062: In distutils, fixed the package option of build_ext. Feedback
Tarek Ziadé822eb842009-05-19 16:22:57 +00006206 and tests on pywin32 by Tim Golden.
6207
Tarek Ziadé93fb3aa2009-05-18 12:29:06 +00006208- Issue #6053: Fixed distutils tests on win32. patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
6209
Tarek Ziadéd18a84e2009-05-18 08:07:46 +00006210- Issue #6046: Fixed the library extension when distutils build_ext is used
6211 inplace. Initial patch by Roumen Petrov.
6212
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00006213- Issue #6041: Now distutils `sdist` and `register` commands use `check` as a
Tarek Ziadé5af55c62009-05-16 16:52:13 +00006214 subcommand.
6215
Tarek Ziadé4210c6e2009-05-14 20:20:47 +00006216- Issue #6022: a test file was created in the current working directory by
6217 test_get_outputs in Distutils.
6218
Tarek Ziadéff0e5002009-05-12 17:14:01 +00006219- Issue #5977: distutils build_ext.get_outputs was not taking into account the
6220 inplace option. Initial patch by kxroberto.
6221
Tarek Ziadé06fbee12009-05-10 10:34:01 +00006222- Issue #5984: distutils.command.build_ext.check_extensions_list checks were broken
6223 for old-style extensions.
6224
Tarek Ziadébe5b1b92009-05-09 10:09:11 +00006225- Issue #5976: Fixed Distutils test_check_environ.
6226
Tarek Ziadé5662d3e2009-05-07 21:24:43 +00006227- Issue #5941: Distutils build_clib command was not working anymore because
6228 of an incomplete costumization of the archiver command. Added ARFLAGS in the
6229 Makefile besides AR and make Distutils use it. Original patch by David
6230 Cournapeau.
6231
R. David Murrayb507d2e2009-04-29 15:34:32 +00006232- Issue #2245: aifc now skips chunk types it doesn't recognize, per spec.
6233
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00006234- Issue #5874: distutils.tests.test_config_cmd is not locale-sensitive
Tarek Ziadé81623822009-04-29 08:07:44 +00006235 anymore.
6236
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00006237- Issue #5810: Fixed Distutils test_build_scripts so it uses
Tarek Ziadé939f9c82009-04-25 12:53:56 +00006238 sysconfig.get_config_vars.
6239
Tarek Ziadé23336082009-04-25 12:39:56 +00006240- Issue #4951: Fixed failure in test_httpservers.
6241
Thomas Hellerd3cfe992009-04-24 20:10:24 +00006242- Issue #5795: Fixed test_distutils failure on Debian ppc.
6243
Tarek Ziadé822e1d42009-04-13 12:37:57 +00006244- Issue #5607: fixed Distutils test_get_platform for Mac OS X fat binaries.
6245
Georg Brandl1f9fa312009-04-27 16:42:58 +00006246- Issue #5741: don't disallow "%%" (which is an escape for "%") when setting
6247 a value in SafeConfigParser.
6248
Tarek Ziadéf396ecf2009-04-11 15:00:43 +00006249- Issue #5732: added a new command in Distutils: check.
6250
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00006251- Issue #5731: Distutils bdist_wininst no longer worked on non-Windows
Tarek Ziadéa6191802009-04-09 22:02:39 +00006252 platforms. Initial patch by Paul Moore.
6253
Tarek Ziadéf6370502009-04-05 22:57:21 +00006254- Issue #5095: Added bdist_msi to the list of bdist supported formats.
6255 Initial fix by Steven Bethard.
6256
Tarek Ziadé889b0aa2009-04-05 21:49:36 +00006257- Issue #1491431: Fixed distutils.filelist.glob_to_re for edge cases.
6258 Initial fix by Wayne Davison.
6259
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00006260- Issue #5694: removed spurious test output in Distutils (test_clean).
Tarek Ziadéea261632009-04-05 18:33:34 +00006261
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00006262- Issue #1326077: fix the formatting of SyntaxErrors by the traceback module.
