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Jesus Cea7e9065c2010-10-25 13:02:04 +00001+++++++++++
Georg Brandlab6f2f62009-03-31 04:16:10 +00002Python News
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00003+++++++++++
4
Ezio Melottiee8d9982011-08-15 09:09:57 +03005What's New in Python 3.2.3?
6===========================
7
8*Release date: XX-XXX-2011*
9
10Core and Builtins
11-----------------
12
Antoine Pitrou0d776b12011-11-06 00:34:26 +010013- Issue #13342: input() used to ignore sys.stdin's and sys.stdout's unicode
14 error handler in interactive mode (when calling into PyOS_Readline()).
15
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc97c1bef2011-11-04 22:17:45 +010016- Issue #13343: Fix a SystemError when a lambda expression uses a global
17 variable in the default value of a keyword-only argument:
18 (lambda *, arg=GLOBAL_NAME: None)
19
Petri Lehtinencd06a142011-10-30 20:59:10 +020020- Issue #10519: Avoid unnecessary recursive function calls in
21 setobject.c.
22
Antoine Pitrou8db076c2011-10-30 19:13:55 +010023- Issue #10363: Deallocate global locks in Py_Finalize().
24
Petri Lehtinena94200e2011-10-24 21:12:58 +030025- Issue #13018: Fix reference leaks in error paths in dictobject.c.
26 Patch by Suman Saha.
27
Nick Coghlande31b192011-10-23 22:04:16 +100028- Issue #1294232: In a few cases involving metaclass inheritance, the
29 interpreter would sometimes invoke the wrong metaclass when building a new
30 class object. These cases now behave correctly. Patch by Daniel Urban.
31
Senthil Kumaranfdd45752011-10-21 00:29:47 +080032- Issue #12604: VTRACE macro expanded to no-op in _sre.c to avoid compiler
33 warnings. Patch by Josh Triplett and Petri Lehtinen.
34
Antoine Pitrou551ba202011-10-18 16:40:50 +020035- Issue #13188: When called without an explicit traceback argument,
36 generator.throw() now gets the traceback from the passed exception's
37 ``__traceback__`` attribute. Patch by Petri Lehtinen.
38
Mark Hammond6c58b282011-10-17 11:05:57 +110039- Issue #7833: Extension modules built using distutils on Windows will no
40 longer include a "manifest" to prevent them failing at import time in some
41 embedded situations.
42
Antoine Pitrou586bfe42011-10-07 16:16:31 +020043- Issue #13063: the Windows error ERROR_NO_DATA (numbered 232 and described
44 as "The pipe is being closed") is now mapped to POSIX errno EPIPE
45 (previously EINVAL).
46
Antoine Pitroueeb7eea2011-10-06 18:57:27 +020047- Issue #12911: Fix memory consumption when calculating the repr() of huge
48 tuples or lists.
49
Victor Stinner53ffdc52011-09-23 18:54:40 +020050- Issue #7732: Don't open a directory as a file anymore while importing a
51 module. Ignore the direcotry if its name matchs the module name (e.g.
52 "__init__.py") and raise a ImportError instead.
53
Barry Warsaw916048d2011-09-20 14:45:44 -040054- Issue #13021: Missing decref on an error path. Thanks to Suman Saha for
55 finding the bug and providing a patch.
56
Mark Dickinsonb2f6bc72011-09-24 08:56:09 +010057- Issue #12973: Fix overflow checks that relied on undefined behaviour in
58 list_repeat (listobject.c) and islice_next (itertoolsmodule.c). These bugs
59 caused test failures with recent versions of Clang.
Mark Dickinsonc0420fd2011-09-19 19:18:37 +010060
Antoine Pitroua7622852011-09-01 21:37:43 +020061- Issue #12802: the Windows error ERROR_DIRECTORY (numbered 267) is now
62 mapped to POSIX errno ENOTDIR (previously EINVAL).
63
Ezio Melotti93e7afc2011-08-22 14:08:38 +030064- Issue #9200: The str.is* methods now work with strings that contain non-BMP
65 characters even in narrow Unicode builds.
66
Antoine Pitroua370fcf2011-08-20 14:15:03 +020067- Issue #12791: Break reference cycles early when a generator exits with
68 an exception.
69
Ezio Melottiee8d9982011-08-15 09:09:57 +030070- Issue #12266: Fix str.capitalize() to correctly uppercase/lowercase
71 titlecased and cased non-letter characters.
72
Charles-François Natali134a8ba2011-08-18 18:49:39 +020073Library
74-------
75
Petri Lehtinen8c482ee2011-11-05 09:44:59 +020076- Issue #13254: Fix Maildir initialization so that maildir contents
77 are read correctly.
78
Petri Lehtinen3c85fe02011-11-04 21:35:07 +020079- Issue #3067: locale.setlocale() now raises TypeError if the second
Petri Lehtinen395ca722011-11-05 10:18:50 +020080 argument is an invalid iterable. Its documentation and docstring
81 were also updated. Initial patch by Jyrki Pulliainen.
Petri Lehtinen3c85fe02011-11-04 21:35:07 +020082
Florent Xicluna12b66b52011-11-04 10:16:28 +010083- Issue #13140: Fix the daemon_threads attribute of ThreadingMixIn.
84
Ross Lagerwalldcfde5a2011-11-04 07:09:14 +020085- Issue #13339: Fix compile error in posixmodule.c due to missing semicolon.
86 Thanks to Robert Xiao.
87
Petri Lehtinenfd6b5822011-11-06 09:24:19 +020088- Issue #10570: curses.putp() and curses.tparm() are now expecting a byte
Victor Stinnerb3bc7e72011-11-03 20:35:40 +010089 string, instead of a Unicode string.
Victor Stinner26621332011-11-02 23:45:29 +010090
Florent Xicluna91d51932011-11-01 23:31:09 +010091- Issue #2892: preserve iterparse events in case of SyntaxError.
92
Ezio Melotti7de56f62011-11-01 14:12:22 +020093- Issue #670664: Fix HTMLParser to correctly handle the content of
94 ``<script>...</script>`` and ``<style>...</style>``.
95
96- Issue #10817: Fix urlretrieve function to raise ContentTooShortError even
Senthil Kumarance260142011-11-01 01:35:17 +080097 when reporthook is None. Patch by Jyrki Pulliainen.
98
Ezio Melotti7de56f62011-11-01 14:12:22 +020099- Issue #13296: Fix IDLE to clear compile __future__ flags on shell restart.
Ned Deily7aff4512011-10-30 20:01:35 -0700100 (Patch by Roger Serwy)
101
Florent Xicluna93dfee12011-10-30 20:22:25 +0100102- Issue #13293: Better error message when trying to marshal bytes using
103 xmlrpc.client.
104
Florent Xicluna3fa29f72011-10-30 20:18:50 +0100105- Issue #13291: NameError in xmlrpc package.
106
Florent Xicluna5d1155c2011-10-28 14:45:05 +0200107- Issue #13258: Use callable() built-in in the standard library.
108
Ezio Melottif50ffa92011-10-28 13:21:09 +0300109- Issue #13273: fix a bug that prevented HTMLParser to properly detect some
110 tags when strict=False.
111
Charles-François Natalif8859e12011-10-24 18:45:29 +0200112- Issue #10332: multiprocessing: fix a race condition when a Pool is closed
113 before all tasks have completed.
114
Florent Xiclunac45fb252011-10-24 13:14:55 +0200115- Issue #13255: wrong docstrings in array module.
116
Florent Xicluna711f87c2011-10-20 23:03:43 +0200117- Issue #9168: now smtpd is able to bind privileged port.
118
Senthil Kumaranfdd45752011-10-21 00:29:47 +0800119- Issue #12529: fix cgi.parse_header issue on strings with double-quotes and
120 semicolons together. Patch by Ben Darnell and Petri Lehtinen.
121
Ezio Melotti6bfecd12011-10-18 13:20:07 +0300122- Issue #12448: smtplib now flushes stdout while running ``python -m smtplib``
123 in order to display the prompt correctly.
124
Senthil Kumaran29fa9d42011-10-20 01:46:00 +0800125- Issue #6090: zipfile raises a ValueError when a document with a timestamp
126 earlier than 1980 is provided. Patch contributed by Petri Lehtinen.
127
Nadeem Vawdabcb86c52011-10-17 19:34:22 +0200128- Issue #13194: zlib.compressobj().copy() and zlib.decompressobj().copy() are
129 now available on Windows.
130
Lars Gustäbelac3d1372011-10-14 12:46:40 +0200131- Issue #13158: Fix decoding and encoding of GNU tar specific base-256 number
132 fields in tarfile.
133
Raymond Hettinger4b779b32011-10-15 23:50:42 -0700134- Issue #13177: Functools lru_cache() no longer calls the original function
135 inside an exception handler. This makes tracebacks easier to read because
136 chained exceptions are avoided.
137
Victor Stinner82ac9bc2011-10-14 03:03:35 +0200138- Issue #13025: mimetypes is now reading MIME types using the UTF-8 encoding,
139 instead of the locale encoding.
140
Victor Stinnerc1f32ca2011-10-14 02:36:13 +0200141- Issue #10653: On Windows, use strftime() instead of wcsftime() because
142 wcsftime() doesn't format time zone correctly.
143
Éric Araujo8af607b2011-10-09 06:32:38 +0200144- Issue #11171: Fix distutils.sysconfig.get_makefile_filename when Python was
145 configured with different prefix and exec-prefix.
Éric Araujofea2d042011-10-08 01:56:52 +0200146
Éric Araujo47a45212011-10-08 00:34:13 +0200147- Issue #11254: Teach distutils to compile .pyc and .pyo files in
148 PEP 3147-compliant __pycache__ directories.
149
Barry Warsaw78f89d82011-10-07 14:44:49 -0400150- Issue #11250: Back port fix from 3.3 branch, so that 2to3 can handle files
151 with line feeds. This was ported from the sandbox to the 3.3 branch, but
152 didn't make it into 3.2.
153
Ned Deily7b847a42011-10-06 14:31:14 -0700154- Issue #7367: Fix pkgutil.walk_paths to skip directories whose
155 contents cannot be read.
156
Antoine Pitrou1665d2c2011-10-04 13:35:28 +0200157- Issue #13099: Fix sqlite3.Cursor.lastrowid under a Turkish locale.
158 Reported and diagnosed by Thomas Kluyver.
159
Antoine Pitrou1e44fec2011-10-04 12:26:20 +0200160- Issue #13087: BufferedReader.seek() now always raises UnsupportedOperation
161 if the underlying raw stream is unseekable, even if the seek could be
162 satisfied using the internal buffer. Patch by John O'Connor.
163
Antoine Pitrouffd41d92011-10-04 09:23:04 +0200164- Issue #7689: Allow pickling of dynamically created classes when their
165 metaclass is registered with copyreg. Patch by Nicolas M. Thiéry and Craig
166 Citro.
167
R David Murray791744b2011-10-01 16:19:51 -0400168- Issue #4147: minidom's toprettyxml no longer adds whitespace to text nodes.
169
Antoine Pitroud8c347a2011-10-01 19:20:25 +0200170- Issue #13034: When decoding some SSL certificates, the subjectAltName
171 extension could be unreported.
172
Ned Deily79746422011-09-14 14:49:14 -0700173- Issue #9871: Prevent IDLE 3 crash when given byte stings
174 with invalid hex escape sequences, like b'\x0'.
175 (Original patch by Claudiu Popa.)
176
Éric Araujo13e8c8e2011-09-10 01:51:40 +0200177- Issue #8933: distutils' PKG-INFO files will now correctly report
178 Metadata-Version: 1.1 instead of 1.0 if a Classifier or Download-URL field is
179 present.
180
Victor Stinnera1bea6e2011-09-05 23:44:56 +0200181- Issue #9561: distutils now reads and writes egg-info files using UTF-8,
182 instead of the locale encoding.
183
Ezio Melottid9e0b062011-09-05 17:11:06 +0300184- Issue #12888: Fix a bug in HTMLParser.unescape that prevented it to escape
185 more than 128 entities. Patch by Peter Otten.
186
Benjamin Petersonf6f3a352011-09-03 09:26:20 -0400187- Issue #12878: Expose a __dict__ attribute on io.IOBase and its subclasses.
188
Victor Stinner979482a2011-09-02 01:00:40 +0200189- Issue #12636: IDLE reads the coding cookie when executing a Python script.
190
Antoine Pitrou55549ec2011-08-30 00:27:10 +0200191- Issue #12847: Fix a crash with negative PUT and LONG_BINPUT arguments in
192 the C pickle implementation.
193
Antoine Pitrou82be19f2011-08-29 23:09:33 +0200194- Issue #11564: Avoid crashes when trying to pickle huge objects or containers
195 (more than 2**31 items). Instead, in most cases, an OverflowError is raised.
196
Charles-François Nataliaa26b272011-08-28 17:51:43 +0200197- Issue #12287: Fix a stack corruption in ossaudiodev module when the FD is
198 greater than FD_SETSIZE.
199
Antoine Pitroubcb39d42011-08-23 19:46:22 +0200200- Issue #11657: Fix sending file descriptors over 255 over a multiprocessing
201 Pipe.
202
Jesus Ceabc566b02011-09-19 17:08:18 +0200203- Issue #13007: whichdb should recognize gdbm 1.9 magic numbers.
204
Antoine Pitroue05565e2011-08-20 14:39:23 +0200205- Issue #12213: Fix a buffering bug with interleaved reads and writes that
206 could appear on BufferedRandom streams.
207
Charles-François Natali134a8ba2011-08-18 18:49:39 +0200208- Issue #12650: Fix a race condition where a subprocess.Popen could leak
209 resources (FD/zombie) when killed at the wrong time.
Ezio Melottiee8d9982011-08-15 09:09:57 +0300210
Łukasz Langaa5a9a9c2011-10-18 21:17:39 +0200211- Issue #10860: http.client now correctly handles an empty port after port
212 delimiter in URLs.
213
Petri Lehtinenbc74ee02011-11-05 21:04:24 +0200214Build
215-----
216
217- Issue #13326: Clean __pycache__ directories correctly on OpenBSD.
218
Charles-François Natali6cea35a2011-08-23 19:46:46 +0200219Tests
220-----
221
Ned Deily316f5732011-10-31 16:16:35 -0700222- Issue #13304: Skip test case if user site-packages disabled (-s or
223 PYTHONNOUSERSITE). (Patch by Carl Meyer)
224
Barry Warsaw46ae0ef2011-10-28 16:52:17 -0400225- Issue #13218: Fix test_ssl failures on Debian/Ubuntu.
226
Charles-François Natali6cea35a2011-08-23 19:46:46 +0200227- Issue #12821: Fix test_fcntl failures on OpenBSD 5.
228
Barry Warsaw78f89d82011-10-07 14:44:49 -0400229- Re-enable lib2to3's test_parser.py tests, though with an expected failure
230 (see issue 13125).
231
Jesus Ceaaaa89912011-09-10 04:37:07 +0200232Extension Modules
233-----------------
Victor Stinner53ffdc52011-09-23 18:54:40 +0200234
Nadeem Vawdad41a98b2011-10-13 13:34:16 +0200235- Issue #13159: FileIO and BZ2File now use a linear-time buffer growth
236 strategy instead of a quadratic-time one.
237
Charles-François Natali42c28cd2011-10-05 19:53:43 +0200238- Issue #13070: Fix a crash when a TextIOWrapper caught in a reference cycle
239 would be finalized after the reference to its underlying BufferedRWPair's
240 writer got cleared by the GC.
241
Meador Inge1efb33a2011-10-03 21:44:22 -0500242- Issue #12881: ctypes: Fix segfault with large structure field names.
243
Charles-François Natali5a4a1092011-09-29 19:46:37 +0200244- Issue #13058: ossaudiodev: fix a file descriptor leak on error. Patch by
245 Thomas Jarosch.
246
Meador Ingeb86ecf42011-09-27 20:45:30 -0500247- Issue #13013: ctypes: Fix a reference leak in PyCArrayType_from_ctype.
248 Thanks to Suman Saha for finding the bug and providing a patch.
249
Jesus Cea4507e642011-09-21 03:53:25 +0200250- Issue #13022: Fix: _multiprocessing.recvfd() doesn't check that
251 file descriptor was actually received.
252
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbbe46d62011-09-12 21:03:36 +0200253- Issue #12483: ctypes: Fix a crash when the destruction of a callback
254 object triggers the garbage collector.
255
Jesus Ceaaaa89912011-09-10 04:37:07 +0200256- Issue #12950: Fix passing file descriptors in multiprocessing, under
257 OpenIndiana/Illumos.
Charles-François Natali6cea35a2011-08-23 19:46:46 +0200258
Florent Xicluna023611f2011-10-23 22:40:37 +0200259Documentation
260-------------
261
Nick Coghlanc29248f2011-11-08 20:49:23 +1000262- Issue #13237: Reorganise subprocess documentation to emphasise convenience
263 functions and the most commonly needed arguments to Popen.
264
Florent Xicluna023611f2011-10-23 22:40:37 +0200265- Issue #13141: Demonstrate recommended style for socketserver examples.
266
267
Benjamin Petersonc77eccd2011-07-03 13:31:34 -0500268What's New in Python 3.2.2?
269===========================
270
Georg Brandlb0993bc2011-09-03 11:17:55 +0200271*Release date: 03-Sep-2011*
Georg Brandl666ed0b2011-08-13 20:19:09 +0200272
273Core and Builtins
274-----------------
275
Victor Stinner4cf66042011-08-20 14:01:05 +0200276- Issue #12326: sys.platform is now always 'linux2' on Linux, even if Python
277 is compiled on Linux 3.
278
Benjamin Peterson40582112011-08-31 22:13:03 -0400279- Accept bytes for the AST string type. This is temporary until a proper fix in
280 3.3.
281
Georg Brandl666ed0b2011-08-13 20:19:09 +0200282Library
283-------
Victor Stinnera1bea6e2011-09-05 23:44:56 +0200284
Éric Araujobcf99ac2011-09-05 17:44:07 +0200285- Issue #8286: The distutils command sdist will print a warning message instead
286 of crashing when an invalid path is given in the manifest template.
Georg Brandl666ed0b2011-08-13 20:19:09 +0200287
Lars Gustäbel2e7ddd32011-09-05 16:58:14 +0200288- Issue #12841: tarfile unnecessarily checked the existence of numerical user
289 and group ids on extraction. If one of them did not exist the respective id
290 of the current user (i.e. root) was used for the file and ownership
291 information was lost.
292
Éric Araujod5a98112011-08-29 21:48:39 +0200293- Issue #10946: The distutils commands bdist_dumb, bdist_wininst and bdist_msi
294 now respect a --skip-build option given to bdist.
295
Nadeem Vawda97d67922011-08-28 11:26:46 +0200296- Issue #12839: Fix crash in zlib module due to version mismatch.
297 Fix by Richard M. Tew.
298
Georg Brandl89b7af12011-09-03 09:08:49 +0200299Extension Modules
300-----------------
301
302- Issue #9651: Fix a crash when ctypes.create_string_buffer(0) was passed to
303 some functions like file.write().
304
Nadeem Vawda97d67922011-08-28 11:26:46 +0200305
Georg Brandl666ed0b2011-08-13 20:19:09 +0200306
Georg Brandlb3f0ce42011-08-13 11:34:58 +0200307What's New in Python 3.2.2 release candidate 1?
308===============================================
Benjamin Petersonc77eccd2011-07-03 13:31:34 -0500309
Georg Brandlb3f0ce42011-08-13 11:34:58 +0200310*Release date: 14-Aug-2011*
Benjamin Petersonc77eccd2011-07-03 13:31:34 -0500311
312Core and Builtins
313-----------------
314
Benjamin Petersonf413b802011-08-12 22:17:18 -0500315- Issue #12732: In narrow unicode builds, allow Unicode identifiers which fall
316 outside the BMP.
317
Éric Araujocab106c2011-07-26 17:32:50 +0200318- Issue #11603: Fix a crash when __str__ is rebound as __repr__. Patch by
319 Andreas Stührk.
320
321- Issue #11321: Fix a crash with multiple imports of the _pickle module when
322 embedding Python. Patch by Andreas Stührk.
323
Benjamin Peterson2193d2b2011-07-22 10:50:23 -0500324- Verify the types of AST strings and identifiers provided by the user before
325 compiling them.
326
Eric V. Smith12ebefc2011-07-18 14:03:41 -0400327- Issue #12579: str.format_map() now raises a ValueError if used on a
328 format string that contains positional fields. Initial patch by
329 Julian Berman.
330
Barry Warsawd460a762011-07-19 18:28:30 -0400331- Issue #11627: Fix segfault when __new__ on a exception returns a
332 non-exception class.
Benjamin Peterson5afa03a2011-07-15 14:09:26 -0500333
Georg Brandle3bb2cf2011-09-04 08:10:25 +0200334- Issue #12149: Update the method cache after a type's dictionary gets
Antoine Pitrou84f1b172011-07-12 21:57:15 +0200335 cleared by the garbage collector. This fixes a segfault when an instance
336 and its type get caught in a reference cycle, and the instance's
337 deallocator calls one of the methods on the type (e.g. when subclassing
338 IOBase). Diagnosis and patch by Davide Rizzo.
339
Benjamin Petersonac913412011-07-03 16:25:11 -0500340- When a generator yields, do not retain the caller's exception state on the
341 generator.
342
Benjamin Peterson83195c32011-07-03 13:44:00 -0500343- Issue #12475: Prevent generators from leaking their exception state into the
Benjamin Peterson9cf960c2011-07-03 13:49:59 -0500344 caller's frame as they return for the last time.
Benjamin Peterson83195c32011-07-03 13:44:00 -0500345
Benjamin Petersonc77eccd2011-07-03 13:31:34 -0500346Library
347-------
348
Georg Brandl3abb3722011-08-13 11:48:12 +0200349- Issue #11513: Fix exception handling ``tarfile.TarFile.gzopen()`` when
350 the file cannot be opened.
