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Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00003+++++++++++
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Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +00007What's New in Python 3.2 Alpha 1?
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10*Release date: XX-XXX-XXX*
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12Core and Builtins
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Victor Stinner9ca9c252010-05-19 16:53:30 +000015- Issue #8589: Decode PYTHONWARNINGS environment variable with the file system
16 encoding and surrogateespace error handler instead of the locale encoding to
17 be consistent with os.environ. Add PySys_AddWarnOptionUnicode() function.
18
Victor Stinner372ac5e2010-05-17 01:26:01 +000019- PyObject_Dump() encodes unicode objects to utf8 with backslashreplace
20 (instead of strict) error handler to escape surrogates
21
Victor Stinnerae6265f2010-05-15 16:27:27 +000022- Issue #8715: Create PyUnicode_EncodeFSDefault() function: Encode a Unicode
23 object to Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding with the "surrogateescape" error
Benjamin Peterson0c3d21d2010-05-15 17:43:57 +000024 handler, and return bytes. If Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding is not set, fall
25 back to UTF-8.
Victor Stinnerae6265f2010-05-15 16:27:27 +000026
Victor Stinner59e62db2010-05-15 13:14:32 +000027- Enable shortcuts for common encodings in PyUnicode_AsEncodedString() for any
28 error handler, not only the default error handler (strict)
29
Victor Stinnerb744ba12010-05-15 12:27:16 +000030- Issue #8610: Load file system codec at startup, and display a fatal error on
31 failure. Set the file system encoding to utf-8 (instead of None) if getting
32 the locale encoding failed, or if nl_langinfo(CODESET) function is missing.
33
Victor Stinner0964ee12010-04-30 16:48:45 +000034- PyFile_FromFd() uses PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefault() instead of
35 PyUnicode_FromString() to support surrogates in the filename and use the
36 right encoding
37
Victor Stinnerb9a20ad2010-04-30 16:37:52 +000038- PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefaultAndSize() uses surrogateescape error handler
39
Benjamin Petersonfb886362010-04-24 18:21:17 +000040- Issue #8419: Prevent the dict constructor from accepting non-string keyword
41 arguments.
42
Victor Stinner14284c22010-04-23 12:02:30 +000043- Issue #8124: PySys_WriteStdout() and PySys_WriteStderr() don't execute
44 indirectly Python signal handlers anymore because mywrite() ignores
45 exceptions (KeyboardInterrupt)
46
Victor Stinner31be90b2010-04-22 19:38:16 +000047- Issue #8092: Fix PyUnicode_EncodeUTF8() to support error handler producing
48 unicode string (eg. backslashreplace)
49
Victor Stinnerdcb24032010-04-22 12:08:36 +000050- Issue #8485: PyUnicode_FSConverter() doesn't accept bytearray object anymore,
51 you have to convert your bytearray filenames to bytes
52
Antoine Pitrou5bc7ec92010-04-21 22:56:22 +000053- Issue #7332: Remove the 16KB stack-based buffer in
54 PyMarshal_ReadLastObjectFromFile, which doesn't bring any noticeable
55 benefit compared to the dynamic memory allocation fallback. Patch by
56 Charles-François Natali.
57
Benjamin Peterson8380dd52010-04-16 22:51:37 +000058- Issue #8417: Raise an OverflowError when an integer larger than sys.maxsize is
59 passed to bytes or bytearray.
60
Philip Jenvey0805ca32010-04-07 04:04:10 +000061- Issue #7301: Add environment variable $PYTHONWARNINGS.
62
Benjamin Petersond856ab62010-04-06 21:55:16 +000063- Issue #8329: Don't return the same lists from select.select when no fds are
64 changed.
65
Mark Dickinson3318d292010-04-06 16:53:17 +000066- Issue #8259: 1L << (2**31) no longer produces an 'outrageous shift error'
67 on 64-bit machines. The shift count for either left or right shift is
68 permitted to be up to sys.maxsize.
69
Benjamin Peterson8daa49e2010-04-03 22:55:48 +000070- Ensure that tokenization of identifiers is not affected by locale.
71
Tarek Ziadé03d788d2010-04-03 08:46:49 +000072- Issue #1222585: Added LDCXXSHARED for C++ support. Patch by Arfrever.
73
Benjamin Peterson80d8fd82010-04-03 01:40:24 +000074- Raise a TypeError when trying to delete a T_STRING_INPLACE struct member.
75
Marc-André Lemburg177ab082010-05-05 13:32:59 +000076- Issue #8211: Save/restore CFLAGS around AC_PROG_CC in configure.in, in
77 case it is set.
Victor Stinner00d6a1d2010-03-25 01:02:29 +000078
Victor Stinner120c2122010-03-25 00:30:28 +000079- Issue #8226: sys.setfilesystemencoding() raises a LookupError if the encoding
80 is unknown
81
Victor Stinner808fc0a2010-03-22 12:50:40 +000082- Issue #1583863: An str subclass can now override the __str__ method
83
Mark Dickinsond59b4162010-03-13 11:34:40 +000084- Issue #8014: Setting a T_UINT or T_PYSSIZET attribute of an object with
85 PyMemberDefs could produce an internal error; raise TypeError instead.
86
Mark Dickinsonf673f0c2010-03-13 09:48:39 +000087- Issue #7845: Rich comparison methods on the complex type now return
88 NotImplemented rather than raising a TypeError when comparing with an
89 incompatible type; this allows user-defined classes to implement their own
90 comparisons with complex.
91
Victor Stinner52f6dd72010-03-12 14:45:56 +000092- Issue #3137: Don't ignore errors at startup, especially a keyboard interrupt
93 (SIGINT). If an error occurs while importing the site module, the error is
94 printed and Python exits. Initialize the GIL before importing the site
95 module.
96
Benjamin Petersonae5f2f42010-03-07 17:10:51 +000097- Issue #7173: Generator finalization could invalidate sys.exc_info().
98
Victor Stinner45b9be52010-03-03 23:28:07 +000099- Issue #7544: Preallocate thread memory before creating the thread to avoid
100 a fatal error in low memory condition.
101
Victor Stinner6aa278e2010-03-03 00:18:49 +0000102- Issue #7820: The parser tokenizer restores all bytes in the right if
103 the BOM check fails.
104
Benjamin Peterson23e018a2010-02-27 17:40:01 +0000105- Handle errors from looking up __prepare__ correctly.
106
Larry Hastings1373a072010-02-24 22:49:58 +0000107- Issue #5939: Add additional runtime checking to ensure a valid capsule
108 in Modules/_ctypes/callproc.c.
109
Eric Smith0facd772010-02-24 15:42:29 +0000110- Issue #7309: Fix unchecked attribute access when converting
111 UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError, and UnicodeTranslateError to
112 strings.
113
Eric Smithabb28c62010-02-23 00:22:24 +0000114- Issue #6902: Fix problem with built-in types format incorrectly with
115 0 padding.
116
Eric Smith4e260c52010-02-22 18:54:44 +0000117- Issue #7988: Fix default alignment to be right aligned for
118 complex.__format__. Now it matches other numeric types.
119
Eric Smith68af50b2010-02-22 14:58:30 +0000120- Issue #5988: Remove deprecated functions PyOS_ascii_formatd,
121 PyOS_ascii_strtod, and PyOS_ascii_atof. Use PyOS_double_to_string
122 and PyOS_string_to_double instead. See issue #5835 for the original
123 deprecations.
124
Antoine Pitrou05b7c562010-02-02 22:47:00 +0000125- Issue #7385: Fix a crash in `MemoryView_FromObject` when
126 `PyObject_GetBuffer` fails. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
127
Mark Dickinsonbc099642010-01-29 17:27:24 +0000128- Issue #7788: Fix an interpreter crash produced by deleting a list
129 slice with very large step value.
130
Eric Smithf7bb5782010-01-27 00:44:57 +0000131- Issue #7766: Change sys.getwindowsversion() return value to a named
132 tuple and add the additional members returned in an OSVERSIONINFOEX
133 structure. The new members are service_pack_major, service_pack_minor,
134 suite_mask, and product_type.
135
Antoine Pitroufc8d6f42010-01-17 12:38:54 +0000136- Issue #7561: Operations on empty bytearrays (such as `int(bytearray())`)
137 could crash in many places because of the PyByteArray_AS_STRING() macro
138 returning NULL. The macro now returns a statically allocated empty
139 string instead.
140
Antoine Pitroub7fbcd32010-01-16 18:37:38 +0000141- Issue #6690: Optimize the bytecode for expressions such as `x in {1, 2, 3}`,
142 where the right hand operand is a set of constants, by turning the set into
143 a frozenset and pre-building it as a constant. The comparison operation
144 is made against the constant instead of building a new set each time it is
145 executed (a similar optimization already existed which turned a list of
146 constants into a pre-built tuple). Patch and additional tests by Dave
147 Malcolm.
148
Antoine Pitrouf2c54842010-01-13 08:07:53 +0000149- Issue #7622: Improve the split(), rsplit(), splitlines() and replace()
150 methods of bytes, bytearray and unicode objects by using a common
151 implementation based on stringlib's fast search. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
152
Mark Dickinson45b63652010-01-16 18:10:25 +0000153- Issue #7632: Fix various str -> float conversion bugs present in 2.7
154 alpha 2, including: (1) a serious 'wrong output' bug that could
155 occur for long (> 40 digit) input strings, (2) a crash in dtoa.c
156 that occurred in debug builds when parsing certain long numeric
Mark Dickinsonc4f18682010-01-17 14:39:12 +0000157 strings corresponding to subnormal values, (3) a memory leak for
158 some values large enough to cause overflow, and (4) a number of
159 flaws that could lead to incorrectly rounded results.
Mark Dickinson81612e82010-01-12 23:04:19 +0000160
Benjamin Petersonaea44282010-01-04 01:10:28 +0000161- The __complex__ method is now looked up on the class of instances to make it
162 consistent with other special methods.
163
Antoine Pitrouda2ecaf2010-01-02 21:40:36 +0000164- Issue #7462: Implement the stringlib fast search algorithm for the `rfind`,
165 `rindex`, `rsplit` and `rpartition` methods. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
166
Benjamin Petersond12362a2009-12-30 19:44:54 +0000167- Issue #7604: Deleting an unset slotted attribute did not raise an
168 AttributeError.
169
Mark Dickinson9ab44b52009-12-30 16:22:49 +0000170- Issue #7534: Fix handling of IEEE specials (infinities, nans,
171 negative zero) in ** operator. The behaviour now conforms to that
172 described in C99 Annex F.
173
Mark Dickinsoncbb62742009-12-27 15:09:50 +0000174- Issue #1811: improve accuracy and cross-platform consistency for
175 true division of integers: the result of a/b is now correctly
176 rounded for ints a and b (at least on IEEE 754 platforms), and in
177 particular does not depend on the internal representation of an int.
178
Ronald Oussoren6f6c5622009-12-24 14:03:19 +0000179- Issue #6834: replace the implementation for the 'python' and 'pythonw'
180 executables on OSX.
181
182 These executables now work properly with the arch(1) command:
183 ``arch -ppc python`` will start a universal binary version of python
184 in PPC mode (unlike previous releases).
185
Antoine Pitrou6b7dfc92009-12-12 19:18:27 +0000186- Issue #7466: segmentation fault when the garbage collector is called
187 in the middle of populating a tuple. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
188
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc64f3ca42009-12-01 21:59:18 +0000189- Issue #7419: setlocale() could crash the interpreter on Windows when called
190 with invalid values.
191
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7d0bddd2009-11-30 00:08:56 +0000192- Issue #6077: On Windows, files opened with tempfile.TemporaryFile in "wt+"
193 mode would appear truncated on the first '0x1a' byte (aka. Ctrl+Z).
194
Ronald Oussoren3c1928a2009-11-19 17:15:31 +0000195- Issue #7085: Fix crash when importing some extensions in a thread
196 on MacOSX 10.6.
197
Philip Jenvey1309adb2009-11-17 03:43:14 +0000198- Issue #1757126: Fix the cyrillic-asian alias for the ptcp154 encoding.
199
Mark Dickinson6f1d0492009-11-15 13:58:49 +0000200- Issue #6970: Remove redundant calls when comparing objects that don't
201 implement the relevant rich comparison methods.
202
Mark Dickinsond550c9a2009-11-15 09:57:26 +0000203- Issue #7298: fixes for range and reversed(range(...)). Iteration
204 over range(a, b, c) incorrectly gave an empty iterator when a, b and
205 c fit in C long but the length of the range did not. Also fix
206 several cases where reversed(range(a, b, c)) gave wrong results, and
207 fix a refleak for reversed(range(a, b, c)) with large arguments.
208
Raymond Hettingerfc438512009-11-01 20:55:33 +0000209- Issue #7244: itertools.izip_longest() no longer ignores exceptions
210 raised during the formation of an output tuple.
211
Benjamin Petersonb2e796a2009-10-28 21:59:39 +0000212- Issue #3297: On wide unicode builds, do not split unicode characters into
213 surrogates.
214
Mark Dickinsonf9724882009-10-26 21:51:18 +0000215- Remove length limitation when constructing a complex number from a string.
216
Mark Dickinson27a87a22009-10-25 20:43:34 +0000217- Issue #1087418: Boost performance of bitwise operations for longs.
218
Antoine Pitroub6ef9632009-10-24 20:47:05 +0000219- Support for AtheOS has been completely removed from the code base. It was
220 disabled since Python 3.0.
221
222- Support for several legacy threading libraries has been disabled. These
223 libraries are: Mach C threads, SunOS LWP, GNU pth, Irix threads. Support code
224 will be entirely removed in 3.3.
225
Jesus Cea6a792292010-05-03 21:18:48 +0000226- Support for OSF* has been disabled. If nobody stands up, support will be
227 removed in 3.3. See http://bugs.python.org/issue8606 .
228
Raymond Hettingeraf7adad2009-10-22 11:22:50 +0000229- Peephole constant folding had missed UNARY_POSITIVE.
230
Antoine Pitrou011bd622009-10-20 21:52:47 +0000231- Issue #1722344: threading._shutdown() is now called in Py_Finalize(), which
232 fixes the problem of some exceptions being thrown at shutdown when the
233 interpreter is killed. Patch by Adam Olsen.
234
Antoine Pitrou671141d2009-10-19 19:37:25 +0000235- Issue #7147: Remove support for compiling Python without complex number
Skip Montanaroba1e0f42009-10-18 14:25:35 +0000236 support.
237
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +0000238- Issue #7120: logging: Removed import of multiprocessing which is causing
239 crash in GAE.
240
Neil Schemenauere441cb72009-10-14 19:14:38 +0000241- Issue #1754094: Improve the stack depth calculation in the compiler.
242 There should be no other effect than a small decrease in memory use.
243 Patch by Christopher Tur Lesniewski-Laas.
244
Antoine Pitrou403ce782009-10-14 17:14:16 +0000245- Issue #7065: Fix a crash in bytes.maketrans and bytearray.maketrans when
Antoine Pitrou671141d2009-10-19 19:37:25 +0000246 using byte values greater than 127. Patch by Derk Drukker.
Antoine Pitrou403ce782009-10-14 17:14:16 +0000247
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7d520792009-10-06 21:03:20 +0000248- Issue #1571184: The Unicode database contains properties for more characters.
249 The tables for code points representing numeric values, white spaces or line
250 breaks are now generated from the official Unicode Character Database files,
251 and include information from the Unihan.txt file.
252
Mark Dickinson2683ab02009-09-29 19:21:35 +0000253- Issue #7019: Raise ValueError when unmarshalling bad long data, instead
254 of producing internally inconsistent Python longs.
255
Philip Jenvey26713ca2009-09-29 04:57:18 +0000256- Issue #6990: Fix threading.local subclasses leaving old state around
257 after a reference cycle GC which could be recycled by new locals.
258
Benjamin Peterson4905e802009-09-27 02:43:28 +0000259- Issue #5460: Fix an ambiguity in the grammar.
260
Mark Dickinson3e124ae2009-09-22 21:47:24 +0000261- Issue #1766304: Improve performance of membership tests on range objects.
262
Mark Dickinson0a1efd02009-09-16 21:23:34 +0000263- Issue #6713: Improve performance of integer -> string conversions.
264
Mark Dickinson54a3db92009-09-06 10:19:23 +0000265- Issue #6846: Fix bug where bytearray.pop() returns negative integers.
266
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcccd686a2009-08-29 23:00:38 +0000267- Issue #6750: A text file opened with io.open() could duplicate its output
268 when writing from multiple threads at the same time.
269
Benjamin Peterson14327712009-08-15 13:23:05 +0000270- Issue #6707: dir() on an uninitialized module caused a crash.
271
Georg Brandl953152f2009-07-22 12:03:59 +0000272- Issue #6540: Fixed crash for bytearray.translate() with invalid parameters.
273
Raymond Hettingere805ecc2009-07-27 20:16:37 +0000274- Issue #6573: set.union() stopped processing inputs if an instance of self
275 occurred in the argument chain.
276
R. David Murray046f7232009-07-19 02:22:05 +0000277- Issue #6070: On posix platforms import no longer copies the execute bit
278 from the .py file to the .pyc file if it is set.
279
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc8b84ea02009-07-13 20:38:21 +0000280- Issue #1616979: Added the cp720 (Arabic DOS) encoding.
281
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc097cd072009-07-07 00:43:08 +0000282- Issue #6428: Since Python 3.0, the __bool__ method must return a bool
283 object, and not an int. Fix the corresponding error message, and the
284 documentation.
285
Benjamin Petersonf1664ae2009-07-01 01:28:55 +0000286- The deprecated PyCObject has been removed.
287
Mark Dickinson835a6c82009-06-30 15:45:17 +0000288- Issue #6347: Include inttypes.h as well as stdint.h in pyport.h.
289 This fixes a build failure on HP-UX: int32_t and uint32_t are
290 defined in inttypes.h instead of stdint.h on that platform.
291
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca4aba662009-07-01 00:48:39 +0000292- Issue #6373: Fixed a SystemError when encoding with the latin-1 codec and
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc84ec8d92009-06-29 22:36:49 +0000293 the 'surrogateescape' error handler, a string which contains unpaired
294 surrogates.
295
Hirokazu Yamamoto892a37a2009-06-28 11:07:03 +0000296- Issue #4856: Remove checks for win NT.
297
Alexandre Vassalottieb6f8de2009-12-31 03:56:09 +0000298- Issue #6687: PyBytes_FromObject() no longer accepts an integer as its
299 argument to construct a null-initialized bytes object.
300
Alexandre Vassalottic36c3782010-01-09 20:35:09 +0000301- Issue #1023290: Add from_bytes() and to_bytes() methods to integers.
302 These methods allow the conversion of integers to bytes, and vice-versa.
303
Alexandre Vassalotti41f58a72010-01-12 01:23:09 +0000304- Issue #7382: Fix bug in bytes.__getnewargs__ that prevented bytes
305 instances from being copied with copy.copy(), and bytes subclasses
306 from being pickled properly.
307
Collin Winter4222e9c2010-03-18 22:46:40 +0000308- Code objects now support weak references.
309
Ronald Oussoren501aeff2010-04-18 15:02:38 +0000310- Issue #7072: isspace(0xa0) is true on Mac OS X
311
Ronald Oussoren4cda46a2010-05-08 10:49:43 +0000312- Issue #8084: PEP 370 now conforms to system conventions for framework
313 builds on MacOS X. That is, "python setup.py install --user" will install
314 into "~/Library/Python/2.7" instead of "~/.local".
Ronald Oussoren501aeff2010-04-18 15:02:38 +0000315
Benjamin Peterson466a7822009-07-02 21:44:01 +0000316C-API
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318
Benjamin Petersonfb886362010-04-24 18:21:17 +0000319- Add PyArg_ValidateKeywordArguments, which checks if all keyword arguments are
320 strings in an efficient manner.
321
Antoine Pitrou8689a102010-04-01 16:53:15 +0000322- Issue #8276: PyEval_CallObject() is now only available in macro form. The
323 function declaration, which was kept for backwards compatibility reasons,
324 is now removed (the macro was introduced in 1997!).
325
Mark Dickinson93f562c2010-01-30 10:30:15 +0000326- Issue #7767: New function PyLong_AsLongLongAndOverflow added,
327 analogous to PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow.
328
Benjamin Peterson8667a9b2010-01-09 21:45:28 +0000329- Make PyUnicode_CompareWithASCIIString return not equal if the Python string
330 has '\0' at the end.
331
Mark Dickinsonde604012010-01-01 19:27:32 +0000332- Issue #5080: The argument parsing functions PyArg_ParseTuple,
333 PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords, PyArg_VaParse,
334 PyArg_VaParseTupleAndKeywords and PyArg_Parse now raise a
335 DeprecationWarning for float arguments passed with the 'L' format
336 code. This will become a TypeError in a future version of Python,
337 to match the behaviour of the other integer format codes.
338
Georg Brandl1e28a272009-12-28 08:41:01 +0000339- Issue #7033: function ``PyErr_NewExceptionWithDoc()`` added.
340
Mark Dickinsonf08173b2009-12-03 10:59:46 +0000341- Issue #7414: 'C' code wasn't being skipped properly (for keyword arguments)
342 in PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords.
343
Mark Dickinson0b2b2322009-12-04 11:32:26 +0000344- Issue #7228: Add '%lld' and '%llu' support to PyString_FromFormat(V)
Mark Dickinson6ce4a9a2009-11-16 17:00:11 +0000345 and PyErr_Format, on machines with HAVE_LONG_LONG defined.
346
Alexandre Vassalotti2db046d2009-07-22 03:56:36 +0000347- Issue #6151: Made PyDescr_COMMON conform to standard C (like PyObject_HEAD
348 in PEP 3123). The PyDescr_TYPE and PyDescr_NAME macros should be
349 should used for accessing the d_type and d_name members of structures
350 using PyDescr_COMMON.
351
352- Issue #6405: Remove duplicate type declarations in descrobject.h.
Benjamin Peterson89b89172009-07-03 13:30:25 +0000353
Benjamin Peterson466a7822009-07-02 21:44:01 +0000354- The code flags for old __future__ features are now available again.
355
Alexandre Vassalotti7b82b402009-07-21 04:30:03 +0000356- Issue #5954: Add a PyFrame_GetLineNumber() function to replace most uses of
357 PyCode_Addr2Line().
358
359- Issue #5959: Add a PyCode_NewEmpty() function to create a new empty code
360 object at a specified file, function, and line number.
361
362- Issue #1419652: Change the first argument to PyImport_AppendInittab() to
363 ``const char *`` as the string is stored beyond the call.