Georg Brandl236f7972009-04-05 14:28:42 +00006263
Brett Cannonf47e84c2009-04-01 16:06:01 +00006264- Issue #1665206 (partially): Move imports in cgitb to the top of the module
6265 instead of performing them in functions. Helps prevent import deadlocking in
6266 threads.
6267
R. David Murraye59482e2009-04-01 03:42:00 +00006268- Issue #2522: locale.format now checks its first argument to ensure it has
6269 been passed only one pattern, avoiding mysterious errors where it appeared
6270 that it was failing to do localization.
6271
Tarek Ziadéb2e36f12009-03-31 22:37:55 +00006272- Issue #5583: Added optional Extensions in Distutils. Initial patch by Georg
6273 Brandl.
6274
Antoine Pitrou350370c2009-03-14 00:13:13 +00006275- Issue #1222: locale.format() bug when the thousands separator is a space
6276 character.
6277
Tarek Ziadé516db942009-03-11 12:52:00 +00006278- Issue #5472: Fixed distutils.test_util tear down. Original patch by
6279 Tim Golden.
6280
Raymond Hettinger5bb0f0e2009-03-10 12:56:32 +00006281- collections.deque() objects now have a read-only attribute called maxlen.
6282
Guilherme Polof45b4cc2009-03-07 02:19:14 +00006283- Issue #2638: Show a window constructed with tkSimpleDialog.Dialog only after
6284 it is has been populated and properly configured in order to prevent
6285 window flashing.
6286
Guilherme Polo56f5be52009-03-07 01:54:57 +00006287- Issue #4792: Prevent a segfault in _tkinter by using the
6288 guaranteed to be safe interp argument given to the PythonCmd in place of
6289 the Tcl interpreter taken from a PythonCmd_ClientData.
6290
6291- Issue #5193: Guarantee that tkinter.Text.search returns a string.
6292
Tarek Ziadé63b64c02009-03-07 00:51:53 +00006293- Issue #5394: removed > 2.3 syntax from distutils.msvc9compiler.
6294 Original patch by Akira Kitada.
6295
Hirokazu Yamamoto54d0df62009-03-06 03:04:07 +00006296- Issue #5334: array.fromfile() failed to insert values when EOFError was raised.
6297
Hirokazu Yamamoto8e722bc2009-03-05 14:33:01 +00006298- Issue #5385: Fixed mmap crash after resize failure on windows.
6299
Hirokazu Yamamoto0c988172009-03-03 22:41:26 +00006300- Issue #5179: Fixed subprocess handle leak on failure on windows.
6301
Raymond Hettinger2d32f632009-03-02 21:24:57 +00006302- PEP 372: Added collections.OrderedDict().
6303
Raymond Hettingera4f52b12009-03-02 22:28:31 +00006304- The _asdict() for method for namedtuples now returns an OrderedDict().
6305
Raymond Hettinger0663a1e2009-03-02 23:06:00 +00006306- configparser now defaults to using an ordered dictionary.
6307
Benjamin Petersone0124bd2009-03-09 21:04:33 +00006308- Issue #5401: Fixed a performance problem in mimetypes when ``from mimetypes
6309 import guess_extension`` was used.
6310
Hirokazu Yamamoto10c99372009-02-28 12:21:53 +00006311- Issue #1733986: Fixed mmap crash in accessing elements of second map object
6312 with same tagname but larger size than first map. (Windows)
6313
Hirokazu Yamamoto39c6dea2009-02-28 10:56:50 +00006314- Issue #5386: mmap.write_byte didn't check map size, so it could cause buffer
6315 overrun.
6316
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00006317- Issue #1533164: Installed but not listed ``*.pyo`` was breaking Distutils
Tarek Ziadéf0721222009-02-28 10:16:43 +00006318 bdist_rpm command.
6319
6320- Issue #5378: added --quiet option to Distutils bdist_rpm command.
6321
Tarek Ziadé38e3d512009-02-27 12:58:56 +00006322- Issue #5052: make Distutils compatible with 2.3 again.
6323
Tarek Ziadé0f31e6d2009-02-25 22:31:38 +00006324- Issue #5316: Fixed buildbot failures introduced by multiple inheritance
6325 in Distutils tests.