351
Antoine Pitrouf6c7a852011-08-11 21:04:02 +0200352- Issue #12687: Fix a possible buffering bug when unpickling text mode
353 (protocol 0, mostly) pickles.
354
Senthil Kumaran9dc4cad2011-08-11 09:24:37 +0800355- Issue #10087: Fix the html output format of the calendar module.
356
Ned Deilye5cad232011-08-02 18:47:13 -0700357- Issue #12540: Prevent zombie IDLE processes on Windows due to changes
358 in os.kill().
359
Senthil Kumaran2a157d22011-08-03 18:37:22 +0800360- Issue #12683: urlparse updated to include svn as schemes that uses relative
361 paths. (svn from 1.5 onwards support relative path).
362
Éric Araujoab7c1b32011-07-31 04:06:12 +0200363- Issues #11104, #8688: Fix the behavior of distutils' sdist command with
364 manually-maintained MANIFEST files.
365
Charles-François Natalidef35432011-07-29 18:59:24 +0200366- Issue #12464: tempfile.TemporaryDirectory.cleanup() should not follow
367 symlinks: fix it. Patch by Petri Lehtinen.
368
Éric Araujoe64e51b2011-07-29 17:03:55 +0200369- Issue #8887: "pydoc somebuiltin.somemethod" (or help('somebuiltin.somemethod')
370 in Python code) now finds the doc of the method.
371
Charles-François Natali27c4e882011-07-27 19:40:02 +0200372- Issue #12603: Fix pydoc.synopsis() on files with non-negative st_mtime.
373
Raymond Hettinger3a081f52011-07-29 00:02:04 -0700374- Issue #12514: Use try/finally to assure the timeit module restores garbage
375 collections when it is done.
376
Ross Lagerwalld98646e2011-07-27 07:16:31 +0200377- Issue #12607: In subprocess, fix issue where if stdin, stdout or stderr is
378 given as a low fd, it gets overwritten.
379
Ned Deilyf25e3d52011-07-26 18:17:33 -0700380- Issue #12590: IDLE editor window now always displays the first line
381 when opening a long file. With Tk 8.5, the first line was hidden.
382
Senthil Kumaran1299a8f2011-07-27 08:05:58 +0800383- Issue #12576: Fix urlopen behavior on sites which do not send (or obfuscates)
384 Connection:close header.
385
Antoine Pitroucf9d3c02011-07-24 02:27:04 +0200386- Issue #1813: Fix codec lookup under Turkish locales.
387
Antoine Pitrouab85ff32011-07-23 22:03:45 +0200388- Issue #12591: Improve support of "universal newlines" in the subprocess
389 module: the piped streams can now be properly read from or written to.
390
Antoine Pitroue96ec682011-07-23 21:46:35 +0200391- Issue #12591: Allow io.TextIOWrapper to work with raw IO objects (without
392 a read1() method), and add an undocumented *write_through* parameter to
393 mandate unbuffered writes.
394
Éric Araujocab106c2011-07-26 17:32:50 +0200395- Issue #9611, #9015: FileIO.read() clamps the length to INT_MAX on Windows.
396
Nadeem Vawdace7e51e2011-07-23 15:16:23 +0200397- Issue #10883: Fix socket leaks in urllib.request when using FTP.
398
Antoine Pitrouc57ed912011-07-20 00:26:23 +0200399- Issue #12571: Add a plat-linux3 directory mirroring the plat-linux2
400 directory, so that "import DLFCN" and other similar imports work on
401 Linux 3.0.
402
R David Murray46346762011-07-18 21:38:54 -0400403- Issue #7484: smtplib no longer puts <> around addresses in VRFY and EXPN
404 commands; they aren't required and in fact postfix doesn't support that form.
405
Antoine Pitrou0b447952011-07-16 23:52:02 +0200406- Close the call queue in concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor when
407 shutdown() is called, without waiting for the garbage collector to kick in.
408
Charles-François Natali1f0ccfa2011-07-14 19:57:35 +0200409- Issue #12502: asyncore: fix polling loop with AF_UNIX sockets.
410
Éric Araujocab106c2011-07-26 17:32:50 +0200411- Issue #4376: ctypes now supports nested structures with an endianness
412 different than that of the parent structure. Patch by Vlad Riscutia.
Victor Stinner66361212011-07-13 21:43:18 +0200413
Antoine Pitroucb4ae812011-07-13 21:07:49 +0200414- Raise ValueError when attempting to set the _CHUNK_SIZE attribute of a
415 TextIOWrapper to a huge value, not TypeError.
416
Victor Stinner2cfb6f32011-07-05 14:00:56 +0200417- Issue #12493: subprocess: Popen.communicate() now also handles EINTR errors
418 if the process has only one pipe.
419
Victor Stinner91e08772011-07-05 14:30:41 +0200420- Issue #12451: pydoc: html_getfile() now uses tokenize.open() to support
Éric Araujocab106c2011-07-26 17:32:50 +0200421 Python modules using a encoding different than UTF-8 (reading the coding
422 cookie of the module).
Victor Stinner91e08772011-07-05 14:30:41 +0200423
Éric Araujocab106c2011-07-26 17:32:50 +0200424- Issue #12451: pydoc: importfile() now opens the Python module in binary mode,
Victor Stinnere975af62011-07-04 02:08:50 +0200425 instead of text mode using the locale encoding, to avoid encoding issues.
426
Éric Araujocab106c2011-07-26 17:32:50 +0200427- Issue #12451: runpy: run_path() now opens the Python module in binary mode,
Victor Stinner6c471022011-07-04 01:45:39 +0200428 instead of text mode using the locale encoding, to support other encodings
Éric Araujocab106c2011-07-26 17:32:50 +0200429 than UTF-8 (modules using the coding cookie).
Victor Stinner6c471022011-07-04 01:45:39 +0200430
Victor Stinnerbbdc08e2011-07-04 01:25:55 +0200431- Issue #12451: xml.dom.pulldom: parse() now opens files in binary mode instead
432 of the text mode (using the locale encoding) to avoid encoding issues.
433
Barry Warsawd460a762011-07-19 18:28:30 -0400434Extension Modules
435-----------------
436
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc02dd5392011-09-02 20:39:40 +0200437- Issue #12764: Fix a crash in ctypes when the name of a Structure field is not
438 a string.
439
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfaecc382011-08-30 22:02:51 +0200440- Issue #11241: subclasses of ctypes.Array can now be subclassed.
441
Barry Warsawd460a762011-07-19 18:28:30 -0400442- Issue #10309: Define _GNU_SOURCE so that mremap() gets the proper
443 signature. Without this, architectures where sizeof void* != sizeof int are
444 broken. Patch given by Hallvard B Furuseth.
445
Benjamin Petersonc77eccd2011-07-03 13:31:34 -0500446C-API
447-----
448
Éric Araujocab106c2011-07-26 17:32:50 +0200449Build
450-----
451
452- Issue #12560: Build libpython.so on OpenBSD. Patch by Stefan Sperling.
453
454- Issue #12592: Make Python build on OpenBSD 5 (and future major releases).
455
456- Issue #12372: POSIX semaphores are broken on AIX: don't use them.
457
Éric Araujo9e1af032011-07-26 18:25:14 +0200458Tools/Demos
459-----------
460
461- Issue #10639: reindent.py no longer converts newlines and will raise
462 an error if attempting to convert a file with mixed newlines.
Éric Araujocab106c2011-07-26 17:32:50 +0200463
Ned Deily41435352011-07-03 21:56:48 -0700464Tests
465-----
466
Éric Araujo548c0542011-07-31 17:58:46 +0200467- Issue #12331: The test suite for lib2to3 can now run from an installed
468 Python.
469
Antoine Pitroub9c73e82011-07-29 23:53:38 +0200470- Issue #12626: In regrtest, allow to filter tests using a glob filter
471 with the ``-m`` (or ``--match``) option. This works with all test cases
472 using the unittest module. This is useful with long test suites
473 such as test_io or test_subprocess.
474
Antoine Pitrou216a3bc2011-07-23 22:33:39 +0200475- Issue #12624: It is now possible to fail after the first failure when
476 running in verbose mode (``-v`` or ``-W``), by using the ``--failfast``
477 (or ``-G``) option to regrtest. This is useful with long test suites
478 such as test_io or test_subprocess.
479
Ned Deily2ea6fcc2011-07-19 16:15:27 -0700480- Issue #12587: Correct faulty test file and reference in test_tokenize.
481 (Patch by Robert Xiao)
482
Antoine Pitrou707f2282011-07-15 22:29:44 +0200483- Try harder to reap dangling threads in test.support.reap_threads().
484
Antoine Pitrouc081c0c2011-07-15 22:12:24 +0200485- Issue #12573: Add resource checks for dangling Thread and Process objects.
486
Ned Deily58e33502011-07-13 15:07:04 -0700487- Issue #12549: Correct test_platform to not fail when OS X returns 'x86_64'
488 as the processor type on some Mac systems.
489
Antoine Pitrou95531ea2011-07-08 19:43:51 +0200490- Avoid failing in test_robotparser when mueblesmoraleda.com is flaky and
491 an overzealous DNS service (e.g. OpenDNS) redirects to a placeholder
492 Web site.
493
Antoine Pitroub9ac25d2011-07-08 18:47:06 +0200494- Issue #12440: When testing whether some bits in SSLContext.options can be
495 reset, check the version of the OpenSSL headers Python was compiled against,
496 rather than the runtime version of the OpenSSL library.
497
Ned Deilye2d51902011-07-04 19:06:20 -0700498- Issue #12497: Install test/data to prevent failures of the various codecmaps
499 tests.
500
501- Issue #12496: Install test/capath directory to prevent test_connect_capath
Ned Deily8215f5d2011-07-04 17:48:01 -0700502 testcase failure in test_ssl.
503
Victor Stinnere40b3aa2011-07-04 17:35:10 +0200504- Issue #12469: Run "wakeup" signal tests in subprocess to run the test in a
505 fresh process with only one thread and to not change signal handling of the
506 parent process.
507
Ned Deily41435352011-07-03 21:56:48 -0700508- Issue #8716: Avoid crashes caused by Aqua Tk on OSX when attempting to run
509 test_tk or test_ttk_guionly under a username that is not currently logged
510 in to the console windowserver (as may be the case under buildbot or ssh).
511
512
Georg Brandl7d10a2d2011-07-04 08:20:48 +0200513What's New in Python 3.2.1?
514===========================
Antoine Pitroub4410db2011-05-18 18:51:06 +0200515
Georg Brandlcd0dc162011-07-09 08:56:21 +0200516*Release date: 10-Jul-2011*
Antoine Pitroub4410db2011-05-18 18:51:06 +0200517
Georg Brandl7d10a2d2011-07-04 08:20:48 +0200518Library
519-------
520
Victor Stinnerb1b25f02011-07-04 02:43:09 +0200521- Issue #12467: warnings: fix a race condition if a warning is emitted at
522 shutdown, if globals()['__file__'] is None.
523
Antoine Pitrou3aba4982011-07-08 19:19:57 +0200524Tests
525-----
526
Antoine Pitrou9163c472011-07-09 02:31:24 +0200527- Skip network tests when getaddrinfo() returns EAI_AGAIN, meaning a temporary
528 failure in name resolution.
529
Jesus Ceac241df82011-11-08 16:20:46 +0100530- Solved a potential deadlock in test_telnetlib.py. Related to issue #11812.
531
Antoine Pitrou3aba4982011-07-08 19:19:57 +0200532- Avoid failing in test_urllibnet.test_bad_address when some overzealous
533 DNS service (e.g. OpenDNS) resolves a non-existent domain name. The test
534 is now skipped instead.
535
Georg Brandl7d10a2d2011-07-04 08:20:48 +0200536
Antoine Pitroub4410db2011-05-18 18:51:06 +0200537What's New in Python 3.2.1 release candidate 2?
538===============================================
539
Georg Brandld4fa7ed2011-07-03 09:41:27 +0200540*Release date: 03-Jul-2011*
Antoine Pitroub4410db2011-05-18 18:51:06 +0200541
542Core and Builtins
543-----------------
544
Georg Brandl06ddddf2011-07-03 09:42:43 +0200545- Issue #12291: You can now load multiple marshalled objects from a stream, with
546 other data interleaved between marshalled objects.
Vinay Sajip5bdae3b2011-07-02 16:42:47 +0100547
Brian Curtind25aef52011-06-13 15:16:04 -0500548- Issue #12084: os.stat on Windows now works properly with relative symbolic
549 links when called from any directory.
550
Victor Stinner19c52332011-05-30 23:50:04 +0200551- Issue #1195: my_fgets() now always clears errors before calling fgets(). Fix
Victor Stinner4f711012011-05-30 23:46:00 +0200552 the following case: sys.stdin.read() stopped with CTRL+d (end of file),
553 raw_input() interrupted by CTRL+c.
554
Georg Brandl06ddddf2011-07-03 09:42:43 +0200555- Issue #9670: Increase the default stack size for secondary threads on Mac OS X
556 and FreeBSD to reduce the chances of a crash instead of a "maximum recursion
557 depth" RuntimeError exception (patch by Ronald Oussoren).
Ned Deily9a7c5242011-05-28 00:19:56 -0700558
Antoine Pitroub4410db2011-05-18 18:51:06 +0200559Library
560-------
561
R David Murrayac4e5ab2011-07-02 21:03:19 -0400562- Issue #12147: Adjust the new-in-3.2 smtplib.send_message method for better
Georg Brandl06ddddf2011-07-03 09:42:43 +0200563 conformance to the RFCs: correctly handle Sender and Resent headers.
R David Murrayac4e5ab2011-07-02 21:03:19 -0400564
Charles-François Natali778db492011-07-02 14:35:49 +0200565- Issue #12352: Fix a deadlock in multiprocessing.Heap when a block is freed by
566 the garbage collector while the Heap lock is held.
567
Victor Stinnereaf399e2011-06-30 18:10:14 +0200568- Issue #12451: The XInclude default loader of xml.etree now decodes files from
569 UTF-8 instead of the locale encoding if the encoding is not specified. It now
Georg Brandl06ddddf2011-07-03 09:42:43 +0200570 also opens XML files for the parser in binary mode instead of the text mode to
571 avoid encoding issues.
572
573- Issue #12451: doctest.debug_script() doesn't create a temporary file anymore
Victor Stinnereaf399e2011-06-30 18:10:14 +0200574 to avoid encoding issues.
575
Georg Brandl06ddddf2011-07-03 09:42:43 +0200576- Issue #12451: pydoc.synopsis() now reads the encoding cookie if available, to
Éric Araujoaa95ccd2011-07-29 03:28:40 +0200577 read the Python module from the right encoding.
Victor Stinnere6c910e2011-06-30 15:55:43 +0200578
Victor Stinnerdc9b1ea2011-06-30 15:40:22 +0200579- Issue #12451: distutils now opens the setup script in binary mode to read the
580 encoding cookie, instead of opening it in UTF-8.
581
Ned Deily657b2de2011-06-28 19:51:30 -0700582- Issue #9516: On Mac OS X, change Distutils to no longer globally attempt to
583 check or set the MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET environment variable for the
584 interpreter process. This could cause failures in non-Distutils subprocesses
585 and was unreliable since tests or user programs could modify the interpreter
586 environment after Distutils set it. Instead, have Distutils set the the
587 deployment target only in the environment of each build subprocess. It is
588 still possible to globally override the default by setting
589 MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET before launching the interpreter; its value must be
590 greater or equal to the default value, the value with which the interpreter
591 was built.
592
Victor Stinnerf1512a22011-06-21 17:18:38 +0200593- Issue #12383: Fix subprocess module with env={}: don't copy the environment
594 variables, start with an empty environment.
595
Georg Brandl06ddddf2011-07-03 09:42:43 +0200596- Issue #11584: email.header.decode_header no longer fails if the header passed
597 to it is a Header object, and Header/make_header no longer fail if given
598 binary unknown-8bit input.
R David Murray6bdb1762011-06-18 12:30:55 -0400599
R David Murrayc88bce12011-06-17 22:24:05 -0400600- Issue #11700: mailbox proxy object close methods can now be called multiple
601 times without error.
602
R David Murray05ff9902011-06-17 12:54:56 -0400603- Issue #11767: Correct file descriptor leak in mailbox's __getitem__ method.
604
Victor Stinnera4c45d72011-06-17 14:01:18 +0200605- Issue #12133: AbstractHTTPHandler.do_open() of urllib.request closes the HTTP
606 connection if its getresponse() method fails with a socket error. Patch
607 written by Ezio Melotti.
608
Benjamin Peterson9620cc02011-06-11 15:53:11 -0500609- Issue #9284: Allow inspect.findsource() to find the source of doctest
610 functions.
611
Benjamin Peterson9aa68e42011-06-10 12:29:40 -0500612- Issue #12009: Fixed regression in netrc file comment handling.
613
R David Murray4fbb9db2011-06-09 15:50:51 -0400614- Issue #10694: zipfile now ignores garbage at the end of a zipfile.
615
R David Murray0f663d02011-06-09 15:05:57 -0400616- Issue #12283: Fixed regression in smtplib quoting of leading dots in DATA.
617
Vinay Sajip8168d102011-06-09 16:50:49 +0100618- Issue #12168: SysLogHandler now allows NUL termination to be controlled using
619 a new 'append_nul' attribute on the handler.
620
Brian Curtin9c669cc2011-06-08 18:17:18 -0500621- Issue #11583: Speed up os.path.isdir on Windows by using GetFileAttributes
622 instead of os.stat.
623
Raymond Hettinger3d890572011-06-02 23:40:24 -0700624- Named tuples now work correctly with vars().
625
Victor Stinner87b9bc32011-06-01 00:57:47 +0200626- Issue #12085: Fix an attribute error in subprocess.Popen destructor if the
627 constructor has failed, e.g. because of an undeclared keyword argument. Patch
628 written by Oleg Oshmyan.
629
Georg Brandl06ddddf2011-07-03 09:42:43 +0200630- Issue #985064: Make plistlib more resilient to faulty input plists. Patch by
631 Mher Movsisyan.
Ned Deilyb8e59f72011-05-28 02:19:19 -0700632
Victor Stinnera80987f2011-05-25 22:47:16 +0200633- Issue #12175: RawIOBase.readall() now returns None if read() returns None.
634
Victor Stinnerb79f28c2011-05-25 22:09:03 +0200635- Issue #12175: FileIO.readall() now raises a ValueError instead of an IOError
636 if the file is closed.
637
Victor Stinner1273b7c2011-05-24 23:37:07 +0200638- Issue #12070: Fix the Makefile parser of the sysconfig module to handle
639 correctly references to "bogus variable" (e.g. "prefix=$/opt/python").
640
Victor Stinner6bcbef72011-05-24 22:17:55 +0200641- Issue #12100: Don't reset incremental encoders of CJK codecs at each call to
642 their encode() method anymore, but continue to call the reset() method if the
643 final argument is True.
644
Charles-François Natali7b54e752011-05-24 18:23:15 +0200645- Issue #5715: In socketserver, close the server socket in the child process.
646
Benjamin Petersonf5fcd332011-05-23 16:22:42 -0500647- Correct lookup of __dir__ on objects. Among other things, this causes errors
648 besides AttributeError found on lookup to be propagated.
649
Victor Stinner4925cde2011-05-20 00:16:09 +0200650- Issue #12124: zipimport doesn't keep a reference to zlib.decompress() anymore
651 to be able to unload the module.
652
Antoine Pitroub4410db2011-05-18 18:51:06 +0200653- Issue #12065: connect_ex() on an SSL socket now returns the original errno
654 when the socket's timeout expires (it used to return None).
655
Benjamin Peterson0aa71f72011-05-31 19:06:17 -0500656Extension Modules
657-----------------
Ronald Oussoren02a67ac2011-05-17 12:44:54 +0200658
Éric Araujocab106c2011-07-26 17:32:50 +0200659- Issue #12404: Remove C89 incompatible code from mmap module. Patch by Akira
660 Kitada.
661
Benjamin Peterson0aa71f72011-05-31 19:06:17 -0500662- Issue #12221: Replace pyexpat.__version__ with the Python version.
663
Ned Deily6e5fd042011-05-28 05:59:55 -0700664Build
665-----
666
Ned Deily3eb67d52011-06-28 00:00:28 -0700667- Issue #8746: Correct faulty configure checks so that os.chflags() and
Georg Brandl06ddddf2011-07-03 09:42:43 +0200668 os.lchflags() are once again built on systems that support these functions
669 (*BSD and OS X). Also add new stat file flags for OS X (UF_HIDDEN and
670 UF_COMPRESSED).
Ned Deily3eb67d52011-06-28 00:00:28 -0700671
Georg Brandl06ddddf2011-07-03 09:42:43 +0200672- Issue #11217: For 64-bit/32-bit Mac OS X universal framework builds, ensure
673 "make install" creates symlinks in --prefix bin for the "-32" files in the
674 framework bin directory like the installer does.
Antoine Pitroub4410db2011-05-18 18:51:06 +0200675
Jason R. Coombs76748b72011-07-26 11:18:40 -0400676
Victor Stinneree497972011-05-31 00:01:24 +0200677Tests
678-----
679
Antoine Pitrou71cbafb2011-06-30 20:02:54 +0200680- Issue #12407: Explicitly skip test_capi.EmbeddingTest under Windows.
681
Victor Stinnera7c33e52011-06-29 13:00:54 +0200682- Issue #12400: regrtest -W doesn't rerun the tests twice anymore, but captures
683 the output and displays it on failure instead. regrtest -v doesn't print the
684 error twice anymore if there is only one error.
685
Georg Brandl06ddddf2011-07-03 09:42:43 +0200686- Issue #12141: Install a copy of template C module file so that test_build_ext
687 of test_distutils is no longer silently skipped when run outside of a build
688 directory.
Ned Deily58f27b22011-06-28 00:42:50 -0700689
Georg Brandl06ddddf2011-07-03 09:42:43 +0200690- Issue #8746: Add additional tests for os.chflags() and os.lchflags(). Patch
691 by Garrett Cooper.