364
Benjamin Peterson05159c42009-12-03 03:01:27 +0000365- Issue #2422: When compiled with the ``--with-valgrind`` option, the
366 pymalloc allocator will be automatically disabled when running under
367 Valgrind. This gives improved memory leak detection when running
368 under Valgrind, while taking advantage of pymalloc at other times.
369
Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +0000370Library
371-------
372
Victor Stinnerb745a742010-05-18 17:17:23 +0000373- Issue #8513: os.get_exec_path() supports b'PATH' key and bytes value.
374 subprocess.Popen() and os._execvpe() support bytes program name. Add
375 os.supports_bytes_environ flag: True if the native OS type of the environment
376 is bytes (eg. False on Windows).
377
Lars Gustäbel1465cc22010-05-17 18:02:50 +0000378- Issue #8633: tarfile is now able to read and write archives with "raw" binary
379 pax headers as described in POSIX.1-2008.
380
Florent Xiclunac7b8e862010-05-17 17:33:07 +0000381- Issue #1285086: Speed up urllib.parse functions: quote, quote_from_bytes,
382 unquote, unquote_to_bytes.
383
Tarek Ziadéc16a85c2010-05-17 10:38:53 +0000384- Issue #8688: Distutils now recalculates MANIFEST everytime.
385
Victor Stinnerf9faaad2010-05-16 21:36:37 +0000386- Issue #8477: ssl.RAND_egd() and ssl._test_decode_cert() support str with
387 surrogates and bytes for the filename
Victor Stinner3800e1e2010-05-16 21:23:48 +0000388
Antoine Pitrou152efa22010-05-16 18:19:27 +0000389- Issue #8550: Add first class ``SSLContext`` objects to the ssl module.
390
Antoine Pitrou53b21662010-05-11 23:46:02 +0000391- Issue #8681: Make the zlib module's error messages more informative when
392 the zlib itself doesn't give any detailed explanation.
393
Mark Dickinson81fece22010-05-11 13:34:35 +0000394- The audioop module now supports sound fragments of length greater
395 than 2**31 bytes on 64-bit machines, and is PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN.
396
Giampaolo Rodolàbd576b72010-05-10 14:53:29 +0000397- Issue #4972: Add support for the context manager protocol to the ftplib.FTP
398 class.
399
Benjamin Petersone87c0fc2010-05-08 19:52:49 +0000400- Issue #8664: In py_compile, create __pycache__ when the compiled path is
401 given.
402
Victor Stinner449c4662010-05-08 11:10:09 +0000403- Issue #8514: Add os.fsencode() function (Unix only): encode a string to bytes
404 for use in the file system, environment variables or the command line.
405
Antoine Pitrou89562712010-05-07 17:04:02 +0000406- Issue #8571: Fix an internal error when compressing or decompressing a
407 chunk larger than 1GB with the zlib module's compressor and decompressor
408 objects.
409
Benjamin Peterson225168e2010-05-06 22:29:53 +0000410- Issue #8603: Support bytes environmental variables on Unix: Add os.environb
411 mapping and os.getenvb() function. os.unsetenv() encodes str argument to the
412 file system encoding with the surrogateescape error handler (instead of
413 utf8/strict) and accepts bytes. posix.environ keys and values are now bytes.
Victor Stinner84ae1182010-05-06 22:05:07 +0000414
Giampaolo Rodolà8d2dc852010-05-06 18:06:30 +0000415- Issue #8573: asyncore _strerror() function might throw ValueError.
416
Victor Stinnere125f132010-05-15 21:04:43 +0000417- Issue #8483: asyncore.dispatcher's __getattr__ method produced confusing
418 error messages when accessing undefined class attributes because of the cheap
419 inheritance with the underlying socket object.
Giampaolo Rodolà8d2dc852010-05-06 18:06:30 +0000420 The cheap inheritance has been deprecated.
421
Tarek Ziadéae4d5c62010-05-05 22:27:31 +0000422- Issue #4265: shutil.copyfile() was leaking file descriptors when disk fills.
423 Patch by Tres Seaver.
424
Victor Stinnerde629d42010-05-05 21:43:57 +0000425- Issue #8390: tarfile uses surrogateespace as the default error handler
426 (instead of replace in read mode or strict in write mode)
427
Barry Warsaw83d89982010-05-05 16:18:31 +0000428- Issue #7755: Use an unencumbered audio file for tests.
429
Ronald Oussorenac764d32010-05-05 15:32:33 +0000430- Issue #8621: uuid.uuid4() returned the same sequence of values in the
431 parent and any children created using ``os.fork`` on MacOS X 10.6.
432
Mark Dickinsonc69160e2010-05-04 14:35:33 +0000433- Issue #8567: Fix precedence of signals in Decimal module: when a
434 Decimal operation raises multiple signals and more than one of those
435 signals is trapped, the specification determines the order in which
436 the signals should be handled. In many cases this order wasn't
437 being followed, leading to the wrong Python exception being raised.
438
Antoine Pitrou6be88762010-05-03 16:48:20 +0000439- Issue #7865: The close() method of :mod:`io` objects should not swallow
440 exceptions raised by the implicit flush(). Also ensure that calling
441 close() several times is supported. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
442
Antoine Pitrou6e20a1b2010-05-02 19:59:47 +0000443- Issue #4687: Fix accuracy of garbage collection runtimes displayed with
444 gc.DEBUG_STATS.
445
Jean-Paul Calderone6f137ca2010-05-09 03:18:57 +0000446- Issue #8354: The siginterrupt setting is now preserved for all signals,
447 not just SIGCHLD.
448
Ronald Oussoren4d39f6e2010-05-02 09:54:35 +0000449- Issue #7192: webbrowser.get("firefox") now wors on Mac OS X, as does
450 webbrowser.get("safari").
451
Lars Gustäbeld6eb70b2010-04-29 15:37:02 +0000452- Issue #8464: tarfile no longer creates files with execute permissions set
453 when mode="w|" is used.
454
Antoine Pitroubf043492010-04-29 10:11:46 +0000455- Issue #7834: Fix connect() of Bluetooth L2CAP sockets with recent versions
456 of the Linux kernel. Patch by Yaniv Aknin.
457
Tarek Ziadé6ac91722010-04-28 17:51:36 +0000458- Issue #8295: Added shutil.unpack_archive.
459
Senthil Kumaran71fb6c82010-04-28 17:39:48 +0000460- Issue #6312: Fixed http HEAD request when the transfer encoding is chunked.
461 It should correctly return an empty response now.
462
Benjamin Peterson95e392c2010-04-27 21:07:21 +0000463- Issue #8546: Reject None given as the buffering argument to _pyio.open.
464
Antoine Pitrou06e34a92010-04-27 19:14:15 +0000465- Issue #8549: Fix compiling the _ssl extension under AIX. Patch by
466 Sridhar Ratnakumar.
467
R. David Murrayad78d152010-04-27 02:45:53 +0000468- Issue #6656: fix locale.format_string to handle escaped percents
469 and mappings.
470
Antoine Pitrou3bcba8e2010-04-25 22:01:43 +0000471- Issue #2302: Fix a race condition in SocketServer.BaseServer.shutdown,
472 where the method could block indefinitely if called just before the
473 event loop started running. This also fixes the occasional freezes
474 witnessed in test_httpservers.
475
Antoine Pitrou40f08742010-04-24 22:04:40 +0000476- Issue #8524: When creating an SSL socket, the timeout value of the
477 original socket wasn't retained (instead, a socket with a positive timeout
478 would be turned into a non-blocking SSL socket).
479
Antoine Pitroud3f8ab82010-04-24 21:26:44 +0000480- Issue #5103: SSL handshake would ignore the socket timeout and block
481 indefinitely if the other end didn't respond.
482
483- The do_handshake() method of SSL objects now adjusts the blocking mode of
484 the SSL structure if necessary (as other methods already do).
485
Victor Stinner13bb71c2010-04-23 21:41:56 +0000486- Issue #8391: os.execvpe() and os.getenv() supports unicode with surrogates
487 and bytes strings for environment keys and values
488
Victor Stinner4d078042010-04-23 19:28:32 +0000489- Issue #8467: Pure Python implementation of subprocess encodes the error
490 message using surrogatepass error handler to support surrogates in the
491 message
492
Victor Stinner349fd522010-04-23 10:56:17 +0000493- Issue #8468: bz2.BZ2File() accepts str with surrogates and bytes filenames
494
Sean Reifscheider13daf122010-04-23 09:29:52 +0000495- Issue #8451: Syslog module now uses basename(sys.argv[0]) instead of
496 the string "python" as the *ident*. openlog() arguments are all optional
497 and keywords.
498
Antoine Pitrou2c4f98b2010-04-23 00:16:21 +0000499- Issue #8108: Fix the unwrap() method of SSL objects when the socket has
500 a non-infinite timeout. Also make that method friendlier with applications
501 wanting to continue using the socket in clear-text mode, by disabling
502 OpenSSL's internal readahead. Thanks to Darryl Miles for guidance.
503
Antoine Pitrou7062db82010-04-22 13:30:10 +0000504- Issue #8496: make mailcap.lookup() always return a list, rather than an
505 iterator. Patch by Gregory Nofi.
506
Victor Stinner35466c52010-04-22 11:23:23 +0000507- Issue #8195: Fix a crash in sqlite Connection.create_collation() if the
508 collation name contains a surrogate character.
509
Antoine Pitroufec12ff2010-04-21 19:46:23 +0000510- Issue #8484: Load all ciphers and digest algorithms when initializing
511 the _ssl extension, such that verification of some SSL certificates
512 doesn't fail because of an "unknown algorithm".
513
Tarek Ziadéfb437512010-04-20 08:57:33 +0000514- Issue #6547: Added the ignore_dangling_symlinks option to shutil.copytree.
515
Victor Stinnere125f132010-05-15 21:04:43 +0000516- Issue #1540112: Now allowing the choice of a copy function in
Tarek Ziadé5340db32010-04-19 22:30:51 +0000517 shutil.copytree.
518
Giampaolo Rodolà5fb313b2010-04-19 22:05:54 +0000519- Issue #4814: timeout parameter is now applied also for connections resulting
520 from PORT/EPRT commands.
521
Tarek Ziadé10a51af2010-04-19 21:31:42 +0000522- Issue #8463: added missing reference to bztar in shutil's documentation.
523
Ronald Oussoren84151202010-04-18 20:46:11 +0000524- Issue #7154: urllib.request can now detect the proxy settings on OSX 10.6
525 (as long as the user didn't specify 'automatic proxy configuration').
526
Giampaolo Rodolàceb513a2010-04-18 13:36:35 +0000527- Issue #3817: ftplib.FTP.abort() method now considers 225 a valid response
528 code as stated in RFC-959 at chapter 5.4.
529
Victor Stinner738446f02010-04-18 00:00:44 +0000530- Issue #8394: _ctypes.dlopen() accepts bytes, bytearray and str with
531 surrogates.
532
Antoine Pitrou0454af92010-04-17 23:51:58 +0000533- Issue #850728: Add a *timeout* parameter to the `acquire()` method of
Antoine Pitroua7ecfe72010-04-17 23:52:21 +0000534 `threading.Semaphore` objects. Original patch by Torsten Landschoff.
Antoine Pitrou0454af92010-04-17 23:51:58 +0000535
Antoine Pitrou2d9cb9c2010-04-17 17:40:45 +0000536- Issue #8322: Add a *ciphers* argument to SSL sockets, so as to change the
537 available cipher list. Helps fix test_ssl with OpenSSL 1.0.0.
538
Victor Stinner0e59cc32010-04-16 23:49:32 +0000539- Issue #8393: subprocess accepts bytes, bytearray and str with surrogates for
540 the current working directory.
541
Victor Stinner5bfe1462010-04-16 13:28:05 +0000542- Issue #7606: XML-RPC traceback stored in X-traceback is now encoded to ASCII
543 using backslashreplace error handler
544
Victor Stinnercfa72782010-04-16 11:45:13 +0000545- Issue #8412: os.system() now accepts bytes, bytearray and str with
546 surrogates.
547
Senthil Kumaranad02d232010-04-16 03:02:13 +0000548- Issue #2987: RFC2732 support for urlparse (IPv6 addresses). Patch by Tony
549 Locke and Hans Ulrich Niedermann.
550
R. David Murrayd48739f2010-04-14 18:59:18 +0000551- Issue #5277: Fix quote counting when parsing RFC 2231 encoded parameters.
552
Antoine Pitrou7c3e5772010-04-14 15:44:10 +0000553- Issue #7316: the acquire() method of lock objects in the :mod:`threading`
554 module now takes an optional timeout argument in seconds. Timeout support
555 relies on the system threading library, so as to avoid a semi-busy wait
556 loop.
557
Victor Stinner485fb562010-04-13 11:07:24 +0000558- Issue #8383: pickle and pickletools use surrogatepass error handler when
559 encoding unicode as utf8 to support lone surrogates and stay compatible with
560 Python 2.x and 3.0
561
R. David Murrayb2416e52010-04-12 16:58:02 +0000562- Issue #7585: difflib context and unified diffs now place a tab between
563 filename and date, conforming to the 'standards' they were originally
564 designed to follow. This improves compatibility with patch tools.
565
R. David Murrayef3d6bd2010-04-12 14:48:58 +0000566- Issue #7472: Fixed typo in email.encoders module; messages using ISO-2022
567 character sets will now consistently use a Content-Transfer-Encoding of
568 7bit rather than sometimes being marked as 8bit.
569
Tarek Ziadé46cd93a2010-04-12 08:23:49 +0000570- Issue #8375: test_distutils now checks if the temporary directory are still
571 present before it cleans them.
572
Antoine Pitrou0c70d2d2010-04-11 22:35:34 +0000573- Issue #8374: Update the internal alias table in the :mod:`locale` module
574 to cover recent locale changes and additions.
575
Antoine Pitrou04f6a322010-04-05 21:40:07 +0000576- Issue #8321: Give access to OpenSSL version numbers from the `ssl` module,
577 using the new attributes `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION`, `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_INFO`
578 and `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER`.
579
Raymond Hettingerc50846a2010-04-05 18:56:31 +0000580- Add functools.total_ordering() and functools.cmp_to_key().
581
Mark Dickinson089b00c2010-04-03 15:51:03 +0000582- Issue #8257: The Decimal construct now accepts a float instance
583 directly, converting that float to a Decimal of equal value:
584
585 >>> Decimal(1.1)
586 Decimal('1.100000000000000088817841970012523233890533447265625')
587
Mark Dickinson98127c32010-04-03 11:18:52 +0000588- Issue #8294: The Fraction constructor now accepts Decimal and float
589 instances directly.
590
Mark Dickinsonac256ab2010-04-03 11:08:14 +0000591- Issue #7279: Comparisons involving a Decimal signaling NaN now
592 signal InvalidOperation instead of returning False. (Comparisons
593 involving a quiet NaN are unchanged.) Also, Decimal quiet NaNs
594 are now hashable; Decimal signaling NaNs remain unhashable.
595
596- Issue #2531: Comparison operations between floats and Decimal
597 instances now return a result based on the numeric values of the
598 operands; previously they returned an arbitrary result based on
599 the relative ordering of id(float) and id(Decimal).
600
Raymond Hettinger9c01e442010-04-03 10:32:58 +0000601- Added a subtract() method to collections.Counter().
602
Barry Warsawd5f9bf52010-03-31 21:36:22 +0000603- Issue #8233: When run as a script, py_compile.py optionally takes a single
604 argument `-` which tells it to read files to compile from stdin. Each line
605 is read on demand and the named file is compiled immediately. (Original
606 patch by Piotr Ożarowski).
607
Florent Xicluna806d8cf2010-03-30 19:34:18 +0000608- Backwards incompatible change: Unicode codepoints line tabulation (0x0B) and
609 form feed (0x0C) are now considered linebreaks, as specified in Unicode
610 Standard Annex #14. See issue #7643.
611 http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr14/
612
Mark Dickinsonab4d63b2010-03-27 11:16:00 +0000613- Comparisons using one of <, <=, >, >= between a complex instance and
614 a Fractions instance now raise TypeError instead of returning
615 True/False. This makes Fraction <=> complex comparisons consistent with
616 int <=> complex, float <=> complex, and complex <=> complex comparisons.
617
Antoine Pitrou39b35432010-03-23 00:25:54 +0000618- Issue #8139: ossaudiodev didn't initialize its types properly, therefore
619 some methods (such as oss_mixer_device.fileno()) were not available.
620 Initial patch by Bertrand Janin.
621
Florent Xiclunafd1b0932010-03-28 00:25:02 +0000622- Issue #8205: Remove the "Modules" directory from sys.path when Python is
623 running from the build directory (POSIX only).
624
Antoine Pitrou910bd512010-03-22 20:11:09 +0000625- Issue #7512: shutil.copystat() could raise an OSError when the filesystem
626 didn't support chflags() (for example ZFS under FreeBSD). The error is
627 now silenced.
628
R. David Murrayca2edce2010-03-22 17:48:48 +0000629- Issue #7860: platform.uname now reports the correct 'machine' type
630 when Python is running in WOW64 mode on 64 bit Windows.
631
Antoine Pitrou3c0fac22010-03-26 19:36:14 +0000632- Issue #3890, #8222: Fix recv() and recv_into() on non-blocking SSL sockets.
633 Also, enable the SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY flag on SSL sockets, so that blocking
634 reads and writes are always retried by OpenSSL itself.
Antoine Pitrou5733c082010-03-22 14:49:10 +0000635
Victor Stinnere3a1f6d2010-03-22 01:58:35 +0000636- Issue #4282: Fix the main function of the profile module for a non-ASCII
637 script, open the file in binary mode and not in text mode with the default
638 (utf8) encoding.
639
Florent Xicluna54467e02010-03-21 12:29:50 +0000640- Issue #8179: Fix macpath.realpath() on a non-existing path.
641
Florent Xiclunafaa663f2010-03-19 13:37:08 +0000642- Issue #8024: Update the Unicode database to 5.2.
643
Benjamin Peterson00888932010-03-18 22:37:38 +0000644- Issue #8168: py_compile now handles files with utf-8 BOMS.
645
Benjamin Peterson689a5582010-03-18 22:29:52 +0000646- ``tokenize.detect_encoding`` now returns ``'utf-8-sig'`` when a UTF-8 BOM is
647 detected.
648
Martin v. Löwis4b003072010-03-16 13:19:21 +0000649- Issue #6716/2: Backslash-replace error output in compilall.
650
Matthias Klosea6d9abf2010-03-16 10:51:28 +0000651- Issue #4961: Inconsistent/wrong result of askyesno function in tkMessageBox
652 with Tcl/Tk-8.5.
653
Matthias Klosec33b9022010-03-16 00:36:26 +0000654- Issue #8140: extend compileall to compile single files. Add -i option.
655
Matthias Klose82f60912010-03-15 13:46:04 +0000656- Issue #7356: ctypes.util: Make parsing of ldconfig output independent of
657 the locale.
658
Gregory P. Smitha31f57c2010-03-14 06:52:18 +0000659- The internals of the subprocess module on POSIX systems have been replaced
660 by an extension module (_posixsubprocess) so that the fork()+exec() can be
661 done safely without the possibility of deadlock in multithreaded applications.
662
Gregory P. Smith580d60c2010-03-14 07:13:25 +0000663- subprocess.Popen now has restore_signals and start_new_session features.
664 The default of restore_signals=True is a new behavior compared to earlier
665 Python versions. This means that signals such as SIGPIPE are not ignored
666 by default in subprocesses launched by Python (Issue #1652).
667
Florent Xiclunaf15351d2010-03-13 23:24:31 +0000668- Issue #6472: The xml.etree package is updated to ElementTree 1.3. The
669 cElementTree module is updated too.
670
Victor Stinnerb33062c2010-03-12 14:27:16 +0000671- Issue #7774: Set sys.executable to an empty string if argv[0] has been set to
672 an non existent program name and Python is unable to retrieve the real
673 program name
674
Florent Xiclunaa4707382010-03-11 00:05:17 +0000675- Issue #7880: Fix sysconfig when the python executable is a symbolic link.
676
Ezio Melottib92ed7c2010-03-06 15:24:08 +0000677- Issue #6509: fix re.sub to work properly when the pattern, the string, and
678 the replacement were all bytes. Patch by Antoine Pitrou.
679
Gerhard Häringf9cee222010-03-05 15:20:03 +0000680- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.6.0. This fixes several obscure
681 bugs and allows loading SQLite extensions from shared libraries.
682
Ezio Melottida227042010-03-14 11:51:00 +0000683- Issue #1054943: Fix ``unicodedata.normalize('NFC', text)`` for the Public
684 Review Issue #29 (http://unicode.org/review/pr-29.html).
Victor Stinner7ed9c4c2010-03-04 12:14:57 +0000685
Victor Stinnercee3ae82010-03-04 00:29:24 +0000686- Issue #7494: fix a crash in _lsprof (cProfile) after clearing the profiler,
687 reset also the pointer to the current pointer context.
688
Lars Gustäbel01385812010-03-03 12:08:54 +0000689- Issue #7232: Add support for the context manager protocol to the TarFile
690 class.
691
Barry Warsawb1938262010-03-01 21:53:00 +0000692- Issue #7250: Fix info leak of os.environ across multi-run uses of
693 wsgiref.handlers.CGIHandler.
694
Florent Xicluna59250852010-02-27 14:21:57 +0000695- Issue #1729305: Fix doctest to handle encode error with "backslashreplace".
696
Florent Xiclunac279ebf2010-02-27 11:31:21 +0000697- Issue #691291: codecs.open() should not convert end of lines on reading and
698 writing.
699
Vinay Sajipdb81c4c2010-02-25 23:13:06 +0000700- Issue #7869: logging: improved diagnostic for format-time errors.
701
702- Issue #7868: logging: added loggerClass attribute to Manager.
703
704- logging: Implemented PEP 391.
705
R. David Murraybe0698b2010-02-23 22:57:58 +0000706- Issue #1537721: Add a writeheader() method to csv.DictWriter.
707
Thomas Heller5117b0b2010-02-23 20:25:02 +0000708- Issue #7959: ctypes callback functions are now registered correctly
Ezio Melotti8b1458b2010-02-24 16:55:43 +0000709 with the cycle garbage collector.
Thomas Heller5117b0b2010-02-23 20:25:02 +0000710
Tarek Ziadé8e615ae2010-02-23 06:00:04 +0000711- Issue #5801: removed spurious empty lines in wsgiref.
712
Andrew M. Kuchlinge1f9beb2010-02-22 22:16:58 +0000713- Issue #6666: fix bug in trace.py that applied the list of directories
714 to be ignored only to the first file. Noted by Bogdan Opanchuk.