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00006326
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00006327- Issue #5287: Add exception handling around findCaller() call to help out
6328 IronPython.
6329
Hirokazu Yamamoto0654ccd2009-02-18 16:38:00 +00006330- Issue #5282: Fixed mmap resize on 32bit windows and unix. When offset > 0,
6331 The file was resized to wrong size.
6332
6333- Issue #5292: Fixed mmap crash on its boundary access m[len(m)].
6334
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00006335- Issue #2279: distutils.sdist.add_defaults now add files
Tarek Ziadé0d0506e2009-02-16 21:49:12 +00006336 from the package_data and the data_files metadata.
6337
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00006338- Issue #5257: refactored all tests in distutils, so they use
Tarek Ziadéc1375d52009-02-14 14:35:51 +00006339 support.TempdirManager, to avoid writing in the tests directory.
6340
Tarek Ziadé68c50952009-02-13 23:04:17 +00006341- Issue #4524: distutils build_script command failed with --with-suffix=3.
6342 Initial patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
6343
Tarek Ziadé811d6242009-02-13 22:26:15 +00006344- Issue #2461: added tests for distutils.util
6345
Mark Dickinsonc28ad272009-02-12 17:58:36 +00006346- Issue #4998: The memory saving effect of __slots__ had been lost on Fractions
6347 which inherited from numbers.py which did not have __slots__ defined. The
6348 numbers hierarchy now has its own __slots__ declarations.
6349
Antoine Pitroub353c122009-02-11 00:39:14 +00006350- Issue #4631: Fix urlopen() result when an HTTP response uses chunked
6351 encoding.
6352
Thomas Heller465c8022009-02-10 18:59:04 +00006353- Issue #5203: Fixed ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a
6354 function without argtypes (only occurs if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false).
6355
Tarek Ziadé7d5e9872009-02-10 12:36:33 +00006356- Issue #3386: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument was ignored
6357 under NT and OS2. Patch by Philip Jenvey.
6358
Brett Cannonbefb14f2009-02-10 02:10:16 +00006359- Issue #5128: Make compileall properly inspect bytecode to determine if needs
6360 to be recreated. This avoids a timing hole thanks to the old reliance on the
6361 ctime of the files involved.
6362
Guilherme Polob681df42009-02-09 22:33:59 +00006363- Issue #5122: Synchronize tk load failure check to prevent a potential
6364 deadlock.
6365
Benjamin Petersona86f2c02009-02-10 02:41:10 +00006366- Issue #1818: collections.namedtuple() now supports a keyword argument
6367 'rename' which lets invalid fieldnames be automatically converted to
6368 positional names in the form, _1, _2, ...
6369
Guilherme Poloae098992009-02-09 16:44:24 +00006370- Issue #4890: Handle empty text search pattern in Tkinter.Text.search.
6371
Nick Coghlan9a1d6e32009-02-08 03:37:27 +00006372- Issue #4512 (part 2): Promote ``ZipImporter._get_filename()`` to be a
6373 public documented method ``ZipImporter.get_filename()``.
6374
Nick Coghlan3f48ae32009-02-08 01:58:26 +00006375- Issue #4195: The ``runpy`` module (and the ``-m`` switch) now support
6376 the execution of packages by looking for and executing a ``__main__``
6377 submodule when a package name is supplied. Initial patch by Andi
6378 Vajda.
6379
Guilherme Polo491aee22009-02-06 23:16:11 +00006380- Issue #1731706: Call Tcl_ConditionFinalize for Tcl_Conditions that will
6381 not be used again (this requires Tcl/Tk 8.3.1), also fix a memory leak in
6382 Tkapp_Call when calling from a thread different than the one that created
6383 the Tcl interpreter. Patch by Robert Hancock.
6384
Eric Smith0e5b5622009-02-06 01:32:42 +00006385- Issue #4285: Change sys.version_info to be a named tuple. Patch by
6386 Ross Light.
6387
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00006388- Issue #1520877: Now distutils.sysconfig reads $AR from the
Tarek Ziadéd3409de2009-02-06 01:18:36 +00006389 environment/Makefile. Patch by Douglas Greiman.
6390
Tarek Ziadé70a74eb2009-02-06 00:38:35 +00006391- Issue #1276768: The verbose option was not used in the code of
6392 distutils.file_util and distutils.dir_util.