Ned Deily3eb67d52011-06-28 00:00:28 -0700692
Georg Brandl06ddddf2011-07-03 09:42:43 +0200693- Issue #10736: Fix test_ttk test_widgets failures with Cocoa Tk 8.5.9 on Mac
694 OS X. (Patch by Ronald Oussoren)
Ned Deily11f00f32011-06-27 23:12:20 -0700695
Victor Stinneree497972011-05-31 00:01:24 +0200696- Issue #12057: Add tests for ISO 2022 codecs (iso2022_jp, iso2022_jp_2,
697 iso2022_kr).
698
Victor Stinner4445ec82011-05-20 00:18:58 +0200699
Georg Brandl758b85e2011-05-15 09:49:19 +0200700What's New in Python 3.2.1 release candidate 1?
701===============================================
Martin v. Löwis7be5b782011-02-21 16:26:47 +0000702
Georg Brandl5673e272011-05-15 17:52:42 +0200703*Release date: 15-May-2011*
Martin v. Löwis7be5b782011-02-21 16:26:47 +0000704
705Core and Builtins
706-----------------
707
Victor Stinner2ec6b172011-05-15 10:21:59 +0200708- Issue #12060: Use sig_atomic_t type and volatile keyword in the signal
709 module. Patch written by Charles-François Natali.
710
Gregory P. Smithc9557af2011-05-11 22:18:23 -0700711- Issue #12044: Fixed subprocess.Popen when used as a context manager to
712 wait for the process to end when exiting the context to avoid unintentionally
713 leaving zombie processes around.
714
Victor Stinner4755ab02011-05-10 00:19:53 +0200715- Issue #1195: Fix input() if it is interrupted by CTRL+d and then CTRL+c,
716 clear the end-of-file indicator after CTRL+d.
717
Georg Brandl758b85e2011-05-15 09:49:19 +0200718Library
719-------
720
Ronald Oussoren5ee05672011-05-17 14:48:40 +0200721- Issue #11088: don't crash when using F5 to run a script in IDLE on MacOSX
722 with Tk 8.5.
723
Victor Stinner9cd66262011-05-16 16:32:33 +0200724- Issue #9516: Issue #9516: avoid errors in sysconfig when MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET
Ronald Oussoren447fcfb2011-05-15 16:50:28 +0200725 is set in shell.
726
Georg Brandl758b85e2011-05-15 09:49:19 +0200727- Issue #12012: ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv2 becomes optional.
728
729- Issue #8650: Make zlib module 64-bit clean. compress(), decompress() and
730 their incremental counterparts now raise OverflowError if given an input
731 larger than 4GB, instead of silently truncating the input and returning
732 an incorrect result.
733
734- Issue #12050: zlib.decompressobj().decompress() now clears the unconsumed_tail
735 attribute when called without a max_length argument.
736
737- Issue #12062: Fix a flushing bug when doing a certain type of I/O sequence
738 on a file opened in read+write mode (namely: reading, seeking a bit forward,
739 writing, then seeking before the previous write but still within buffered
740 data, and writing again).
741
742- Issue #1028: Tk returns invalid Unicode null in %A: UnicodeDecodeError.
743 With Tk < 8.5 _tkinter.c:PythonCmd() raised UnicodeDecodeError, caused
744 IDLE to exit. Converted to valid Unicode null in PythonCmd().
745
746- Issue #11169: compileall module uses repr() to format filenames and paths to
747 escape surrogate characters and show spaces.
748
749- Issue #10419, #6011: build_scripts command of distutils handles correctly
750 non-ASCII path (path to the Python executable). Open and write the script in
751 binary mode, but ensure that the shebang is decodable from UTF-8 and from the
752 encoding of the script.
753
754- Issue #8498: In socket.accept(), allow to specify 0 as a backlog value in
755 order to accept exactly one connection. Patch by Daniel Evers.
756
757- Issue #11164: Stop trying to use _xmlplus in the xml module.
758
759Build
760-----
761
762- Issue #11347: Use --no-as-needed when linking libpython3.so.
763
764Tools/Demos
765-----------
766
767- Issue #11996: libpython (gdb), replace "py-bt" command by "py-bt-full" and
768 add a smarter "py-bt" command printing a classic Python traceback.
769
770Tests
771-----
772
Victor Stinner3349bca2011-05-18 00:16:14 +0200773- Issue #12096: Fix a race condition in test_threading.test_waitfor(). Patch
774 written by Charles-François Natali.
775
Victor Stinner9cd66262011-05-16 16:32:33 +0200776- Issue #11614: import __hello__ prints "Hello World!". Patch written by
777 Andreas Stührk.
778
Georg Brandl758b85e2011-05-15 09:49:19 +0200779- Issue #5723: Improve json tests to be executed with and without accelerations.
780
781- Issue #11910: Fix test_heapq to skip the C tests when _heapq is missing.
782
783
784What's New in Python 3.2.1 beta 1?
785==================================
786
787*Release date: 08-May-2011*
788
789Core and Builtins
790-----------------
791
Antoine Pitrou0d5e52d2011-05-04 20:02:30 +0200792- Issue #1856: Avoid crashes and lockups when daemon threads run while the
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +0200793 interpreter is shutting down; instead, these threads are now killed when they
794 try to take the GIL.
Antoine Pitrou0d5e52d2011-05-04 20:02:30 +0200795
Victor Stinner3249dec2011-05-01 23:19:15 +0200796- Issue #9756: When calling a method descriptor or a slot wrapper descriptor,
797 the check of the object type doesn't read the __class__ attribute anymore.
798 Fix a crash if a class override its __class__ attribute (e.g. a proxy of the
Victor Stinner13aaef52011-05-01 23:46:48 +0200799 str type). Patch written by Andreas Stührk.
Victor Stinner3249dec2011-05-01 23:19:15 +0200800
Victor Stinner3cbf14b2011-04-27 00:24:21 +0200801- Issue #10914: Initialize correctly the filesystem codec when creating a new
802 subinterpreter to fix a bootstrap issue with codecs implemented in Python, as
803 the ISO-8859-15 codec.
804
Antoine Pitrou0c759fe2011-04-27 19:28:05 +0200805- Issue #10517: After fork(), reinitialize the TLS used by the PyGILState_*
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +0200806 APIs, to avoid a crash with the pthread implementation in RHEL 5. Patch by
807 Charles-François Natali.
Antoine Pitrou0c759fe2011-04-27 19:28:05 +0200808
Ezio Melottiba42fd52011-04-26 06:09:45 +0300809- Issue #6780: fix starts/endswith error message to mention that tuples are
810 accepted too.
811
Ezio Melotti2df6a932011-04-15 16:38:34 +0300812- Issue #5057: fix a bug in the peepholer that led to non-portable pyc files
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +0200813 between narrow and wide builds while optimizing BINARY_SUBSCR on non-BMP chars
814 (e.g. "\U00012345"[0]).
Ezio Melotti2df6a932011-04-15 16:38:34 +0300815
Ezio Melotti982ef4e2011-04-15 08:15:40 +0300816- Issue #11845: Fix typo in rangeobject.c that caused a crash in
817 compute_slice_indices. Patch by Daniel Urban.
818
Victor Stinner52c950f2011-04-09 15:55:44 +0200819- Issue #11650: PyOS_StdioReadline() retries fgets() if it was interrupted
820 (EINTR), for example if the program is stopped with CTRL+z on Mac OS X. Patch
821 written by Charles-Francois Natali.
822
Victor Stinnere0daff12011-03-20 23:36:35 +0100823- Issue #11395: io.FileIO().write() clamps the data length to 32,767 bytes on
824 Windows if the file is a TTY to workaround a Windows bug. The Windows console
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +0200825 returns an error (12: not enough space error) on writing into stdout if stdout
826 mode is binary and the length is greater than 66,000 bytes (or less, depending
827 on heap usage).
Victor Stinnere0daff12011-03-20 23:36:35 +0100828
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +0200829- Issue #11320: fix bogus memory management in Modules/getpath.c, leading to a
830 possible crash when calling Py_SetPath().
Antoine Pitrou819be342011-03-17 23:36:13 +0100831
Raymond Hettinger29dcaad2011-03-15 14:50:16 -0700832- Issue #11510: Fixed optimizer bug which turned "a,b={1,1}" into "a,b=(1,1)".
833
Gregory P. Smith28edfee2011-03-15 16:02:10 -0400834- Issue #11432: A bug was introduced in subprocess.Popen on posix systems with
835 3.2.0 where the stdout or stderr file descriptor being the same as the stdin
836 file descriptor would raise an exception. webbrowser.open would fail. fixed.
837
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +0200838- Issue #11450: Don't truncate hg version info in Py_GetBuildInfo() when there
839 are many tags (e.g. when using mq). Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
Antoine Pitrou7983d332011-03-09 12:34:41 +0100840
Victor Stinner2b574a22011-03-01 22:48:49 +0000841- Issue #11246: Fix PyUnicode_FromFormat("%V") to decode the byte string from
842 UTF-8 (with replace error handler) instead of ISO-8859-1 (in strict mode).
843 Patch written by Ray Allen.
844
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +0200845- Issue #11286: Raise a ValueError from calling PyMemoryView_FromBuffer with a
846 buffer struct having a NULL data pointer.
Antoine Pitrou915605c2011-02-24 20:53:48 +0000847
Victor Stinner02bfdb32011-02-23 12:10:23 +0000848- Issue #11272: On Windows, input() strips '\r' (and not only '\n'), and
849 sys.stdin uses universal newline (replace '\r\n' by '\n').
850
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +0200851- issue #11828: startswith and endswith don't accept None as slice index. Patch
852 by Torsten Becker.
Jesus Ceaac451502011-04-20 17:09:23 +0200853
Victor Stinner659eb842011-02-23 12:14:22 +0000854- Issue #10830: Fix PyUnicode_FromFormatV("%c") for non-BMP characters on
855 narrow build.
856
Martin v. Löwis7be5b782011-02-21 16:26:47 +0000857- Check for NULL result in PyType_FromSpec.
858
Eli Benderskye0c8635d82011-03-04 05:10:57 +0000859- Issue #11386: bytearray.pop() now throws IndexError when the bytearray is
860 empty, instead of OverflowError.
861
Antoine Pitrouf3d22752011-02-21 18:09:00 +0000862Library
863-------
Antoine Pitroubc7f20c2010-12-17 17:44:45 +0000864
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +0200865- Issue #11927: SMTP_SSL now uses port 465 by default as documented. Patch by
866 Kasun Herath.
Antoine Pitrouc1d52062011-05-07 19:39:37 +0200867
Giampaolo Rodola'24befa82011-05-07 19:09:34 +0200868- Issue #12002: ftplib's abort() method raises TypeError.
869
Ezio Melotti1c3fd582011-05-08 19:58:08 +0300870- Issue #11999: fixed sporadic sync failure mailbox.Maildir due to its trying to
R David Murraycaed7fe2011-05-06 22:07:19 -0400871 detect mtime changes by comparing to the system clock instead of to the
872 previous value of the mtime.
873
Ronald Oussoren6355c162011-05-06 17:11:07 +0200874- ntpath.samefile failed to notice that "a.txt" and "A.TXT" refer to the same
875 file on Windows XP. As noticed in issue #10684.
876
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +0200877- Issue #12000: When a SSL certificate has a subjectAltName without any dNSName
878 entry, ssl.match_hostname() should use the subject's commonName. Patch by
879 Nicolas Bareil.
Antoine Pitrou1c86b442011-05-06 15:19:49 +0200880
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +0200881- Issue #11647: objects created using contextlib.contextmanager now support more
882 than one call to the function when used as a decorator. Initial patch by Ysj
883 Ray.
Nick Coghlan0ded3e32011-05-05 23:49:25 +1000884
Victor Stinnercafa2ef2011-05-02 16:11:28 +0200885- logging: don't define QueueListener if Python has no thread support.
886
Raymond Hettinger003be522011-05-03 11:01:32 -0700887- functools.cmp_to_key() now works with collections.Hashable().
888
Victor Stinnera6cd0cf2011-05-02 01:05:37 +0200889- Issue #11277: mmap.mmap() calls fcntl(fd, F_FULLFSYNC) on Mac OS X to get
890 around a mmap bug with sparse files. Patch written by Steffen Daode Nurpmeso.
891
Łukasz Langa90759a22011-04-30 09:36:35 +0200892- Issue #11858: configparser.ExtendedInterpolation expected lower-case section
893 names.
894
895- Issue #11324: ConfigParser(interpolation=None) now works correctly.
896
Ezio Melotti935a5882011-04-27 10:17:34 +0300897- Issue #11763: don't use difflib in TestCase.assertMultiLineEqual if the
898 strings are too long.
899
Senthil Kumaran72387f92011-04-26 21:09:49 +0800900- Issue #11236: getpass.getpass responds to ctrl-c or ctrl-z on terminal.
901
Victor Stinner6c9b35b2011-04-18 16:25:56 +0200902- Issue #11768: The signal handler of the signal module only calls
903 Py_AddPendingCall() for the first signal to fix a deadlock on reentrant or
904 parallel calls. PyErr_SetInterrupt() writes also into the wake up file.
905
R David Murray01581ee2011-04-18 10:04:34 -0400906- Issue #11492: fix several issues with header folding in the email package.
907
Vinay Sajipe723e962011-04-15 22:27:17 +0100908- Issue #11852: Add missing imports and update tests.
909
Raymond Hettinger019a97c2011-04-19 10:21:27 -0700910- Issue #11875: collections.OrderedDict's __reduce__ was temporarily
911 mutating the object instead of just working on a copy.
912
Ezio Melotti2df6a932011-04-15 16:38:34 +0300913- Issue #11467: Fix urlparse behavior when handling urls which contains scheme
Senthil Kumaran397eb442011-04-15 18:20:24 +0800914 specific part only digits. Patch by Santoso Wijaya.
915
Raymond Hettinger1c746c22011-04-15 13:16:46 -0700916- collections.Counter().copy() now works correctly for subclasses.
917
Senthil Kumaran2d2ea1b2011-04-14 13:16:30 +0800918- Issue #11474: Fix the bug with url2pathname() handling of '/C|/' on Windows.
919 Patch by Santoso Wijaya.
920
Ezio Melotti04c64232011-04-13 07:18:24 +0300921- Issue #9233: Fix json.loads('{}') to return a dict (instead of a list), when
922 _json is not available.
Alexander Belopolsky1a20c122011-04-12 23:03:39 -0400923
Ezio Melotti04c64232011-04-13 07:18:24 +0300924- Issue #11830: Remove unnecessary introspection code in the decimal module.
Ezio Melottic7533052011-04-13 07:04:18 +0300925
926- Issue #11703: urllib2.geturl() does not return correct url when the original
Senthil Kumaran60f02a62011-04-13 09:21:01 +0800927 url contains #fragment.
Ezio Melottic7533052011-04-13 07:04:18 +0300928
R David Murray3dd02d62011-04-12 21:02:45 -0400929- Issue #10019: Fixed regression in json module where an indent of 0 stopped
930 adding newlines and acted instead like 'None'.
Senthil Kumaran60f02a62011-04-13 09:21:01 +0800931
brian.curtinf7eac1f2011-04-11 18:18:20 -0500932- Issue #5162: Treat services like frozen executables to allow child spawning
933 from multiprocessing.forking on Windows.
934
Antoine Pitroubed9a5b2011-04-11 00:20:23 +0200935- Issue #11814: Fix likely typo in multiprocessing.Pool._terminate().
936
Raymond Hettinger49353d02011-04-11 12:40:58 -0700937- Issue #11747: Fix range formatting in difflib.context_diff() and
938 difflib.unified_diff().
939
Antoine Pitrou81dee6b2011-04-11 00:18:59 +0200940- Issue #8428: Fix a race condition in multiprocessing.Pool when terminating
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +0200941 worker processes: new processes would be spawned while the pool is being shut
942 down. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
Antoine Pitrou81dee6b2011-04-11 00:18:59 +0200943
Ezio Melotti2e3607c2011-04-07 22:03:31 +0300944- Issue #7311: fix html.parser to accept non-ASCII attribute values.
945
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +0200946- Issue #11605: email.parser.BytesFeedParser was incorrectly converting
Éric Araujof0ab5d62011-05-29 03:43:59 +0200947 multipart subparts with an 8-bit CTE into unicode instead of preserving the
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +0200948 bytes.
R David Murrayc5c14722011-04-06 08:13:02 -0400949
Ross Lagerwall4f61b022011-04-05 15:34:00 +0200950- Issue #10963: Ensure that subprocess.communicate() never raises EPIPE.
951
Antoine Pitrou9c254862011-04-03 18:15:34 +0200952- Issue #11746: Fix SSLContext.load_cert_chain() to accept elliptic curve
953 private keys.
954
Victor Stinner27181ac2011-03-31 13:39:03 +0200955- sys.getfilesystemencoding() raises a RuntimeError if initfsencoding() was not
956 called yet: detect bootstrap (startup) issues earlier.
957
Antoine Pitrou7899acf2011-03-31 01:00:32 +0200958- Issue #11618: Fix the timeout logic in threading.Lock.acquire() under Windows.
959
Benjamin Peterson6a2638b2011-03-28 17:32:31 -0500960- Issue #11256: Fix inspect.getcallargs on functions that take only keyword
961 arguments.
962
Martin v. Löwisf8d887e2011-03-27 21:05:51 +0200963- Issue #11696: Fix ID generation in msilib.
964
Mark Dickinson92b60d52011-03-27 16:25:40 +0100965- Issue #9696: Fix exception incorrectly raised by xdrlib.Packer.pack_int when
966 trying to pack a negative (in-range) integer.
967
Mark Dickinsonccd22832011-03-27 15:46:32 +0100968- Issue #11675: multiprocessing.[Raw]Array objects created from an integer size
969 are now zeroed on creation. This matches the behaviour specified by the
970 documentation.
971
Martin v. Löwisa6e0b4f2011-03-27 10:14:57 +0200972- Issue #7639: Fix short file name generation in bdist_msi
Martin v. Löwis9bad3a92011-03-27 10:12:07 +0200973
Ross Lagerwallb8a57692011-03-26 21:19:57 +0200974- Issue #11659: Fix ResourceWarning in test_subprocess introduced by #11459.
975 Patch by Ben Hayden.
976
Antoine Pitrouc13d4542011-03-26 19:29:44 +0100977- Issue #11635: Don't use polling in worker threads and processes launched by
978 concurrent.futures.
979
Raymond Hettingera0d1d962011-03-21 17:50:28 -0700980- Issue #11628: cmp_to_key generated class should use __slots__
981
Raymond Hettinger1103d052011-03-25 14:15:24 -0700982- Issue #11666: let help() display named tuple attributes and methods
983 that start with a leading underscore.
984
Guido van Rossum20d2ab42011-03-29 12:58:29 -0700985- Issue #11662: Make urllib and urllib2 ignore redirections if the
986 scheme is not HTTP, HTTPS or FTP (CVE-2011-1521).
987
Victor Stinner628225c2011-03-21 02:38:51 +0100988- Issue #5537: Fix time2isoz() and time2netscape() functions of
989 httplib.cookiejar for expiration year greater than 2038 on 32-bit systems.
990
Senthil Kumaran799c6692011-03-20 09:26:57 +0800991- Issue #11563: Connection:close header is sent by requests using URLOpener
992 class which helps in closing of sockets after connection is over. Patch
993 contributions by Jeff McNeil and Nadeem Vawda.
994
Antoine Pitrou877766d2011-03-19 17:00:37 +0100995- Issue #11459: A ``bufsize`` value of 0 in subprocess.Popen() really creates
996 unbuffered pipes, such that select() works properly on them.
997
Antoine Pitrou5e981412011-03-17 22:38:37 +0100998- Issue #5421: Fix misleading error message when one of socket.sendto()'s
999 arguments has the wrong type. Patch by Nikita Vetoshkin.
Michael Foordf40834f2011-03-17 13:47:12 -04001000
1001- Issue #10979: unittest stdout buffering now works with class and module
1002 setup and teardown.
1003
Nick Coghlanb3c728f2011-03-16 21:26:40 -04001004- Issue #11577: fix ResourceWarning triggered by improved binhex test coverage
1005
R David Murraya2150232011-03-16 21:11:23 -04001006- Issue #11243: fix the parameter querying methods of Message to work if
1007 the headers contain un-encoded non-ASCII data.
1008
R David Murrayde912762011-03-16 18:26:23 -04001009- Issue #11401: fix handling of headers with no value; this fixes a regression
1010 relative to Python2 and the result is now the same as it was in Python2.
1011
R David Murray6d94bd42011-03-16 15:52:22 -04001012- Issue #9298: base64 bodies weren't being folded to line lengths less than 78,
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +02001013 which was a regression relative to Python2. Unlike Python2, the last line of
1014 the folded body now ends with a carriage return.
R David Murray6d94bd42011-03-16 15:52:22 -04001015
Nick Coghlan454e11d2011-03-16 14:19:22 -04001016- Issue #11560: shutil.unpack_archive now correctly handles the format
Nick Coghlan296d9a62011-03-16 14:14:18 -04001017 parameter. Patch by Evan Dandrea.
1018
Michael Foorddcebe0f2011-03-15 19:20:44 -04001019- Issue #11133: fix two cases where inspect.getattr_static can trigger code
Benjamin Petersona78e4e62011-03-16 10:29:19 -05001020 execution. Patch by Andreas Stührk.
Michael Foorddcebe0f2011-03-15 19:20:44 -04001021
Ronald Oussoren0b8753d2011-03-16 09:41:32 -04001022- Issue #11569: use absolute path to the sysctl command in multiprocessing to
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +02001023 ensure that it will be found regardless of the shell PATH. This ensures that
1024 multiprocessing.cpu_count works on default installs of MacOSX.
Ronald Oussoren0b8753d2011-03-16 09:41:32 -04001025
Antoine Pitrou2c50a092011-03-15 21:02:59 +01001026- Issue #11501: disutils.archive_utils.make_zipfile no longer fails if zlib is
1027 not installed. Instead, the zipfile.ZIP_STORED compression is used to create
1028 the ZipFile. Patch by Natalia B. Bidart.