715
Andrew M. Kuchlingfbacb062010-02-22 16:52:52 +0000716- Issue #7597: curses.use_env() can now be called before initscr().
717 Noted by Kan-Ru Chen.
718
Ezio Melotti19e4acf2010-02-22 15:59:01 +0000719- Issue #7310: fix the __repr__ of os.environ to show the environment variables.
720
R. David Murray57c45ac2010-02-21 04:39:40 +0000721- Issue #7970: email.Generator.flatten now correctly flattens message/rfc822
722 messages parsed by email.Parser.HeaderParser.
723
Brett Cannonef7d6722010-02-19 16:04:36 +0000724- Issue #7361: Importlib was not properly checking the number of bytes in
725 bytecode file when it was less then 8 bytes.
726
Mark Dickinson84230a12010-02-18 14:49:50 +0000727- Issue #7633: In the decimal module, Context class methods (with the
728 exception of canonical and is_canonical) now accept instances of int
729 and long wherever a Decimal instance is accepted, and implicitly
730 convert that argument to Decimal. Previously only some arguments
731 were converted.
732
R. David Murray1f449142010-02-11 00:15:05 +0000733- Issue #7835: shelve should no longer produce mysterious warnings during
734 interpreter shutdown.
735
Antoine Pitrou99f69ee2010-02-09 17:25:47 +0000736- Issue #2746: Don't escape ampersands and angle brackets ("&", "<", ">")
737 in XML processing instructions and comments. These raw characters are
738 allowed by the XML specification, and are necessary when outputting e.g.
739 PHP code in a processing instruction. Patch by Neil Muller.
740
Antoine Pitrouc77dd322010-02-09 16:51:16 +0000741- Issue #6233: ElementTree failed converting unicode characters to XML
742 entities when they could't be represented in the requested output
743 encoding. Patch by Jerry Chen.
744
Ronald Oussorenee5c8852010-02-07 20:24:02 +0000745- Issue #6003: add an argument to ``zipfile.Zipfile.writestr`` to
746 specify the compression type.
747
Antoine Pitroub6375f12010-02-04 20:23:24 +0000748- Issue #4772: Raise a ValueError when an unknown Bluetooth protocol is
749 specified, rather than fall through to AF_PACKET (in the `socket` module).
750 Also, raise ValueError rather than TypeError when an unknown TIPC address
751 type is specified. Patch by Brian Curtin.
752
Antoine Pitrou905a2ff2010-01-31 22:47:27 +0000753- Issue #6939: Fix file I/O objects in the `io` module to keep the original
754 file position when calling `truncate()`. It would previously change the
755 file position to the given argument, which goes against the tradition of
756 ftruncate() and other truncation APIs. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
757
Antoine Pitroua32f9a22010-01-27 21:18:57 +0000758- Issue #7610: Reworked implementation of the internal
759 :class:`zipfile.ZipExtFile` class used to represent files stored inside
760 an archive. The new implementation is significantly faster and can
761 be wrapped in a :class:`io.BufferedReader` object for more speedups.
762 It also solves an issue where interleaved calls to `read()` and
763 `readline()` give wrong results. Patch by Nir Aides.
764
Jesse Noller1f0b6582010-01-27 03:36:01 +0000765- Issue #6963: Added "maxtasksperchild" argument to multiprocessing.Pool,
766 allowing for a maximum number of tasks within the pool to be completed by
767 the worker before that worker is terminated, and a new one created to
768 replace it.
769
Benjamin Petersond6326642010-01-27 02:25:58 +0000770- Issue #7792: Registering non-classes to ABCs raised an obscure error.
771
Benjamin Peterson9a11a362010-01-27 01:51:29 +0000772- Issue #7785: Don't accept bytes in FileIO.write().
Benjamin Peterson255058f2010-01-27 01:47:14 +0000773
Ezio Melotti38f00332010-01-25 12:39:47 +0000774- Removed the functions 'verify' and 'vereq' from Lib/test/support.py.
775
Benjamin Peterson25001472010-01-25 03:37:42 +0000776- Issue #7773: Fix an UnboundLocalError in platform.linux_distribution() when
777 the release file is empty.
778
Antoine Pitrou1119a642010-01-17 12:16:23 +0000779- Issue #7561: Fix crashes when using bytearray objects with the posix
780 module.
781
R. David Murraya8f480f2010-01-16 18:30:03 +0000782- Issue #1670765: Prevent email.generator.Generator from re-wrapping
783 headers in multipart/signed MIME parts, which fixes one of the sources of
784 invalid modifications to such parts by Generator.
785
Antoine Pitrou747e8b32010-01-16 17:55:52 +0000786- Issue #7703: Add support for the new buffer API to `binascii.a2bhqx`.
787 Patch by Florent Xicluna, along with some additional tests.
788
Antoine Pitrou2843aa82010-01-15 00:27:43 +0000789- Issue #7701: Fix crash in binascii.b2a_uu() in debug mode when given a
790 1-byte argument. Patch by Victor Stinner.
791
Antoine Pitrou82feb1f2010-01-14 17:34:48 +0000792- Issue #3299: Fix possible crash in the _sre module when given bad
793 argument values in debug mode. Patch by Victor Stinner.
794
Antoine Pitrou8e33fd72010-01-13 14:37:26 +0000795- Issue #2846: Add support for gzip.GzipFile reading zero-padded files.
796 Patch by Brian Curtin.
797
Benjamin Peterson5efea042010-01-13 03:49:50 +0000798- Issue #7681: Use floor division in appropiate places in the wave module.
799
Tarek Ziadéac4e6ea2010-01-11 23:15:52 +0000800- Issue #5372: Drop the reuse of .o files in Distutils' ccompiler (since
801 Extension extra options may change the output without changing the .c
802 file). Initial patch by Collin Winter.
803
Tarek Ziadéaf77a2f2010-01-08 23:57:53 +0000804- Issue #7617: Make sure distutils.unixccompiler.UnixCCompiler recognizes
805 gcc when it has a fully qualified configuration prefix. Initial patch
806 by Arfrever.
807
Antoine Pitrouc1baa602010-01-08 17:54:23 +0000808- Issue #7105: Make WeakKeyDictionary and WeakValueDictionary robust against
809 the destruction of weakref'ed objects while iterating.
810
Antoine Pitrou01a15ea2010-01-07 17:57:31 +0000811- Issue #7455: Fix possible crash in cPickle on invalid input. Patch by
812 Victor Stinner.
813
Gregory P. Smithaafdca82010-01-04 04:50:36 +0000814- Issue #1628205: Socket file objects returned by socket.socket.makefile() now
815 properly handles EINTR within the read, readline, write & flush methods.
816 The socket.sendall() method now properly handles interrupted system calls.
817
Antoine Pitroub1f88352010-01-03 22:37:40 +0000818- Issue #7471: Improve the performance of GzipFile's buffering mechanism,
819 and make it implement the `io.BufferedIOBase` ABC to allow for further
820 speedups by wrapping it in an `io.BufferedReader`. Patch by Nir Aides.
821
822- Issue #3972: http.client.HTTPConnection now accepts an optional source_address
Gregory P. Smithb4066372010-01-03 03:28:29 +0000823 parameter to allow specifying where your connections come from.
824
825- socket.create_connection now accepts an optional source_address parameter.
826
Ezio Melottifaa6b7f2009-12-30 12:34:59 +0000827- Issue #5511: now zipfile.ZipFile can be used as a context manager.
828 Initial patch by Brian Curtin.
829
Tarek Ziadéc60ea322009-12-21 23:12:41 +0000830- Issue #7556: Make sure Distutils' msvc9compile reads and writes the
Victor Stinnere125f132010-05-15 21:04:43 +0000831 MSVC XML Manifest file in text mode so string patterns can be used
Tarek Ziadéc60ea322009-12-21 23:12:41 +0000832 in regular expressions.
833
Tarek Ziadé8b9361a2009-12-21 00:02:20 +0000834- Issue #7552: Removed line feed in the base64 Authorization header in
835 the Distutils upload command to avoid an error when PyPI reads it.
836 This occurs on long passwords. Initial patch by JP St. Pierre.
837
Senthil Kumaran47fff872009-12-20 07:10:31 +0000838- Issue #7231: urllib2 cannot handle https with proxy requiring auth. Patch by
839 Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa.
840
Antoine Pitrou77b338b2009-12-14 18:00:06 +0000841- Issue #4757: `zlib.compress` and other methods in the zlib module now
842 raise a TypeError when given an `str` object (rather than a `bytes`-like
843 object). Patch by Victor Stinner and Florent Xicluna.
844
Benjamin Petersonbf5ff762009-12-13 19:25:34 +0000845- Issue #7349: Make methods of file objects in the io module accept None as an
846 argument where file-like objects (ie StringIO and BytesIO) accept them to mean
847 the same as passing no argument.
848
Lars Gustäbel365aff32009-12-13 11:42:29 +0000849- Issue #7357: tarfile no longer suppresses fatal extraction errors by
850 default.
851
R. David Murraye8dc2582009-12-10 02:08:06 +0000852- Issue #5949: added check for correct lineends in input from IMAP server
853 in imaplib.
854
Raymond Hettinger44459de2010-04-03 23:20:46 +0000855- Add count() and reverse() methods to collections.deque().
Raymond Hettingere5fdedb2009-12-10 00:47:21 +0000856
Raymond Hettinger3f9afd82009-12-10 03:03:02 +0000857- Fix variations of extending deques: d.extend(d) d.extendleft(d) d+=d
858
Antoine Pitrou781eba72009-12-08 15:57:31 +0000859- Issue #6986: Fix crash in the JSON C accelerator when called with the
860 wrong parameter types. Patch by Victor Stinner.
861
Victor Stinnere125f132010-05-15 21:04:43 +0000862- Issue #7457: added a read_pkg_file method to
Tarek Ziadéb88a4962009-12-08 09:45:25 +0000863 distutils.dist.DistributionMetadata.
864
Vinay Sajip540f2152009-12-06 17:57:11 +0000865- logging: Added optional `secure` parameter to SMTPHandler, to enable use of
866 TLS with authentication credentials.
867
Victor Stinnere125f132010-05-15 21:04:43 +0000868- Issue #1923: Fixed the removal of meaningful spaces when PKG-INFO is
Tarek Ziadédf872d42009-12-06 09:28:17 +0000869 generated in Distutils. Patch by Stephen Emslie.
870
Martin v. Löwis1679ea82009-12-03 20:57:49 +0000871- Issue #4120: Drop reference to CRT from manifest when building extensions with
872 msvc9compiler.
873
Antoine Pitroub7572f02009-12-02 20:46:48 +0000874- Issue #7333: The `posix` module gains an `initgroups()` function providing
875 access to the initgroups(3) C library call on Unix systems which implement
876 it. Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone.
877
Tarek Ziadéacafc2d2009-11-29 22:24:57 +0000878- Issue #7408: Fixed distutils.tests.sdist so it doesn't check for group
879 ownership when the group is not forced, because the group may be different
880 from the user's group and inherit from its container when the test is run.
881
Antoine Pitrou7b0d4a22009-11-28 16:12:28 +0000882- Issue #4486: When an exception has an explicit cause, do not print its
883 implicit context too. This affects the `traceback` module as well as
884 built-in exception printing.
885
Antoine Pitrou1fc0d2b2009-11-28 15:58:27 +0000886- Issue #1515: Enable use of deepcopy() with instance methods. Patch by
887 Robert Collins.
888
Vinay Sajip03f6c112009-11-27 14:03:36 +0000889- Issue #7403: logging: Fixed possible race condition in lock creation.
890
Antoine Pitrou648bcd72009-11-27 13:23:26 +0000891- Issue #6845: Add restart support for binary upload in ftplib. The
892 `storbinary()` method of FTP and FTP_TLS objects gains an optional `rest`
893 argument. Patch by Pablo Mouzo.
894
Antoine Pitroube6859d2009-11-25 23:02:32 +0000895- Issue #5788: `datetime.timedelta` objects get a new `total_seconds()`
896 method returning the total number of seconds in the duration. Patch by
897 Brian Quinlan.
898
Antoine Pitrou7d7aede2009-11-25 18:55:32 +0000899- Issue #7133: SSL objects now support the new buffer API.
900
Senthil Kumaran758025c2009-11-23 19:02:52 +0000901- Issue #1488943: difflib.Differ() doesn't always add hints for tab characters
902
Lars Gustäbel9520a432009-11-22 18:48:49 +0000903- Issue #6123: tarfile now opens empty archives correctly and consistently
904 raises ReadError on empty files.
905
Victor Stinnere125f132010-05-15 21:04:43 +0000906- Issue #7354: distutils.tests.test_msvc9compiler - dragfullwindows can
Tarek Ziadé26afd482009-11-19 05:39:00 +0000907 be 2.
908
Benjamin Peterson3ec9b6e2009-11-19 21:22:27 +0000909- Issue #5037: Proxy the __bytes__ special method instead to __bytes__ instead
910 of __str__.
Benjamin Peterson32019772009-11-19 03:08:32 +0000911
Lars Gustäbel7b465392009-11-18 20:29:25 +0000912- Issue #7341: Close the internal file object in the TarFile constructor in
913 case of an error.
914
Tarek Ziadé11c9d252009-11-18 09:32:34 +0000915- Issue #7293: distutils.test_msvc9compiler is fixed to work on any fresh
916 Windows box. Help provided by David Bolen.
917
Antoine Pitrouf988cd02009-11-17 20:21:14 +0000918- Issue #2054: ftplib now provides an FTP_TLS class to do secure FTP using
919 TLS or SSL. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.
920
Nick Coghlan106274b2009-11-15 23:04:33 +0000921- Issue #7328: pydoc no longer corrupts sys.path when run with the '-m' switch
922
Antoine Pitroub8108e22009-11-15 14:25:16 +0000923- Issue #4969: The mimetypes module now reads the MIME database from
924 the registry under Windows. Patch by Gabriel Genellina.
925
Nick Coghlan260bd3e2009-11-16 06:49:25 +0000926- Issue #6816: runpy now provides a run_path function that allows Python code
927 to execute file paths that refer to source or compiled Python files as well
928 as zipfiles, directories and other valid sys.path entries that contain a
929 __main__.py file. This allows applications that run other Python scripts to
930 support the same flexibility as the CPython command line itself.
931
Antoine Pitrou45d61a32009-11-13 22:35:18 +0000932- Issue #7318: multiprocessing now uses a timeout when it fails to establish
933 a connection with another process, rather than looping endlessly. The
934 default timeout is 20 seconds, which should be amply sufficient for
935 local connections.
936
Antoine Pitrouc63ecee2009-11-10 21:34:48 +0000937- Issue #7197: Allow unittest.TextTestRunner objects to be pickled and
938 unpickled. This fixes crashes under Windows when trying to run
939 test_multiprocessing in verbose mode.
940
Michael Foord34c94622010-02-10 15:51:42 +0000941- Issue #7893: ``unittest.TextTestResult`` is made public and a ``resultclass``
942 argument added to the TextTestRunner constructor allowing a different result
943 class to be used without having to subclass.
Victor Stinnere125f132010-05-15 21:04:43 +0000944
Michael Foord34c94622010-02-10 15:51:42 +0000945- Issue 7588: ``unittest.TextTestResult.getDescription`` now includes the test
946 name in failure reports even if the test has a docstring.
947
Antoine Pitrou434736a2009-11-10 18:46:01 +0000948- Issue #3001: Add a C implementation of recursive locks which is used by
Victor Stinnere125f132010-05-15 21:04:43 +0000949 default when instantiating a `threading.RLock` object. This makes
Antoine Pitrou434736a2009-11-10 18:46:01 +0000950 recursive locks as fast as regular non-recursive locks (previously,
951 they were slower by 10x to 15x).
952
Antoine Pitroub0872682009-11-09 16:08:16 +0000953- Issue #7282: Fix a memory leak when an RLock was used in a thread other
954 than those started through `threading.Thread` (for example, using
955 `_thread.start_new_thread()`).
956
Brett Cannone52c9192009-11-07 23:55:05 +0000957- Issue #7187: Importlib would not silence the IOError raised when trying to
958 write new bytecode when it was made read-only.
959
Antoine Pitroubdec11f2009-11-05 13:49:14 +0000960- Issue #7264: Fix a possible deadlock when deallocating thread-local objects
961 which are part of a reference cycle.
962
Antoine Pitroud83f1e62009-11-04 21:10:38 +0000963- Issue #7211: Allow 64-bit values for the `ident` and `data` fields of kevent
964 objects on 64-bit systems. Patch by Michael Broghton.
965
Antoine Pitrou03f13442009-11-02 11:36:51 +0000966- Issue #6896: mailbox.Maildir now invalidates its internal cache each time
967 a modification is done through it. This fixes inconsistencies and test
968 failures on systems with slightly bogus mtime behaviour.
969
Gregory P. Smith50467882009-11-01 18:42:17 +0000970- Issue #7246 & Issue #7208: getpass now properly flushes input before
971 reading from stdin so that existing input does not confuse it and
972 lead to incorrect entry or an IOError. It also properly flushes it
973 afterwards to avoid the terminal echoing the input afterwards on
974 OSes such as Solaris.
975
Mark Dickinsona2d1fe02009-10-29 12:23:02 +0000976- Issue #7233: Fix a number of two-argument Decimal methods to make
977 sure that they accept an int or long as the second argument. Also
978 fix buggy handling of large arguments (those with coefficient longer
979 than the current precision) in shift and rotate.
980
Lars Gustäbel1440df22009-10-29 09:39:47 +0000981- Issue #4750: Store the basename of the original filename in the gzip FNAME
982 header as required by RFC 1952.
983
Tarek Ziadéc7c71ff2009-10-27 23:12:01 +0000984- Issue #1180: Added a new global option to ignore ~/.pydistutils.cfg in
985 Distutils.
986
Tarek Ziadé8c0e2172009-10-27 21:24:21 +0000987- Issue #7218: Fix test_site for win32, the directory comparison was done with
988 an uppercase.
989
Antoine Pitrouc66363f2009-10-27 17:47:14 +0000990- Issue #7205: Fix a possible deadlock when using a BZ2File object from
991 several threads at once.
992
Vinay Sajip42ead482009-10-21 20:22:14 +0000993- Issue #7077: logging: SysLogHandler now treats Unicode as per RFC 5424.
994
Mark Dickinson06bb6742009-10-20 13:38:04 +0000995- Issue #7099: Decimal.is_normal now returns True for numbers with exponent
996 larger than emax.
997
Antoine Pitrou6a448d42009-10-19 19:43:09 +0000998- Issue #7080: locale.strxfrm() raises a MemoryError on 64-bit non-Windows
999 platforms, and assorted locale fixes by Derk Drukker.
1000
Antoine Pitroudc0900b2009-10-19 18:22:37 +00001001- Issue #5833: Fix extra space character in readline completion with the
1002 GNU readline library version 6.0.
1003
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +00001004- Issue #6894: Fixed the issue urllib2 doesn't respect "no_proxy" environment
Senthil Kumaran7bb04972009-10-11 04:58:55 +00001005
Vinay Sajipcbabd7e2009-10-10 20:32:36 +00001006- Issue #7086: Added TCP support to SysLogHandler, and tidied up some
1007 anachronisms in the code which were a relic of 1.5.2 compatibility.
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +00001008
R. David Murraybf2e0aa2009-10-10 00:13:32 +00001009- Issue #7082: When falling back to the MIME 'name' parameter, the
1010 correct place to look for it is the Content-Type header.
1011
Benjamin Petersond3afada2009-10-09 21:43:09 +00001012- Make tokenize.detect_coding() normalize utf-8 and iso-8859-1 variants like the
1013 builtin tokenizer.
1014
Mark Dickinson56df8872009-10-07 19:23:50 +00001015- Issue #7048: Force Decimal.logb to round its result when that result
1016 is too large to fit in the current precision.
1017
Antoine Pitrouca767bd2009-09-21 21:37:02 +00001018- Issue #6236, #6348: Fix various failures in the I/O library under AIX
Antoine Pitrou6a448d42009-10-19 19:43:09 +00001019 and other platforms, when using a non-gcc compiler. Patch by Derk Drukker.
Antoine Pitrouca767bd2009-09-21 21:37:02 +00001020
Thomas Heller69b639f2009-09-18 20:08:39 +00001021- Issue #4606: Passing 'None' if ctypes argtype is set to POINTER(...)
1022 does now always result in NULL.
1023
Thomas Hellerd7cb1b92009-09-18 19:05:13 +00001024- Issue #5042: Structure sub-subclass does now initialize correctly
1025 with base class positional arguments.
1026
Eric Smith81fd8042009-09-18 13:23:13 +00001027- Issue #6882: Import uuid creates zombies processes.
1028
Matthias Klosef6b76b02009-09-13 15:18:53 +00001029- Issue #6635: Fix profiler printing usage message.
1030
Lars Gustäbel049d2aa2009-09-12 10:44:00 +00001031- Issue #6856: Add a filter keyword argument to TarFile.add().
1032
Benjamin Petersonbe74a372009-09-11 21:17:13 +00001033- Issue #6888: pdb's alias command was broken when no arguments were given.
1034
Mark Dickinson46ab5d02009-09-08 20:22:46 +00001035- Issue #6857: Default format() alignment should be '>' for Decimal
1036 instances.
1037
Mark Dickinson825fce32009-09-07 18:08:12 +00001038- Issue #6795: int(Decimal('nan')) now raises ValueError instead of
1039 returning NaN or raising InvalidContext. Also, fix infinite recursion
1040 in long(Decimal('nan')).
1041
Mark Dickinson7718d2b2009-09-07 16:21:56 +00001042- Issue #6850: Fix bug in Decimal._parse_format_specifier for formats
1043 with no type specifier.
1044
Thomas Heller8b939522009-09-04 18:24:41 +00001045- Issue #6239: ctypes.c_char_p return value must return bytes.
1046
Chris Withers9c33cbf2009-09-04 17:04:16 +00001047- Issue #6838: Use a list to accumulate the value instead of
1048 repeatedly concatenating strings in http.client's
1049 HTTPResponse._read_chunked providing a significant speed increase
1050 when downloading large files servend with a Transfer-Encoding of 'chunked'.
1051
Brett Cannon1c1dcbf2009-08-30 20:22:21 +00001052- Trying to import a submodule from a module that is not a package, ImportError
1053 should be raised, not AttributeError.
1054
Brett Cannonde4ebfe2009-08-30 19:53:48 +00001055- When the globals past to importlib.__import__() has __package__ set to None,
1056 fall back to computing what __package__ should be instead of giving up.