6393
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00006394- Issue #5132: Fixed trouble building extensions under Solaris with
Tarek Ziadé5874ef12009-02-05 22:56:14 +00006395 --enabled-shared activated. Initial patch by Dave Peterson.
6396
Guilherme Polo7f423952009-02-02 21:17:09 +00006397- Issue #1581476: Always use the Tcl global namespace when calling into Tcl.
6398
Raymond Hettinger85602262009-02-03 04:19:10 +00006399- The shelve module now defaults to pickle protocol 3.
6400
Brett Cannone61426e2009-01-30 01:31:34 +00006401- Fix a bug in the trace module where a bytes object from co_lnotab had its
6402 items being passed through ord().
6403
Antoine Pitrou0dcc3cd2009-01-29 20:26:59 +00006404- Issue #2047: shutil.move() could believe that its destination path was
6405 inside its source path if it began with the same letters (e.g. "src" vs.
6406 "src.new").
6407
Guilherme Polo5f238482009-01-28 14:41:10 +00006408- Added the ttk module. See issue #2983: Ttk support for Tkinter.
6409
Raymond Hettinger89e12962009-01-26 02:09:03 +00006410- Removed isSequenceType(), isMappingType, and isNumberType() from the
6411 operator module; use the abstract base classes instead. Also removed
6412 the repeat() function; use mul() instead.
6413
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00006414- Issue #5021: doctest.testfile() did not create __name__ and
Raymond Hettinger0f055172009-01-27 10:06:09 +00006415 collections.namedtuple() relied on __name__ being defined.
6416
6417- Backport importlib from Python 3.1. Only the import_module() function has
6418 been backported to help facilitate transitions from 2.7 to 3.1.
6419
Tarek Ziadé0302cf52009-01-26 17:23:20 +00006420- Issue #1885: distutils. When running sdist with --formats=tar,gztar
6421 the tar file was overriden by the gztar one.
6422
Tarek Ziadé4d4456f2009-01-25 18:27:45 +00006423- Issue #4863: distutils.mwerkscompiler has been removed.
6424
Raymond Hettingerd07d9392009-01-27 04:20:44 +00006425- Added a new itertools functions: combinations_with_replacement()
6426 and compress().
Raymond Hettinger6b3b0fc2009-01-26 02:56:58 +00006427
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00006428- Issue #5032: added a step argument to itertools.count() and
Raymond Hettinger30729212009-02-12 06:28:27 +00006429 allowed non-integer arguments.
6430
Jesse Noller41faa542009-01-25 03:45:53 +00006431- Fix and properly document the multiprocessing module's logging
6432 support, expose the internal levels and provide proper usage
6433 examples.
6434
Mark Dickinsoncddcf442009-01-24 21:46:33 +00006435- Issue #1672332: fix unpickling of subnormal floats, which was
6436 producing a ValueError on some platforms.
6437
Martin v. Löwisacbf4612009-01-24 16:19:45 +00006438- Issue #3881: Help Tcl to load even when started through the
6439 unreadable local symlink to "Program Files" on Vista.
6440
Martin v. Löwis59e47792009-01-24 14:10:07 +00006441- Issue #4710: Extract directories properly in the zipfile module;
6442 allow adding directories to a zipfile.
6443
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00006444- Issue #3807: _multiprocessing build fails when configure is passed
Jesse Noller6fd47e22009-01-23 14:09:08 +00006445 --without-threads argument. When this occurs, _multiprocessing will
6446 be disabled, and not compiled.
6447
Antoine Pitrou08838b62009-01-21 00:55:13 +00006448- Issue #5008: When a file is opened in append mode with the new IO library,
6449 do an explicit seek to the end of file (so that e.g. tell() returns the
6450 file size rather than 0). This is consistent with the behaviour of the
6451 traditional 2.x file object.
6452
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00006453- Issue #5013: Fixed a bug in FileHandler which occurred when the delay
6454 parameter was set.
6455
Mark Dickinson8dd05142009-01-20 20:43:58 +00006456- Issue #4842: Always append a trailing 'L' when pickling longs using
6457 pickle protocol 0. When reading, the 'L' is optional.