1029
R David Murray56a9d7e2011-03-15 12:20:02 -04001030- Issue #11554: Fixed support for Japanese codecs; previously the body output
1031 encoding was not done if euc-jp or shift-jis was specified as the charset.
1032
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +02001033- Issue #11500: Fixed a bug in the os x proxy bypass code for fully qualified IP
1034 addresses in the proxy exception list.
Ronald Oussorenf2db4de2011-03-14 18:46:50 -04001035
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +02001036- Issue #11491: dbm.error is no longer raised when dbm.open is called with the
1037 "n" as the flag argument and the file exists. The behavior matches the
1038 documentation and general logic.
briancurtin525c25d2011-03-14 16:03:54 -04001039
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +02001040- Issue #11131: Fix sign of zero in decimal.Decimal plus and minus operations
1041 when the rounding mode is ROUND_FLOOR.
Mark Dickinson37a79fb2011-03-12 11:12:52 +00001042
Ned Deilyd2853182011-03-09 02:36:51 -08001043- Issue #5622: Fix curses.wrapper to raise correct exception if curses
1044 initialization fails.
1045
Antoine Pitrou16a0a0b2011-03-06 01:11:03 +01001046- Issue #11391: Writing to a mmap object created with
1047 ``mmap.PROT_READ|mmap.PROT_EXEC`` would segfault instead of raising a
1048 TypeError. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
1049
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +02001050- Issue #11306: mailbox in certain cases adapts to an inability to open certain
1051 files in read-write mode. Previously it detected this by checking for EACCES,
1052 now it also checks for EROFS.
R. David Murray752b9502011-03-03 18:12:34 +00001053
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +02001054- Issue #11265: asyncore now correctly handles EPIPE, EBADF and EAGAIN errors on
1055 accept(), send() and recv().
Giampaolo Rodolà9c9105d2011-03-03 13:59:28 +00001056
Antoine Pitrou86cbfec2011-02-26 23:25:34 +00001057- Issue #11326: Add the missing connect_ex() implementation for SSL sockets,
1058 and make it work for non-blocking connects.
1059
Antoine Pitrou5d5381e2011-02-25 23:14:08 +00001060- Issue #7322: Trying to read from a socket's file-like object after a timeout
1061 occurred now raises an error instead of silently losing data.
1062
Antoine Pitroud843c2d2011-02-25 21:34:39 +00001063- Issue #10956: Buffered I/O classes retry reading or writing after a signal
1064 has arrived and the handler returned successfully.
1065
Lars Gustäbel9f6cbe02011-02-23 11:52:31 +00001066- Issue #11224: Fixed a regression in tarfile that affected the file-like
1067 objects returned by TarFile.extractfile() regarding performance, memory
1068 consumption and failures with the stream interface.
1069
Brett Cannon45b96d32011-02-22 03:35:18 +00001070- Issue #11074: Make 'tokenize' so it can be reloaded.
1071
Antoine Pitrou97696cb2011-02-21 23:46:27 +00001072- Issue #4681: Allow mmap() to work on file sizes and offsets larger than
1073 4GB, even on 32-bit builds. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall, adapted for
1074 32-bit Windows.
1075
Raymond Hettingere6603602011-02-21 19:38:53 +00001076- Issue #11089: Fix performance issue limiting the use of ConfigParser()
Victor Stinner02bfdb32011-02-23 12:10:23 +00001077 with large config files.
Raymond Hettingere6603602011-02-21 19:38:53 +00001078
Antoine Pitrouf3d22752011-02-21 18:09:00 +00001079- Issue #10276: Fix the results of zlib.crc32() and zlib.adler32() on buffers
1080 larger than 4GB. Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
1081
Steven Bethard006ba5c2011-03-26 18:29:48 +01001082- Issue #9348: Raise an early error if argparse nargs and metavar don't match.
1083
Steven Bethardd8f2d502011-03-26 19:50:06 +01001084- Issue #8982: Improve the documentation for the argparse Namespace object.
1085
Steven Bethardd186f992011-03-26 21:49:00 +01001086- Issue #9343: Document that argparse parent parsers must be configured before
1087 their children.
1088
Steven Bethard8a6a1982011-03-27 13:53:53 +02001089- Issue #9026: Fix order of argparse sub-commands in help messages.
1090
Steven Bethard7cb20a82011-04-04 01:53:02 +02001091- Issue #9347: Fix formatting for tuples in argparse type= error messages.
1092
Ned Deilya16b05b2011-02-21 20:52:58 +00001093Build
1094-----
1095
Thomas Wouters6b103432011-03-06 11:51:24 -08001096- Issue #11411: Fix 'make DESTDIR=' with a relative destination.
1097
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +02001098- Issue #11268: Prevent Mac OS X Installer failure if Documentation package had
1099 previously been installed.
Ned Deilya16b05b2011-02-21 20:52:58 +00001100
Raymond Hettingerf6445e82011-04-12 18:30:14 -07001101IDLE
1102----
1103
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +02001104- Issue #11718: IDLE's open module dialog couldn't find the __init__.py file in
1105 a package.
Raymond Hettingerf6445e82011-04-12 18:30:14 -07001106
Antoine Pitrou375ff582011-03-11 20:57:11 +01001107Tools/Demos
1108-----------
1109
1110- Issue #11179: Make ccbench work under Python 3.1 and 2.7 again.
1111
Ezio Melotti06383ee2011-05-07 18:15:34 +03001112Extension Modules
1113-----------------
1114
Ezio Melotti13672652011-05-11 01:02:56 +03001115- Issue #12051: Fix segfault in json.dumps() while encoding highly-nested
1116 objects using the C accelerations.
1117
Ezio Melotti06383ee2011-05-07 18:15:34 +03001118- Issue #12017: Fix segfault in json.loads() while decoding highly-nested
1119 objects using the C accelerations.
Benjamin Peterson1a07f072011-03-26 18:17:05 -05001120
1121- Issue #1838: Prevent segfault in ctypes, when _as_parameter_ on a class is set
1122 to an instance of the class.
1123
Antoine Pitroua47c25d2011-02-21 21:58:42 +00001124Tests
1125-----
1126
R David Murray66a18fd2011-05-05 11:52:44 -04001127- Issue #11873: Change regex in test_compileall to fix occasional failures when
1128 when the randomly generated temporary path happened to match the regex.
1129
Antoine Pitrou72562d02011-04-25 21:22:04 +02001130- Issue #10914: Add a minimal embedding test to test_capi.
1131
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +02001132- Issue #11790: Fix sporadic failures in
1133 test_multiprocessing.WithProcessesTestCondition.
Antoine Pitrouf25a8de2011-04-16 21:02:01 +02001134
Antoine Pitrouee429342011-04-16 18:53:59 +02001135- Fix possible "file already exists" error when running the tests in parallel.
1136
Ross Lagerwall226580e2011-04-09 20:05:04 +02001137- Issue #11719: Fix message about unexpected test_msilib skip on non-Windows
1138 platforms. Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
1139
Antoine Pitroue44b1252011-03-23 23:02:31 +01001140- Issue #11653: fix -W with -j in regrtest.
1141
Nick Coghlanb3c728f2011-03-16 21:26:40 -04001142- Issue #11577: improve test coverage of binhex.py. Patch by Arkady Koplyarov.
1143
Éric Araujof0ab5d62011-05-29 03:43:59 +02001144- Issue #11578: added test for the timeit module. Patch by Michael Henry.
R David Murraya88da672011-03-16 17:32:27 -04001145
Michael Foord07926f02011-03-16 17:19:16 -04001146- Issue #11503: improve test coverage of posixpath.py. Patch by Evan Dandrea.
1147
Nick Coghlan7462fa62011-03-16 14:30:45 -04001148- Issue #11505: improves test coverage of string.py. Patch by Alicia
1149 Arlen.
1150
Nick Coghlan296d9a62011-03-16 14:14:18 -04001151- Issue #11548: Improve test coverage of the shutil module. Patch by
1152 Evan Dandrea.
1153
R David Murray56a9d7e2011-03-15 12:20:02 -04001154- Issue #11554: Reactivated test_email_codecs.
1155
R David Murray384069c2011-03-13 22:26:53 -04001156- Issue #11490: test_subprocess:test_leaking_fds_on_error no longer gives a
1157 false positive if the last directory in the path is inaccessible.
1158
Antoine Pitroud3cccd22011-03-13 19:14:21 +01001159- Issue #11223: Fix test_threadsignals to fail, not hang, when the
1160 non-semaphore implementation of locks is used under POSIX.
1161
Victor Stinnerf0e293c2011-03-01 23:09:57 +00001162- Issue #10911: Add tests on CGI with non-ASCII characters. Patch written by
1163 Pierre Quentel.
1164
Antoine Pitrou4914f9e2011-02-26 16:49:08 +00001165- Issue #9931: Fix hangs in GUI tests under Windows in certain conditions.
1166 Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
1167
Antoine Pitroua47c25d2011-02-21 21:58:42 +00001168- Issue #10826: Prevent sporadic failure in test_subprocess on Solaris due
1169 to open door files.
1170
Ross Lagerwall810b94a2011-04-10 09:30:04 +02001171Documentation
1172-------------
1173
1174- Issue #11818: Fix tempfile examples for Python 3.
1175
Martin v. Löwis7be5b782011-02-21 16:26:47 +00001176
Georg Brandld5852182011-02-14 06:35:00 +00001177What's New in Python 3.2?
1178=========================
1179
1180*Release date: 20-Feb-2011*
1181
1182Core and Builtins
1183-----------------
1184
Georg Brandl032400b2011-02-19 21:47:02 +00001185- Issue #11249: Fix potential crashes when using the limited API.
1186
Georg Brandl9a829be2011-02-15 15:44:51 +00001187Build
1188-----
1189
Georg Brandl6e8d17c2011-02-19 08:47:14 +00001190- Issue #11222: Fix non-framework shared library build on Mac OS X.
1191
Georg Brandl216e4042011-02-19 08:58:23 +00001192- Issue #11184: Fix large-file support on AIX.
1193
Georg Brandl9a829be2011-02-15 15:44:51 +00001194- Issue #941346: Fix broken shared library build on AIX.
1195
Georg Brandl6c9ba242011-02-19 08:44:47 +00001196Documentation
1197-------------
1198
1199- Issue #10709: Add updated AIX notes in Misc/README.AIX.
1200
Georg Brandld5852182011-02-14 06:35:00 +00001201
Georg Brandla6d12ef2011-02-13 10:00:57 +00001202What's New in Python 3.2 Release Candidate 3?
1203=============================================
Georg Brandl6b449ba2011-01-31 10:39:57 +00001204
Georg Brandla6d12ef2011-02-13 10:00:57 +00001205*Release date: 13-Feb-2011*
Georg Brandl6b449ba2011-01-31 10:39:57 +00001206
1207Core and Builtins
1208-----------------
1209
Martin v. Löwiscc7e23a2011-02-11 20:50:24 +00001210- Issue #11134: Add missing fields to typeslots.h.
1211
Martin v. Löwis69168062011-02-11 20:47:49 +00001212- Issue #11135: Remove redundant doc field from PyType_Spec.
1213
Georg Brandl260a7882011-02-20 10:29:04 +00001214- Issue #11067: Add PyType_GetFlags, to support PyUnicode_Check in the limited
1215 ABI.
Martin v. Löwis738236d2011-02-05 20:35:29 +00001216
Martin v. Löwisd77520a2011-02-04 19:09:02 +00001217- Issue #11118: Fix bogus export of None in python3.dll.
1218
Georg Brandl6b449ba2011-01-31 10:39:57 +00001219Library
1220-------
1221
Georg Brandl260a7882011-02-20 10:29:04 +00001222- Issue #11116: any error during addition of a message to a mailbox now causes a
1223 rollback, instead of leaving the mailbox partially modified.
R. David Murrayfc141142011-02-11 22:47:17 +00001224
Georg Brandl260a7882011-02-20 10:29:04 +00001225- Issue #11132: Fix passing of "optimize" parameter when recursing in
1226 compileall.compile_dir().
Georg Brandl45438462011-02-07 12:36:54 +00001227
Brett Cannone1445072011-02-04 20:24:02 +00001228- Issue #11110: Fix a potential decref of a NULL in sqlite3.
1229
Georg Brandl260a7882011-02-20 10:29:04 +00001230- Issue #8275: Fix passing of callback arguments with ctypes under Win64. Patch
1231 by Stan Mihai.
Antoine Pitrou0ea622a2011-01-31 21:08:57 +00001232
Martin v. Löwis9b142aa2011-02-05 20:26:52 +00001233Build
1234-----
1235
Georg Brandl260a7882011-02-20 10:29:04 +00001236- Issue #11079: The /Applications/Python x.x folder created by the Mac OS X
1237 installers now includes a link to the installed documentation and no longer
1238 includes an Extras directory. The Tools directory is now installed in the
1239 framework under share/doc.
Ned Deilyeb698da2011-02-07 16:44:19 +00001240
Martin v. Löwis9b142aa2011-02-05 20:26:52 +00001241- Issue #11121: Fix building with --enable-shared.
1242
Nick Coghlanef316572011-02-07 13:43:07 +00001243Tests
1244-----
1245
Georg Brandl260a7882011-02-20 10:29:04 +00001246- Issue #10971: test_zipimport_support is once again compatible with the refleak
1247 hunter feature of test.regrtest.
Nick Coghlanef316572011-02-07 13:43:07 +00001248
Georg Brandl6b449ba2011-01-31 10:39:57 +00001249
Georg Brandl0c5036f2011-01-16 08:44:50 +00001250What's New in Python 3.2 Release Candidate 2?
1251=============================================
1252
Georg Brandld6e19c32011-01-30 14:03:33 +00001253*Release date: 30-Jan-2011*
Georg Brandl0c5036f2011-01-16 08:44:50 +00001254
1255Core and Builtins
1256-----------------
1257
Antoine Pitrouad62b032011-01-18 18:57:52 +00001258- Issue #10451: memoryview objects could allow to mutate a readable buffer.
1259 Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1260
Georg Brandl0c5036f2011-01-16 08:44:50 +00001261Library
1262-------
1263
R. David Murrayb7deff12011-01-30 06:21:28 +00001264- Issue #9124: mailbox now accepts binary input and reads and writes mailbox
1265 files in binary mode, using the email package's binary support to parse
1266 arbitrary email messages. StringIO and text file input is deprecated,
1267 and string input fails early if non-ASCII characters are used, where
1268 previously it would fail when the email was processed in a later step.
1269
Nick Coghlan793ee1f2011-01-30 01:24:08 +00001270- Issue #10845: Mitigate the incompatibility between the multiprocessing
1271 module on Windows and the use of package, zipfile or directory execution
1272 by special casing main modules that actually *are* called __main__.py.
1273
Éric Araujoac4e58e2011-01-29 20:32:11 +00001274- Issue #11045: Protect logging call against None argument.
1275
Ned Deily5c2d3302011-01-29 19:10:26 +00001276- Issue #11052: Correct IDLE menu accelerators on Mac OS X for Save
1277 commands.
1278
Ned Deily806c9442011-01-29 18:43:56 +00001279- Issue #11053: Fix IDLE "Syntax Error" windows to behave as in 2.x,
1280 preventing a confusing hung appearance on OS X with the windows
1281 obscured.
1282
Ned Deily70063932011-01-29 18:29:01 +00001283- Issue #10940: Workaround an IDLE hang on Mac OS X 10.6 when using the
1284 menu accelerators for Open Module, Go to Line, and New Indent Width.
1285 The accelerators still work but no longer appear in the menu items.
1286
Victor Stinner80f75e62011-01-29 11:31:20 +00001287- Issue #10989: Fix a crash on SSLContext.load_verify_locations(None, True).
1288
Raymond Hettinger8b5eb2f2011-01-27 00:06:54 +00001289- Issue #11020: Command-line pyclbr was broken because of missing 2-to-3
1290 conversion.
1291
R. David Murray7372a072011-01-26 21:21:32 +00001292- Issue #11019: Fixed BytesGenerator so that it correctly handles a Message
1293 with a None body.
1294
Raymond Hettingera63a3122011-01-26 20:34:14 +00001295- Issue #11014: Make 'filter' argument in tarfile.Tarfile.add() into a
1296 keyword-only argument. The preceding positional argument was deprecated,
1297 so it made no sense to add filter as a positional argument.
1298
Raymond Hettinger512d2cc2011-01-25 21:32:39 +00001299- Issue #11004: Repaired edge case in deque.count().
1300
Ned Deily122539e2011-01-24 21:46:44 +00001301- Issue #10974: IDLE no longer crashes if its recent files list includes files
1302 with non-ASCII characters in their path names.
1303
Raymond Hettingerbf1d2bc2011-01-24 04:52:27 +00001304- Have hashlib.algorithms_available and hashlib.algorithms_guaranteed both
1305 return sets instead of one returning a tuple and the other a frozenset.
1306
Antoine Pitroue6d4c5b2011-01-23 17:12:25 +00001307- Issue #10987: Fix the recursion limit handling in the _pickle module.
1308
Georg Brandlc7c199f2011-01-22 22:06:24 +00001309- Issue #10983: Fix several bugs making tunnel requests in http.client.
1310
Victor Stinnerf2e439f2011-01-23 00:11:58 +00001311- Issue #10955: zipimport uses ASCII encoding instead of cp437 to decode
Victor Stinner4ee65a92011-01-22 10:30:29 +00001312 filenames, at bootstrap, if the codec registry is not ready yet. It is still
1313 possible to have non-ASCII filenames using the Unicode flag (UTF-8 encoding)
Victor Stinner137e0f02011-01-22 10:33:01 +00001314 for all file entries in the ZIP file.
Victor Stinner4ee65a92011-01-22 10:30:29 +00001315
Vinay Sajip01241d62011-01-21 23:35:57 +00001316- Issue #10949: Improved robustness of rotating file handlers.
1317
Antoine Pitrou305bc9e2011-01-20 21:07:24 +00001318- Issue #10955: Fix a potential crash when trying to mmap() a file past its
1319 length. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1320
Antoine Pitroue47e0932011-01-19 15:21:35 +00001321- Issue #10898: Allow compiling the posix module when the C library defines
1322 a symbol named FSTAT.
1323
Armin Ronacher8d96d772011-01-22 13:13:05 +00001324- Issue #10980: the HTTP server now encodes headers with iso-8859-1 (latin1)
1325 encoding. This is the preferred encoding of PEP 3333 and the base encoding
1326 of HTTP 1.1.
1327
Armin Ronacher59531282011-01-22 13:44:22 +00001328- To match the behaviour of HTTP server, the HTTP client library now also
1329 encodes headers with iso-8859-1 (latin1) encoding. It was already doing
1330 that for incoming headers which makes this behaviour now consistent in
1331 both incoming and outgoing direction.
1332
Steven Bethardb0270112011-01-24 21:02:50 +00001333- Issue #9509: argparse now properly handles IOErrors raised by
1334 argparse.FileType.
Georg Brandl0c5036f2011-01-16 08:44:50 +00001335
Georg Brandld2f38572011-01-30 08:37:19 +00001336- Issue #10961: The new pydoc server now better handles exceptions raised
1337 during request handling.
1338
Georg Brandl0f6b47a2011-01-30 12:19:35 +00001339- Issue #10680: Fix mutually exclusive arguments for argument groups in
1340 argparse.
1341
Ned Deilye59e4c52011-01-29 18:56:28 +00001342Build
1343-----
1344
1345- Issue #11054: Allow Mac OS X installer builds to again work on 10.5 with
1346 the system-provided Python.
1347
1348
Raymond Hettinger8ebe27f2010-12-21 19:24:26 +00001349What's New in Python 3.2 Release Candidate 1
1350============================================
1351
Georg Brandl3988ed82011-01-15 17:08:53 +00001352*Release date: 16-Jan-2011*
1353
Raymond Hettinger8ebe27f2010-12-21 19:24:26 +00001354Core and Builtins
1355-----------------
1356
Nick Coghlaneea594b2011-01-16 13:08:48 +00001357- Issue #10889: range indexing and slicing now works correctly on ranges with
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001358 a length that exceeds sys.maxsize.
Nick Coghlaneea594b2011-01-16 13:08:48 +00001359
Benjamin Peterson477ba912011-01-12 15:34:01 +00001360- Issue #10892: Don't segfault when trying to delete __abstractmethods__ from a
1361 class.
1362
Antoine Pitrou3be412d2011-01-07 21:47:02 +00001363- Issue #8020: Avoid a crash where the small objects allocator would read
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001364 non-Python managed memory while it is being modified by another thread. Patch
1365 by Matt Bandy.
Antoine Pitrou3be412d2011-01-07 21:47:02 +00001366
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001367- Issue #10841: On Windows, set the binary mode on stdin, stdout, stderr and all
1368 io.FileIO objects (to not translate newlines, \r\n <=> \n). The Python parser
1369 translates newlines (\r\n => \n).
Victor Stinner89e34362011-01-07 18:47:22 +00001370
Martin v. Löwisc83bc3c2011-01-06 19:15:47 +00001371- Remove buffer API from stable ABI for now, see #10181.
1372
Victor Stinnerb3c9e072011-01-04 02:07:34 +00001373- Issue #8651: PyArg_Parse*() functions raise an OverflowError if the file
1374 doesn't have PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN define and the size doesn't fit in an int
1375 (length bigger than 2^31-1 bytes).
1376
Victor Stinnerdc555402011-01-04 13:15:39 +00001377- Issue #9015, #9611: FileIO.readinto(), FileIO.write(), os.write() and
Victor Stinnerc655a722011-07-05 11:31:49 +02001378 stdprinter.write() clamp the length to INT_MAX on Windows.
Victor Stinnere6edec22011-01-04 00:29:35 +00001379
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca251a852011-01-03 00:19:11 +00001380- Issue #8278: On Windows and with a NTFS filesystem, os.stat() and os.utime()
1381 can now handle dates after 2038.