1057
Brett Cannon6afbaef2009-08-30 19:08:58 +00001058- Raise a TypeError when the name of a module to be imported for
1059 importlib.__import__ is not a string (was raising an
1060 AttributeError before).
1061
Brett Cannon9e0e1a62009-08-30 18:28:46 +00001062- Allow the fromlist passed into importlib.__import__ to be any iterable.
1063
Brett Cannon4d75fc12009-08-30 03:47:36 +00001064- Have importlib raise ImportError if None is found in sys.modules.
1065
Lars Gustäbelbfdfdda2009-08-28 19:59:59 +00001066- Issue #6054: Do not normalize stored pathnames in tarfile.
1067
Mark Dickinsond314e1b2009-08-28 13:39:53 +00001068- Issue #6794: Fix Decimal.compare_total and Decimal.compare_total_mag: NaN
1069 payloads are now ordered by integer value rather than lexicographically.
1070
Guilherme Polobcd03df2009-08-18 15:35:57 +00001071- Issue #1356969: Add missing info methods in tix.HList.
1072
1073- Issue #1522587: New constants and methods for the tix.Grid widget.
1074
1075- Issue #1250469: Fix the return value of tix.PanedWindow.panes.
1076
1077- Issue #1119673: Do not override tkinter.Text methods when creating a
1078 ScrolledText.
1079
Gregory P. Smith01099702009-08-16 18:58:46 +00001080- Issue #6665: Fix fnmatch to properly match filenames with newlines in them.
1081
Guilherme Poloc3b2ae42009-08-16 14:46:16 +00001082- Issue #1135: Add the XView and YView mix-ins to avoid duplicating
1083 the xview* and yview* methods.
1084
Antoine Pitroua0ceb732009-08-06 20:29:56 +00001085- Issue #6629: Fix a data corruption issue in the new I/O library, which could
1086 occur when writing to a BufferedRandom object (e.g. a file opened in "rb+" or
1087 "wb+" mode) after having buffered a certain amount of data for reading. This
1088 bug was not present in the pure Python implementation.
1089
Mark Dickinsonea1158f2009-08-06 16:06:25 +00001090- Issue #6622: Fix "local variable 'secret' referenced before
1091 assignment" bug in POP3.apop.
1092
Mark Dickinson45f799f2009-08-02 20:08:54 +00001093- Issue #2715: Remove remnants of Carbon.File from binhex module.
1094
Mark Dickinson345adc42009-08-02 10:14:23 +00001095- Issue #6595: The Decimal constructor now allows arbitrary Unicode
1096 decimal digits in input, as recommended by the standard. Previously
1097 it was restricted to accepting [0-9].
1098
Jack Diederich36596a32009-07-26 22:23:04 +00001099- Issue #6106: telnetlib.Telnet.process_rawq doesn't handle default WILL/WONT
1100 DO/DONT correctly.
1101
Senthil Kumaran67305382009-07-26 04:46:00 +00001102- Issue #1424152: Fix for http.client, urllib.request to support SSL while
1103 working through proxy. Original patch by Christopher Li, changes made by
1104 Senthil Kumaran
Senthil Kumaran97f0c6b2009-07-25 04:24:38 +00001105
Brett Cannon69194272009-07-20 04:23:48 +00001106- Add importlib.abc.ExecutionLoader to represent the PEP 302 protocol for
1107 loaders that allow for modules to be executed. Both importlib.abc.PyLoader
1108 and PyPycLoader inherit from this class and provide implementations in
1109 relation to other methods required by the ABCs.
1110
Brett Cannon64ef00f2009-07-20 03:19:18 +00001111- importlib.abc.PyLoader did not inherit from importlib.abc.ResourceLoader like
1112 the documentation said it did even though the code in PyLoader relied on the
1113 abstract method required by ResourceLoader.
1114
Mark Dickinson85424c92009-07-18 14:41:42 +00001115- Issue #6431: Make Fraction type return NotImplemented when it doesn't
1116 know how to handle a comparison without loss of precision. Also add
1117 correct handling of infinities and nans for comparisons with float.
1118
Antoine Pitrouf3637322009-08-06 21:00:37 +00001119- Issue #6415: Fixed warnings.warn segfault on bad formatted string.
Hirokazu Yamamoto1c0c0032009-07-17 06:55:42 +00001120
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc97e5f282009-07-11 09:35:13 +00001121- Issue #6358: The exit status of a command started with os.popen() was
1122 reported differently than it did with python 2.x.
1123
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc2de11152009-07-09 23:07:52 +00001124- Issue #6323: The pdb debugger did not exit when running a script with a
1125 syntax error.
1126
Gregory P. Smithd06fa472009-07-04 02:46:54 +00001127- Issue #3392: The subprocess communicate() method no longer fails in select()
1128 when file descriptors are large; communicate() now uses poll() when possible.
1129
Antoine Pitrou54923952009-07-01 14:53:06 +00001130- Issue #6369: Fix an RLE decompression bug in the binhex module.
1131
Hirokazu Yamamoto7a9e1bd2009-06-29 14:54:12 +00001132- Issue #6344: Fixed a crash of mmap.read() when passed a negative argument.
1133
Benjamin Peterson5a6deb42009-06-28 21:35:31 +00001134- The deprecated function string.maketrans has been removed.
1135
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +00001136- Issue #4005: Fixed a crash of pydoc when there was a zip file present in
1137 sys.path.
1138
Alexandre Vassalotticf76e1a2009-07-22 03:24:36 +00001139- Issue #6218: io.StringIO and io.BytesIO instances are now picklable.
1140
Gregory P. Smithb6e8c7e2010-02-27 07:22:22 +00001141- The os.get_exec_path() function to return the list of directories that will
1142 be searched for an executable when launching a subprocess was added.
1143
Gregory P. Smith3fdd9642010-02-28 18:57:46 +00001144- Issue #7481: When a threading.Thread failed to start it would leave the
1145 instance stuck in initial state and present in threading.enumerate().
1146
Gregory P. Smitha59c59f2010-03-01 00:17:40 +00001147- Issue #1068268: The subprocess module now handles EINTR in internal
1148 os.waitpid and os.read system calls where appropriate.
1149
Gregory P. Smith1a530912010-03-01 04:59:27 +00001150- Issue #6729: Added ctypes.c_ssize_t to represent ssize_t.
1151
Steven Bethard6d265692010-03-02 09:22:57 +00001152- Issue #6247: The argparse module has been added to the standard library.
1153
Larry Hastingsf0f37952010-04-02 11:47:10 +00001154- Issue #8235: _socket: Add the constant ``SO_SETFIB``. SO_SETFIB is
1155 a socket option available on FreeBSD 7.1 and newer.
1156
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +00001157Extension Modules
1158-----------------
Mark Dickinson12c4bdb2009-09-28 19:21:11 +00001159
Mark Dickinson4c8a9a22010-05-15 17:02:38 +00001160- Issue #8692: Optimize math.factorial: replace the previous naive
1161 algorithm with an improved 'binary-split' algorithm that uses fewer
1162 multiplications and allows many of the multiplications to be
1163 performed using plain C integer arithmetic instead of PyLong
1164 arithmetic. Also uses a lookup table for small arguments.
1165
Mark Dickinson85eacea2010-05-10 16:27:45 +00001166- Issue #8674: Fixed a number of incorrect or undefined-behaviour-inducing
1167 overflow checks in the audioop module.
1168
Mark Dickinson0381e3f2010-05-08 14:35:02 +00001169- Issue #8644: The accuracy of td.total_seconds() has been improved (by
1170 calculating with integer arithmetic instead of float arithmetic internally):
1171 the result is now always correctly rounded, and is equivalent to td /
1172 timedelta(seconds=1).
1173
Mark Dickinson7c186e22010-04-20 22:32:49 +00001174- Issue #2706: Allow division of a timedelta by another timedelta:
1175 timedelta / timedelta, timedelta % timedelta, timedelta // timedelta
1176 and divmod(timedelta, timedelta) are all supported.
1177
Victor Stinnerfebecd82010-04-16 12:07:30 +00001178- Issue #8314: Fix unsigned long long bug in libffi on Sparc v8.
1179
Mark Dickinsonc5935772010-04-03 15:54:36 +00001180- Issue #8300: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with any
1181 integer format code, struct.pack first attempts to convert the non-integer
1182 using its __index__ method. If that method is non-existent or raises
1183 TypeError it goes on to try the __int__ method, as described below.
1184
Matthias Klosea8349752010-03-15 13:25:28 +00001185- Issue #8142: Update libffi to the 3.0.9 release.
1186
Matthias Klose9550aa12010-03-15 12:49:46 +00001187- Issue #6949: Allow the _dbm extension to be built with db 4.8.x.
1188
Georg Brandlc0e22b72010-03-14 10:51:01 +00001189- Issue #6544: fix a reference leak in the kqueue implementation's error
1190 handling.
1191
Martin v. Löwis3afc62e2010-02-18 16:27:43 +00001192- Stop providing crtassem.h symbols when compiling with Visual Studio 2010, as
1193 msvcr100.dll is not a platform assembly anymore.
1194
Martin v. Löwis7aed61a2009-11-27 14:09:49 +00001195- Issue #6508: Add posix.{getresuid,getresgid,setresuid,setresgid}.
1196
Mark Dickinson40714af2009-10-08 15:59:20 +00001197- Issue #7078: Set struct.__doc__ from _struct.__doc__.
1198
Mark Dickinson45f992a2009-12-19 11:20:49 +00001199- Issue #3366: Add erf, erfc, expm1, gamma, lgamma functions to math module.
Mark Dickinson12c4bdb2009-09-28 19:21:11 +00001200
Ronald Oussoren2efd9242009-09-20 14:53:22 +00001201- Issue #6877: It is now possible to link the readline extension to the
1202 libedit readline emulation on OSX 10.5 or later.
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +00001203
Mark Dickinson5ea7d642009-09-06 21:24:55 +00001204- Issue #6848: Fix curses module build failure on OS X 10.6.
1205
Brett Cannon2f827382009-08-13 19:58:01 +00001206- Fix a segfault that could be triggered by expat with specially formed input.
1207
Mark Dickinson1f268282009-07-28 17:22:36 +00001208- Issue #6561: '\d' in a regex now matches only characters with
1209 Unicode category 'Nd' (Number, Decimal Digit). Previously it also
1210 matched characters with category 'No'.
1211
Alexandre Vassalottiad077152009-07-15 17:49:23 +00001212- Issue #4509: Array objects are no longer modified after an operation
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +00001213 failing due to the resize restriction in-place when the object has exported
1214 buffers.
1215
Alexandre Vassalottiad077152009-07-15 17:49:23 +00001216- Issue #2389: Array objects are now pickled in a portable manner.
1217
Matthias Klosea50ffe52010-01-22 01:10:19 +00001218- Expat: Fix DoS via XML document with malformed UTF-8 sequences
1219 (CVE_2009_3560).
1220
Gregory P. Smith24cec9f2010-03-01 06:18:41 +00001221- Issue #7242: On Solaris 9 and earlier calling os.fork() from within a
1222 thread could raise an incorrect RuntimeError about not holding the import
1223 lock. The import lock is now reinitialized after fork.
1224
Gregory P. Smithc78d79c2010-03-01 05:54:14 +00001225- Issue #7999: os.setreuid() and os.setregid() would refuse to accept a -1
1226 parameter on some platforms such as OS X.
1227
Matthias Klose4c4b0782010-04-21 22:21:03 +00001228- Build the ossaudio extension on GNU/kFreeBSD.
1229
Brian Curtinb4e8ca12010-04-22 01:52:50 +00001230- Issue #7347: winreg: Add CreateKeyEx and DeleteKeyEx, as well as fix a
1231 bug in the return value of QueryReflectionKey.
1232
Martin v. Löwis95c46012009-06-28 09:36:14 +00001233Build
1234-----
1235
Mark Dickinsonb2153e92010-05-05 22:31:36 +00001236- Issue #8625: Turn off optimization in --with-pydebug builds with
1237 gcc. (Optimization was unintentionally turned on in gcc
1238 --with-pydebug builds as a result of the issue #1628484 fix,
1239 combined with autoconf's strange choice of default CFLAGS produced
1240 by AC_PROG_CC for gcc.)
1241
Ronald Oussoren86b33c82010-04-30 11:41:56 +00001242- Issue #3646: It is now easily possible to install a Python framework into
1243 your home directory on MacOSX, see Mac/README for more information.
1244
Jesus Cea740f53a2010-04-28 11:35:30 +00001245- Issue #3928: os.mknod() now available in Solaris, also.
1246
Benjamin Petersone6c9d242010-03-30 17:34:47 +00001247- Issue #3326: Build Python without -fno-strict-aliasing when the gcc does not
1248 give false warnings.
1249
Antoine Pitrou7a61ba92010-03-21 19:25:26 +00001250- Issue #1628484: The Makefile doesn't ignore the CFLAGS environment
1251 variable anymore. It also forwards the LDFLAGS settings to the linker
1252 when building a shared library.
1253
Martin v. Löwis09c86af2010-03-16 11:03:13 +00001254- Issue #6716: Quote -x arguments of compileall in MSI installer.
Martin v. Löwis4ad70df2010-03-16 16:19:47 +00001255 Exclude 2to3 tests from compileall.
Martin v. Löwis09c86af2010-03-16 11:03:13 +00001256
Martin v. Löwis19ed3c82010-02-15 21:45:06 +00001257- Issue #3920, #7903: Define _BSD_SOURCE on OpenBSD 4.4 through 4.9.
Martin v. Löwis7671efc2010-02-15 08:35:16 +00001258
Mark Dickinsonde508002010-01-17 21:02:55 +00001259- Issue #7632: When Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER is defined, disable the
1260 private memory allocation scheme in dtoa.c and use PyMem_Malloc and
1261 PyMem_Free instead. Also disable caching of powers of 5.
1262
Benjamin Petersond78735d2010-01-01 16:04:23 +00001263- Issue #6491: Allow --with-dbmliborder to specify that no dbms will be built.
1264
1265- Issue #6943: Use pkg-config to find the libffi headers when the
1266 --with-system-ffi flag is used.
1267
Benjamin Petersonb2d90462009-12-31 03:23:10 +00001268- Issue #7609: Add a --with-system-expat option that causes the system's expat
1269 library to be used for the pyexpat module instead of the one included with
1270 Python.
1271
Benjamin Petersone57d6762009-12-30 03:02:03 +00001272- Issue #7589: Only build the nis module when the correct header files are
1273 found.
1274
Martin v. Löwis7df3b9e2010-01-02 10:06:19 +00001275- Switch to OpenSSL 0.9.8l and sqlite 3.6.21 on Windows.
Martin v. Löwise5692cd2009-12-22 08:57:39 +00001276
Mark Dickinsonf4243f62009-11-15 13:47:27 +00001277- Issue #5792: Extend the short float repr support to x86 systems using
1278 icc or suncc.
1279
Mark Dickinsona25b1312009-10-31 10:18:44 +00001280- Issue #6603: Change READ_TIMESTAMP macro in ceval.c so that it
1281 compiles correctly under gcc on x86-64. This fixes a reported
1282 problem with the --with-tsc build on x86-64.
1283
Ronald Oussoren5bbab3e2009-09-06 11:01:15 +00001284- Issue #6802: Fix build issues on MacOSX 10.6
1285
Guilherme Polo5d377bd2009-08-16 14:44:14 +00001286- Issue #6244: Allow detect_tkinter to look for Tcl/Tk 8.6.
1287
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc321e5332009-07-02 23:08:45 +00001288- Issue 4601: 'make install' did not set the appropriate permissions on
1289 directories.
1290
Martin v. Löwis95c46012009-06-28 09:36:14 +00001291- Issue 5390: Add uninstall icon independent of whether file
1292 extensions are installed.
1293
Florent Xicluna3f88c0e2010-03-19 14:40:31 +00001294- Issue #7541: when using ``python-config`` with a framework install the
1295 compiler might use the wrong library.
Ronald Oussoren585c1732009-12-24 14:21:55 +00001296
Collin Winterbf199072010-03-19 21:17:17 +00001297- python-config now supports multiple options on the same command line.
1298
Matthias Klosec80c93f2010-04-24 17:04:35 +00001299- Issue #8509: Fix quoting in help strings and code snippets in configure.in.
1300
Matthias Kloseb9621712010-04-24 17:59:49 +00001301- Issue #8510: Update to autoconf2.65.
1302
Matthias Klosec80c93f2010-04-24 17:04:35 +00001303
Mark Dickinsond3aa6462009-09-17 00:06:41 +00001304Documentation
Tarek Ziadéf3b33222009-08-21 14:22:45 +00001305------------
1306
R. David Murraye821cb62010-03-08 17:48:38 +00001307- A small wsgi server was added as Tools/scripts/serve.py, and is used to
1308 implement a local documentation server via 'make serve' in the doc directory.
1309
Barry Warsaw615368f2010-02-05 19:12:30 +00001310- Updating `Using Python` documentation to include description of CPython's
1311 -J and -X options.
1312
Brett Cannon757df6e2009-08-30 04:00:12 +00001313- Document that importing a module that has None in sys.modules triggers an
1314 ImportError.
1315
Tarek Ziadéf3b33222009-08-21 14:22:45 +00001316- Issue #6556: Fixed the Distutils configuration files location explanation
1317 for Windows.
Florent Xiclunaf089fd62010-03-19 14:25:03 +00001318
Matthias Klosec8b16f82010-01-31 16:14:37 +00001319- Update python manual page (options -B, -O0, -s, environment variables
1320 PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE, PYTHONNOUSERSITE).
Tarek Ziadéf3b33222009-08-21 14:22:45 +00001321
Brett Cannonb49c70c2009-07-15 04:08:33 +00001322Tests
1323-----
1324
Antoine Pitrouc09c92f2010-05-11 23:36:40 +00001325- Issue #8672: Add a zlib test ensuring that an incomplete stream can be
1326 handled by a decompressor object without errors (it returns incomplete
1327 uncompressed data).
1328
Victor Stinnerf58087b2010-05-02 17:24:51 +00001329- Issue #8533: regrtest uses backslashreplace error handler for stdout to avoid
1330 UnicodeEncodeError (write non-ASCII character to stdout using ASCII encoding)
Victor Stinner0d80a582010-05-02 09:37:08 +00001331
Antoine Pitrou043bad02010-04-30 23:20:15 +00001332- Issue #8576: Remove use of find_unused_port() in test_smtplib and
1333 test_multiprocessing. Patch by Paul Moore.
1334
Victor Stinner45df8202010-04-28 22:31:17 +00001335- Issue #7449: Fix many tests to support Python compiled without thread
1336 support. Patches written by Jerry Seutter.
1337
Antoine Pitrou2c4f98b2010-04-23 00:16:21 +00001338- Issue #8108: test_ftplib's non-blocking SSL server now has proper handling
1339 of SSL shutdowns.
1340
Victor Stinner534db4e2010-04-23 20:33:55 +00001341- Issues #8279, #8330, #8437, #8480, #8495: Fix test_gdb failures, patch
1342 written by Dave Malcolm
Victor Stinnere7ed1d72010-04-21 13:55:23 +00001343
R. David Murrayedcfeba2010-04-21 01:51:57 +00001344- Issue #3864: Skip three test_signal tests on freebsd6 because they fail
1345 if any thread was previously started, most likely due to a platform bug.
1346
Antoine Pitrou90ee4df2010-04-06 17:23:13 +00001347- Issue #8193: Fix test_zlib failure with zlib 1.2.4.
1348
Antoine Pitrou503ab332010-03-30 18:56:19 +00001349- Issue #8248: Add some tests for the bool type. Patch by Gregory Nofi.
1350
Florent Xiclunad6995eb2010-03-30 19:43:09 +00001351- Issue #8263: Now regrtest.py will report a failure if it receives a
1352 KeyboardInterrupt (SIGINT).
1353
Florent Xiclunafd1b0932010-03-28 00:25:02 +00001354- Issue #8180 and #8207: Fix test_pep277 on OS X and add more tests for special
1355 Unicode normalization cases.
Florent Xiclunaeb136182010-03-21 18:49:50 +00001356
Florent Xicluna3f88c0e2010-03-19 14:40:31 +00001357- Issue #7783: test.support.open_urlresource invalidates the outdated files
1358 from the local cache.
Florent Xiclunaf089fd62010-03-19 14:25:03 +00001359
Florent Xiclunab14930c2010-03-13 15:26:44 +00001360- Issue #7849: Now the utility ``check_warnings`` verifies if the warnings are
1361 effectively raised.
1362
Florent Xiclunac9c79782010-03-08 12:24:53 +00001363- The four path modules (genericpath, macpath, ntpath, posixpath) share a
1364 common TestCase for some tests: test_genericpath.CommonTest.
1365
Florent Xicluna0e62a142010-03-06 17:34:48 +00001366- Print platform information when running the whole test suite, or using
1367 the --verbose flag.
1368
Florent Xicluna683a7e72010-03-03 00:06:37 +00001369- Issue #767675: enable test_pep277 on POSIX platforms with Unicode-friendly
1370 filesystem encoding.
1371
R. David Murray378c0cf2010-02-24 01:46:21 +00001372- Issue #6292: for the moment at least, the test suite runs cleanly if python
1373 is run with the -OO flag. Tests requiring docstrings are skipped.
1374
Ezio Melotti184bdfb2010-02-18 09:37:05 +00001375- Issue #7712: test.support gained a new `temp_cwd` context manager which is
1376 now also used by regrtest to run all the tests in a temporary directory.
1377 The original CWD is saved in `support.SAVEDCWD`.
1378 Thanks to Florent Xicluna who helped with the patch.
1379
Mark Dickinsonedff7af2010-02-13 18:34:53 +00001380- Issue #7924: Fix an intermittent 'XXX undetected error' failure in
1381 test_capi (only seen so far on platforms where the curses module
1382 wasn't built), due to an uncleared exception.
1383
Florent Xicluna3f88c0e2010-03-19 14:40:31 +00001384- Issue #7728: test_timeout was changed to use support.bind_port instead of a
1385 hard coded port.
R. David Murraye9e95932010-02-06 05:00:15 +00001386
R. David Murray445448c2009-12-20 17:28:31 +00001387- Issue #7376: instead of running a self-test (which was failing) when called
1388 with no arguments, doctest.py now gives a usage message.
1389
R. David Murrayef1992b2009-12-16 15:19:27 +00001390- Issue #7396: fix regrtest -s, which was broken by the -j enhancement.