6458
Brett Cannonafccd632009-01-20 02:21:27 +00006459- Add the importlib package.
6460
Jesse Noller9a0fc972009-01-18 21:12:58 +00006461- Issue #4301: Patch the logging module to add processName support, remove
6462 _check_logger_class from multiprocessing.
6463
Jesse Noller1cbb17a2009-01-18 19:45:18 +00006464- Issue #3325: Remove python2.x try: except: imports for old cPickle from
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00006465 multiprocessing.
Jesse Nollerf70a5382009-01-18 19:44:02 +00006466
Benjamin Peterson9953a8d2009-01-17 04:15:01 +00006467- Issue #4959: inspect.formatargspec now works for keyword only arguments
6468 without defaults.
6469
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00006470- Issue #3321: ``_multiprocessing.Connection()`` doesn't check handle; added checks
6471 for Unix machines for negative handles and large int handles. Without this check
Jesse Noller6214edd2009-01-19 16:23:53 +00006472 it is possible to segfault the interpreter.
6473
Jesse Nollerb0516a62009-01-18 03:11:38 +00006474- Issue #4449: AssertionError in mp_benchmarks.py, caused by an underlying issue
6475 in sharedctypes.py.
6476
6477- Issue #1225107: inspect.isclass() returned True for instances with a custom
6478 __getattr__.
6479
Gregory P. Smithde3369f2009-01-12 04:50:11 +00006480- Issue #3826 and #4791: The socket module now closes the underlying socket
6481 appropriately when it is being used via socket.makefile() objects
6482 rather than delaying the close by waiting for garbage collection to do it.
6483
Raymond Hettingerb8baf632009-01-14 02:20:07 +00006484- Issue #1696199: Add collections.Counter() for rapid and convenient
6485 counting.
6486
Antoine Pitrou308705e2009-01-10 16:22:51 +00006487- Issue #3860: GzipFile and BZ2File now support the context manager protocol.
6488
Thomas Heller5e4e4272009-01-08 09:34:20 +00006489- Issue #4867: Fixed a crash in ctypes when passing a string to a
6490 function without defining argtypes.
6491
Antoine Pitrou42db3ef2009-01-04 21:37:59 +00006492- Issue #4272: Add an optional argument to the GzipFile constructor to override
6493 the timestamp in the gzip stream. The default value remains the current time.
6494 The information can be used by e.g. gunzip when decompressing. Patch by
6495 Jacques Frechet.
6496
Mark Dickinson315a20a2009-01-04 21:34:18 +00006497- Restore Python 2.3 compatibility for decimal.py.
6498
Guilherme Polo3f5f8222009-01-03 22:00:39 +00006499- Issue #3638: Remove functions from _tkinter module level that depend on
6500 TkappObject to work with multiple threads.
6501
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00006502- Issue #4718: Adapt the wsgiref package so that it actually works with
6503 Python 3.x, in accordance with the `official amendments of the spec
Antoine Pitrou38a66ad2009-01-03 18:41:49 +00006504 <http://www.wsgi.org/wsgi/Amendments_1.0>`_.
6505
Raymond Hettinger771ed762009-01-03 19:20:32 +00006506- Issue #4796: Added Decimal.from_float() and Context.create_decimal_from_float()
6507 to the decimal module.
6508
Georg Brandl3a9b0622009-01-03 22:07:57 +00006509- Fractions.from_float() no longer loses precision for integers too big to
6510 cast as floats.
6511
Mark Dickinsonf9236412009-01-02 23:23:21 +00006512- Issue #4812: add missing underscore prefix to some internal-use-only
6513 constants in the decimal module. (Dec_0 becomes _Dec_0, etc.)
6514
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00006515- Issue #4790: The nsmallest() and nlargest() functions in the heapq module
Georg Brandl3a9b0622009-01-03 22:07:57 +00006516 did unnecessary work in the common case where no key function was specified.
6517
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00006518- Issue #4795: inspect.isgeneratorfunction() returns False instead of None when
6519 the function is not a generator.
6520
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00006521- Issue #4702: Throwing a DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError in case
6522 no MSVC compiler is found under Windows. Original patch by Philip Jenvey.