1382
Victor Stinner92be9392010-12-28 00:28:21 +00001383- Issue #10780: PyErr_SetFromWindowsErrWithFilename() and
1384 PyErr_SetExcFromWindowsErrWithFilename() decode the filename from the
1385 filesystem encoding instead of UTF-8.
1386
Victor Stinnercb428f02010-12-27 20:10:36 +00001387- Issue #10779: PyErr_WarnExplicit() decodes the filename from the filesystem
1388 encoding instead of UTF-8.
1389
Georg Brandl8aa7e992010-12-28 18:30:18 +00001390- Add sys.flags attribute for the new -q command-line option.
1391
Benjamin Peterson62f8bcb2011-04-12 18:34:30 -05001392- Issue #11506: Trying to assign to a bytes literal should result in a
1393 SyntaxError.
1394
Raymond Hettinger8ebe27f2010-12-21 19:24:26 +00001395Library
1396-------
1397
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001398- Issue #10916: mmap should not segfault when a file is mapped using 0 as length
1399 and a non-zero offset, and an attempt to read past the end of file is made
1400 (IndexError is raised instead). Patch by Ross Lagerwall.
Antoine Pitrou85f46152011-01-15 16:17:07 +00001401
Ronald Oussoren6edd8c12011-05-17 13:03:54 +02001402- Issue #10154, #10090: change the normalization of UTF-8 to "UTF-8" instead
1403 of "UTF8" in the locale module as the latter is not supported MacOSX and OpenBSD.
1404
Ronald Oussoren78349b02011-05-06 10:57:22 +02001405- Issue #10684: shutil.move used to delete a folder on case insensitive
1406 filesystems when the source and destination name where the same except
1407 for the case.
1408
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001409- Issue #10907: Warn OS X 10.6 IDLE users to use ActiveState Tcl/Tk 8.5, rather
1410 than the currently problematic Apple-supplied one, when running with the
1411 64-/32-bit installer variant.
Ned Deily4ce92b22011-01-15 04:37:12 +00001412
Victor Stinner5c23b8e2011-01-14 13:05:21 +00001413- Issue #4953: cgi.FieldStorage and cgi.parse() parse the request as bytes, not
1414 as unicode, and accept binary files. Add encoding and errors attributes to
Victor Stinnerc5982962011-01-14 14:11:45 +00001415 cgi.FieldStorage. Patch written by Pierre Quentel (with many inputs by Glenn
1416 Linderman).
Victor Stinner5c23b8e2011-01-14 13:05:21 +00001417
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001418- Add encoding and errors arguments to urllib.parse_qs() and urllib.parse_qsl().
Victor Stinnerac71c542011-01-14 12:52:12 +00001419
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001420- Issue #10899: No function type annotations in the standard library. Removed
1421 function type annotations from _pyio.py.
Raymond Hettinger3c940242011-01-12 23:39:31 +00001422
Terry Reedyaacfd4a2011-01-10 21:27:49 +00001423- Issue #10875: Update Regular Expression HOWTO; patch by 'SilentGhost'.
1424
Antoine Pitroua4815ca2011-01-09 20:38:15 +00001425- Issue #10872: The repr() of TextIOWrapper objects now includes the mode
1426 if available.
1427
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001428- Issue #10869: Fixed bug where ast.increment_lineno modified the root node
1429 twice.
Georg Brandl619e7ba2011-01-09 07:38:51 +00001430
R. David Murray5b2d9dd2011-01-09 02:35:24 +00001431- Issue #5871: email.header.Header.encode now raises an error if any
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001432 continuation line in the formatted value has no leading white space and looks
1433 like a header. Since Generator uses Header to format all headers, this check
1434 is made for all headers in any serialized message at serialization time. This
1435 provides protection against header injection attacks.
R. David Murray5b2d9dd2011-01-09 02:35:24 +00001436
Antoine Pitrou67b212e2011-01-08 09:55:31 +00001437- Issue #10859: Make ``contextlib.GeneratorContextManager`` officially
1438 private by renaming it to ``_GeneratorContextManager``.
1439
Raymond Hettinger23f9fc32011-01-08 07:01:56 +00001440- Issue #10042: Fixed the total_ordering decorator to handle cross-type
1441 comparisons that could lead to infinite recursion.
1442
R. David Murray92532142011-01-07 23:25:30 +00001443- Issue #10686: the email package now :rfc:`2047`\ -encodes headers with
Éric Araujof0ab5d62011-05-29 03:43:59 +02001444 non-ASCII bytes (parsed by a BytesParser) when doing conversion to 7bit-clean
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001445 presentation, instead of replacing them with ?s.
R. David Murray92532142011-01-07 23:25:30 +00001446
Éric Araujof0ab5d62011-05-29 03:43:59 +02001447- email.header.Header was incorrectly encoding folding whitespace when
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001448 rfc2047-encoding header values with embedded newlines, leaving them without
1449 folding whitespace. It now uses the continuation_ws, as it does for
1450 continuation lines that it creates itself.
R. David Murray6f0022d2011-01-07 21:57:25 +00001451
Victor Stinner3ec899f2011-01-08 16:37:47 +00001452- Issue #1777412, #10827: Changed the rules for 2-digit years. The
1453 time.asctime(), time.ctime() and time.strftime() functions will now format
1454 any year when ``time.accept2dyear`` is False and will accept years >= 1000
1455 otherwise. ``time.mktime`` and ``time.strftime`` now accept full range
1456 supported by the OS. With Visual Studio or on Solaris, the year is limited to
1457 the range [1; 9999]. Conversion of 2-digit years to 4-digit is deprecated.
Alexander Belopolskyc64708a2011-01-07 19:59:19 +00001458
Antoine Pitroue85da7a2011-01-06 18:25:55 +00001459- Issue #7858: Raise an error properly when os.utime() fails under Windows
1460 on an existing file.
1461
Antoine Pitroub715fac2011-01-06 17:17:04 +00001462- Issue #3839: wsgiref should not override a Content-Length header set by
1463 the application. Initial patch by Clovis Fabricio.
1464
Victor Stinner4bd81722011-01-06 00:49:38 +00001465- Issue #10492: bdb.Bdb.run() only traces the execution of the code, not the
1466 compilation (if the input is a string).
1467
Antoine Pitrou600232b2011-01-05 21:03:42 +00001468- Issue #7995: When calling accept() on a socket with a timeout, the returned
Antoine Pitroudc51a3c2011-01-05 22:43:26 +00001469 socket is now always blocking, regardless of the operating system.
Antoine Pitrou600232b2011-01-05 21:03:42 +00001470
Victor Stinner8786d3d2011-01-05 03:56:22 +00001471- Issue #10756: atexit normalizes the exception before displaying it. Patch by
1472 Andreas Stührk.
Victor Stinner358e11d2011-01-05 03:54:25 +00001473
R. David Murray477efb32011-01-05 01:39:32 +00001474- Issue #10790: email.header.Header.append's charset logic now works correctly
1475 for charsets whose output codec is different from its input codec.
1476
Victor Stinnerc3a51ec2011-01-04 11:00:45 +00001477- Issue #10819: SocketIO.name property returns -1 when its closed, instead of
1478 raising a ValueError, to fix repr().
1479
Victor Stinner8848c7a2011-01-04 02:07:36 +00001480- Issue #8650: zlib.compress() and zlib.decompress() raise an OverflowError if
1481 the input buffer length doesn't fit into an unsigned int (length bigger than
1482 2^32-1 bytes).
1483
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001484- Issue #6643: Reinitialize locks held within the threading module after fork to
1485 avoid a potential rare deadlock or crash on some platforms.
Gregory P. Smith4d419682011-01-03 21:09:23 +00001486
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001487- Issue #10806, issue #9905: Fix subprocess pipes when some of the standard file
1488 descriptors (0, 1, 2) are closed in the parent process. Initial patch by Ross
1489 Lagerwall.
Antoine Pitrouc9c83ba2011-01-03 18:23:55 +00001490
Michael Foord32e1d832011-01-03 17:00:11 +00001491- `unittest.TestCase` can be instantiated without a method name; for simpler
1492 exploration from the interactive interpreter.
1493
Martin v. Löwis9f6d48b2011-01-03 00:07:01 +00001494- Issue #10798: Reject supporting concurrent.futures if the system has too
1495 few POSIX semaphores.
1496
Victor Stinnerb6f42402011-01-02 19:50:36 +00001497- Issue #10807: Remove base64, bz2, hex, quopri, rot13, uu and zlib codecs from
1498 the codec aliases. They are still accessible via codecs.lookup().
1499
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001500- Issue #10801: In zipfile, support different encodings for the header and the
1501 filenames.
Georg Brandl5ba11de2011-01-01 10:09:32 +00001502
Georg Brandld30a0dd2011-01-01 10:07:30 +00001503- Issue #6285: IDLE no longer crashes on missing help file; patch by Scott
1504 David Daniels.
Terry Reedy554e6fa2011-01-01 02:54:11 +00001505
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001506- Fix collections.OrderedDict.setdefault() so that it works in subclasses that
1507 define __missing__().
Raymond Hettingera673b1f2010-12-31 23:16:17 +00001508
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001509- Issue #10786: unittest.TextTestRunner default stream no longer bound at import
1510 time. `sys.stderr` now looked up at instantiation time. Fix contributed by
1511 Mark Roddy.
Michael Foord6f17e2d2010-12-30 19:36:29 +00001512
Éric Araujod8c73c62011-03-21 03:15:22 +01001513- Issue #10753: Characters ';', '=' and ',' in the PATH_INFO environment variable
1514 won't be quoted when the URI is constructed by the wsgiref.util's request_uri
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001515 method. According to RFC 3986, these characters can be a part of params in
1516 PATH component of URI and need not be quoted.
Senthil Kumaran299fa4c2010-12-29 06:25:42 +00001517
Georg Brandld30a0dd2011-01-01 10:07:30 +00001518- Issue #10738: Fix webbrowser.Opera.raise_opts.
Terry Reedydad532f2010-12-28 19:30:19 +00001519
Georg Brandld30a0dd2011-01-01 10:07:30 +00001520- Issue #9824: SimpleCookie now encodes , and ; in values to cater to how
R. David Murraye05ca2a2010-12-28 18:54:13 +00001521 browsers actually parse cookies.
1522
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001523- Issue #9333: os.symlink now available regardless of user privileges. The
1524 function now raises OSError on Windows >=6.0 when the user is unable to create
1525 symbolic links. XP and 2003 still raise NotImplementedError.
Brian Curtin3b4499c2010-12-28 14:31:47 +00001526
Victor Stinnerde3aa7f2010-12-29 02:44:42 +00001527- Issue #10783: struct.pack() no longer implicitly encodes unicode to UTF-8.
Victor Stinnerda9ec992010-12-28 13:26:42 +00001528
Georg Brandl68eb4642010-12-28 11:02:12 +00001529- Issue #10730: Add SVG mime types to mimetypes module.
1530
Georg Brandl780d5e02010-12-28 10:56:20 +00001531- Issue #10768: Make the Tkinter ScrolledText widget work again.
1532
Georg Brandl90b20672010-12-28 10:38:33 +00001533- Issue #10777: Fix "dictionary changed size during iteration" bug in
1534 ElementTree register_namespace().
1535
Vinay Sajip67981ec2010-12-27 18:34:25 +00001536- Issue #10626: test_logging now preserves logger disabled states.
1537
1538- Issue #10774: test_logging now removes temp files created during tests.
1539
R. David Murrayb4ca59b2010-12-26 19:54:29 +00001540- Issue #5258/#10642: if site.py encounters a .pth file that generates an error,
1541 it now prints the filename, line number, and traceback to stderr and skips
1542 the rest of that individual file, instead of stopping processing entirely.
1543
Victor Stinner667d4b52010-12-25 22:40:32 +00001544- Issue #10763: subprocess.communicate() closes stdout and stderr if both are
1545 pipes (bug specific to Windows).
1546
R. David Murraydfd7eb02010-12-24 22:36:49 +00001547- Issue #1693546: fix email.message RFC 2231 parameter encoding to be in better
1548 compliance (no "s around encoded values).
1549
Raymond Hettinger1e7efdf2010-12-24 10:04:00 +00001550- Improved the diff message in the unittest module's assertCountEqual().
1551
R. David Murray4a62e892010-12-23 20:35:46 +00001552- Issue #1155362: email.utils.parsedate_tz now handles a missing space before
1553 the '-' of a timezone field as well as before a '+'.
1554
R. David Murray8d855d82010-12-21 21:53:37 +00001555- Issue #4871: The zipfile module now gives a more useful error message if
1556 an attempt is made to use a string to specify the archive password.
1557
Antoine Pitrou7f8f4182010-12-21 21:20:59 +00001558- Issue #10750: The ``raw`` attribute of buffered IO objects is now read-only.
1559
Raymond Hettinger8dff4ba2010-12-31 23:23:06 +00001560- Deprecated assertDictContainsSubset() in the unittest module.
Raymond Hettinger8ebe27f2010-12-21 19:24:26 +00001561
Antoine Pitrou23683ef2011-01-04 00:00:31 +00001562C-API
1563-----
1564
Antoine Pitrou5ace8e92011-01-15 13:11:48 +00001565- Issue #10913: Deprecate misleading functions PyEval_AcquireLock() and
1566 PyEval_ReleaseLock(). The thread-state aware APIs should be used instead.
1567
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001568- Issue #10333: Remove ancient GC API, which has been deprecated since Python
1569 2.2.
Antoine Pitrou23683ef2011-01-04 00:00:31 +00001570
Georg Brandlff52f762010-12-28 09:51:43 +00001571Build
1572-----
1573
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001574- Issue #10843: Update third-party library versions used in OS X 32-bit
1575 installer builds: bzip2 1.0.6, readline 6.1.2, SQLite 3.7.4 (with FTS3/FTS4
1576 and RTREE enabled), and ncursesw 5.5 (wide-char support enabled).
Ned Deily4f7ff782011-01-15 05:29:12 +00001577
Ned Deily9a1383e2011-01-10 22:14:25 +00001578- Issue #10820: Fix OS X framework installs to support version-specific
1579 scripts (#10679).
1580
Antoine Pitrouf3fcd9f2011-01-03 18:53:50 +00001581- Issue #7716: Under Solaris, don't assume existence of /usr/xpg4/bin/grep in
1582 the configure script but use $GREP instead. Patch by Fabian Groffen.
1583
Antoine Pitrouc2244582011-01-02 19:34:03 +00001584- Issue #10475: Don't hardcode compilers for LDSHARED/LDCXXSHARED on NetBSD
1585 and DragonFly BSD. Patch by Nicolas Joly.
1586
Georg Brandlff52f762010-12-28 09:51:43 +00001587- Issue #10679: The "idle", "pydoc" and "2to3" scripts are now installed with
1588 a version-specific suffix on "make altinstall".
1589
David Malcolmf1397ad2011-01-06 17:01:36 +00001590- Issue #10655: Fix the build on PowerPC on Linux with GCC when building with
1591 timestamp profiling (--with-tsc): the preprocessor test for the PowerPC
1592 support now looks for "__powerpc__" as well as "__ppc__": the latter seems to
1593 only be present on OS X; the former is the correct one for Linux with GCC.
1594
Ronald Oussoren25032492011-03-14 10:11:59 -04001595- Issue #1099: Fix the build on MacOSX when building a framework with pydebug
1596 using GCC 4.0.
1597
Georg Brandl59b44722010-12-30 22:12:40 +00001598Tools/Demos
1599-----------
1600
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001601- Issue #10843: Install the Tools directory on OS X in the applications Extras
1602 (/Applications/Python 3.n/Extras/) where the Demo directory had previous been
1603 installed.
Ned Deily916f2a82011-01-15 05:05:53 +00001604
Georg Brandl59b44722010-12-30 22:12:40 +00001605- Issue #7962: The Demo directory is gone. Most of the old and unmaintained
1606 demos have been removed, others integrated in documentation or a new
1607 Tools/demo subdirectory.
1608
Michael Foord90efac72011-01-03 15:39:49 +00001609- Issue #10502: Addition of the unittestgui tool. Originally by Steve Purcell.
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001610 Updated for test discovery by Mark Roddy and Python 3 compatibility by Brian
1611 Curtin.
Michael Foord90efac72011-01-03 15:39:49 +00001612
Antoine Pitrou3c4402f2011-01-03 20:38:52 +00001613Tests
1614-----
1615
Nadeem Vawda58de6ee2011-04-19 01:38:47 +02001616- Fix test_startfile to wait for child process to terminate before finishing.
1617
Antoine Pitrou318b8f32011-01-12 18:45:27 +00001618- Issue #10822: Fix test_posix:test_getgroups failure under Solaris. Patch
1619 by Ross Lagerwall.
1620
Brett Cannon63eef1e2011-01-06 22:32:41 +00001621- Make the --coverage flag work for test.regrtest.
1622
Antoine Pitrouca023ca2011-01-06 09:05:22 +00001623- Issue #1677694: Refactor and improve test_timeout. Original patch by
1624 Björn Lindqvist.
1625
Antoine Pitrou452196f2011-01-05 18:44:14 +00001626- Issue #5485: Add tests for the UseForeignDTD method of expat parser objects.
1627 Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone and Sandro Tosi.
1628
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001629- Issue #6293: Have regrtest.py echo back sys.flags. This is done by default in
1630 whole runs and enabled selectively using ``--header`` when running an explicit
1631 list of tests. Original patch by Collin Winter.
Antoine Pitrou3c4402f2011-01-03 20:38:52 +00001632
Raymond Hettinger8ebe27f2010-12-21 19:24:26 +00001633
Ronald Oussoren10e05e12010-12-07 15:28:10 +00001634What's New in Python 3.2 Beta 2?
1635================================
1636
Georg Brandl8a60e942010-12-19 10:30:28 +00001637*Release date: 19-Dec-2010*
Ronald Oussoren10e05e12010-12-07 15:28:10 +00001638
R. David Murrayce4b1702010-12-14 23:06:25 +00001639Core and Builtins
1640-----------------
1641
Antoine Pitrou810023d2010-12-15 22:59:16 +00001642- Issue #8844: Regular and recursive lock acquisitions can now be interrupted
1643 by signals on platforms using pthreads. Patch by Reid Kleckner.
1644
R. David Murrayce4b1702010-12-14 23:06:25 +00001645- Issue #4236: PyModule_Create2 now checks the import machinery directly
1646 rather than the Py_IsInitialized flag, avoiding a Fatal Python
1647 error in certain circumstances when an import is done in __del__.
Ronald Oussoren10e05e12010-12-07 15:28:10 +00001648
Ezio Melottiac53ab62010-12-18 14:59:43 +00001649- Issue #5587: add a repr to dict_proxy objects. Patch by David Stanek and
1650 Daniel Urban.
1651
Ronald Oussoren10e05e12010-12-07 15:28:10 +00001652Library
1653-------
Antoine Pitrou988dbd72010-12-17 17:35:56 +00001654
Senthil Kumaran7bc0d872010-12-19 10:49:52 +00001655- Issue #3243: Support iterable bodies in httplib. Patch Contributions by
1656 Xuanji Li and Chris AtLee.
1657
Michael Foordb3468f72010-12-19 03:19:47 +00001658- Issue #10611: SystemExit exception will no longer kill a unittest run.
1659
1660- Issue #9857: It is now possible to skip a test in a setUp, tearDown or clean
1661 up function.
1662
Ezio Melottiaddc6f52010-12-18 20:00:04 +00001663- Issue #10573: use actual/expected consistently in unittest methods.
1664 The order of the args of assertCountEqual is also changed.
1665
R. David Murray63563cd2010-12-18 18:25:38 +00001666- Issue #9286: email.utils.parseaddr no longer concatenates blank-separated
1667 words in the local part of email addresses, thereby preserving the input.
1668
Antoine Pitrou2b37ce72010-12-18 17:59:18 +00001669- Issue #6791: Limit header line length (to 65535 bytes) in http.client
1670 and http.server, to avoid denial of services from the other party.
1671
R. David Murrayb68a7bc2010-12-18 17:19:10 +00001672- Issue #10404: Use ctl-button-1 on OSX for the context menu in Idle.
1673
1674- Issue #9907: Fix tab handling on OSX when using editline by calling
R. David Murray52d1b4e2010-12-18 03:48:32 +00001675 rl_initialize first, then setting our custom defaults, then reading .editrc.
1676
Antoine Pitrou401edd62010-12-17 17:42:16 +00001677- Issue #4188: Avoid creating dummy thread objects when logging operations
1678 from the threading module (with the internal verbose flag activated).
1679
Antoine Pitrou988dbd72010-12-17 17:35:56 +00001680- Issue #10711: Remove HTTP 0.9 support from http.client. The ``strict``
1681 parameter to HTTPConnection and friends is deprecated.
1682
Senthil Kumarandca5b862010-12-17 04:48:45 +00001683- Issue #9721: Fix the behavior of urljoin when the relative url starts with a
1684 ';' character. Patch by Wes Chow.
Ronald Oussoren10e05e12010-12-07 15:28:10 +00001685
Antoine Pitrouc4924372010-12-16 16:48:36 +00001686- Issue #10714: Limit length of incoming request in http.server to 65536 bytes
1687 for security reasons. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1688
Éric Araujo60532bd2010-12-15 21:07:22 +00001689- Issue #9558: Fix distutils.command.build_ext with VS 8.0.
1690
Raymond Hettinger96f34102010-12-15 16:30:37 +00001691- Issue #10667: Fast path for collections.Counter().
1692
R. David Murray32ef70c2010-12-14 14:16:20 +00001693- Issue #10695: passing the port as a string value to telnetlib no longer
1694 causes debug mode to fail.
1695
R. David Murray7ec754b2010-12-13 23:51:19 +00001696- Issue #1078919: add_header now automatically RFC2231 encodes parameters
1697 that contain non-ascii values.
1698
Gregory P. Smithf86aa7c2010-12-13 08:07:14 +00001699- Issue #10188 (partial resolution): tempfile.TemporaryDirectory emits
Nick Coghlan6b22f3f2010-12-12 15:24:21 +00001700 a warning on sys.stderr rather than throwing a misleading exception
1701 if cleanup fails due to nulling out of modules during shutdown.