1391
R. David Murray596da442009-12-14 23:06:11 +00001392- Issue #7498: test_multiprocessing now uses test.support.find_unused_port
R. David Murray83396232009-12-14 22:45:15 +00001393 instead of a hardcoded port number in test_rapid_restart.
1394
Victor Stinnere125f132010-05-15 21:04:43 +00001395- Issue #7431: use TESTFN in test_linecache instead of trying to create a
R. David Murrayba311052009-12-04 00:09:14 +00001396 file in the Lib/test directory, which might be read-only for the
1397 user running the tests.
1398
R. David Murray35768ad2009-11-15 00:23:21 +00001399- Issue #7324: add a sanity check to regrtest argument parsing to
1400 catch the case of an option with no handler.
1401
R. David Murray7dc72cc2009-11-14 16:13:02 +00001402- Issue #7312: Add a -F flag to run the selected tests in a loop until
1403 a test fails. Can be combined with -j.
1404
Antoine Pitrou060cee22009-11-13 16:29:04 +00001405- Issue #6551: test_zipimport could import and then destroy some modules of
1406 the encodings package, which would make other tests fail further down
1407 the road because the internally cached encoders and decoders would point
1408 to empty global variables.
1409
Antoine Pitrou941ee882009-11-11 20:59:38 +00001410- Issue #7295: Do not use a hardcoded file name in test_tarfile.
1411
Antoine Pitrou557934f2009-11-06 22:41:14 +00001412- Issue #7270: Add some dedicated unit tests for multi-thread synchronization
1413 primitives such as Lock, RLock, Condition, Event and Semaphore.
1414
Brett Cannoncfed0292009-11-05 01:26:57 +00001415- Issue #7248 (part 2): Use a unique temporary directory for importlib source
1416 tests instead of tempfile.tempdir. This prevents the tests from sharing state
1417 between concurrent executions on the same system.
1418
Brett Cannon0ae45112009-11-05 01:17:22 +00001419- Issue #7248: In importlib.test.source.util a try/finally block did not make
1420 sure that some referenced objects actually were created in the block before
1421 calling methods on the object.
1422
Antoine Pitrou65c9c642009-10-30 17:25:12 +00001423- Issue #7222: Make thread "reaping" more reliable so that reference
1424 leak-chasing test runs give sensible results. The previous method of
1425 reaping threads could return successfully while some Thread objects were
1426 still referenced. This also introduces a new private function:
1427 :func:`_thread._count()`.
1428
R. David Murray27144602009-10-19 15:26:16 +00001429- Issue #7151: fixed regrtest -j so that output to stderr from a test no
1430 longer runs the risk of causing the worker thread to fail.
1431
Antoine Pitrou4de39cd2009-10-10 21:08:31 +00001432- Issue #7055: test___all__ now greedily detects all modules which have an
1433 __all__ attribute, rather than using a hardcoded and incomplete list.
1434
R. David Murray0bc11ae2009-10-18 22:18:17 +00001435- Issue #7058: Added save/restore for things like sys.argv and cwd to
1436 runtest_inner in regrtest, with warnings if the called test modifies them,
1437 and a new section in the summary report at the end.
R. David Murray097e51f2009-10-07 23:38:55 +00001438
Mark Dickinson2e304402009-10-04 18:43:54 +00001439- Issue #7042: Fix test_signal (test_itimer_virtual) failure on OS X 10.6.
1440
Brett Cannon3c273842009-07-20 00:14:29 +00001441- Fixed tests in importlib.test.source.test_abc_loader that were masking
1442 the proper exceptions that should be raised for missing or improper code
1443 object bytecode.
1444
Brett Cannonb49c70c2009-07-15 04:08:33 +00001445- Removed importlib's custom test discovery code and switched to
1446 unittest.TestLoader.discover().
1447
Antoine Pitroua69ba652010-01-18 21:20:53 +00001448Tools/Demos
1449-----------
1450
1451- iobench (a file I/O benchmark) and ccbench (a concurrency benchmark) were
1452 added to the `Tools/` directory. They were previously living in the
1453 sandbox.
1454
Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +00001455
Benjamin Peterson01bf2362009-06-13 14:50:22 +00001456What's New in Python 3.1?
1457=========================
1458
1459*Release date: 27-June-2009*
1460
1461Core and Builtins
1462-----------------
1463
Mark Dickinsonad195562009-06-24 19:01:32 +00001464- Issue #6334: Fix bug in range length calculation for ranges with
1465 large arguments.
1466
Raymond Hettinger159eac92009-06-23 20:38:54 +00001467- Issue #6329: Fixed iteration for memoryview objects (it was being blocked
1468 because it wasn't recognized as a sequence).
1469
Benjamin Peterson01bf2362009-06-13 14:50:22 +00001470Library
1471-------
1472
Georg Brandld07ac642009-08-13 07:50:57 +00001473- Issue #6126: Fixed pdb command-line usage.
1474
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00001475- Issue #6314: logging: performs extra checks on the "level" argument.
Vinay Sajip0f6eac22009-06-21 17:46:49 +00001476
Facundo Batista10706e22009-06-19 20:34:30 +00001477- Issue #6274: Fixed possible file descriptors leak in subprocess.py
1478
Benjamin Peterson6a38ced2009-06-14 18:32:19 +00001479- Accessing io.StringIO.buffer now raises an AttributeError instead of
1480 io.UnsupportedOperation.
1481
Vinay Sajip0f6eac22009-06-21 17:46:49 +00001482- Issue #6271: mmap tried to close invalid file handle (-1) when anonymous.
Hirokazu Yamamoto3d8827d2009-06-14 04:58:16 +00001483 (On Unix)
1484
Gregory P. Smithe88749b2009-06-26 08:05:13 +00001485- Issue #1202: zipfile module would cause a struct.error when attempting to
1486 store files with a CRC32 > 2**31-1.
1487
Matthias Kloseab2b7552009-06-22 13:05:52 +00001488Extension Modules
1489-----------------
1490
1491- Issue #5590: Remove unused global variable in pyexpat extension.
1492
Benjamin Peterson01bf2362009-06-13 14:50:22 +00001493
Antoine Pitrou3b1b8072009-05-30 21:01:23 +00001494What's New in Python 3.1 Release Candidate 2?
1495=============================================
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00001496
Benjamin Petersonc7c12282009-06-13 13:15:04 +00001497*Release date: 13-June-2009*
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00001498
1499Core and Builtins
1500-----------------
1501
Raymond Hettinger94f55832009-06-12 18:40:16 +00001502- Fixed SystemError triggered by "range([], 1, -1)".
1503
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc66f8c432009-06-09 21:30:01 +00001504- Issue #5924: On Windows, a large PYTHONPATH environment variable
1505 (more than 255 characters) would be completely ignored.
1506
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc24e581f2009-06-01 21:28:37 +00001507- Issue #4547: When debugging a very large function, it was not always
1508 possible to update the lineno attribute of the current frame.
1509
Antoine Pitrou8e124f32009-05-30 21:41:10 +00001510- Issue #5330: C functions called with keyword arguments were not reported by
Alexandre Vassalottiea3714e2009-07-17 09:34:31 +00001511 the various profiling modules (profile, cProfile). Patch by Hagen Fürstenau.
Antoine Pitrou8e124f32009-05-30 21:41:10 +00001512
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00001513Library
1514-------
1515
Tarek Ziadéc9e6cec2009-07-12 08:27:26 +00001516- Issue #6438: Fixed distutils.cygwinccompiler.get_versions : the regular
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00001517 expression string pattern was trying to match against a bytes returned by
Tarek Ziadéc9e6cec2009-07-12 08:27:26 +00001518 Popen. Tested under win32 to build the py-postgresql project.
1519
Martin v. Löwis83eacca2009-06-12 17:31:41 +00001520- Issue #6258: Support AMD64 in bdist_msi.
1521
R. David Murray58641de2009-06-12 15:33:19 +00001522- Issue #6195: fixed doctest to no longer try to read 'source' data from
1523 binary files.
1524
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00001525- Issue #5262: Fixed bug in next rollover time computation in
1526 TimedRotatingFileHandler.
1527
Benjamin Peterson0926ad12009-06-06 18:02:12 +00001528- Issue #6217: The C implementation of io.TextIOWrapper didn't include the
1529 errors property. Additionally, the errors and encoding properties of StringIO
1530 are always None now.
1531
Antoine Pitroud9dfaa92009-06-04 20:32:06 +00001532- Issue #6137: The pickle module now translates module names when loading
1533 or dumping pickles with a 2.x-compatible protocol, in order to make data
1534 sharing and migration easier. This behaviour can be disabled using the
1535 new `fix_imports` optional argument.
1536
Raymond Hettinger40925d22009-06-04 18:32:39 +00001537- Removed the ipaddr module.
1538
Georg Brandlb54d8012009-06-04 09:11:51 +00001539- Issue #3613: base64.{encode,decode}string are now called
1540 base64.{encode,decode}bytes which reflects what type they accept and return.
1541 The old names are still there as deprecated aliases.
1542
Georg Brandl317185a2009-06-04 09:00:56 +00001543- Issue #5767: Remove sgmlop support from xmlrpc.client.
1544
Martin v. Löwis74b7e442009-06-01 04:23:07 +00001545- Issue #6150: Fix test_unicode on wide-unicode builds.
1546
Antoine Pitrouc06de472009-05-30 21:04:26 +00001547- Issue #6149: Fix initialization of WeakValueDictionary objects from non-empty
1548 parameters.
1549
Martin v. Löwis79b13872009-06-01 04:13:14 +00001550Windows
1551-------
1552
Martin v. Löwisb7a51562009-06-07 17:55:17 +00001553- Issue #6221: Delete test registry key before running the test.
1554
Martin v. Löwis79b13872009-06-01 04:13:14 +00001555- Issue #6158: Package Sine-1000Hz-300ms.aif in MSI file.
1556
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc11729992009-06-01 21:16:17 +00001557C-API
1558-----
1559
1560- Issue #5735: Python compiled with --with-pydebug should throw an
1561 ImportError when trying to import modules compiled without
1562 --with-pydebug, and vice-versa.
1563
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00001564
Brett Cannonc6d936e2009-06-07 20:09:53 +00001565Build
1566-----
1567
1568- Issue #6154: Make sure the intl library is added to LIBS if needed. Also
1569 added LIBS to OS X framework builds.
1570
Ronald Oussoren99aab652009-06-08 21:22:57 +00001571- Issue #5809: Specifying both --enable-framework and --enable-shared is
1572 an error. Configure now explicity tells you about this.
1573
1574
Brett Cannonc6d936e2009-06-07 20:09:53 +00001575
Mark Dickinson4eb88b32009-05-11 16:41:34 +00001576What's New in Python 3.1 release candidate 1?
1577=============================================
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00001578
Benjamin Petersone6ad3872009-05-30 15:30:16 +00001579*Release date: 2009-05-30*
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00001580
1581Core and Builtins
1582-----------------
1583
Martin v. Löwis8ed91b22009-05-29 16:22:26 +00001584- Issue #6097: Escape UTF-8 surrogates resulting from mbstocs conversion
1585 of the command line.
1586
Martin v. Löwisc15bdef2009-05-29 14:47:46 +00001587- Issue #6012: Add cleanup support to O& argument parsing.
1588
Eric Smith41669ca2009-05-23 14:23:22 +00001589- Issue #6089: Fixed str.format with certain invalid field specifiers
1590 that would raise SystemError.
1591
Raymond Hettinger2bcde142009-05-29 04:52:27 +00001592- Issue #5982: staticmethod and classmethod now expose the wrapped
1593 function with __func__.
1594
Raymond Hettinger91e3b9d2009-05-28 22:20:03 +00001595- Added support for multiple context managers in the same with-statement.
1596 Deprecated contextlib.nested() which is no longer needed.
Georg Brandl0c315622009-05-25 21:10:36 +00001597
Mark Dickinson6b1e43b2009-05-20 18:41:04 +00001598- Issue #5829: complex("1e500") no longer raises OverflowError. This
1599 makes it consistent with float("1e500") and interpretation of real
1600 and imaginary literals.
1601
Hirokazu Yamamoto8223c242009-05-17 04:21:53 +00001602- Issue #3527: Removed Py_WIN_WIDE_FILENAMES which is not used any more.
1603
R. David Murraydd226ea2009-05-13 12:27:21 +00001604- Issue #5994: the marshal module now has docstrings.
1605
Mark Dickinsond1ec8b22009-05-11 15:45:15 +00001606- Issue #5981: Fix three minor inf/nan issues in float.fromhex:
1607 (1) inf and nan strings with trailing whitespace were incorrectly
1608 rejected; (2) parsing of strings representing infinities and nans
1609 was locale aware; and (3) the interpretation of fromhex('-nan')
1610 didn't match that of float('-nan').
1611
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00001612Library
1613-------
1614
Martin v. Löwisb6a748b2009-05-29 15:23:17 +00001615- Issue #4859: Implement PEP 383 for pwd, spwd, and grp.
1616
R. David Murrayfb123912009-05-28 18:19:00 +00001617- smtplib 'login' and 'cram-md5' login are also fixed (see Issue #5259).
1618
R. David Murray1f1b9d32009-05-27 20:56:59 +00001619- Issue #6121: pydoc now ignores leading and trailing spaces in the
1620 argument to the 'help' function.
1621
Georg Brandlfaf41492009-05-26 18:31:11 +00001622- Issue #6118: urllib.parse.quote_plus ignored the encoding and errors
1623 arguments for strings with a space in them.
1624
Raymond Hettinger089ba7f2009-05-27 00:38:24 +00001625- collections.namedtuple() was not working with the following field
1626 names: cls, self, tuple, itemgetter, and property.
1627
Benjamin Peterson14a3dd72009-05-25 00:51:58 +00001628- In unittest, using a skipping decorator on a class is now equivalent to
1629 skipping every test on the class. The ClassTestSuite class has been removed.
1630
Martin v. Löwis70ccd162009-05-24 19:47:22 +00001631- Issue #6050: Don't fail extracting a directory from a zipfile if
1632 the directory already exists.
1633
Antoine Pitrou61f77b52009-05-24 15:46:13 +00001634- Issue #1309352: fcntl now converts its third arguments to a C `long` rather
1635 than an int, which makes some operations possible under 64-bit Linux (e.g.
1636 DN_MULTISHOT with F_NOTIFY).
1637
Antoine Pitrou716c4442009-05-23 19:04:03 +00001638- Issue #5761: Add the name of the underlying file to the repr() of various
1639 IO objects.
1640
R. David Murraycaa27b72009-05-23 18:49:56 +00001641- Issue #5259: smtplib plain auth login no longer gives a traceback. Fix
1642 by Musashi Tamura, tests by Marcin Bachry.
1643
Antoine Pitrouc3ee1662009-05-23 16:02:33 +00001644- Issue #1983: Fix functions taking or returning a process identifier to use
1645 the dedicated C type ``pid_t`` instead of a C ``int``. Some platforms have
1646 a process identifier type wider than the standard C integer type.
1647
R. David Murray87e20742009-05-23 01:30:26 +00001648- Issue #4066: smtplib.SMTP_SSL._get_socket now correctly returns the socket.
1649 Patch by Farhan Ahmad, test by Marcin Bachry.
1650
Antoine Pitrou6e610062009-05-15 17:04:50 +00001651- Issue #2116: Weak references and weak dictionaries now support copy()ing and
1652 deepcopy()ing.
1653
Antoine Pitrouc1d09362009-05-15 12:15:51 +00001654- Issue #1655: Make imaplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
1655
Antoine Pitrou37d1c182009-05-14 21:54:00 +00001656- Issue #5918: Fix a crash in the parser module.
1657
Antoine Pitrou2ca24f02009-05-14 21:30:46 +00001658- Issue #1664: Make nntplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
1659
Antoine Pitroue4501852009-05-14 18:55:55 +00001660- Issue #5006: Better handling of unicode byte-order marks (BOM) in the io
1661 library. This means, for example, that opening an UTF-16 text file in
1662 append mode doesn't add a BOM at the end of the file if the file isn't
1663 empty.
1664
R. David Murray74b89242009-05-13 17:33:03 +00001665- Issue #4050: inspect.findsource/getsource now raise an IOError if the 'source'
1666 file is a binary. Patch by Brodie Rao, tests by Daniel Diniz. This fix
1667 corrects a pydoc regression.
1668
R. David Murray99352742009-05-07 18:24:38 +00001669- Issue 5955: aifc's close method did not close the file it wrapped,
1670 now it does. This also means getfp method now returns the real fp.
1671
Benjamin Peterson932073a2009-05-23 16:14:33 +00001672Installation
1673------------
1674
1675- Issue #6047: fullinstall has been removed because Python 3's executable will
1676 now be known as python3.
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00001677
Ronald Oussorenbe7149e2009-05-26 21:39:08 +00001678- Lib/smtpd.py is no longer installed as a script.
1679
Martin v. Löwisdb1c3992009-05-23 10:38:26 +00001680Extension Modules
1681-----------------
1682
Martin v. Löwisa6a9c4d2009-05-30 06:15:30 +00001683- Issue #3061: Use wcsftime for time.strftime where available.
Martin v. Löwis1b01ccd2009-05-30 06:13:40 +00001684
Martin v. Löwise23c8682009-05-29 16:01:34 +00001685- Issue #4873: Fix resource leaks in error cases of pwd and grp.
1686
Martin v. Löwisdb1c3992009-05-23 10:38:26 +00001687- Issue #6093: Fix off-by-one error in locale.strxfrm.
1688
Benjamin Peterson744af442009-05-23 18:51:49 +00001689- The _functools and _locale modules are now built into the libpython shared
1690 library instead of as extension modules.
Benjamin Peterson3dc22e82009-05-23 17:09:43 +00001691
Antoine Pitrou20327222009-05-24 20:39:11 +00001692Build
1693-----
1694
1695- Issue #3585: Add pkg-config support. It creates a python-2.7.pc file
1696 and a python3.pc symlink in the $(LIBDIR)/pkgconfig directory. Patch by
1697 Clinton Roy.
1698
Brett Cannon1262e7c2009-05-11 01:47:11 +00001699Tests
1700-----
1701
1702- Issue 5442: Tests for importlib were not properly skipping case-sensitivity
1703 tests on darwin even when the OS was installed on a case-sensitive
1704 filesystem. Also fixed tests that should not be run when
1705 sys.dont_write_bytecode is true.
1706
1707
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00001708What's New in Python 3.1 beta 1?
1709================================
1710
Benjamin Peterson5c5f3de2009-05-06 20:43:28 +00001711*Release date: 2009-05-06*
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00001712
1713Core and Builtins
1714-----------------
1715
Mark Dickinson865e01a2009-05-07 16:37:01 +00001716- Issue #5914: Add new C API function PyOS_string_to_double, and
1717 deprecate PyOS_ascii_strtod and PyOS_ascii_atof.
1718
Eric Smith741191f2009-05-06 13:08:15 +00001719- Issue #3382: float.__format__, complex.__format__, and %-formatting
1720 no longer map 'F' to 'f'. Because of issue #5859 (below), this only
1721 affects nan -> NAN and inf -> INF.
1722
Mark Hammond5a607a32009-05-06 08:04:54 +00001723- Issue #5799: ntpath (ie, os.path on Windows) fully supports UNC pathnames
1724 in all operations, including splitdrive, split, etc. splitunc() now issues
1725 a PendingDeprecation warning.
1726
Eric Smith63376222009-05-05 14:04:18 +00001727- Issue #5920: For float.__format__, change the behavior with the
1728 empty presentation type (that is, not one of 'e', 'f', 'g', or 'n')
1729 to be like 'g' but with at least one decimal point and with a
1730 default precision of 12. Previously, the behavior the same but with
1731 a default precision of 6. This more closely matches str(), and
1732 reduces surprises when adding alignment flags to the empty
1733 presentation type. This also affects the new complex.__format__ in
1734 the same way.
1735
Martin v. Löwis011e8422009-05-05 04:43:17 +00001736- Implement PEP 383, Non-decodable Bytes in System Character Interfaces.
1737
R. David Murrayb18500d2009-05-04 22:59:07 +00001738- Issue #5890: in subclasses of 'property' the __doc__ attribute was
1739 shadowed by classtype's, even if it was None. property now
1740 inserts the __doc__ into the subclass instance __dict__.
1741
Antoine Pitrou244651a2009-05-04 18:56:13 +00001742- Issue #4426: The UTF-7 decoder was too strict and didn't accept some legal
1743 sequences. Patch by Nick Barnes and Victor Stinner.
1744
Martin v. Löwise0a2b722009-05-10 08:08:56 +00001745- Issue #3672: Reject surrogates in utf-8 codec; add surrogatepass error handler.
Martin v. Löwisdb12d452009-05-02 18:52:14 +00001746
Benjamin Petersond2e0c792009-05-01 20:40:59 +00001747- Issue #5883: In the io module, the BufferedIOBase and TextIOBase ABCs have
1748 received a new method, detach(). detach() disconnects the underlying stream
1749 from the buffer or text IO and returns it.
1750
Mark Dickinson33841c32009-05-01 15:37:04 +00001751- Issue #5859: Remove switch from '%f' to '%g'-style formatting for
1752 floats with absolute value over 1e50. Also remove length
1753 restrictions for float formatting: '%.67f' % 12.34 and '%.120e' %
1754 12.34 no longer raise an exception.
Mark Dickinsonf489caf2009-05-01 11:42:00 +00001755
Eric Smith741191f2009-05-06 13:08:15 +00001756- Issue #1588: Add complex.__format__. For example,
Eric Smith58a42242009-04-30 01:00:33 +00001757 format(complex(1, 2./3), '.5') now produces a sensible result.
1758
Mark Dickinsond3ca5572009-04-29 18:47:07 +00001759- Issue #5864: Fix empty format code formatting for floats so that it
1760 never gives more than the requested number of significant digits.
1761
Eric Smith6dc46f52009-04-27 20:39:49 +00001762- Issue #5793: Rationalize isdigit / isalpha / tolower, etc. Includes
1763 new Py_ISDIGIT / Py_ISALPHA / Py_TOLOWER, etc. in pctypes.h.
1764
Eric Smithcc32a112009-04-26 21:35:14 +00001765- Issue #5835: Deprecate PyOS_ascii_formatd.
1766
Martin v. Löwis71efeb72009-04-26 01:02:07 +00001767- Issue #4971: Fix titlecase for characters that are their own
1768 titlecase, but not their own uppercase.
1769
Benjamin Peterson193152c2009-04-25 01:08:45 +00001770- Issue #5283: Setting __class__ in __del__ caused a segfault.
1771
Mark Dickinsonad476da2009-04-23 19:14:16 +00001772- Issue #5816: complex(repr(z)) now recovers z exactly, even when
1773 z involves nans, infs or negative zeros.