Tarek Ziadé9df8ce32008-12-30 23:09:20 +00006523
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00006524- Issue #4646: distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup
Tarek Ziadé4450dcf2008-12-29 22:38:38 +00006525 function. Original patch by Thomas Heller.
6526
Martin v. Löwis1f1620e2008-12-29 16:27:13 +00006527- Issue #3767: Convert Tk object to string in tkColorChooser.
6528
Martin v. Löwise354d782008-12-29 16:03:04 +00006529- Issue #3248: Allow placing ScrolledText in a PanedWindow.
6530
Antoine Pitrou5acd41e2008-12-28 14:29:00 +00006531- Issue #4444: Allow assertRaises() to be used as a context handler, so that
6532 the code under test can be written inline if more practical.
6533
Georg Brandldb7b6b92009-01-01 15:53:14 +00006534- Issue #4739: Add pydoc help topics for symbols, so that e.g. help('@')
6535 works as expected in the interactive environment.
6536
Antoine Pitroudb5fe662008-12-27 15:50:40 +00006537- Issue #4756: zipfile.is_zipfile() now supports file-like objects. Patch by
6538 Gabriel Genellina.
6539
Antoine Pitrou180a3362008-12-14 16:36:46 +00006540- Issue #4574: reading an UTF16-encoded text file crashes if \r on 64-char
6541 boundary.
6542
Nick Coghlanf088e5e2008-12-14 11:50:48 +00006543- Issue #4223: inspect.getsource() will now correctly display source code
6544 for packages loaded via zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302
6545 loader). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
6546
6547- Issue #4201: pdb can now access and display source code loaded via
6548 zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302 loader). Original patch by
6549 Alexander Belopolsky.
6550
6551- Issue #4197: doctests in modules loaded via zipimport (or any other PEP
6552 302 conformant loader) will now work correctly in most cases (they
6553 are still subject to the constraints that exist for all code running
6554 from inside a module loaded via a PEP 302 loader and attempting to
6555 perform IO operations based on __file__). Original patch by
6556 Alexander Belopolsky.
6557
6558- Issues #4082 and #4512: Add runpy support to zipimport in a manner that
6559 allows backporting to maintenance branches. Original patch by
6560 Alexander Belopolsky.
6561
Antoine Pitrou7c59bc62008-12-13 23:20:54 +00006562- Issue #4163: textwrap module: allow word splitting on a hyphen preceded by
6563 a non-ASCII letter.
6564
Lars Gustäbel43fcf3a2008-12-12 14:58:38 +00006565- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
6566
Benjamin Peterson433f32c2008-12-12 01:25:05 +00006567- Issue #4021: tokenize.detect_encoding() now raises a SyntaxError when the
6568 codec cannot be found. This is for compatibility with the builtin behavior.
6569
Facundo Batista708d5812008-12-11 04:20:07 +00006570- Issue #4084: Fix max, min, max_mag and min_mag Decimal methods to
6571 give correct results in the case where one argument is a quiet NaN
6572 and the other is a finite number that requires rounding.
6573
Skip Montanaroc1ce2862008-12-06 17:25:02 +00006574- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat
6575 libs.
6576
Georg Brandlf9734072008-12-07 15:30:06 +00006577- Added the subprocess.check_call_output() convenience function to get output
6578 from a subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
6579
6580- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
6581 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
6582 Content-Disposition headers.
6583
6584- Issue #4384: Added logging integration with warnings module using
6585 captureWarnings(). This change includes a NullHandler which does nothing;
6586 it will be of use to library developers who want to avoid the "No handlers
6587 could be found for logger XXX" message which can appear if the library user
6588 doesn't configure logging.
6589
6590- Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
6591 exception.
6592
Georg Brandleee31162008-12-07 15:15:22 +00006593- Issue #4529: fix the parser module's validation of try-except-finally
6594 statements.
6595
6596- Issue #4458: getopt.gnu_getopt() now recognizes a single "-" as an argument,
6597 not a malformed option.
6598
6599- Added the subprocess.check_output() convenience function to get output
6600 from a subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
6601
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbc9d4742008-12-05 01:40:43 +00006602- Issue #4542: On Windows, binascii.crc32 still accepted str as binary input;
6603 the corresponding tests now pass.