1702 Also avoids an AttributeError when mkdtemp call fails and issues
1703 a ResourceWarning on implicit cleanup via __del__.
1704
Gregory P. Smithf86aa7c2010-12-13 08:07:14 +00001705- Issue #10107: Warn about unsaved files in IDLE on OSX.
1706
1707- Issue #7213: subprocess.Popen's default for close_fds has been changed.
Gregory P. Smith8edd99d2010-12-14 13:43:30 +00001708 It is now True in most cases other than on Windows when input, output or
1709 error handles are provided.
1710
1711- Issue #6559: subprocess.Popen has a new pass_fds parameter (actually
1712 added in 3.2beta1) to allow specifying a specific list of file descriptors
1713 to keep open in the child process.
Ronald Oussoren10e05e12010-12-07 15:28:10 +00001714
Gregory P. Smithe85db2b2010-12-14 14:38:00 +00001715- Issue #1731717: Fixed the problem where subprocess.wait() could cause an
1716 OSError exception when The OS had been told to ignore SIGCLD in our process
1717 or otherwise not wait for exiting child processes.
1718
R. David Murrayec073312010-12-14 16:20:53 +00001719Tests
1720-----
1721
1722- Issue #775964: test_grp now skips YP/NIS entries instead of failing when
1723 encountering them.
1724
Antoine Pitrou00c6b622010-12-15 15:33:18 +00001725Tools/Demos
1726-----------
1727
Georg Brandlaedd2892010-12-19 10:10:32 +00001728- Issue #6075: IDLE on Mac OS X now works with both Carbon AquaTk and
1729 Cocoa AquaTk.
1730
Antoine Pitrou20f0fb62010-12-16 18:25:24 +00001731- Issue #10710: ``Misc/setuid-prog.c`` is removed from the source tree.
1732
Antoine Pitrou00c6b622010-12-15 15:33:18 +00001733- Issue #10706: Remove outdated script runtests.sh. Either ``make test``
1734 or ``python -m test`` should be used instead.
1735
Martin v. Löwis910a4ed2010-12-17 20:43:27 +00001736Build
1737-----
1738
Martin v. Löwis0e74cac2010-12-17 21:04:09 +00001739- The Windows build now uses Tcl/Tk 8.5.9 and sqlite3 3.7.4.
Martin v. Löwis910a4ed2010-12-17 20:43:27 +00001740
Steven Bethardfd311a72010-12-18 11:19:23 +00001741- Issue #9234: argparse supports alias names for subparsers.
1742
R. David Murrayec073312010-12-14 16:20:53 +00001743
Georg Brandl9b0034d2010-11-16 15:15:56 +00001744What's New in Python 3.2 Beta 1?
1745================================
1746
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00001747*Release date: 05-Dec-2010*
Georg Brandl9b0034d2010-11-16 15:15:56 +00001748
1749Core and Builtins
1750-----------------
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001751
Benjamin Peterson9b4e27e2010-12-07 03:47:37 +00001752- Issue #10630: Return dict views from the dict proxy keys()/values()/items()
1753 methods.
1754
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00001755- Issue #10596: Fix float.__mod__ to have the same behaviour as float.__divmod__
1756 with respect to signed zeros. -4.0 % 4.0 should be 0.0, not -0.0.
Mark Dickinsond2a9b202010-12-04 12:25:30 +00001757
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00001758- Issue #1772833: Add the -q command-line option to suppress copyright and
1759 version output in interactive mode.
Georg Brandl9d871192010-12-04 10:47:18 +00001760
Georg Brandl8334fd92010-12-04 10:26:46 +00001761- Provide an *optimize* parameter in the built-in compile() function.
1762
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00001763- Fixed several corner case issues on Windows in os.stat/os.lstat related to
1764 reparse points.
Hirokazu Yamamoto427d3142010-12-04 10:16:05 +00001765
Martin v. Löwis4d0d4712010-12-03 20:14:31 +00001766- PEP 384 (Defining a Stable ABI) is implemented.
1767
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00001768- Issue #2690: Range objects support negative indices and slicing.
Nick Coghlan37ee8502010-12-03 14:26:13 +00001769
Daniel Stutzbach98338222010-12-02 21:55:33 +00001770- Issue #9915: Speed up sorting with a key.
1771
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001772- Issue #8685: Speed up set difference ``a - b`` when source set ``a`` is much
1773 larger than operand ``b``. Patch by Andrew Bennetts.
Antoine Pitrou715f3cd2010-11-30 22:23:20 +00001774
Antoine Pitroue71362d2010-11-27 22:00:11 +00001775- Issue #10518: Bring back the callable() builtin.
1776
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001777- Issue #7094: Added alternate formatting (specified by '#') to ``__format__``
1778 method of float, complex, and Decimal. This allows more precise control over
1779 when decimal points are displayed.
Eric Smith984bb582010-11-25 16:08:06 +00001780
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001781- Issue #10474: range.count() should return integers.
Benjamin Peterson0b458d52010-11-20 22:35:41 +00001782
R. David Murray6bb99892010-11-20 16:33:30 +00001783- Issue #1574217: isinstance now catches only AttributeError, rather than
1784 masking all errors.
1785
Georg Brandl9b0034d2010-11-16 15:15:56 +00001786Library
1787-------
1788
Vinay Sajip5a27d402010-12-10 11:42:57 +00001789- logging: added "handler of last resort". See http://bit.ly/last-resort-handler
1790
Vinay Sajip129fd042010-12-10 08:19:38 +00001791- test.support: Added TestHandler and Matcher classes for better support of
1792 assertions about logging.
1793
Éric Araujo12159152010-12-04 17:31:49 +00001794- Issue #4391: Use proper plural forms in argparse.
1795
Victor Stinner13d49ee2010-12-04 17:24:33 +00001796- Issue #10601: sys.displayhook uses 'backslashreplace' error handler on
1797 UnicodeEncodeError.
1798
Georg Brandlcbc79c72010-12-04 16:21:42 +00001799- Add the "display" and "undisplay" pdb commands.
1800
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00001801- Issue #7245: Add a SIGINT handler in pdb that allows to break a program again
1802 after a "continue" command.
Georg Brandl44f2b642010-12-04 16:00:47 +00001803
Georg Brandl1acb7462010-12-04 11:20:26 +00001804- Add the "interact" pdb command.
1805
Georg Brandl732324a2010-12-04 11:12:43 +00001806- Issue #7905: Actually respect the keyencoding parameter to shelve.Shelf.
1807
Georg Brandlc29cc6a2010-12-04 11:02:04 +00001808- Issue #1569291: Speed up array.repeat().
1809
Georg Brandl8334fd92010-12-04 10:26:46 +00001810- Provide an interface to set the optimization level of compilation in
1811 py_compile, compileall and zipfile.PyZipFile.
1812
Senthil Kumaran10064e92010-12-04 09:44:30 +00001813- Issue #7904: Changes to urllib.parse.urlsplit to handle schemes as defined by
1814 RFC3986. Anything before :// is considered a scheme and is followed by an
1815 authority (or netloc) and by '/' led path, which is optional.
1816
Georg Brandld9e833c2010-12-04 09:14:36 +00001817- Issue #6045: dbm.gnu databases now support get() and setdefault() methods.
1818
1819- Issue #10620: `python -m unittest` can accept file paths instead of module
Michael Foord37d120a2010-12-04 01:11:21 +00001820 names for running specific tests.
1821
1822- Issue #9424: Deprecate the `unittest.TestCase` methods `assertEquals`,
1823 `assertNotEquals`, `assertAlmostEquals`, `assertNotAlmostEquals` and `assert_`
1824 and replace them with the correct methods in the Python test suite.
1825
Antoine Pitrouc4df7842010-12-03 19:59:41 +00001826- Issue #10272: The ssl module now raises socket.timeout instead of a generic
1827 SSLError on socket timeouts.
1828
Éric Araujobb48a8b2010-12-03 19:41:00 +00001829- Issue #10528: Allow translators to reorder placeholders in localizable
1830 messages from argparse.
1831
Éric Araujoa9c7a8f2010-12-03 19:19:17 +00001832- Issue #10497: Fix incorrect use of gettext in argparse.
1833
Antoine Pitrouf3b68b32010-12-03 18:41:39 +00001834- Issue #10478: Reentrant calls inside buffered IO objects (for example by
1835 way of a signal handler) now raise a RuntimeError instead of freezing the
1836 current process.
1837
Vinay Sajip61561522010-12-03 11:50:38 +00001838- logging: Added getLogRecordFactory/setLogRecordFactory with docs and tests.
1839
Georg Brandl9bd45f992010-12-03 09:58:38 +00001840- Issue #10549: Fix pydoc traceback when text-documenting certain classes.
1841
Nick Coghlan7bb30b72010-12-03 09:29:11 +00001842- Issue #2001: New HTML server with enhanced Web page features. Patch by Ron
1843 Adam.
1844
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001845- Issue #10360: In WeakSet, do not raise TypeErrors when testing for membership
1846 of non-weakrefable objects.
Georg Brandlf8de3fe2010-12-03 07:55:44 +00001847
Georg Brandld80d5f42010-12-03 07:47:22 +00001848- Issue #940286: pydoc.Helper.help() ignores input/output init parameters.
1849
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001850- Issue #1745035: Add a command size and data size limit to smtpd.py, to prevent
1851 DoS attacks. Patch by Savio Sena.
Georg Brandl1e5c5f82010-12-03 07:38:22 +00001852
Georg Brandl106a54d2010-12-03 07:37:16 +00001853- Issue #4925: Add filename to error message when executable can't be found in
1854 subprocess.
1855
1856- Issue #10391: Don't dereference invalid memory in error messages in the ast
1857 module.
1858
1859- Issue #10027: st_nlink was not being set on Windows calls to os.stat or
1860 os.lstat. Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
1861
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001862- Issue #9333: Expose os.symlink only when the SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege is
1863 held by the user's account, i.e., when the function can actually be used.
Georg Brandl106a54d2010-12-03 07:37:16 +00001864
1865- Issue #8879: Add os.link support for Windows.
1866
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001867- Issue #7911: ``unittest.TestCase.longMessage`` defaults to True for improved
Georg Brandl106a54d2010-12-03 07:37:16 +00001868 failure messages by default. Patch by Mark Roddy.
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001869
1870- Issue #1486713: HTMLParser now has an optional tolerant mode where it tries to
1871 guess at the correct parsing of invalid html.
R. David Murrayb579dba2010-12-03 04:06:39 +00001872
Brian Curtin79cdb662010-12-03 02:46:02 +00001873- Issue #10554: Add context manager support to subprocess.Popen objects.
1874
R. David Murraya0b44b52010-12-02 21:47:19 +00001875- Issue #8989: email.utils.make_msgid now has a domain parameter that can
1876 override the domain name used in the generated msgid.
1877
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001878- Issue #9299: Add exist_ok parameter to os.makedirs to suppress the 'File
1879 exists' exception when a target directory already exists with the specified
1880 mode. Patch by Ray Allen.
Terry Reedy5a22b652010-12-02 07:05:56 +00001881
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001882- Issue #9573: os.fork() now works correctly when triggered as a side effect of
1883 a module import.
Nick Coghlanb2ddf792010-12-02 04:11:46 +00001884
R. David Murrayd2bb8302010-12-02 02:58:07 +00001885- Issue #10464: netrc now correctly handles lines with embedded '#' characters.
1886
Raymond Hettinger482ba772010-12-01 22:48:00 +00001887- Added itertools.accumulate().
1888
Alexander Belopolsky41e422a2010-12-01 20:05:49 +00001889- Issue #4113: Added custom ``__repr__`` method to ``functools.partial``.
1890 Original patch by Daniel Urban.
1891
Ezio Melottied3a7d22010-12-01 02:32:32 +00001892- Issue #10273: Rename `assertRegexpMatches` and `assertRaisesRegexp` to
1893 `assertRegex` and `assertRaisesRegex`.
1894
Ezio Melottif10c4002010-12-01 01:45:53 +00001895- Issue #10535: Enable silenced warnings in unittest by default.
1896
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001897- Issue #9873: The URL parsing functions in urllib.parse now accept ASCII byte
1898 sequences as input in addition to character strings.
Nick Coghlan9fc443c2010-11-30 15:48:08 +00001899
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001900- Issue #10586: The statistics API for the new functools.lru_cache has been
1901 changed to a single cache_info() method returning a named tuple.
Nick Coghlan234515a2010-11-30 06:19:46 +00001902
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001903- Issue #10323: itertools.islice() now consumes the minimum number of inputs
1904 before stopping. Formerly, the final state of the underlying iterator was
1905 undefined.
Raymond Hettinger69b34bf2010-11-30 02:49:29 +00001906
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001907- Issue #10565: The collections.Iterator ABC now checks for both __iter__ and
1908 __next__.
Raymond Hettingeread22222010-11-29 03:56:12 +00001909
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001910- Issue #10242: Fixed implementation of unittest.ItemsEqual and gave it a new
1911 more informative name, unittest.CountEqual.
Raymond Hettinger6e165b32010-11-27 09:31:37 +00001912
Senthil Kumaran6f107042010-11-29 11:54:17 +00001913- Issue #10561: In pdb, clear the breakpoints by the breakpoint number.
1914
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001915- Issue #2986: difflib.SequenceMatcher gets a new parameter, autojunk, which can
1916 be set to False to turn off the previously undocumented 'popularity'
Terry Reedy99f96372010-11-25 06:12:34 +00001917 heuristic. Patch by Terry Reedy and Eli Bendersky.
1918
Georg Brandl68eb4642010-12-28 11:02:12 +00001919- Issue #10534: in difflib, expose bjunk and bpopular sets; deprecate
1920 undocumented and now redundant isbjunk and isbpopular methods.
Terry Reedy4b9b1972010-12-03 22:50:06 +00001921
Łukasz Langae61602f2010-11-23 00:19:53 +00001922- Issue #9846: zipfile is now correctly closing underlying file objects.
1923
Martin v. Löwis5cbc71e2010-11-22 09:00:02 +00001924- Issue #10459: Update CJK character names to Unicode 6.0.
1925
Senthil Kumaran249d7e32010-11-22 05:08:13 +00001926- Issue #4493: urllib.request adds '/' in front of path components which does not
Senthil Kumaranc2958622010-11-22 04:48:26 +00001927 start with '/. Common behavior exhibited by browsers and other clients.
1928
Brian Curtinf9916422010-11-21 23:45:10 +00001929- Issue #6378: idle.bat now runs with the appropriate Python version rather than
1930 the system default. Patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
1931
Michael Foord086f3082010-11-21 21:28:01 +00001932- Issue #10470: 'python -m unittest' will now run test discovery by default,
1933 when no extra arguments have been provided.
1934
Senthil Kumarane4dad4f2010-11-21 14:36:14 +00001935- Issue #3709: BaseHTTPRequestHandler will buffer the headers and write to
1936 output stream only when end_headers is invoked. This is a speedup and an
1937 internal optimization. Patch by endian.
1938
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001939- Issue #10220: Added inspect.getgeneratorstate. Initial patch by Rodolpho
1940 Eckhardt.
Nick Coghlane0f04652010-11-21 03:44:04 +00001941
R. David Murray650f1472010-11-20 21:18:51 +00001942- Issue #10453: compileall now uses argparse instead of getopt, and thus
1943 provides clean output when called with '-h'.
1944
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001945- Issue #8078: Add constants for higher baud rates in the termios module. Patch
1946 by Rodolpho Eckhardt.
Antoine Pitroua78f74c2010-11-20 20:03:08 +00001947
Éric Araujoe7606642010-11-20 19:37:28 +00001948- Issue #10407: Fix two NameErrors in distutils.
1949
Ezio Melottib3aedd42010-11-20 19:04:17 +00001950- Issue #10371: Deprecated undocumented functions in the trace module.
Alexander Belopolsky44454af2010-11-20 18:21:07 +00001951
Benjamin Petersonfa735552010-11-20 17:24:04 +00001952- Issue #10467: Fix BytesIO.readinto() after seeking into a position after the
1953 end of the file.
1954
Łukasz Langa71b37a52010-12-17 21:56:32 +00001955- configparser: 100% test coverage.
1956
Łukasz Langa1ac0d7a2010-12-16 01:42:36 +00001957- Issue #10499: configparser supports pluggable interpolation handlers. The
1958 default classic interpolation handler is called BasicInterpolation. Another
Łukasz Langab6a6f5f2010-12-03 16:28:00 +00001959 interpolation handler added (ExtendedInterpolation) which supports the syntax
1960 used by zc.buildout (e.g. interpolation between sections).
1961
Łukasz Langa1ac0d7a2010-12-16 01:42:36 +00001962- configparser: the SafeConfigParser class has been renamed to ConfigParser.
1963 The legacy ConfigParser class has been removed but its interpolation mechanism
1964 is still available as LegacyInterpolation.
Michael Foordb3468f72010-12-19 03:19:47 +00001965
Łukasz Langa1ac0d7a2010-12-16 01:42:36 +00001966- configparser: Usage of RawConfigParser is now discouraged for new projects
1967 in favor of ConfigParser(interpolation=None).
1968
Łukasz Langa45ec4262010-11-20 16:16:24 +00001969- Issue #1682942: configparser supports alternative option/value delimiters.
1970
1971- Issue #5412: configparser supports mapping protocol access.
1972
1973- Issue #9411: configparser supports specifying encoding for read operations.
1974
1975- Issue #9421: configparser's getint(), getfloat() and getboolean() methods
1976 accept vars and default arguments just like get() does.
1977
Łukasz Langa71b37a52010-12-17 21:56:32 +00001978- Issue #9452: configparser supports reading from strings and dictionaries
1979 (thanks to the mapping protocol API, the latter can be used to copy data
1980 between parsers).
Łukasz Langa45ec4262010-11-20 16:16:24 +00001981
1982- configparser: accepted INI file structure is now customizable, including
1983 comment prefixes, name of the DEFAULT section, empty lines in multiline
1984 values, and indentation.
1985
Éric Araujod8c73c62011-03-21 03:15:22 +01001986- Issue #10326: unittest.TestCase instances can be pickled.
Michael Foord8ca6d982010-11-20 15:34:26 +00001987
Éric Araujod8c73c62011-03-21 03:15:22 +01001988- Issue #9926: Wrapped TestSuite subclass does not get __call__ executed.
Michael Foordc610e3e2010-11-20 17:50:34 +00001989
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001990- Issue #9920: Skip tests for cmath.atan and cmath.atanh applied to complex
1991 zeros on systems where the log1p function fails to respect the sign of zero.
1992 This fixes a test failure on AIX.
Mark Dickinson4ccc1372010-11-20 11:08:27 +00001993
Michael Foord95fc51d2010-11-20 15:07:30 +00001994- Issue #9732: Addition of getattr_static to the inspect module.
1995
Alexander Belopolsky9a4030e2010-11-18 03:50:18 +00001996- Issue #10446: Module documentation generated by pydoc now links to a
1997 version-specific online reference manual.
1998
Brett Cannon0ffe6a92010-11-18 03:03:04 +00001999- Make the 'No module named' exception message from importlib consistent.
2000
Antoine Pitrou664c2d12010-11-17 20:29:42 +00002001- Issue #10443: Add the SSLContext.set_default_verify_paths() method.
2002
Antoine Pitroub6d4ee52010-11-17 16:19:35 +00002003- Issue #10440: Support RUSAGE_THREAD as a constant in the resource module.
2004 Patch by Robert Collins.
2005
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002006- Issue #10429: IMAP.starttls() stored the capabilities as bytes objects, rather
2007 than strings.
Antoine Pitroudbe75192010-11-16 17:55:26 +00002008
Benjamin Petersonf6096542010-11-17 22:33:12 +00002009C-API
2010-----
2011
Alexander Belopolsky942af5a2010-12-04 03:38:46 +00002012- Issue #10557: Added a new API function, PyUnicode_TransformDecimalToASCII(),
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00002013 which transforms non-ASCII decimal digits in a Unicode string to their ASCII
2014 equivalents.
Alexander Belopolsky942af5a2010-12-04 03:38:46 +00002015
Georg Brandl106a54d2010-12-03 07:37:16 +00002016- Issue #9518: Extend the PyModuleDef_HEAD_INIT macro to explicitly
2017 zero-initialize all fields, fixing compiler warnings seen when building
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002018 extension modules with gcc with "-Wmissing-field-initializers" (implied by
2019 "-W").
Georg Brandl106a54d2010-12-03 07:37:16 +00002020
2021- Issue #10255: Fix reference leak in Py_InitializeEx(). Patch by Neil
2022 Schemenauer.
2023
Georg Brandl71c23d42010-11-30 09:30:54 +00002024- structseq.h is now included in Python.h.
2025
Benjamin Petersonf6096542010-11-17 22:33:12 +00002026- Loosen PyArg_ValidateKeywordArguments to allow dict subclasses.
2027
Brian Curtin8fb9b862010-11-18 02:15:28 +00002028Tests
2029-----
2030
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002031- regrtest.py once again ensures the test directory is removed from sys.path
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00002032 when it is invoked directly as the __main__ module.
Nick Coghlan4c4c0f22010-12-03 07:44:33 +00002033
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00002034- `python -m test` can be used to run the test suite as well as `python -m
2035 test.regrtest`.
Michael Foord3ab34cc2010-12-03 12:27:40 +00002036
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002037- Do not fail test_socket when the IP address of the local hostname cannot be
2038 looked up.
Georg Brandl89197fe2010-11-20 14:16:17 +00002039
Łukasz Langa45ec4262010-11-20 16:16:24 +00002040- Issue #8886: Use context managers throughout test_zipfile. Patch by Eric
2041 Carstensen.
Brian Curtin8fb9b862010-11-18 02:15:28 +00002042
Mark Dickinson6646cd42010-11-20 10:43:10 +00002043Build
2044-----
2045
2046- Issue #10325: Fix two issues in the fallback definitions for PY_ULLONG_MAX and
2047 PY_LLONG_MAX that made them unsuitable for use in preprocessor conditionals.
2048
Ezio Melotti17f9b3d2010-11-24 22:02:18 +00002049Documentation
2050-------------
2051
2052- Issue #10299: List the built-in functions in a table in functions.rst.