1774
Mark Dickinson4a16e3a2009-04-23 19:15:48 +00001775- Issue #3166: Make int -> float conversions correctly rounded.
Mark Dickinsonc6300392009-04-20 21:38:00 +00001776
Mark Dickinsone6a076d2009-04-18 11:48:33 +00001777- Issue #1869 (and many duplicates): make round(x, n) correctly
1778 rounded for a float x, by using the decimal <-> binary conversions
1779 from Python/dtoa.c. As a consequence, (e.g.) round(x, 2) now
1780 consistently agrees with format(x, '.2f').
1781
Benjamin Petersonae937c02009-04-18 20:54:08 +00001782- Issue #5787: object.__getattribute__(some_type, "__bases__") segfaulted on
1783 some builtin types.
1784
Eric Smith0923d1d2009-04-16 20:16:10 +00001785- Issue #5772: format(1e100, '<') produces '1e+100', not '1.0e+100'.
1786
Eric Smith35e84722009-04-16 20:21:28 +00001787- Issue #5515: str.format() type 'n' combined with commas and leading
1788 zeros no longer gives odd results with ints and floats.
Eric Smith0923d1d2009-04-16 20:16:10 +00001789
1790- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for
1791 floats.
1792
Mark Dickinson3370cce2009-04-17 22:40:53 +00001793- The str function switches to exponential notation at
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00001794 1e11, not 1e12. This avoids printing 13 significant digits in
1795 situations where only 12 of them are correct. Example problem
1796 value: str(1e11 + 0.5). (This minor issue has existed in 2.x for a
1797 long time.)
1798
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00001799- Issue #1580: On most platforms, use a 'short' float repr: for a
1800 finite float x, repr(x) now outputs a string based on the shortest
1801 sequence of decimal digits that rounds to x. Previous behaviour was
1802 to output 17 significant digits and then strip trailing zeros.
Mark Dickinson3370cce2009-04-17 22:40:53 +00001803 Another minor difference is that the new repr switches to
1804 exponential notation at 1e16 instead of the previous 1e17; this
1805 avoids misleading output in some cases.
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00001806
1807 There's a new sys attribute sys.float_repr_style, which takes
1808 the value 'short' to indicate that we're using short float repr,
1809 and 'legacy' if the short float repr isn't available for one
1810 reason or another.
1811
1812 The float repr change involves incorporating David Gay's 'perfect
1813 rounding' code into the Python core (it's in Python/dtoa.c). As a
1814 secondary consequence, all string-to-float and float-to-string
1815 conversions (including all float formatting operations) will be
1816 correctly rounded on these platforms.
1817
1818 See issue 1580 discussions for details of platforms for which
1819 this change does not apply.
1820
Benjamin Peterson2808d3c2009-04-15 21:34:27 +00001821- Issue #5759: float() didn't call __float__ on str subclasses.
1822
Georg Brandlabc38772009-04-12 15:51:51 +00001823- The string.maketrans() function is deprecated; there is a new static method
1824 maketrans() on the bytes and bytearray classes. This removes confusion about
1825 the types string.maketrans() is supposed to work with, and mirrors the
1826 methods available on the str class.
1827
R. David Murraydc6da8a2009-04-09 22:16:43 +00001828- Issue #2170: refactored xml.dom.minidom.normalize, increasing both
1829 its clarity and its speed.
1830
Matthias Klose091c7b12009-04-07 13:24:27 +00001831- Issue #1113244: Py_XINCREF, Py_DECREF, Py_XDECREF: Add `do { ... } while (0)'
1832 to avoid compiler warnings.
1833
Walter Dörwald8dc33d52009-05-06 14:41:26 +00001834- Issue #3739: The unicode-internal encoder now reports the number of characters
1835 consumed like any other encoder (instead of the number of bytes).
1836
Benjamin Peterson0b4915e2009-04-25 21:11:45 +00001837Installation
1838------------
1839
1840- Issue #5756: Install idle and pydoc with a 3 suffix.
1841
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00001842Library
1843-------
1844
Martin v. Löwis403117a2009-05-24 19:19:17 +00001845- Issue #5311: bdist_msi can now build packages that do not depend on a
1846 specific Python version.
1847
Raymond Hettingereb816952009-05-29 01:22:18 +00001848- Issue #5150: IDLE's format menu now has an option to strip trailing
1849 whitespace.
1850
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00001851- Issue #5940: distutils.command.build_clib.check_library_list was not doing
Tarek Ziadédd9f65f2009-05-06 07:26:24 +00001852 the right type checkings anymore.
1853
Thomas Heller00cfc372009-05-05 19:04:40 +00001854- Issue #4875: On win32, ctypes.util.find_library does no longer
1855 return directories.
1856
Georg Brandl243ad662009-05-05 09:00:19 +00001857- Issue #5142: Add the ability to skip modules while stepping to pdb.
1858
Georg Brandl991f9202009-05-05 08:31:54 +00001859- Issue #1309567: Fix linecache behavior of stripping subdirectories when
1860 looking for files given by a relative filename.
1861
Georg Brandleaa84ef2009-05-05 08:14:33 +00001862- Issue #5923: Update the ``turtle`` module to version 1.1, add two new
1863 turtle demos in Demo/turtle.
1864
Antoine Pitrou3c33e082009-05-04 21:21:36 +00001865- Issue #5692: In :class:`zipfile.Zipfile`, fix wrong path calculation when
1866 extracting a file to the root directory.
1867
Hirokazu Yamamotobbb9be72009-05-04 05:56:46 +00001868- Issue #5913: os.listdir() should fail for empty path on windows.
1869
Antoine Pitroua9f48a02009-05-02 21:41:14 +00001870- Issue #5084: unpickling now interns the attribute names of pickled objects,
1871 saving memory and avoiding growth in size of subsequent pickles. Proposal
1872 and original patch by Jake McGuire.
1873
Benjamin Petersonc6b607d2009-05-02 12:36:44 +00001874- The json module now works exclusively with str and not bytes.
1875
Gregory P. Smithe54dff52009-05-01 22:13:48 +00001876- Issue #3959: The ipaddr module has been added to the standard library.
1877 Contributed by Google.
1878
Antoine Pitrou7fff0962009-05-01 21:09:44 +00001879- Issue #3002: ``shutil.copyfile()`` and ``shutil.copytree()`` now raise an
1880 error when a named pipe is encountered, rather than blocking infinitely.
1881
Raymond Hettinger1f0db402009-04-29 00:38:08 +00001882- Issue #5857: tokenize.tokenize() now returns named tuples.
1883
Thomas Hellerc1edc2d2009-04-28 19:55:58 +00001884- Issue #4305: ctypes should now build again on mipsel-linux-gnu
1885
Antoine Pitrou7a0fedf2009-04-27 22:31:40 +00001886- Issue #1734234: Massively speedup ``unicodedata.normalize()`` when the
1887 string is already in normalized form, by performing a quick check beforehand.
1888 Original patch by Rauli Ruohonen.
1889
Antoine Pitrou57f3d932009-04-27 21:04:19 +00001890- Issue #5853: calling a function of the mimetypes module from several threads
1891 at once could hit the recursion limit if the mimetypes database hadn't been
1892 initialized before.
1893
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00001894- Issue #5854: Updated __all__ to include some missing names and remove some
1895 names which should not be exported.
1896
Thomas Heller34596a92009-04-24 20:50:00 +00001897- Issue #3102: All global symbols that the _ctypes extension defines
1898 are now prefixed with 'Py' or '_ctypes'.
1899
1900- Issue #5041: ctypes does now allow pickling wide character.
1901
Mark Dickinsond4d95f82009-04-24 14:06:19 +00001902- Issue #5812: For the two-argument form of the Fraction constructor,
1903 Fraction(m, n), m and n are permitted to be arbitrary Rational
1904 instances.
1905
Mark Dickinsoncf63f2f2009-04-22 17:50:21 +00001906- Issue #5812: Fraction('1e6') is valid: more generally, any string
1907 that's valid for float() is now valid for Fraction(), with the
1908 exception of strings representing NaNs and infinities.
1909
Antoine Pitroucf4c7492009-04-19 00:09:36 +00001910- Issue #5734: BufferedRWPair was poorly tested and had several glaring
1911 bugs. Patch by Brian Quinlan.
1912
R. David Murray9e94ddf2009-04-13 17:06:33 +00001913- Issue #1161031: fix readwrite select flag handling: POLLPRI now
1914 results in a handle_expt_event call, not handle_read_event, and POLLERR
1915 and POLLNVAL now call handle_close, not handle_expt_event. Also,
1916 dispatcher now has an 'ignore_log_types' attribute for suppressing
1917 log messages, which is set to 'warning' by default.
1918
Matthias Klosea3d29e82009-04-07 13:13:10 +00001919- Issue #2703: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher.__init__: Provide default values for
1920 new arguments introduced in 2.5.
1921
Walter Dörwald1b08b302009-04-25 14:13:56 +00001922- Issue #5828 (Invalid behavior of unicode.lower): Fixed bogus logic in
1923 makeunicodedata.py and regenerated the Unicode database (This fixes
1924 u'\u1d79'.lower() == '\x00').
1925
Matthias Klose535336f2009-04-07 13:49:45 +00001926Extension Modules
1927-----------------
1928
Benjamin Petersone04b6272009-05-04 22:25:21 +00001929- Issue #5881: Remove old undocumented compatibility interfaces in hashlib and
1930 pwd.
1931
Mark Dickinsonea835e72009-04-19 20:40:33 +00001932- Issue #5463: In struct module, remove deprecated float coercion
1933 for integer type codes: struct.pack('L', 0.3) should now raise
1934 an error. The _PY_STRUCT_FLOAT_COERCE constant has been removed.
1935 The version number has been bumped to 0.3.
1936
Matthias Klose535336f2009-04-07 13:49:45 +00001937- Issue #5359: Readd the Berkley-DB detection code to allow _dbm be built
1938 using Berkley-DB.
1939
Nick Coghlan47384702009-04-22 16:13:36 +00001940Tests
1941-----
1942
1943- Issue #5354: New test support function import_fresh_module() makes
1944 it easy to import both normal and optimised versions of modules.
1945 test_heapq and test_warnings have been adjusted to use it, tests for
1946 other modules with both C and Python implementations in the stdlib
1947 can be adjusted to use it over time.
1948
Walter Dörwald4ba80132009-04-25 12:48:43 +00001949- Issue #5837: Certain sequences of calls to set() and unset() for
1950 support.EnvironmentVarGuard objects restored the environment variables
1951 incorrectly on __exit__.
1952
Benjamin Petersonb173f782009-05-05 22:31:58 +00001953C-API
1954-----
1955
1956- Issue #5630: A replacement PyCObject API, PyCapsule, has been added.
1957
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00001958
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00001959What's New in Python 3.1 alpha 2?
1960=================================
1961
Benjamin Peterson88f14352009-04-04 21:06:52 +00001962*Release date: 2009-4-4*
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00001963
1964Core and Builtins
1965-----------------
Benjamin Petersone099b372009-04-04 17:09:35 +00001966
Eric Smith1e1d7d22009-04-03 22:25:33 +00001967- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for
1968 integers.
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00001969
Benjamin Peterson8f76b492009-04-03 22:22:42 +00001970- Issue #5666: Py_BuildValue's 'c' code should create byte strings.
1971
Benjamin Peterson7fe98532009-04-02 00:33:55 +00001972- Issue #5499: The 'c' code for argument parsing functions now only accepts a
1973 byte, and the 'C' code only accepts a unicode character.
1974
Georg Brandl406b3d82009-04-11 21:24:37 +00001975- Fix a problem in PyErr_NormalizeException that leads to "undetected errors"
1976 when hitting the recursion limit under certain circumstances.
1977
Brett Cannon0759dd62009-04-01 18:13:07 +00001978- Issue #1665206: Remove the last eager import in _warnings.c and make it lazy.
1979
Georg Brandlab6f2f62009-03-31 04:16:10 +00001980- Fix a segfault when running test_exceptions with coverage, caused by
1981 insufficient checks in accessors of Exception.__context__.
1982
Guido van Rossum0ad59d42009-03-30 22:01:35 +00001983- Issue #5604: non-ASCII characters in module name passed to
1984 imp.find_module() were converted to UTF-8 while the path is
1985 converted to the default filesystem encoding, causing nonsense.
1986
Benjamin Peterson09832742009-03-26 17:15:46 +00001987- Issue #5126: str.isprintable() returned False for space characters.
1988
Ronald Oussorenfa1fcd12009-03-30 23:16:10 +00001989- Issue #4865: On MacOSX /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages is added to
1990 the end sys.path, for compatibility with the system install of Python.
1991
Antoine Pitrou3a652b12009-03-23 18:52:06 +00001992- Issue #4688: Add a heuristic so that tuples and dicts containing only
1993 untrackable objects are not tracked by the garbage collector. This can
1994 reduce the size of collections and therefore the garbage collection overhead
1995 on long-running programs, depending on their particular use of datatypes.
1996
Mark Dickinson17e4fdd2009-03-23 18:44:57 +00001997- Issue #5512: Rewrite PyLong long division algorithm (x_divrem) to
1998 improve its performance. Long divisions and remainder operations
1999 are now between 50% and 150% faster.
2000
Mark Dickinsonbd792642009-03-18 20:06:12 +00002001- Issue #4258: Make it possible to use base 2**30 instead of base
2002 2**15 for the internal representation of integers, for performance
2003 reasons. Base 2**30 is enabled by default on 64-bit machines. Add
2004 --enable-big-digits option to configure, which overrides the
2005 default. Add sys.int_info structseq to provide information about
2006 the internal format.
2007
Mark Dickinson081dfee2009-03-18 14:47:41 +00002008- Issue #4474: PyUnicode_FromWideChar now converts characters outside
2009 the BMP to surrogate pairs, on systems with sizeof(wchar_t) == 4
2010 and sizeof(Py_UNICODE) == 2.
2011
Eric Smith8ec90442009-03-14 12:29:34 +00002012- Issue #5237: Allow auto-numbered fields in str.format(). For
2013 example: '{} {}'.format(1, 2) == '1 2'.
2014
Antoine Pitrou652e7072009-03-13 19:25:20 +00002015- Issue #5392: when a very low recursion limit was set, the interpreter would
2016 abort with a fatal error after the recursion limit was hit twice.
2017
Matthias Klose042f1332009-04-04 14:32:42 +00002018- Issue #3845: In PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags avoid invalid memory access with
2019 short file names.
2020
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00002021Library
2022-------
2023
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00002024- Issue #2625: added missing items() call to the for loop in
R. David Murray548ac412009-04-02 19:44:43 +00002025 mailbox.MH.get_message().
2026
Hye-Shik Chang944820b2009-04-02 10:33:16 +00002027- Issue #5640: Fix _multibytecodec so that CJK codecs don't repeat
2028 error substitutions from non-strict codec error callbacks in
2029 incrementalencoder and StreamWriter.
2030
Georg Brandl33c28812009-04-01 23:07:29 +00002031- Issue #5656: Fix the coverage reporting when running the test suite with
2032 the -T argument.
2033
Raymond Hettinger3f10a952009-04-01 19:05:50 +00002034- Issue #5647: MutableSet.__iand__() no longer mutates self during iteration.
2035
Georg Brandl4ed72ac2009-04-01 04:28:33 +00002036- Issue #5624: Fix the _winreg module name still used in several modules.
2037
Benjamin Petersona1b49012009-03-31 23:11:32 +00002038- Issue #5628: Fix io.TextIOWrapper.read() with a unreadable buffer.
2039
Jesse Nollera9314042009-03-31 22:36:44 +00002040- Issue #5619: Multiprocessing children disobey the debug flag and causes
2041 popups on windows buildbots. Patch applied to work around this issue.
2042
Jesse Noller32d68c22009-03-31 18:48:42 +00002043- Issue #5400: Added patch for multiprocessing on netbsd compilation/support
2044
Hirokazu Yamamoto16caab02009-03-31 13:44:06 +00002045- Issue #5387: Fixed mmap.move crash by integer overflow.
2046
Jesse Nollerf8d00852009-03-31 03:25:07 +00002047- Issue #5261: Patch multiprocessing's semaphore.c to support context
2048 manager use: "with multiprocessing.Lock()" works now.
2049
Brett Cannon7f6b4f82009-03-30 21:30:26 +00002050- Issue #5236: Change time.strptime() to only take strings. Didn't work with
2051 bytes already but the failure was non-obvious.
2052
Jesse Noller7af4ef82009-03-30 16:47:15 +00002053- Issue #5177: Multiprocessing's SocketListener class now uses
2054 socket.SO_REUSEADDR on all connections so that the user no longer needs
2055 to wait 120 seconds for the socket to expire.
2056
Benjamin Peterson48e24782009-03-29 13:02:52 +00002057- Issue #5595: Fix UnboundedLocalError in ntpath.ismount().
2058
Antoine Pitrou66994e12009-03-29 00:45:26 +00002059- Issue #1174606: Calling read() without arguments of an unbounded file
2060 (typically /dev/zero under Unix) could crash the interpreter.
2061
Benjamin Peterson59406a92009-03-26 17:10:29 +00002062- The max_buffer_size arguments of io.BufferedWriter, io.BufferedRWPair, and
2063 io.BufferedRandom have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.2.
2064
Lars Gustäbel42e00912009-03-22 20:34:29 +00002065- Issue #5068: Fixed the tarfile._BZ2Proxy.read() method that would loop
2066 forever on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used
2067 with mode 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or
2068 partial bzip2 compressed data.
2069
Mark Dickinson79f52032009-03-17 23:12:51 +00002070- Issue #2110: Add support for thousands separator and 'n' type
2071 specifier to Decimal.__format__
2072
Mark Dickinson9c59fe02009-03-17 18:15:08 +00002073- Fix Decimal.__format__ bug that swapped the meanings of the '<' and
2074 '>' alignment characters.
2075
Antoine Pitrou0ae29cf2009-03-13 22:33:17 +00002076- The error detection code in FileIO.close() could fail to reflect the `errno`
2077 value, and report it as -1 instead.
2078
Antoine Pitroua28fcfd2009-03-13 23:42:55 +00002079- Issue #5016: FileIO.seekable() could return False if the file position
2080 was negative when truncated to a C int. Patch by Victor Stinner.
2081
Mark Dickinsonae681df2009-03-21 10:26:31 +00002082Extension Modules
2083-----------------
2084
Benjamin Petersone099b372009-04-04 17:09:35 +00002085- Issue #5391: mmap now deals exclusively with bytes.
2086
Mark Dickinsonae681df2009-03-21 10:26:31 +00002087- Issue #5463: In struct module, remove deprecated overflow wrapping
2088 when packing an integer: struct.pack('=L', -1) now raises
Mark Dickinsonb40b9472009-03-29 16:58:21 +00002089 struct.error instead of returning b'\xff\xff\xff\xff'. The
2090 _PY_STRUCT_RANGE_CHECKING and _PY_STRUCT_OVERFLOW_MASKING constants
2091 have been removed from the struct module.
Mark Dickinsonae681df2009-03-21 10:26:31 +00002092
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00002093
Benjamin Petersona58a6262009-03-07 16:34:40 +00002094What's New in Python 3.1 alpha 1
Barry Warsaw97f005d2008-12-03 16:46:14 +00002095================================
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00002096
Benjamin Petersona58a6262009-03-07 16:34:40 +00002097*Release date: 2009-03-07*
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00002098
2099Core and Builtins
2100-----------------
2101
Benjamin Peterson4fa88fa2009-03-04 00:14:51 +00002102- The io module has been reimplemented in C for speed.
2103
Raymond Hettingerb0d56af2009-03-03 10:52:49 +00002104- Give dict views an informative __repr__.
2105
Eric Smith5e5c0db2009-02-20 14:25:03 +00002106- Issue #5247: Improve error message when unknown format codes are
2107 used when using str.format() with str, int, and float arguments.
2108
Hirokazu Yamamoto575d1332009-02-16 09:13:20 +00002109- Issue #5249: time.strftime returned malformed string when format string
2110 contained non ascii character on windows.
2111
Benjamin Petersonf5b52242009-03-02 23:31:26 +00002112- Issue #4626: compile(), exec(), and eval() ignore the coding cookie if the
2113 source has already been decoded into str.
2114
Antoine Pitrou79eee6b2009-02-13 14:01:05 +00002115- Issue #5186: Reduce hash collisions for objects with no __hash__ method by
2116 rotating the object pointer by 4 bits to the right.
2117
Mark Dickinson87ec0852009-02-09 17:15:59 +00002118- Issue #4575: Fix Py_IS_INFINITY macro to work correctly on x87 FPUs:
2119 it now forces its argument to double before testing for infinity.
2120
Benjamin Petersonee1ae7c2009-02-08 21:07:20 +00002121- Issue #5137: Make len() correctly raise a TypeError when a __len__ method
2122 returns a non-number type.
2123
Benjamin Peterson87618552009-02-08 15:00:52 +00002124- Issue #5182: Removed memoryview.__str__.
2125
Mark Dickinsonc008a172009-02-01 13:59:22 +00002126- Issue #1717: Removed builtin cmp() function, dropped tp_compare
2127 slot, the C API functions PyObject_Compare and PyUnicode_Compare and
Mark Dickinsone94c6792009-02-02 20:36:42 +00002128 the type definition cmpfunc. The tp_compare slot has been renamed
2129 to tp_reserved, and is reserved for future usage.
Mark Dickinsonf02e0aa2009-02-01 12:13:56 +00002130
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00002131- Issue #1242657: the __len__() and __length_hint__() calls in several tools
Raymond Hettingere8364232009-02-02 22:55:09 +00002132 were suppressing all exceptions. These include list() and bytearray().
2133
Mark Dickinson1124e712009-01-28 21:25:58 +00002134- Issue #4707: round(x, n) now returns an integer if x is an integer.
2135 Previously it returned a float.
2136
Antoine Pitroub52ec782009-01-25 16:34:23 +00002137- Issue #4753: By enabling a configure option named '--with-computed-gotos'
2138 on compilers that support it (notably: gcc, SunPro, icc), the bytecode
2139 evaluation loop is compiled with a new dispatch mechanism which gives
2140 speedups of up to 20%, depending on the system, on various benchmarks.
2141
Antoine Pitrou81fabdb2009-01-22 10:11:36 +00002142- Issue #4874: Most builtin decoders now reject unicode input.
2143
Mark Dickinson9ffc0202009-01-20 20:45:53 +00002144- Issue #4842: Don't allow trailing 'L' when constructing an integer
2145 from a string.
2146
Benjamin Peterson05e782f2009-01-19 15:15:02 +00002147- Issue #4991: os.fdopen now raises an OSError for invalid file descriptors.