6604
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbc2ce572008-12-05 01:02:21 +00006605- Issue #4537: webbrowser.UnixBrowser would fail to open the browser because
6606 it was calling the wrong open() function.
6607
Fred Drake9a0a65b2008-12-04 19:24:50 +00006608- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
6609 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
6610 Content-Disposition headers.
6611
Matthias Klose2c7e3ee2009-01-10 17:08:25 +00006612- Issue #4861: ctypes.util.find_library(): Robustify. Fix library detection on
6613 biarch systems. Try to rely on ldconfig only, without using objdump and gcc.
6614
Benjamin Peterson5c6d7872009-02-06 02:40:07 +00006615- Issue #5104: The socket module now raises OverflowError when 16-bit port and
6616 protocol numbers are supplied outside the allowed 0-65536 range on bind()
6617 and getservbyport().
6618
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven0a866942009-05-08 14:18:00 +00006619- Windows locale mapping updated to Vista.
6620
Antoine Pitrou2a013ea2008-12-27 20:39:28 +00006621Tools/Demos
6622-----------
6623
Antoine Pitrou8a681222009-02-07 17:13:31 +00006624- Issue #4704: remove use of cmp() in pybench, bump its version number to 2.1,
6625 and make it 2.6-compatible.
6626
Guilherme Poloa7d27972009-01-28 16:06:51 +00006627- Ttk demos added in Demo/tkinter/ttk/
6628
Antoine Pitrou2a013ea2008-12-27 20:39:28 +00006629- Issue #4677: add two list comprehension tests to pybench.
6630
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00006631
6632Build
6633-----
6634
Benjamin Petersonf53eec82009-05-23 19:36:27 +00006635- Issue #6094: Build correctly with Subversion 1.7.
6636
Martin v. Löwis8482ef92009-05-05 16:14:30 +00006637- Issue #5847: Remove -n switch on "Edit with IDLE" menu item.
6638
Antoine Pitrou8966c992009-05-01 21:18:27 +00006639- Issue #5726: Make Modules/ld_so_aix return the actual exit code of the
6640 linker, rather than always exit successfully. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
6641
Matthias Klose55708cc2009-04-30 08:06:49 +00006642- Issue #4587: Add configure option --with-dbmliborder=db1:db2:... to specify
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00006643 the order that backends for the dbm extension are checked.
Matthias Klose55708cc2009-04-30 08:06:49 +00006644
Matthias Klose906785c2009-02-22 23:18:38 +00006645- Link the shared python library with $(MODLIBS).
6646
Martin v. Löwis11f72102009-02-10 13:13:30 +00006647- Issue #5134: Silence compiler warnings when compiling sqlite with VC++.
6648
Martin v. Löwisbc186a82009-02-02 15:32:22 +00006649- Issue #4494: Fix build with Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED on Windows.
6650
Martin v. Löwise97637d2009-01-11 09:45:11 +00006651- Issue #4895: Use _strdup on Windows CE.
6652
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00006653- Issue #4472: "configure --enable-shared" now works on OSX
6654
6655- Issues #4728 and #4060: WORDS_BIGEDIAN is now correct in Universal builds.
6656
6657- Issue #4389: Add icon to the uninstall entry in "add-and-remove-programs".
6658
6659- Issue #4289: Remove Cancel button from AdvancedDlg.
6660
6661- Issue #1656675: Register a drop handler for .py* files on Windows.
6662
6663- Issue #4120: Exclude manifest from extension modules in VS2008.
6664
6665- Issue #4091: Install pythonxy.dll in system32 again.
6666
6667- Issue #4018: Disable "for me" installations on Vista.
6668
6669- Issue #3758: Add ``patchcheck`` build target to .PHONY.
6670
6671- Issue #4204: Fixed module build errors on FreeBSD 4.
6672
6673
6674C-API
6675-----
6676
Sean Reifscheider642d96a2009-08-01 23:55:06 +00006677- Issue #6624: yArg_ParseTuple with "s" format when parsing argument with
6678 NUL: Bogus TypeError detail string.
6679
Mark Dickinson21776072009-02-10 16:13:25 +00006680- Issue #5175: PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLong now raises OverflowError
6681 for negative arguments. Previously, it raised TypeError.