2053
Georg Brandl9b0034d2010-11-16 15:15:56 +00002054
Georg Brandlb8bbffd2010-11-08 16:57:52 +00002055What's New in Python 3.2 Alpha 4?
2056=================================
Martin v. Löwise8930222010-10-11 22:38:01 +00002057
Georg Brandl24854ca2010-11-13 06:39:58 +00002058*Release date: 13-Nov-2010*
Martin v. Löwise8930222010-10-11 22:38:01 +00002059
2060Core and Builtins
2061-----------------
2062
Antoine Pitroucf9f9802010-11-10 13:55:25 +00002063- Issue #10372: Import the warnings module only after the IO library is
2064 initialized, so as to avoid bootstrap issues with the '-W' option.
2065
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002066- Issue #10293: Remove obsolete field in the PyMemoryView structure, unused
2067 undocumented value PyBUF_SHADOW, and strangely-looking code in
Antoine Pitrouaeb6cee2010-11-04 20:30:33 +00002068 PyMemoryView_GetContiguous.
2069
Georg Brandl54445ad2010-11-20 10:24:34 +00002070- Issue #6081: Add str.format_map(), similar to ``str.format(**mapping)``.
Eric Smith27bbca62010-11-04 17:06:58 +00002071
Benjamin Petersonbbb04122010-10-30 23:16:28 +00002072- If FileIO.__init__ fails, close the file descriptor.
2073
Raymond Hettingerdd421542010-10-30 08:10:29 +00002074- Issue #10221: dict.pop(k) now has a key error message that includes the
2075 missing key (same message d[k] returns for missing keys).
2076
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002077- Issue #5437: A preallocated MemoryError instance should not keep traceback
Antoine Pitrou07e20ef2010-10-28 22:56:58 +00002078 data (including local variables caught in the stack trace) alive infinitely.
2079
Benjamin Peterson503d6c52010-10-24 02:52:05 +00002080- Issue #10186: Fix the SyntaxError caret when the offset is equal to the length
2081 of the offending line.
2082
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002083- Issue #10089: Add support for arbitrary -X options on the command line. They
2084 can be retrieved through a new attribute ``sys._xoptions``.
Antoine Pitrou9583cac2010-10-21 13:42:28 +00002085
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002086- Issue #4388: On Mac OS X, decode command line arguments from UTF-8, instead of
2087 the locale encoding. If the LANG (and LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE) environment
Victor Stinnerf933e1a2010-10-20 22:58:25 +00002088 variable is not set, the locale encoding is ISO-8859-1, whereas most programs
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002089 (including Python) expect UTF-8. Python already uses UTF-8 for the filesystem
Victor Stinnerf933e1a2010-10-20 22:58:25 +00002090 encoding and to encode command line arguments on this OS.
2091
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002092- Issue #9713, #10114: Parser functions (e.g. PyParser_ASTFromFile) expect
2093 filenames encoded to the filesystem encoding with the surrogateescape error
Victor Stinner4c7c8c32010-10-16 13:14:10 +00002094 handler (to support undecodable bytes), instead of UTF-8 in strict mode.
2095
Benjamin Peterson230b2062010-10-16 03:45:45 +00002096- Issue #9997: Don't let the name "top" have special significance in scope
2097 resolution.
2098
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002099- Issue #9862: Compensate for broken PIPE_BUF in AIX by hard coding its value as
2100 the default 512 when compiling on AIX.
R. David Murraye16cda92010-10-15 23:12:57 +00002101
Victor Stinnerf3170cc2010-10-15 12:04:23 +00002102- Use locale encoding instead of UTF-8 to encode and decode filenames if
2103 Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding is not set.
2104
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002105- Issue #10095: fp_setreadl() doesn't reopen the file, instead reuse the file
Victor Stinner22a351a2010-10-14 12:04:34 +00002106 descriptor.
2107
Georg Brandl66c221e2010-10-14 07:04:07 +00002108- Issue #9418: Moved private string methods ``_formatter_parser`` and
2109 ``_formatter_field_name_split`` into a new ``_string`` module.
2110
Victor Stinner8f6b6b02010-10-13 22:02:27 +00002111- Issue #9992: Remove PYTHONFSENCODING environment variable.
2112
Martin v. Löwise8930222010-10-11 22:38:01 +00002113Library
2114-------
2115
Georg Brandl9f1c1dc2010-11-20 11:25:01 +00002116- Issue #10465: fix broken delegating of attributes by gzip._PaddedFile.
2117
Stefan Krahdc817b22010-11-17 11:16:34 +00002118- Issue #10356: Decimal.__hash__(-1) should return -2.
2119
Vinay Sajip8593ae62010-11-14 21:33:04 +00002120- Issue #1553375: logging: Added stack_info kwarg to display stack information.
2121
Senthil Kumaran74ebd9e2010-11-13 12:27:49 +00002122- Issue #5111: IPv6 Host in the Header is wrapped inside [ ]. Patch by Chandru.
2123
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002124- Fix Fraction.__hash__ so that Fraction.__hash__(-1) is -2. (See also issue
2125 #10356.)
Mark Dickinsonfec66202010-11-13 10:27:38 +00002126
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002127- Issue #4471: Add the IMAP.starttls() method to enable encryption on standard
2128 IMAP4 connections. Original patch by Lorenzo M. Catucci.
Antoine Pitrouf3b001f2010-11-12 18:49:16 +00002129
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002130- Issue #1466065: Add 'validate' option to base64.b64decode to raise an error if
2131 there are non-base64 alphabet characters in the input.
R. David Murray64951362010-11-11 20:09:20 +00002132
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002133- Issue #10386: Add __all__ to token module; this simplifies importing in
Georg Brandl54445ad2010-11-20 10:24:34 +00002134 tokenize module and prevents leaking of private names through ``import *``.
Alexander Belopolskyb9d10d02010-11-11 14:07:41 +00002135
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002136- Issue #4471: Properly shutdown socket in IMAP.shutdown(). Patch by Lorenzo
2137 M. Catucci.
Antoine Pitroud79f3c82010-11-09 23:10:33 +00002138
Antoine Pitroub1436f12010-11-09 22:55:55 +00002139- Fix IMAP.login() to work properly.
2140
Ask Soleme912f5a2010-11-09 21:14:53 +00002141- Issue #9244: multiprocessing pool worker processes could terminate
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002142 unexpectedly if the return value of a task could not be pickled. Only the
2143 ``repr`` of such errors are now sent back, wrapped in an
Ask Soleme912f5a2010-11-09 21:14:53 +00002144 ``MaybeEncodingError`` exception.
2145
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002146- Issue #9244: The ``apply_async()`` and ``map_async()`` methods of
2147 ``multiprocessing.Pool`` now accepts a ``error_callback`` argument. This can
2148 be a callback with the signature ``callback(exc)``, which will be called if
2149 the target raises an exception.
Ask Soleme912f5a2010-11-09 21:14:53 +00002150
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002151- Issue #10022: The dictionary returned by the ``getpeercert()`` method of SSL
2152 sockets now has additional items such as ``issuer`` and ``notBefore``.
Antoine Pitroufb046912010-11-09 20:21:19 +00002153
Antoine Pitrou859c4ef2010-11-09 18:58:42 +00002154- ``usenetrc`` is now false by default for NNTP objects.
2155
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002156- Issue #1926: Add support for NNTP over SSL on port 563, as well as STARTTLS.
2157 Patch by Andrew Vant.
Antoine Pitrou1cb121e2010-11-09 18:54:37 +00002158
Victor Stinner58c07522010-11-09 01:08:59 +00002159- Issue #10335: Add tokenize.open(), detect the file encoding using
2160 tokenize.detect_encoding() and open it in read only mode.
2161
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002162- Issue #10321: Add support for binary data to smtplib.SMTP.sendmail, and a new
2163 method send_message to send an email.message.Message object.
R. David Murray7dff9e02010-11-08 17:15:13 +00002164
Éric Araujoa5633922010-11-08 17:13:03 +00002165- Issue #6011: sysconfig and distutils.sysconfig use the surrogateescape error
2166 handler to parse the Makefile file. Avoid a UnicodeDecodeError if the source
2167 code directory name contains a non-ASCII character and the locale encoding is
2168 ASCII.
2169
Victor Stinner64bc3b22010-11-07 15:47:36 +00002170- Issue #10329: The trace module writes reports using the input Python script
Éric Araujoa5633922010-11-08 17:13:03 +00002171 encoding, instead of the locale encoding. Patch written by Alexander
Victor Stinner64bc3b22010-11-07 15:47:36 +00002172 Belopolsky.
2173
Éric Araujoe7cf9542010-11-06 15:01:07 +00002174- Issue #10126: Fix distutils' test_build when Python was built with
2175 --enable-shared.
2176
Éric Araujoba7209f2010-11-06 04:48:05 +00002177- Issue #9281: Prevent race condition with mkdir in distutils. Patch by
2178 Arfrever.
2179
Éric Araujo909ddbd2010-11-06 04:24:00 +00002180- Issue #10229: Fix caching error in gettext.
2181
Éric Araujo89c04782010-11-05 23:58:34 +00002182- Issue #10252: Close file objects in a timely manner in distutils code and
2183 tests. Patch by Brian Brazil, completed by Éric Araujo.
2184
Antoine Pitrou243757e2010-11-05 21:15:39 +00002185- Issue #10180: Pickling file objects is now explicitly forbidden, since
2186 unpickling them produced nonsensical results.
2187
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002188- Issue #10311: The signal module now restores errno before returning from its
2189 low-level signal handler. Patch by Hallvard B Furuseth.
Antoine Pitrou39a65912010-11-05 19:47:27 +00002190
Antoine Pitroua0781152010-11-05 19:16:37 +00002191- Issue #10282: Add a ``nntp_implementation`` attribute to NNTP objects.
2192
Antoine Pitrou08eeada2010-11-04 21:36:15 +00002193- Issue #10283: Add a ``group_pattern`` argument to NNTP.list().
2194
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002195- Issue #10155: Add IISCGIHandler to wsgiref.handlers to support IIS CGI
2196 environment better, and to correct unicode environment values for WSGI 1.0.1.
Phillip J. Ebyb6d4a8e2010-11-03 22:39:01 +00002197
Antoine Pitrou4103bc02010-11-03 18:18:43 +00002198- Issue #10281: nntplib now returns None for absent fields in the OVER/XOVER
2199 response, instead of raising an exception.
2200
Phillip J. Ebya01799f2010-11-03 00:46:45 +00002201- wsgiref now implements and validates PEP 3333, rather than an experimental
2202 extension of PEP 333. (Note: earlier versions of Python 3.x may have
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002203 incorrectly validated some non-compliant applications as WSGI compliant; if
2204 your app validates with Python <3.2b1+, but not on this version, it is likely
2205 the case that your app was not compliant.)
Phillip J. Ebya01799f2010-11-03 00:46:45 +00002206
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002207- Issue #10280: NNTP.nntp_version should reflect the highest version advertised
2208 by the server.
Antoine Pitrouf80b3f72010-11-02 22:31:52 +00002209
Martin v. Löwis16f344d2010-11-01 21:39:13 +00002210- Issue #10184: Touch directories only once when extracting a tarfile.
2211
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002212- Issue #10199: New package, ``turtledemo`` now contains selected demo scripts
2213 that were formerly found under Demo/turtle.
Alexander Belopolskyea13d9d2010-11-01 17:39:37 +00002214
Antoine Pitrou4d984892010-10-31 21:27:04 +00002215- Issue #10265: Close file objects explicitly in sunau. Patch by Brian Brazil.
2216
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002217- Issue #10266: uu.decode didn't close in_file explicitly when it was given as a
2218 filename. Patch by Brian Brazil.
Antoine Pitrouf5698262010-10-31 16:04:14 +00002219
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002220- Issue #10110: Queue objects didn't recognize full queues when the maxsize
2221 parameter had been reduced.
Raymond Hettinger189316a2010-10-31 17:57:52 +00002222
Antoine Pitroue9745712010-10-31 15:26:04 +00002223- Issue #10160: Speed up operator.attrgetter. Patch by Christos Georgiou.
2224
Vinay Sajip65b4af32010-10-31 15:11:43 +00002225- logging: Added style option to basicConfig() to allow %, {} or $-formatting.
2226
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002227- Issue #5729: json.dumps() now supports using a string such as '\t' for
2228 pretty-printing multilevel objects.
Raymond Hettingerb643ef82010-10-31 08:00:16 +00002229
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002230- Issue #10253: FileIO leaks a file descriptor when trying to open a file for
2231 append that isn't seekable. Patch by Brian Brazil.
Antoine Pitrou8d2b51b2010-10-30 16:19:14 +00002232
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002233- Support context manager protocol for file-like objects returned by mailbox
2234 ``get_file()`` methods.
Georg Brandl6ce29fa2010-10-30 14:33:28 +00002235
Antoine Pitroubfa34702010-10-30 13:03:56 +00002236- Issue #10246: uu.encode didn't close file objects explicitly when filenames
2237 were given to it. Patch by Brian Brazil.
2238
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002239- Issue #10198: fix duplicate header written to wave files when writeframes() is
2240 called without data.
Georg Brandlcc2adbc2010-10-30 08:29:28 +00002241
Brett Cannon028011f2010-10-30 00:26:48 +00002242- Close file objects in modulefinder in a timely manner.
2243
Brett Cannon01105782010-10-30 00:18:54 +00002244- Close a io.TextIOWrapper object in email.parser in a timely manner.
2245
2246- Close a file object in distutils.sysconfig in a timely manner.
2247
2248- Close a file object in pkgutil in a timely manner.
2249
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002250- Issue #10233: Close file objects in a timely manner in the tarfile module and
2251 its test suite.
Antoine Pitroue1eca4e2010-10-29 23:49:49 +00002252
Antoine Pitroue033e062010-10-29 10:38:18 +00002253- Issue #10093: ResourceWarnings are now issued when files and sockets are
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002254 deallocated without explicit closing. These warnings are silenced by default,
2255 except in pydebug mode.
Antoine Pitroue033e062010-10-29 10:38:18 +00002256
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002257- tarfile.py: Add support for all missing variants of the GNU sparse extensions
2258 and create files with holes when extracting sparse members.
Lars Gustäbel9cbdd752010-10-29 09:08:19 +00002259
Georg Brandlb9a43912010-10-28 09:03:20 +00002260- Issue #10218: Return timeout status from ``Condition.wait`` in threading.
2261
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002262- Issue #7351: Add ``zipfile.BadZipFile`` spelling of the exception name and
2263 deprecate the old name ``zipfile.BadZipfile``.
Georg Brandl4d540882010-10-28 06:42:33 +00002264
Antoine Pitrou6b03ee62010-10-27 18:33:30 +00002265- Issue #5027: The standard ``xml`` namespace is now understood by
2266 xml.sax.saxutils.XMLGenerator as being bound to
2267 http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace. Patch by Troy J. Farrell.
2268
Georg Brandl7424dd32010-10-27 07:27:06 +00002269- Issue #5975: Add csv.unix_dialect class.
2270
2271- Issue #7761: telnetlib.interact failures on Windows fixed.
R. David Murrayba488d12010-10-26 12:42:24 +00002272
Vinay Sajipa39c5712010-10-25 13:57:39 +00002273- logging: Added style option to Formatter to allow %, {} or $-formatting.
2274
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002275- Issue #5178: Added tempfile.TemporaryDirectory class that can be used as a
2276 context manager.
Nick Coghlan543af752010-10-24 11:23:25 +00002277
R. David Murray8451c4b2010-10-23 22:19:56 +00002278- Issue #1349106: Generator (and BytesGenerator) flatten method and Header
2279 encode method now support a 'linesep' argument.
2280
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002281- Issue #5639: Add a *server_hostname* argument to ``SSLContext.wrap_socket`` in
2282 order to support the TLS SNI extension. ``HTTPSConnection`` and ``urlopen()``
2283 also use this argument, so that HTTPS virtual hosts are now supported.
Antoine Pitroud5323212010-10-22 18:19:07 +00002284
Georg Brandl83938432010-10-22 06:28:01 +00002285- Issue #10166: Avoid recursion in pstats Stats.add() for many stats items.
2286
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002287- Issue #10163: Skip unreadable registry keys during mimetypes initialization.
Brian Curtin000f9742010-10-21 14:11:48 +00002288
Vinay Sajip2a20dfc2010-10-20 20:05:38 +00002289- logging: Made StreamHandler terminator configurable.
2290
Vinay Sajip6dbed2e2010-10-19 20:53:01 +00002291- logging: Allowed filters to be just callables.
2292
Vinay Sajip6fac8172010-10-19 20:44:14 +00002293- logging: Added tests for _logRecordClass changes.
2294
Georg Brandl7004bd12010-10-19 18:54:25 +00002295- Issue #10092: Properly reset locale in calendar.Locale*Calendar classes.
2296
Vinay Sajip062d56b2010-10-19 15:26:24 +00002297- logging: Added _logRecordClass, getLogRecordClass, setLogRecordClass to
2298 increase flexibility of LogRecord creation.
2299
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002300- Issue #5117: Case normalization was needed on ntpath.relpath(). Also fixed
2301 root directory issue on posixpath.relpath(). (Ported working fixes from
2302 ntpath.)
Hirokazu Yamamotob08820a2010-10-18 12:13:18 +00002303
R. David Murraya90032a2010-10-17 22:46:45 +00002304- Issue #1343: xml.sax.saxutils.XMLGenerator now has an option
2305 short_empty_elements to direct it to use self-closing tags when appropriate.
2306
Barry Warsawf6219a52010-10-16 01:20:45 +00002307- Issue #9807 (part 1): Expose the ABI flags in sys.abiflags. Add --abiflags
2308 switch to python-config for command line access.
2309
Georg Brandl3844f0d2010-10-15 18:00:35 +00002310- Issue #6098: Don't claim DOM level 3 conformance in minidom.
2311
Georg Brandlb9cd72a2010-10-15 17:58:45 +00002312- Issue #5762: Fix AttributeError raised by ``xml.dom.minidom`` when an empty
2313 XML namespace attribute is encountered.
2314
Georg Brandl1f7fffb2010-10-15 15:57:45 +00002315- Issue #2830: Add the ``html.escape()`` function, which quotes all problematic
Victor Stinner4c7c8c32010-10-16 13:14:10 +00002316 characters by default. Deprecate ``cgi.escape()``.
Georg Brandl1f7fffb2010-10-15 15:57:45 +00002317
Georg Brandld2413422010-10-15 16:42:14 +00002318- Issue #9409: Fix the regex to match all kind of filenames, for interactive
Florent Xiclunad9f57632010-10-14 20:56:20 +00002319 debugging in doctests.
2320
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002321- Issue #9183: ``datetime.timezone(datetime.timedelta(0))`` will now return the
2322 same instance as ``datetime.timezone.utc``.
Alexander Belopolsky1bcbaab2010-10-14 17:03:51 +00002323
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002324- Issue #7523: Add SOCK_CLOEXEC and SOCK_NONBLOCK to the socket module, where
2325 supported by the system. Patch by Nikita Vetoshkin.
Antoine Pitroub1c54962010-10-14 15:05:38 +00002326
2327- Issue #10063: file:// scheme will stop accessing remote hosts via ftp
Senthil Kumaran383c32d2010-10-14 11:57:35 +00002328 protocol. file:// urls had fallback to access remote hosts via ftp. This was
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002329 not correct, change is made to raise a URLError when a remote host is tried to
2330 access via file:// scheme.
Senthil Kumaran383c32d2010-10-14 11:57:35 +00002331
Georg Brandl268e4d42010-10-14 06:59:45 +00002332- Issue #1710703: Write structures for an empty ZIP archive when a ZipFile is
2333 created in modes 'a' or 'w' and then closed without adding any files. Raise
2334 BadZipfile (rather than IOError) when opening small non-ZIP files.
2335
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002336- Issue #10041: The signature of optional arguments in socket.makefile() didn't
2337 match that of io.open(), and they also didn't get forwarded properly to
2338 TextIOWrapper in text mode. Patch by Kai Zhu.
Antoine Pitrou834bd812010-10-13 16:17:14 +00002339
Antoine Pitrou803e6d62010-10-13 10:36:15 +00002340- Issue #9003: http.client.HTTPSConnection, urllib.request.HTTPSHandler and
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002341 urllib.request.urlopen now take optional arguments to allow for server
2342 certificate checking, as recommended in public uses of HTTPS.
Antoine Pitrou803e6d62010-10-13 10:36:15 +00002343
Victor Stinner11b1f3d2010-10-12 22:42:37 +00002344- Issue #6612: Fix site and sysconfig to catch os.getcwd() error, eg. if the
2345 current directory was deleted. Patch written by W. Trevor King.
2346
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002347- Issue #3873: Speed up unpickling from file objects that have a peek() method.
Antoine Pitrou04248a82010-10-12 20:51:21 +00002348
Antoine Pitroub0182c82010-10-12 20:09:02 +00002349- Issue #10075: Add a session_stats() method to SSLContext objects.
2350
Martin v. Löwise8930222010-10-11 22:38:01 +00002351- Issue #9948: Fixed problem of losing filename case information.
2352
Hirokazu Yamamoto35adf5d2010-11-07 11:32:01 +00002353Extension Modules
2354-----------------
Martin v. Löwise8930222010-10-11 22:38:01 +00002355
Alexander Belopolskyef4a03f2011-01-11 21:44:00 +00002356- Issue #5109: array.array constructor will now use fast code when
2357 initial data is provided in an array object with correct type.
2358
Hirokazu Yamamoto4ae5f132010-11-07 14:29:26 +00002359- Issue #6317: Now winsound.PlaySound only accepts unicode.
2360
Hirokazu Yamamotoc08c9bc2010-11-07 09:23:15 +00002361- Issue #6317: Now winsound.PlaySound can accept non ascii filename.