2148
Antoine Pitroue4bc7f62009-01-17 21:06:43 +00002149- Issue #4838: When a module is deallocated, free the memory backing the
2150 optional module state data.
2151
Mark Dickinson8055afd2009-01-17 10:04:45 +00002152- Issue #4910: Rename nb_long slot to nb_reserved, and change its
2153 type to (void *).
2154
Antoine Pitrou8d4e5052009-01-13 22:59:11 +00002155- Issue #4935: The overflow checking code in the expandtabs() method common
2156 to str, bytes and bytearray could be optimized away by the compiler, letting
2157 the interpreter segfault instead of raising an error.
2158
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf343e012009-01-12 23:58:21 +00002159- Issue #3720: Fix a crash when an iterator modifies its class and removes its
2160 __next__ method.
2161
Mark Dickinsone5e298f2009-01-12 20:49:19 +00002162- Issue #4910: Builtin int() function and PyNumber_Long/PyNumber_Int API
2163 function no longer attempt to call the __long__ slot to convert an object
2164 to an integer. Only the __int__ and __trunc__ slots are examined.
2165
Martin v. Löwis7c2b66c2009-01-12 08:21:03 +00002166- Issue #4893: Use NT threading on CE.
2167
Martin v. Löwisec59d042009-01-12 07:59:10 +00002168- Issue #4915: Port sysmodule to Windows CE.
2169
Antoine Pitrouab868312009-01-10 15:40:25 +00002170- Issue #4868: utf-8, utf-16 and latin1 decoding are now 2x to 4x faster. The
2171 common cases are optimized thanks to a dedicated fast path and a moderate
2172 amount of loop unrolling.
2173
Antoine Pitrou14b78f52009-01-09 22:27:08 +00002174- Issue #4074: Change the criteria for doing a full garbage collection (i.e.
2175 collecting the oldest generation) so that allocating lots of objects without
2176 destroying them does not show quadratic performance. Based on a proposal by
2177 Martin von Löwis at
2178 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080579.html.
2179
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00002180- Issue #4604: Some objects of the I/O library could still be used after
Antoine Pitrou8043cf82009-01-09 19:54:29 +00002181 having been closed (for instance, a read() call could return some
2182 previously buffered data). Patch by Dmitry Vasiliev.
2183
Antoine Pitrou05608432009-01-09 18:53:14 +00002184- Issue #4705: Fix the -u ("unbuffered binary stdout and stderr") command-line
2185 flag to work properly. Furthermore, when specifying -u, the text stdout
2186 and stderr streams have line-by-line buffering enabled (the default being
2187 to buffer arbitrary chunks of data).
2188
Raymond Hettinger35631532009-01-09 03:58:09 +00002189- The internal table, _PyLong_DigitValue, is now an array of unsigned chars
2190 instead of ints (reducing its size from 4 to 8 times thereby reducing
2191 Python's overall memory).
2192
Antoine Pitroud35cbf62009-01-06 19:02:24 +00002193- Issue #1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with
2194 an existing .py counterpart, override the co_filename attributes of all
2195 code objects if the original filename is obsolete (which can happen if the
2196 file has been renamed, moved, or if it is accessed through different paths).
2197 Patch by Ziga Seilnacht and Jean-Paul Calderone.
2198
Antoine Pitrouc3b39242009-01-03 16:59:18 +00002199- Issue #4580: Fix slicing of memoryviews when the item size is greater than
2200 one byte. Also fixes the meaning of len() so that it returns the number of
2201 items, rather than the size in bytes.
2202
Martin v. Löwis5c88d812009-01-02 20:47:48 +00002203- Issue #4075: Use OutputDebugStringW in Py_FatalError.
2204
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc374e2202009-01-01 23:05:36 +00002205- Issue #4747: When the terminal does not use utf-8, executing a script with
2206 non-ascii characters in its name could fail with a "SyntaxError: None" error.
2207
Hirokazu Yamamoto0f22d692009-01-01 16:03:45 +00002208- Issue #4797: IOError.filename was not set when _fileio.FileIO failed to open
Hirokazu Yamamoto8ed9a802009-01-01 16:09:52 +00002209 file with `bytes' filename on Windows.
Hirokazu Yamamoto0f22d692009-01-01 16:03:45 +00002210
Antoine Pitrou7ddda782009-01-01 15:35:33 +00002211- Issue #3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator
2212 did not get collected.
2213
Nick Coghlanf1f2f682008-12-30 07:29:12 +00002214- Issue #4701: PyObject_Hash now implicitly calls PyType_Ready on types
2215 where the tp_hash and tp_dict slots are both NULL.
2216
Georg Brandlccc47b62008-12-28 11:44:14 +00002217- Issue #4759: None is now allowed as the first argument of
2218 bytearray.translate(). It was always allowed for bytes.translate().
2219
Skip Montanaro80072cb2008-12-23 03:51:14 +00002220- Added test case to ensure attempts to read from a file opened for writing
2221 fail.
2222
Antoine Pitrou51f3ef92008-12-20 13:14:23 +00002223- Issue #3106: Speedup some comparisons (str/str and int/int).
2224
Antoine Pitrouf289ae62008-12-18 11:06:25 +00002225- Issue #2183: Simplify and optimize bytecode for list, dict and set
2226 comprehensions. Original patch for list comprehensions by Neal Norwitz.
2227
Antoine Pitrou621601a2008-12-17 23:18:19 +00002228- Issue #2467: gc.DEBUG_STATS reported invalid elapsed times. Also, always
2229 print elapsed times, not only when some objects are uncollectable /
2230 unreachable. Original patch by Neil Schemenauer.
2231
Mark Dickinson54bc1ec2008-12-17 16:19:07 +00002232- Issue #3439: Add a bit_length method to int.
2233
Mark Dickinsonda2706b2008-12-11 18:03:03 +00002234- Issue #2173: When getting device encoding, check that return value of
2235 nl_langinfo is not the empty string. This was causing silent build
2236 failures on OS X.
2237
Jeffrey Yasskinb9083f32008-12-11 06:18:33 +00002238- Issue #4597: Fixed several opcodes that weren't always propagating
2239 exceptions.
2240
2241- Issue #4589: Fixed exception handling when the __exit__ function of a
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc10b24e82008-12-10 23:49:33 +00002242 context manager returns a value that cannot be converted to a bool.
2243
Mark Dickinsonfd24b322008-12-06 15:33:31 +00002244- Issue #4445: Replace "sizeof(PyBytesObject)" with
2245 "offsetof(PyBytesObject, ob_sval) + 1" when allocating memory for
2246 bytes instances. On a typical machine this saves 3 bytes of memory
2247 (on average) per allocation of a bytes instance.
2248
Christian Heimesa872de52008-12-05 08:26:55 +00002249- Issue #4533: File read operation was dreadfully slow due to a slowly
2250 growing read buffer. Fixed by using the same growth rate algorithm as
2251 Python 2.x.
2252
Antoine Pitrou5504e892008-12-06 21:27:53 +00002253- Issue #4509: Various issues surrounding resize of bytearray objects to
2254 which there are buffer exports (e.g. memoryview instances).
2255
Georg Brandlf9734072008-12-07 15:30:06 +00002256- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()``
2257 method on file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still
2258 kept open but the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO``
2259 object also got a new readonly attribute ``closefd``.
Matthias Klose7e1b8fa2008-11-26 17:22:04 +00002260
Antoine Pitroubc420402008-12-07 20:14:49 +00002261- Issue #4569: Interpreter crash when mutating a memoryview with an item size
2262 larger than 1.
2263
Benjamin Peterson371ccfb2008-12-27 19:03:36 +00002264- Issue #4748: Lambda generators no longer return a value.
2265
Gregory P. Smithccc5ae72009-03-02 05:21:55 +00002266- The re.sub(), re.subn() and re.split() functions now accept a flags parameter.
2267
Walter Dörwaldc1651a02009-05-03 22:55:55 +00002268- Issue #5108: Handle %s like %S, %R and %A in PyUnicode_FromFormatV(): Call
2269 PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8() once, remember the result and output it in a second
2270 step. This avoids problems with counting UTF-8 bytes that ignores the effect
2271 of using the replace error handler in PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8().
2272
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00002273Library
2274-------
Tarek Ziadé38e3d512009-02-27 12:58:56 +00002275
Tarek Ziadé04fe7c02009-10-25 23:08:47 +00002276- Issue #7071: byte-compilation in Distutils is now done with respect to
2277 sys.dont_write_bytecode.
2278
Victor Stinnere125f132010-05-15 21:04:43 +00002279- Issue #7066: archive_util.make_archive now restores the cwd if an error is
Tarek Ziadé978cca62009-10-24 13:38:27 +00002280 raised. Initial patch by Ezio Melotti.
2281
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +00002282- Issue #6516: Added owner/group support when creating tar archives in
Tarek Ziadé05b30342009-10-02 23:56:02 +00002283 Distutils.
2284
Tarek Ziadé31d46072009-09-21 13:55:19 +00002285- Issue #6954: Fixed crash when using DISTUTILS_DEBUG flag in Distutils.
2286
Tarek Ziadé165581c2009-09-09 08:48:07 +00002287- Issue #6163: Fixed HP-UX runtime library dir options in
2288 distutils.unixcompiler. Initial patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar and
2289 Michael Haubenwallner.
2290
Tarek Ziadé4a608c02009-08-20 21:28:05 +00002291- Issue #6693: New functions in site.py to get user/global site packages paths.
2292
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbc347802009-07-28 22:18:57 +00002293- Issue #6511: ZipFile now raises BadZipfile (instead of an IOError) when
2294 opening an empty or very small file.
2295
2296- Issue #6545: Removed assert statements in distutils.Extension, so the
Tarek Ziadé2f19bb12009-07-22 08:57:28 +00002297 behavior is similar when used with -O.
2298
Benjamin Petersonbed7d042009-07-19 21:01:52 +00002299- unittest has been split up into a package. All old names should still work.
2300
Tarek Ziadéf8926b22009-07-16 16:18:19 +00002301- Issue #6466: now distutils.cygwinccompiler and distutils.emxccompiler
2302 uses the same refactored function to get gcc/ld/dllwrap versions numbers.
2303 It's `distutils.util.get_compiler_versions`. Added deprecation warnings
2304 for the obsolete get_versions() functions.
2305
Alexandre Vassalottie52e3782009-07-17 09:18:18 +00002306- Issue #6433: fixed issues with multiprocessing.pool.map hanging on empty list
2307
2308- Issue #6314: logging: Extra checks on the "level" argument in more places.
2309
2310- Issue #2622: Fixed an ImportError when importing email.messsage from a
2311 standalone application built with py2exe or py2app.
2312
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00002313- Issue #6455: Fixed test_build_ext under win32.
Tarek Ziadéb7815e32009-07-10 09:14:31 +00002314
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00002315- Issue #6377: Enabled the compiler option, and deprecate its usage as an
Tarek Ziadédd07ebb2009-07-06 13:52:17 +00002316 attribute.
2317
Tarek Ziadé05bf01a2009-07-04 02:04:21 +00002318- Issue #6413: Fixed the log level in distutils.dist for announce.
2319
Tarek Ziadée10d6de2009-07-03 08:33:28 +00002320- Issue #6403: Fixed package path usage in build_ext.
2321
Alexandre Vassalottie52e3782009-07-17 09:18:18 +00002322- Issues #5155, 5313, 5331: multiprocessing.Process._bootstrap was
2323 unconditionally calling "os.close(sys.stdin.fileno())" resulting in file
2324 descriptor errors
2325
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00002326- Issue #6365: Distutils build_ext inplace mode was copying the compiled
Tarek Ziadé0156f912009-06-29 16:19:22 +00002327 extension in a subdirectory if the extension name had dots.
2328
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00002329- Issue #6164: Added an AIX specific linker argument in Distutils
Tarek Ziadé8f480e52009-06-28 21:30:52 +00002330 unixcompiler. Original patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
2331
Tarek Ziadé25bd2062009-06-28 21:26:27 +00002332- Issue #6286: Now Distutils upload command is based on urllib2 instead of
2333 httplib, allowing the usage of http_proxy.
2334
Tarek Ziadé5e06a652009-06-16 07:43:42 +00002335- Issue #6287: Added the license field in Distutils documentation.
2336
Tarek Ziadéff543362009-06-11 09:25:41 +00002337- Issue #6263: Fixed syntax error in distutils.cygwincompiler.
2338
Tarek Ziadéabcc3f42009-06-11 08:31:17 +00002339- Issue #5201: distutils.sysconfig.parse_makefile() now understands `$$`
2340 in Makefiles. This prevents compile errors when using syntax like:
2341 `LDFLAGS='-rpath=\$$LIB:/some/other/path'`. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
2342
Hirokazu Yamamoto2703fd92009-05-29 09:14:04 +00002343- Issue #6131: test_modulefinder leaked when run after test_distutils.
2344 Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
2345
Tarek Ziadé77c8b372009-05-28 13:01:13 +00002346- Issue #6048: Now Distutils uses the tarfile module in archive_util.
2347
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00002348- Issue #6062: In distutils, fixed the package option of build_ext. Feedback
Tarek Ziadé822eb842009-05-19 16:22:57 +00002349 and tests on pywin32 by Tim Golden.
2350
Tarek Ziadé93fb3aa2009-05-18 12:29:06 +00002351- Issue #6053: Fixed distutils tests on win32. patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
2352
Tarek Ziadéd18a84e2009-05-18 08:07:46 +00002353- Issue #6046: Fixed the library extension when distutils build_ext is used
2354 inplace. Initial patch by Roumen Petrov.
2355
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00002356- Issue #6041: Now distutils `sdist` and `register` commands use `check` as a
Tarek Ziadé5af55c62009-05-16 16:52:13 +00002357 subcommand.
2358
Tarek Ziadé4210c6e2009-05-14 20:20:47 +00002359- Issue #6022: a test file was created in the current working directory by
2360 test_get_outputs in Distutils.
2361
Tarek Ziadéff0e5002009-05-12 17:14:01 +00002362- Issue #5977: distutils build_ext.get_outputs was not taking into account the
2363 inplace option. Initial patch by kxroberto.
2364
Tarek Ziadé06fbee12009-05-10 10:34:01 +00002365- Issue #5984: distutils.command.build_ext.check_extensions_list checks were broken
2366 for old-style extensions.
2367
Tarek Ziadébe5b1b92009-05-09 10:09:11 +00002368- Issue #5976: Fixed Distutils test_check_environ.
2369
Tarek Ziadé5662d3e2009-05-07 21:24:43 +00002370- Issue #5941: Distutils build_clib command was not working anymore because
2371 of an incomplete costumization of the archiver command. Added ARFLAGS in the
2372 Makefile besides AR and make Distutils use it. Original patch by David
2373 Cournapeau.
2374
R. David Murrayb507d2e2009-04-29 15:34:32 +00002375- Issue #2245: aifc now skips chunk types it doesn't recognize, per spec.
2376
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00002377- Issue #5874: distutils.tests.test_config_cmd is not locale-sensitive
Tarek Ziadé81623822009-04-29 08:07:44 +00002378 anymore.
2379
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00002380- Issue #5810: Fixed Distutils test_build_scripts so it uses
Tarek Ziadé939f9c82009-04-25 12:53:56 +00002381 sysconfig.get_config_vars.
2382
Tarek Ziadé23336082009-04-25 12:39:56 +00002383- Issue #4951: Fixed failure in test_httpservers.
2384
Thomas Hellerd3cfe992009-04-24 20:10:24 +00002385- Issue #5795: Fixed test_distutils failure on Debian ppc.
2386
Tarek Ziadé822e1d42009-04-13 12:37:57 +00002387- Issue #5607: fixed Distutils test_get_platform for Mac OS X fat binaries.
2388
Georg Brandl1f9fa312009-04-27 16:42:58 +00002389- Issue #5741: don't disallow "%%" (which is an escape for "%") when setting
2390 a value in SafeConfigParser.
2391
Tarek Ziadéf396ecf2009-04-11 15:00:43 +00002392- Issue #5732: added a new command in Distutils: check.
2393
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00002394- Issue #5731: Distutils bdist_wininst no longer worked on non-Windows
Tarek Ziadéa6191802009-04-09 22:02:39 +00002395 platforms. Initial patch by Paul Moore.
2396
Tarek Ziadéf6370502009-04-05 22:57:21 +00002397- Issue #5095: Added bdist_msi to the list of bdist supported formats.
2398 Initial fix by Steven Bethard.
2399
Tarek Ziadé889b0aa2009-04-05 21:49:36 +00002400- Issue #1491431: Fixed distutils.filelist.glob_to_re for edge cases.
2401 Initial fix by Wayne Davison.
2402
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00002403- Issue #5694: removed spurious test output in Distutils (test_clean).
Tarek Ziadéea261632009-04-05 18:33:34 +00002404
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00002405- Issue #1326077: fix the formatting of SyntaxErrors by the traceback module.
Georg Brandl236f7972009-04-05 14:28:42 +00002406
Brett Cannonf47e84c2009-04-01 16:06:01 +00002407- Issue #1665206 (partially): Move imports in cgitb to the top of the module
2408 instead of performing them in functions. Helps prevent import deadlocking in
2409 threads.
2410
R. David Murraye59482e2009-04-01 03:42:00 +00002411- Issue #2522: locale.format now checks its first argument to ensure it has
2412 been passed only one pattern, avoiding mysterious errors where it appeared
2413 that it was failing to do localization.
2414
Tarek Ziadéb2e36f12009-03-31 22:37:55 +00002415- Issue #5583: Added optional Extensions in Distutils. Initial patch by Georg
2416 Brandl.
2417
Antoine Pitrou350370c2009-03-14 00:13:13 +00002418- Issue #1222: locale.format() bug when the thousands separator is a space
2419 character.
2420
Tarek Ziadé516db942009-03-11 12:52:00 +00002421- Issue #5472: Fixed distutils.test_util tear down. Original patch by
2422 Tim Golden.
2423
Raymond Hettinger5bb0f0e2009-03-10 12:56:32 +00002424- collections.deque() objects now have a read-only attribute called maxlen.
2425
Guilherme Polof45b4cc2009-03-07 02:19:14 +00002426- Issue #2638: Show a window constructed with tkSimpleDialog.Dialog only after
2427 it is has been populated and properly configured in order to prevent
2428 window flashing.
2429
Guilherme Polo56f5be52009-03-07 01:54:57 +00002430- Issue #4792: Prevent a segfault in _tkinter by using the
2431 guaranteed to be safe interp argument given to the PythonCmd in place of
2432 the Tcl interpreter taken from a PythonCmd_ClientData.
2433
2434- Issue #5193: Guarantee that tkinter.Text.search returns a string.
2435
Tarek Ziadé63b64c02009-03-07 00:51:53 +00002436- Issue #5394: removed > 2.3 syntax from distutils.msvc9compiler.
2437 Original patch by Akira Kitada.
2438
Hirokazu Yamamoto54d0df62009-03-06 03:04:07 +00002439- Issue #5334: array.fromfile() failed to insert values when EOFError was raised.
2440
Hirokazu Yamamoto8e722bc2009-03-05 14:33:01 +00002441- Issue #5385: Fixed mmap crash after resize failure on windows.
2442
Hirokazu Yamamoto0c988172009-03-03 22:41:26 +00002443- Issue #5179: Fixed subprocess handle leak on failure on windows.
2444
Raymond Hettinger2d32f632009-03-02 21:24:57 +00002445- PEP 372: Added collections.OrderedDict().
2446
Raymond Hettingera4f52b12009-03-02 22:28:31 +00002447- The _asdict() for method for namedtuples now returns an OrderedDict().
2448
Raymond Hettinger0663a1e2009-03-02 23:06:00 +00002449- configparser now defaults to using an ordered dictionary.
2450
Benjamin Petersone0124bd2009-03-09 21:04:33 +00002451- Issue #5401: Fixed a performance problem in mimetypes when ``from mimetypes
2452 import guess_extension`` was used.
2453
Hirokazu Yamamoto10c99372009-02-28 12:21:53 +00002454- Issue #1733986: Fixed mmap crash in accessing elements of second map object
2455 with same tagname but larger size than first map. (Windows)
2456
Hirokazu Yamamoto39c6dea2009-02-28 10:56:50 +00002457- Issue #5386: mmap.write_byte didn't check map size, so it could cause buffer
2458 overrun.
2459
Tarek Ziadéf0721222009-02-28 10:16:43 +00002460- Issue #1533164: Installed but not listed *.pyo was breaking Distutils
2461 bdist_rpm command.
2462
2463- Issue #5378: added --quiet option to Distutils bdist_rpm command.
2464
Tarek Ziadé38e3d512009-02-27 12:58:56 +00002465- Issue #5052: make Distutils compatible with 2.3 again.
2466
Tarek Ziadé0f31e6d2009-02-25 22:31:38 +00002467- Issue #5316: Fixed buildbot failures introduced by multiple inheritance
2468 in Distutils tests.
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00002469
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00002470- Issue #5287: Add exception handling around findCaller() call to help out
2471 IronPython.
2472
Hirokazu Yamamoto0654ccd2009-02-18 16:38:00 +00002473- Issue #5282: Fixed mmap resize on 32bit windows and unix. When offset > 0,
2474 The file was resized to wrong size.
2475
2476- Issue #5292: Fixed mmap crash on its boundary access m[len(m)].
2477
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00002478- Issue #2279: distutils.sdist.add_defaults now add files
Tarek Ziadé0d0506e2009-02-16 21:49:12 +00002479 from the package_data and the data_files metadata.
2480
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00002481- Issue #5257: refactored all tests in distutils, so they use
Tarek Ziadéc1375d52009-02-14 14:35:51 +00002482 support.TempdirManager, to avoid writing in the tests directory.
2483
Tarek Ziadé68c50952009-02-13 23:04:17 +00002484- Issue #4524: distutils build_script command failed with --with-suffix=3.
2485 Initial patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
2486
Tarek Ziadé811d6242009-02-13 22:26:15 +00002487- Issue #2461: added tests for distutils.util
2488
Mark Dickinsonc28ad272009-02-12 17:58:36 +00002489- Issue #4998: The memory saving effect of __slots__ had been lost on Fractions
2490 which inherited from numbers.py which did not have __slots__ defined. The
2491 numbers hierarchy now has its own __slots__ declarations.
2492
Antoine Pitroub353c122009-02-11 00:39:14 +00002493- Issue #4631: Fix urlopen() result when an HTTP response uses chunked
2494 encoding.
2495
Thomas Heller465c8022009-02-10 18:59:04 +00002496- Issue #5203: Fixed ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a
2497 function without argtypes (only occurs if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false).