6682
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00006683- Issue #4720: The format for PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords can begin with '|'.
6684
6685- Issue #3632: from the gdb debugger, the 'pyo' macro can now be called when
6686 the GIL is released, or owned by another thread.
6687
6688- Issue #4122: On Windows, fix a compilation error when using the
6689 Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE macro in an extension module.
6690
6691
Mark Dickinsone675f082008-12-11 21:56:00 +00006692Extension Modules
6693-----------------
6694
Gregory P. Smith365a1862009-02-12 07:35:29 +00006695- Issue #3745: Fix hashlib to always reject unicode and non buffer-api
6696 supporting objects as input no matter how it was compiled (built in
6697 implementations or external openssl library).
6698
Mark Dickinson29500f62009-01-15 15:36:10 +00006699- Issue #4397: Fix occasional test_socket failure on OS X.
6700
Martin v. Löwisa9b54c72009-01-11 09:30:50 +00006701- Issue #4279: Fix build of parsermodule under Cygwin.
6702
Antoine Pitroubcd5cbe2009-01-08 21:17:16 +00006703- Issue #4751: hashlib now releases the GIL when hashing large buffers
6704 (with a hardwired threshold of 2048 bytes), allowing better parallelization
6705 on multi-CPU systems. Contributed by Lukas Lueg (ebfe) and Victor Stinner.
6706
Martin v. Löwis5c88d812009-01-02 20:47:48 +00006707- Issue #4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle.
6708
Antoine Pitrou31f30b12009-01-02 17:34:35 +00006709- Issue #4738: Each zlib object now has a separate lock, allowing to compress
6710 or decompress several streams at once on multi-CPU systems. Also, the GIL
6711 is now released when computing the CRC of a large buffer. Patch by ebfe.
6712
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00006713- Issue #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format.
6714
Martin v. Löwis05bfe1f2008-12-29 18:21:47 +00006715- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
6716
Mark Dickinsone675f082008-12-11 21:56:00 +00006717- Issues #3167, #3682: Fix test_math failures for log, log10 on Solaris,
6718 OpenBSD.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcefae8c42008-11-21 23:08:09 +00006719
Antoine Pitrou3ad3a0d2008-12-18 17:08:32 +00006720- Issue #4583: array.array would not always prohibit resizing when a buffer
6721 has been exported, resulting in an interpreter crash when accessing the
6722 buffer.
6723
Martin v. Löwis841edad2008-11-30 10:36:49 +00006724
Jack Diederiche0cbd692009-04-01 04:27:09 +00006725- Issue #5228: Make functools.partial objects can now be pickled.
6726
Guilherme Polo9de29af2009-01-28 20:40:48 +00006727Tests
6728-----
6729
Antoine Pitrou88909542009-06-29 13:54:42 +00006730- Issue #6152: New option '-j'/'--multiprocess' for regrtest allows running
6731 regression tests in parallel, shortening the total runtime.
6732
Guilherme Polo2a998fa2009-06-21 17:40:07 +00006733- Issue #5450: Moved tests involving loading tk from Lib/test/test_tcl to
6734 Lib/tkinter/test/test_tkinter/test_loadtk. With this, these tests demonstrate
6735 the same behaviour as test_ttkguionly (and now also test_tk) which is to
6736 skip the tests if DISPLAY is defined but can't be used.
6737
R. David Murraya21e4ca2009-03-31 23:16:50 +00006738- regrtest no longer treats ImportError as equivalent to SkipTest. Imports
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00006739 that should cause a test to be skipped are now done using import_module
R. David Murraya21e4ca2009-03-31 23:16:50 +00006740 from test support, which does the conversion.
6741
Guilherme Polo9de29af2009-01-28 20:40:48 +00006742- Issue #5083: New 'gui' resource for regrtest.
6743
6744
Brett Cannon7317c1e2008-11-25 19:19:17 +00006745Docs
6746----
6747
Georg Brandl52b92cc2008-05-25 09:43:03 +00006748
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00006749**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**