2498
Tarek Ziadé7d5e9872009-02-10 12:36:33 +00002499- Issue #3386: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument was ignored
2500 under NT and OS2. Patch by Philip Jenvey.
2501
Brett Cannonbefb14f2009-02-10 02:10:16 +00002502- Issue #5128: Make compileall properly inspect bytecode to determine if needs
2503 to be recreated. This avoids a timing hole thanks to the old reliance on the
2504 ctime of the files involved.
2505
Guilherme Polob681df42009-02-09 22:33:59 +00002506- Issue #5122: Synchronize tk load failure check to prevent a potential
2507 deadlock.
2508
Benjamin Petersona86f2c02009-02-10 02:41:10 +00002509- Issue #1818: collections.namedtuple() now supports a keyword argument
2510 'rename' which lets invalid fieldnames be automatically converted to
2511 positional names in the form, _1, _2, ...
2512
Guilherme Poloae098992009-02-09 16:44:24 +00002513- Issue #4890: Handle empty text search pattern in Tkinter.Text.search.
2514
Nick Coghlan9a1d6e32009-02-08 03:37:27 +00002515- Issue #4512 (part 2): Promote ``ZipImporter._get_filename()`` to be a
2516 public documented method ``ZipImporter.get_filename()``.
2517
Nick Coghlan3f48ae32009-02-08 01:58:26 +00002518- Issue #4195: The ``runpy`` module (and the ``-m`` switch) now support
2519 the execution of packages by looking for and executing a ``__main__``
2520 submodule when a package name is supplied. Initial patch by Andi
2521 Vajda.
2522
Guilherme Polo491aee22009-02-06 23:16:11 +00002523- Issue #1731706: Call Tcl_ConditionFinalize for Tcl_Conditions that will
2524 not be used again (this requires Tcl/Tk 8.3.1), also fix a memory leak in
2525 Tkapp_Call when calling from a thread different than the one that created
2526 the Tcl interpreter. Patch by Robert Hancock.
2527
Eric Smith0e5b5622009-02-06 01:32:42 +00002528- Issue #4285: Change sys.version_info to be a named tuple. Patch by
2529 Ross Light.
2530
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00002531- Issue #1520877: Now distutils.sysconfig reads $AR from the
Tarek Ziadéd3409de2009-02-06 01:18:36 +00002532 environment/Makefile. Patch by Douglas Greiman.
2533
Tarek Ziadé70a74eb2009-02-06 00:38:35 +00002534- Issue #1276768: The verbose option was not used in the code of
2535 distutils.file_util and distutils.dir_util.
2536
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00002537- Issue #5132: Fixed trouble building extensions under Solaris with
Tarek Ziadé5874ef12009-02-05 22:56:14 +00002538 --enabled-shared activated. Initial patch by Dave Peterson.
2539
Guilherme Polo7f423952009-02-02 21:17:09 +00002540- Issue #1581476: Always use the Tcl global namespace when calling into Tcl.
2541
Raymond Hettinger85602262009-02-03 04:19:10 +00002542- The shelve module now defaults to pickle protocol 3.
2543
Brett Cannone61426e2009-01-30 01:31:34 +00002544- Fix a bug in the trace module where a bytes object from co_lnotab had its
2545 items being passed through ord().
2546
Antoine Pitrou0dcc3cd2009-01-29 20:26:59 +00002547- Issue #2047: shutil.move() could believe that its destination path was
2548 inside its source path if it began with the same letters (e.g. "src" vs.
2549 "src.new").
2550
Guilherme Polo5f238482009-01-28 14:41:10 +00002551- Added the ttk module. See issue #2983: Ttk support for Tkinter.
2552
Raymond Hettinger89e12962009-01-26 02:09:03 +00002553- Removed isSequenceType(), isMappingType, and isNumberType() from the
2554 operator module; use the abstract base classes instead. Also removed
2555 the repeat() function; use mul() instead.
2556
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00002557- Issue #5021: doctest.testfile() did not create __name__ and
Raymond Hettinger0f055172009-01-27 10:06:09 +00002558 collections.namedtuple() relied on __name__ being defined.
2559
2560- Backport importlib from Python 3.1. Only the import_module() function has
2561 been backported to help facilitate transitions from 2.7 to 3.1.
2562
Tarek Ziadé0302cf52009-01-26 17:23:20 +00002563- Issue #1885: distutils. When running sdist with --formats=tar,gztar
2564 the tar file was overriden by the gztar one.
2565
Tarek Ziadé4d4456f2009-01-25 18:27:45 +00002566- Issue #4863: distutils.mwerkscompiler has been removed.
2567
Raymond Hettingerd07d9392009-01-27 04:20:44 +00002568- Added a new itertools functions: combinations_with_replacement()
2569 and compress().
Raymond Hettinger6b3b0fc2009-01-26 02:56:58 +00002570
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00002571- Issue #5032: added a step argument to itertools.count() and
Raymond Hettinger30729212009-02-12 06:28:27 +00002572 allowed non-integer arguments.
2573
Jesse Noller41faa542009-01-25 03:45:53 +00002574- Fix and properly document the multiprocessing module's logging
2575 support, expose the internal levels and provide proper usage
2576 examples.
2577
Mark Dickinsoncddcf442009-01-24 21:46:33 +00002578- Issue #1672332: fix unpickling of subnormal floats, which was
2579 producing a ValueError on some platforms.
2580
Martin v. Löwisacbf4612009-01-24 16:19:45 +00002581- Issue #3881: Help Tcl to load even when started through the
2582 unreadable local symlink to "Program Files" on Vista.
2583
Martin v. Löwis59e47792009-01-24 14:10:07 +00002584- Issue #4710: Extract directories properly in the zipfile module;
2585 allow adding directories to a zipfile.
2586
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00002587- Issue #3807: _multiprocessing build fails when configure is passed
Jesse Noller6fd47e22009-01-23 14:09:08 +00002588 --without-threads argument. When this occurs, _multiprocessing will
2589 be disabled, and not compiled.
2590
Antoine Pitrou08838b62009-01-21 00:55:13 +00002591- Issue #5008: When a file is opened in append mode with the new IO library,
2592 do an explicit seek to the end of file (so that e.g. tell() returns the
2593 file size rather than 0). This is consistent with the behaviour of the
2594 traditional 2.x file object.
2595
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00002596- Issue #5013: Fixed a bug in FileHandler which occurred when the delay
2597 parameter was set.
2598
Mark Dickinson8dd05142009-01-20 20:43:58 +00002599- Issue #4842: Always append a trailing 'L' when pickling longs using
2600 pickle protocol 0. When reading, the 'L' is optional.
2601
Brett Cannonafccd632009-01-20 02:21:27 +00002602- Add the importlib package.
2603
Jesse Noller9a0fc972009-01-18 21:12:58 +00002604- Issue #4301: Patch the logging module to add processName support, remove
2605 _check_logger_class from multiprocessing.
2606
Jesse Noller1cbb17a2009-01-18 19:45:18 +00002607- Issue #3325: Remove python2.x try: except: imports for old cPickle from
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00002608 multiprocessing.
Jesse Nollerf70a5382009-01-18 19:44:02 +00002609
Benjamin Peterson9953a8d2009-01-17 04:15:01 +00002610- Issue #4959: inspect.formatargspec now works for keyword only arguments
2611 without defaults.
2612
Jesse Noller6214edd2009-01-19 16:23:53 +00002613- Issue #3321: _multiprocessing.Connection() doesn't check handle; added checks
2614 for *nix machines for negative handles and large int handles. Without this check
2615 it is possible to segfault the interpreter.
2616
Jesse Nollerb0516a62009-01-18 03:11:38 +00002617- Issue #4449: AssertionError in mp_benchmarks.py, caused by an underlying issue
2618 in sharedctypes.py.
2619
2620- Issue #1225107: inspect.isclass() returned True for instances with a custom
2621 __getattr__.
2622
Gregory P. Smithde3369f2009-01-12 04:50:11 +00002623- Issue #3826 and #4791: The socket module now closes the underlying socket
2624 appropriately when it is being used via socket.makefile() objects
2625 rather than delaying the close by waiting for garbage collection to do it.
2626
Raymond Hettingerb8baf632009-01-14 02:20:07 +00002627- Issue #1696199: Add collections.Counter() for rapid and convenient
2628 counting.
2629
Antoine Pitrou308705e2009-01-10 16:22:51 +00002630- Issue #3860: GzipFile and BZ2File now support the context manager protocol.
2631
Thomas Heller5e4e4272009-01-08 09:34:20 +00002632- Issue #4867: Fixed a crash in ctypes when passing a string to a
2633 function without defining argtypes.
2634
Antoine Pitrou42db3ef2009-01-04 21:37:59 +00002635- Issue #4272: Add an optional argument to the GzipFile constructor to override
2636 the timestamp in the gzip stream. The default value remains the current time.
2637 The information can be used by e.g. gunzip when decompressing. Patch by
2638 Jacques Frechet.
2639
Mark Dickinson315a20a2009-01-04 21:34:18 +00002640- Restore Python 2.3 compatibility for decimal.py.
2641
Guilherme Polo3f5f8222009-01-03 22:00:39 +00002642- Issue #3638: Remove functions from _tkinter module level that depend on
2643 TkappObject to work with multiple threads.
2644
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00002645- Issue #4718: Adapt the wsgiref package so that it actually works with
2646 Python 3.x, in accordance with the `official amendments of the spec
Antoine Pitrou38a66ad2009-01-03 18:41:49 +00002647 <http://www.wsgi.org/wsgi/Amendments_1.0>`_.
2648
Raymond Hettinger771ed762009-01-03 19:20:32 +00002649- Issue #4796: Added Decimal.from_float() and Context.create_decimal_from_float()
2650 to the decimal module.
2651
Georg Brandl3a9b0622009-01-03 22:07:57 +00002652- Fractions.from_float() no longer loses precision for integers too big to
2653 cast as floats.
2654
Mark Dickinsonf9236412009-01-02 23:23:21 +00002655- Issue #4812: add missing underscore prefix to some internal-use-only
2656 constants in the decimal module. (Dec_0 becomes _Dec_0, etc.)
2657
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00002658- Issue #4790: The nsmallest() and nlargest() functions in the heapq module
Georg Brandl3a9b0622009-01-03 22:07:57 +00002659 did unnecessary work in the common case where no key function was specified.
2660
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00002661- Issue #4795: inspect.isgeneratorfunction() returns False instead of None when
2662 the function is not a generator.
2663
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00002664- Issue #4702: Throwing a DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError in case
2665 no MSVC compiler is found under Windows. Original patch by Philip Jenvey.
Tarek Ziadé9df8ce32008-12-30 23:09:20 +00002666
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00002667- Issue #4646: distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup
Tarek Ziadé4450dcf2008-12-29 22:38:38 +00002668 function. Original patch by Thomas Heller.
2669
Martin v. Löwis1f1620e2008-12-29 16:27:13 +00002670- Issue #3767: Convert Tk object to string in tkColorChooser.
2671
Martin v. Löwise354d782008-12-29 16:03:04 +00002672- Issue #3248: Allow placing ScrolledText in a PanedWindow.
2673
Antoine Pitrou5acd41e2008-12-28 14:29:00 +00002674- Issue #4444: Allow assertRaises() to be used as a context handler, so that
2675 the code under test can be written inline if more practical.
2676
Georg Brandldb7b6b92009-01-01 15:53:14 +00002677- Issue #4739: Add pydoc help topics for symbols, so that e.g. help('@')
2678 works as expected in the interactive environment.
2679
Antoine Pitroudb5fe662008-12-27 15:50:40 +00002680- Issue #4756: zipfile.is_zipfile() now supports file-like objects. Patch by
2681 Gabriel Genellina.
2682
Antoine Pitrou180a3362008-12-14 16:36:46 +00002683- Issue #4574: reading an UTF16-encoded text file crashes if \r on 64-char
2684 boundary.
2685
Nick Coghlanf088e5e2008-12-14 11:50:48 +00002686- Issue #4223: inspect.getsource() will now correctly display source code
2687 for packages loaded via zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302
2688 loader). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
2689
2690- Issue #4201: pdb can now access and display source code loaded via
2691 zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302 loader). Original patch by
2692 Alexander Belopolsky.
2693
2694- Issue #4197: doctests in modules loaded via zipimport (or any other PEP
2695 302 conformant loader) will now work correctly in most cases (they
2696 are still subject to the constraints that exist for all code running
2697 from inside a module loaded via a PEP 302 loader and attempting to
2698 perform IO operations based on __file__). Original patch by
2699 Alexander Belopolsky.
2700
2701- Issues #4082 and #4512: Add runpy support to zipimport in a manner that
2702 allows backporting to maintenance branches. Original patch by
2703 Alexander Belopolsky.
2704
Antoine Pitrou7c59bc62008-12-13 23:20:54 +00002705- Issue #4163: textwrap module: allow word splitting on a hyphen preceded by
2706 a non-ASCII letter.
2707
Lars Gustäbel43fcf3a2008-12-12 14:58:38 +00002708- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
2709
Benjamin Peterson433f32c2008-12-12 01:25:05 +00002710- Issue #4021: tokenize.detect_encoding() now raises a SyntaxError when the
2711 codec cannot be found. This is for compatibility with the builtin behavior.
2712
Facundo Batista708d5812008-12-11 04:20:07 +00002713- Issue #4084: Fix max, min, max_mag and min_mag Decimal methods to
2714 give correct results in the case where one argument is a quiet NaN
2715 and the other is a finite number that requires rounding.
2716
Skip Montanaroc1ce2862008-12-06 17:25:02 +00002717- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat
2718 libs.
2719
Georg Brandlf9734072008-12-07 15:30:06 +00002720- Added the subprocess.check_call_output() convenience function to get output
2721 from a subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
2722
2723- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
2724 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
2725 Content-Disposition headers.
2726
2727- Issue #4384: Added logging integration with warnings module using
2728 captureWarnings(). This change includes a NullHandler which does nothing;
2729 it will be of use to library developers who want to avoid the "No handlers
2730 could be found for logger XXX" message which can appear if the library user
2731 doesn't configure logging.
2732
2733- Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
2734 exception.
2735
Georg Brandleee31162008-12-07 15:15:22 +00002736- Issue #4529: fix the parser module's validation of try-except-finally
2737 statements.
2738
2739- Issue #4458: getopt.gnu_getopt() now recognizes a single "-" as an argument,
2740 not a malformed option.
2741
2742- Added the subprocess.check_output() convenience function to get output
2743 from a subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
2744
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbc9d4742008-12-05 01:40:43 +00002745- Issue #4542: On Windows, binascii.crc32 still accepted str as binary input;
2746 the corresponding tests now pass.
2747
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbc2ce572008-12-05 01:02:21 +00002748- Issue #4537: webbrowser.UnixBrowser would fail to open the browser because
2749 it was calling the wrong open() function.
2750
Fred Drake9a0a65b2008-12-04 19:24:50 +00002751- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
2752 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
2753 Content-Disposition headers.
2754
Matthias Klose2c7e3ee2009-01-10 17:08:25 +00002755- Issue #4861: ctypes.util.find_library(): Robustify. Fix library detection on
2756 biarch systems. Try to rely on ldconfig only, without using objdump and gcc.
2757
Benjamin Peterson5c6d7872009-02-06 02:40:07 +00002758- Issue #5104: The socket module now raises OverflowError when 16-bit port and
2759 protocol numbers are supplied outside the allowed 0-65536 range on bind()
2760 and getservbyport().
2761
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven0a866942009-05-08 14:18:00 +00002762- Windows locale mapping updated to Vista.
2763
Antoine Pitrou2a013ea2008-12-27 20:39:28 +00002764Tools/Demos
2765-----------
2766
Antoine Pitrou8a681222009-02-07 17:13:31 +00002767- Issue #4704: remove use of cmp() in pybench, bump its version number to 2.1,
2768 and make it 2.6-compatible.
2769
Guilherme Poloa7d27972009-01-28 16:06:51 +00002770- Ttk demos added in Demo/tkinter/ttk/
2771
Antoine Pitrou2a013ea2008-12-27 20:39:28 +00002772- Issue #4677: add two list comprehension tests to pybench.
2773
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00002774
2775Build
2776-----
2777
Benjamin Petersonf53eec82009-05-23 19:36:27 +00002778- Issue #6094: Build correctly with Subversion 1.7.
2779
Martin v. Löwis8482ef92009-05-05 16:14:30 +00002780- Issue #5847: Remove -n switch on "Edit with IDLE" menu item.
2781
Antoine Pitrou8966c992009-05-01 21:18:27 +00002782- Issue #5726: Make Modules/ld_so_aix return the actual exit code of the
2783 linker, rather than always exit successfully. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
2784
Matthias Klose55708cc2009-04-30 08:06:49 +00002785- Issue #4587: Add configure option --with-dbmliborder=db1:db2:... to specify
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00002786 the order that backends for the dbm extension are checked.
Matthias Klose55708cc2009-04-30 08:06:49 +00002787
Matthias Klose906785c2009-02-22 23:18:38 +00002788- Link the shared python library with $(MODLIBS).
2789
Martin v. Löwis11f72102009-02-10 13:13:30 +00002790- Issue #5134: Silence compiler warnings when compiling sqlite with VC++.
2791
Martin v. Löwisbc186a82009-02-02 15:32:22 +00002792- Issue #4494: Fix build with Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED on Windows.
2793
Martin v. Löwise97637d2009-01-11 09:45:11 +00002794- Issue #4895: Use _strdup on Windows CE.
2795
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00002796- Issue #4472: "configure --enable-shared" now works on OSX
2797
2798- Issues #4728 and #4060: WORDS_BIGEDIAN is now correct in Universal builds.
2799
2800- Issue #4389: Add icon to the uninstall entry in "add-and-remove-programs".
2801
2802- Issue #4289: Remove Cancel button from AdvancedDlg.
2803
2804- Issue #1656675: Register a drop handler for .py* files on Windows.
2805
2806- Issue #4120: Exclude manifest from extension modules in VS2008.
2807
2808- Issue #4091: Install pythonxy.dll in system32 again.
2809
2810- Issue #4018: Disable "for me" installations on Vista.
2811
2812- Issue #3758: Add ``patchcheck`` build target to .PHONY.
2813
2814- Issue #4204: Fixed module build errors on FreeBSD 4.
2815
2816
2817C-API
2818-----
2819
Sean Reifscheider642d96a2009-08-01 23:55:06 +00002820- Issue #6624: yArg_ParseTuple with "s" format when parsing argument with
2821 NUL: Bogus TypeError detail string.
2822
Mark Dickinson21776072009-02-10 16:13:25 +00002823- Issue #5175: PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLong now raises OverflowError
2824 for negative arguments. Previously, it raised TypeError.
2825
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00002826- Issue #4720: The format for PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords can begin with '|'.
2827
2828- Issue #3632: from the gdb debugger, the 'pyo' macro can now be called when
2829 the GIL is released, or owned by another thread.
2830
2831- Issue #4122: On Windows, fix a compilation error when using the
2832 Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE macro in an extension module.
2833
2834
Mark Dickinsone675f082008-12-11 21:56:00 +00002835Extension Modules
2836-----------------
2837
Gregory P. Smith365a1862009-02-12 07:35:29 +00002838- Issue #3745: Fix hashlib to always reject unicode and non buffer-api
2839 supporting objects as input no matter how it was compiled (built in
2840 implementations or external openssl library).
2841
Mark Dickinson29500f62009-01-15 15:36:10 +00002842- Issue #4397: Fix occasional test_socket failure on OS X.
2843
Martin v. Löwisa9b54c72009-01-11 09:30:50 +00002844- Issue #4279: Fix build of parsermodule under Cygwin.
2845
Antoine Pitroubcd5cbe2009-01-08 21:17:16 +00002846- Issue #4751: hashlib now releases the GIL when hashing large buffers
2847 (with a hardwired threshold of 2048 bytes), allowing better parallelization
2848 on multi-CPU systems. Contributed by Lukas Lueg (ebfe) and Victor Stinner.
2849
Martin v. Löwis5c88d812009-01-02 20:47:48 +00002850- Issue #4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle.
2851
Antoine Pitrou31f30b12009-01-02 17:34:35 +00002852- Issue #4738: Each zlib object now has a separate lock, allowing to compress
2853 or decompress several streams at once on multi-CPU systems. Also, the GIL
2854 is now released when computing the CRC of a large buffer. Patch by ebfe.
2855
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00002856- Issue #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format.
2857
Martin v. Löwis05bfe1f2008-12-29 18:21:47 +00002858- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
2859
Mark Dickinsone675f082008-12-11 21:56:00 +00002860- Issues #3167, #3682: Fix test_math failures for log, log10 on Solaris,
2861 OpenBSD.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcefae8c42008-11-21 23:08:09 +00002862
Antoine Pitrou3ad3a0d2008-12-18 17:08:32 +00002863- Issue #4583: array.array would not always prohibit resizing when a buffer
2864 has been exported, resulting in an interpreter crash when accessing the
2865 buffer.
2866
Martin v. Löwis841edad2008-11-30 10:36:49 +00002867
Jack Diederiche0cbd692009-04-01 04:27:09 +00002868- Issue #5228: Make functools.partial objects can now be pickled.
2869
Guilherme Polo9de29af2009-01-28 20:40:48 +00002870Tests
2871-----
2872
Antoine Pitrou88909542009-06-29 13:54:42 +00002873- Issue #6152: New option '-j'/'--multiprocess' for regrtest allows running
2874 regression tests in parallel, shortening the total runtime.
2875
Guilherme Polo2a998fa2009-06-21 17:40:07 +00002876- Issue #5450: Moved tests involving loading tk from Lib/test/test_tcl to
2877 Lib/tkinter/test/test_tkinter/test_loadtk. With this, these tests demonstrate
2878 the same behaviour as test_ttkguionly (and now also test_tk) which is to
2879 skip the tests if DISPLAY is defined but can't be used.
2880
R. David Murraya21e4ca2009-03-31 23:16:50 +00002881- regrtest no longer treats ImportError as equivalent to SkipTest. Imports
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00002882 that should cause a test to be skipped are now done using import_module
R. David Murraya21e4ca2009-03-31 23:16:50 +00002883 from test support, which does the conversion.
2884
Guilherme Polo9de29af2009-01-28 20:40:48 +00002885- Issue #5083: New 'gui' resource for regrtest.
2886
2887
Brett Cannon7317c1e2008-11-25 19:19:17 +00002888Docs
2889----
2890
Georg Brandl52b92cc2008-05-25 09:43:03 +00002891
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00002892**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**