2362
Martin v. Löwis72f48422010-10-29 18:20:08 +00002363- Issue #9377: Use Unicode API for gethostname on Windows.
2364
Jesus Cea7e9065c2010-10-25 13:02:04 +00002365- Issue #10143: Update "os.pathconf" values.
2366
Georg Brandl1e908af2010-10-23 17:31:52 +00002367- Issue #6518: Support context manager protcol for ossaudiodev types.
2368
R. David Murraye194dd62010-10-18 01:14:06 +00002369- Issue #678250: Make mmap flush a noop on ACCESS_READ and ACCESS_COPY.
2370
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002371- Issue #9054: Fix a crash occurring when using the pyexpat module with expat
2372 version 2.0.1.
Georg Brandlc01537f2010-10-15 16:26:08 +00002373
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002374- Issue #5355: Provide mappings from Expat error numbers to string descriptions
2375 and backwards, in order to actually make it possible to analyze error codes
2376 provided by ExpatError.
Georg Brandlb4dac712010-10-15 14:46:48 +00002377
Martin v. Löwis44270f12010-10-11 22:50:33 +00002378- The Unicode database was updated to 6.0.0.
2379
Benjamin Peterson8f67d082010-10-17 20:54:53 +00002380C-API
2381-----
2382
David Malcolm96960882010-11-05 17:23:41 +00002383- Issue #10288: The deprecated family of "char"-handling macros
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002384 (ISLOWER()/ISUPPER()/etc) have now been removed: use Py_ISLOWER() etc instead.
David Malcolm96960882010-11-05 17:23:41 +00002385
Benjamin Peterson8f67d082010-10-17 20:54:53 +00002386- Issue #9778: Hash values are now always the size of pointers. A new Py_hash_t
2387 type has been introduced.
2388
Benjamin Petersonaa965922010-10-13 21:59:36 +00002389Tools/Demos
2390-----------
2391
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002392- Issue #10117: Tools/scripts/reindent.py now accepts source files that use
2393 encoding other than ASCII or UTF-8. Source encoding is preserved when
2394 reindented code is written to a file.
Alexander Belopolsky4a98e3b2010-10-18 14:43:38 +00002395
Benjamin Petersonaa965922010-10-13 21:59:36 +00002396- Issue #7287: Demo/imputil/knee.py was removed.
2397
Victor Stinner9d396392010-10-16 21:54:59 +00002398Tests
2399-----
2400
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002401- Issue #3699: Fix test_bigaddrspace and extend it to test bytestrings as well
2402 as unicode strings. Initial patch by Sandro Tosi.
Antoine Pitrou99c48302010-11-04 20:48:37 +00002403
Brett Cannoned82ca12010-11-02 19:27:59 +00002404- Issue #10294: Remove dead code form test_unicode_file.
2405
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002406- Issue #10123: Don't use non-ascii filenames in test_doctest tests. Add a new
2407 test specific to unicode (non-ascii name and filename).
Victor Stinner9d396392010-10-16 21:54:59 +00002408
Matthias Klose3fbfea12010-10-14 15:24:22 +00002409Build
2410-----
2411
Benjamin Peterson076ed002010-10-31 17:11:02 +00002412- Issue #10268: Add a --enable-loadable-sqlite-extensions option to configure.
2413
Antoine Pitroub156a462010-10-27 20:13:57 +00002414- Issue #8852: Allow the socket module to build on OpenSolaris.
2415
Martin v. Löwisc980ffd2010-10-17 19:36:54 +00002416- Drop -OPT:Olimit compiler option.
2417
Matthias Klose3fbfea12010-10-14 15:24:22 +00002418- Issue #10094: Use versioned .so files on GNU/kfreeBSD and the GNU Hurd.
2419
Matthias Klose8690ae52010-10-17 13:22:33 +00002420- Accept Oracle Berkeley DB 5.0 and 5.1 as backend for the dbm extension.
2421
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002422- Issue #7473: avoid link errors when building a framework with a different set
2423 of architectures than the one that is currently installed.
Ronald Oussorenf3500e12010-10-20 13:10:12 +00002424
Martin v. Löwise8930222010-10-11 22:38:01 +00002425
Georg Brandlbad09252010-09-05 21:29:17 +00002426What's New in Python 3.2 Alpha 3?
2427=================================
2428
Georg Brandl002fa2d2010-10-10 09:40:34 +00002429*Release date: 09-Oct-2010*
Georg Brandlbad09252010-09-05 21:29:17 +00002430
2431Core and Builtins
2432-----------------
2433
Benjamin Peterson5c4bfc42010-10-12 22:57:59 +00002434- Issue #10068: Global objects which have reference cycles with their module's
2435 dict are now cleared again. This causes issue #7140 to appear again.
2436
Victor Stinner257d38f2010-10-09 10:12:11 +00002437- Issue #9738: Document PyErr_SetString() and PyErr_SetFromErrnoWithFilename()
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002438 encodings.
Victor Stinner257d38f2010-10-09 10:12:11 +00002439
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002440- ast.literal_eval() can now handle negative numbers. It is also a little more
2441 liberal in what it accepts without compromising the safety of the evaluation.
2442 For example, 3j+4 and 3+4+5 are both accepted.
Raymond Hettingerbc959732010-10-08 00:47:45 +00002443
Benjamin Peterson970d1882010-10-02 17:55:47 +00002444- Issue #10006: type.__abstractmethods__ now raises an AttributeError. As a
2445 result metaclasses can now be ABCs (see #9533).
2446
Victor Stinneraef57e32010-10-02 11:50:49 +00002447- Issue #8670: ctypes.c_wchar supports non-BMP characters with 32 bits wchar_t.
2448
Victor Stinner5593d8a2010-10-02 11:11:27 +00002449- Issue #8670: PyUnicode_AsWideChar() and PyUnicode_AsWideCharString() replace
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002450 UTF-16 surrogate pairs by single non-BMP characters for 16 bits Py_UNICODE and
2451 32 bits wchar_t (eg. Linux in narrow build).
Victor Stinner5593d8a2010-10-02 11:11:27 +00002452
Brian Curtin9e88b5a2010-10-01 14:49:24 +00002453- Issue #10003: Allow handling of SIGBREAK on Windows. Fixes a regression
Victor Stinner5593d8a2010-10-02 11:11:27 +00002454 introduced by issue #9324.
Brian Curtin9e88b5a2010-10-01 14:49:24 +00002455
Victor Stinner137c34c2010-09-29 10:25:54 +00002456- Issue #9979: Create function PyUnicode_AsWideCharString().
2457
Brett Cannon5305a992010-09-27 21:08:38 +00002458- Issue #7397: Mention that importlib.import_module() is probably what someone
2459 really wants to be using in __import__'s docstring.
2460
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002461- Issue #8521: Allow CreateKeyEx, OpenKeyEx, and DeleteKeyEx functions of winreg
2462 to use named arguments.
Brian Curtin1771b542010-09-27 17:56:36 +00002463
Mark Dickinsonb09a3d62010-09-23 20:11:19 +00002464- Issue #9930: Remove bogus subtype check that was causing (e.g.)
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002465 float.__rdiv__(2.0, 3) to return NotImplemented instead of the expected 1.5.
Mark Dickinsonb09a3d62010-09-23 20:11:19 +00002466
Brian Curtine8e4b3b2010-09-23 20:04:14 +00002467- Issue #9808: Implement os.getlogin for Windows. Patch by Jon Anglin.
2468
Benjamin Peterson0dc97ed2010-09-21 21:28:47 +00002469- Issue #9901: Destroying the GIL in Py_Finalize() can fail if some other
2470 threads are still running. Instead, reinitialize the GIL on a second call to
2471 Py_Initialize().
2472
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002473- All SyntaxErrors now have a column offset and therefore a caret when the error
2474 is printed.
Antoine Pitroub0b384b2010-09-20 20:13:48 +00002475
Brett Cannonbc2eff32010-09-19 21:39:02 +00002476- Issue #9252: PyImport_Import no longer uses a fromlist hack to return the
2477 module that was imported, but instead gets the module from sys.modules.
2478
Nick Coghlan37ee8502010-12-03 14:26:13 +00002479- Issue #9213: The range type_items now provides index() and count() methods, to
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002480 conform to the Sequence ABC. Patch by Daniel Urban and Daniel Stutzbach.
Daniel Stutzbach9f0cbf12010-09-13 21:16:29 +00002481
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002482- Issue #7994: Issue a PendingDeprecationWarning if object.__format__ is called
2483 with a non-empty format string. This is an effort to future-proof user
2484 code. If a derived class does not currently implement __format__ but later
2485 adds its own __format__, it would most likely break user code that had
2486 supplied a format string. This will be changed to a DeprecationWaring in
2487 Python 3.3 and it will be an error in Python 3.4.
Eric Smithe4d63172010-09-13 20:48:43 +00002488
Antoine Pitrou1df15362010-09-13 14:16:46 +00002489- Issue #9828: Destroy the GIL in Py_Finalize(), so that it gets properly
2490 re-created on a subsequent call to Py_Initialize(). The problem (a crash)
2491 wouldn't appear in 3.1 or 2.7 where the GIL's structure is more trivial.
2492
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb73072010-09-12 22:42:57 +00002493- Issue #9210: Configure option --with-wctype-functions was removed. Using the
2494 functions from the libc caused the methods .upper() and lower() to become
2495 locale aware and created subtly wrong results.
2496
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002497- Issue #9738: PyUnicode_FromFormat() and PyErr_Format() raise an error on a
2498 non-ASCII byte in the format string.
Victor Stinner1205f272010-09-11 00:54:47 +00002499
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcba117ef2010-09-10 21:39:53 +00002500- Issue #4617: Previously it was illegal to delete a name from the local
2501 namespace if it occurs as a free variable in a nested block. This limitation
2502 of the compiler has been lifted, and a new opcode introduced (DELETE_DEREF).
2503
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002504- Issue #9804: ascii() now always represents unicode surrogate pairs as a single
2505 ``\UXXXXXXXX``, regardless of whether the character is printable or not.
2506 Also, the "backslashreplace" error handler now joins surrogate pairs into a
2507 single character on UCS-2 builds.
Antoine Pitroue4a18922010-09-09 20:30:23 +00002508
Antoine Pitrou6e6cc832010-09-09 12:59:39 +00002509- Issue #9757: memoryview objects get a release() method to release the
2510 underlying buffer (previously this was only done when deallocating the
2511 memoryview), and gain support for the context management protocol.
2512
Antoine Pitrou079ce542010-09-08 12:37:10 +00002513- Issue #9797: pystate.c wrongly assumed that zero couldn't be a valid
2514 thread-local storage key.
2515
Georg Brandlbad09252010-09-05 21:29:17 +00002516Library
2517-------
2518
Éric Araujo0cfba092010-11-08 21:48:23 +00002519- Issue #2236: distutils' mkpath ignored the mode parameter.
2520
Éric Araujoe7cf9542010-11-06 15:01:07 +00002521- Fix typo in one sdist option (medata-check).
2522
2523- Issue #9199: Fix incorrect use of distutils.cmd.Command.announce.
2524
2525- Issue #1718574: Fix options that were supposed to accept arguments but did
2526 not in build_clib.
2527
Antoine Pitroudbec7802010-10-10 09:37:12 +00002528- Issue #9437: Fix building C extensions with non-default LDFLAGS.
2529
R. David Murray96fd54e2010-10-08 15:55:28 +00002530- Issue #4661: email can now parse bytes input and generate either converted
2531 7bit output or bytes output. Email version bumped to 5.1.0.
2532
Antoine Pitrou59fdd672010-10-08 10:37:08 +00002533- Issue #1589: Add ssl.match_hostname(), to help implement server identity
2534 verification for higher-level protocols.
2535
Antoine Pitrou7980eaa2010-10-06 21:21:18 +00002536- Issue #9759: GzipFile now raises ValueError when an operation is attempted
2537 after the file is closed. Patch by Jeffrey Finkelstein.
2538
Éric Araujo6108bf52010-10-04 23:52:37 +00002539- Issue #9042: Fix interaction of custom translation classes and caching in
2540 gettext.
2541
Éric Araujoef777bd2010-10-05 00:04:20 +00002542- Issue #6706: asyncore.dispatcher now provides a handle_accepted() method
Giampaolo Rodolà977c7072010-10-04 21:08:36 +00002543 returning a (sock, addr) pair which is called when a connection has been
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002544 established with a new remote endpoint. This is supposed to be used as a
Giampaolo Rodolà977c7072010-10-04 21:08:36 +00002545 replacement for old handle_accept() and avoids the user to call accept()
2546 directly.
2547
Lars Gustäbel331b8002010-10-04 15:18:47 +00002548- Issue #9065: tarfile no longer uses "root" as the default for the uname and
2549 gname field.
2550
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002551- Issue #8980: Fixed a failure in distutils.command check that was shadowed by
2552 an environment that does not have docutils. Patch by Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadé4bcceef2010-10-03 14:18:09 +00002553
R. David Murray5397e862010-10-02 15:58:26 +00002554- Issue #1050268: parseaddr now correctly quotes double quote and backslash
2555 characters that appear inside quoted strings in email addresses.
2556
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002557- Issue #10004: quoprimime no longer generates a traceback when confronted with
2558 invalid characters after '=' in a Q-encoded word.
R. David Murray31e984c2010-10-01 15:40:20 +00002559
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002560- Issue #1491: BaseHTTPServer nows send a ``100 Continue`` response before
2561 sending a 200 OK for the Expect: 100-continue request header.
Senthil Kumaran0f476d42010-09-30 06:09:18 +00002562
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002563- Issue #9360: Cleanup and improvements to the nntplib module. The API now
2564 conforms to the philosophy of bytes and unicode separation in Python 3. A
2565 test suite has also been added.
Antoine Pitrou69ab9512010-09-29 15:03:40 +00002566
Antoine Pitrouc3ed2e72010-09-29 10:49:46 +00002567- Issue #9962: GzipFile now has the peek() method.
2568
Antoine Pitrou3e1fd272010-09-28 21:23:11 +00002569- Issue #9090: When a socket with a timeout fails with EWOULDBLOCK or EAGAIN,
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002570 retry the select() loop instead of bailing out. This is because select() can
2571 incorrectly report a socket as ready for reading (for example, if it received
2572 some data with an invalid checksum).
Antoine Pitrou3e1fd272010-09-28 21:23:11 +00002573
Hirokazu Yamamotocc868d42010-09-28 21:08:38 +00002574- Issue #3612: Added new types to ctypes.wintypes. (CHAR and pointers)
2575
Antoine Pitrou6d7df632010-09-27 17:52:25 +00002576- Issue #9950: Fix socket.sendall() crash or misbehaviour when a signal is
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002577 received. Now sendall() properly calls signal handlers if necessary, and
2578 retries sending if these returned successfully, including on sockets with a
2579 timeout.
Antoine Pitrou6d7df632010-09-27 17:52:25 +00002580
Vinay Sajip9fdd11b2010-09-25 17:48:25 +00002581- Issue #9947: logging: Fixed locking bug in stopListening.
2582
Vinay Sajip32fb6a82010-09-25 17:42:36 +00002583- Issue #9945: logging: Fixed locking bugs in addHandler/removeHandler.
2584
Alexander Belopolskyff09ce22010-09-24 18:03:12 +00002585- Issue #9936: Fixed executable lines' search in the trace module.
2586
Brian Curtin0dac8082010-09-23 20:38:14 +00002587- Issue #9790: Rework imports necessary for samefile and sameopenfile
2588 in ntpath.
2589
Antoine Pitrou70c60442010-09-23 19:51:39 +00002590- Issue #9928: Properly initialize the types exported by the bz2 module.
2591
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002592- Issue #1675951: Allow GzipFile to work with unseekable file objects. Patch by
2593 Florian Festi.
Antoine Pitrou7b969842010-09-23 16:22:51 +00002594
Vinay Sajip0637d492010-09-23 08:15:54 +00002595- Logging: Added QueueListener class to facilitate logging usage for
2596 performance-critical threads.
2597
Barry Warsaw31c604d2010-09-22 20:58:04 +00002598- Issue #9916: Add some missing errno symbols.
2599
Benjamin Peterson0dc97ed2010-09-21 21:28:47 +00002600- Issue #9877: Expose sysconfig.get_makefile_filename()
2601
2602- logging: Added hasHandlers() method to Logger and LoggerAdapter.
2603
Antoine Pitrou38425292010-09-21 18:19:07 +00002604- Issue #9908: Fix os.stat() on bytes paths under Windows 7.
2605
Antoine Pitrou52d42502010-09-21 16:08:27 +00002606- Issue #2643: msync() is not called anymore when deallocating an open mmap
2607 object, only munmap().
2608
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002609- logging: Changed LoggerAdapter implementation internally, to make it easier to
2610 subclass in a useful way.
Vinay Sajip212b5902010-09-21 11:31:32 +00002611
Vinay Sajipc84f0162010-09-21 11:25:39 +00002612- logging: hasHandlers method was added to Logger, and isEnabledFor,
2613 getEffectiveLevel, hasHandlers and setLevel were added to LoggerAdapter.
2614 LoggerAdapter was introduced into the unit tests for logging.
2615
Florent Xiclunaeb19dce2010-09-18 23:34:07 +00002616- Issue #1686: Fix string.Template when overriding the pattern attribute.
2617
Antoine Pitrou98b46702010-09-18 22:59:00 +00002618- Issue #9854: SocketIO objects now observe the RawIOBase interface in
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002619 non-blocking mode: they return None when an operation would block (instead of
2620 raising an exception).
Antoine Pitrou98b46702010-09-18 22:59:00 +00002621
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd61d0772010-09-17 23:27:09 +00002622- Issue #1730136: Fix the comparison between a tk.font.Font and an object of
2623 another kind.
2624
Vinay Sajip19ec67a2010-09-17 18:57:36 +00002625- Issue #9441: logging has better coverage for rotating file handlers.
2626
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002627- Issue #9865: collections.OrderedDict now has a __sizeof__ method.
Raymond Hettinger35c87f22010-09-16 19:10:17 +00002628
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002629- Issue #9854: The default read() implementation in io.RawIOBase now handles
2630 non-blocking readinto() returning None correctly.
Antoine Pitrou328ec742010-09-14 18:37:24 +00002631
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002632- Issue #1552: socket.socketpair() now returns regular socket.socket objects
2633 supporting the whole socket API (rather than the "raw" _socket.socket
2634 objects).
Antoine Pitrou9e0b8642010-09-14 18:00:02 +00002635
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002636- Issue #9853: Fix the signature of SSLSocket.recvfrom() and SSLSocket.sendto()
2637 to match the corresponding socket methods.
Antoine Pitroua468adc2010-09-14 14:43:44 +00002638
Éric Araujod8c73c62011-03-21 03:15:22 +01002639- Issue #9840: Added a decorator to reprlib for wrapping __repr__ methods to make
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002640 them handle recursive calls within the same thread.
Raymond Hettinger98a5f3f2010-09-13 21:36:00 +00002641
Vinay Sajipaf9d10a2010-09-13 20:40:30 +00002642- logging: Enhanced HTTPHandler with secure and credentials initializers.
2643
Victor Stinnere797c162010-09-17 23:34:26 +00002644- Issue #767645: Set os.path.supports_unicode_filenames to True on Mac OS X.
Victor Stinnerccb706c2010-09-13 19:41:36 +00002645
Antoine Pitrou6464d5f2010-09-12 14:51:20 +00002646- Issue #9837: The read() method of ZipExtFile objects (as returned by
2647 ZipFile.open()) could return more bytes than requested.
2648
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002649- Issue #9826: OrderedDict.__repr__ can now handle self-referential values:
2650 d['x'] = d.
Raymond Hettingerdc08a142010-09-12 05:15:22 +00002651
Raymond Hettingerfa11db02010-09-12 04:12:42 +00002652- Issue #9825: Using __del__ in the definition of collections.OrderedDict made
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002653 it possible for the user to create self-referencing ordered dictionaries which
2654 become permanently uncollectable GC garbage. Reinstated the Python 3.1
Raymond Hettingerfa11db02010-09-12 04:12:42 +00002655 approach of using weakref proxies so that reference cycles never get created
2656 in the first place.
2657
Victor Stinnercb043522010-09-10 23:49:04 +00002658- Issue #9579, #9580: Fix os.confstr() for value longer than 255 bytes and
2659 encode the value with filesystem encoding and surrogateescape (instead of
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002660 utf-8 in strict mode) . Patch written by David Watson.
Victor Stinnercb043522010-09-10 23:49:04 +00002661
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002662- Issue #9632: Remove sys.setfilesystemencoding() function: use PYTHONFSENCODING
2663 environment variable to set the filesystem encoding at Python startup.
2664 sys.setfilesystemencoding() creates inconsistencies because it is unable to
2665 reencode all filenames in all objects.
Victor Stinner5b519e02010-09-10 21:57:59 +00002666
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002667- Issue #9410: Various optimizations to the pickle module, leading to speedups
2668 up to 4x (depending on the benchmark). Mostly ported from Unladen Swallow;
2669 initial patch by Alexandre Vassalotti.
Antoine Pitrouea99c5c2010-09-09 18:33:21 +00002670
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002671- The pprint module now supports printing OrderedDicts in their given order
2672 (formerly, it would sort the keys).
Raymond Hettingerbad3c882010-09-09 12:31:00 +00002673
Vinay Sajip121a1c42010-09-08 10:46:15 +00002674- Logging: Added QueueHandler class to facilitate logging usage with
2675 multiprocessing.
2676
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002677- Issue #9707: Rewritten reference implementation of threading.local which is
2678 friendlier towards reference cycles. This change is not normally visible
2679 since an optimized C implementation (_thread._local) is used instead.
Antoine Pitrou783eea72010-09-07 22:06:17 +00002680
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc4b6fdf32010-09-07 21:31:17 +00002681- Issue #6394: os.getppid() is now supported on Windows. Note that it will
2682 still return the id of the parent process after it has exited. This process
2683 id may even have been reused by another unrelated process.
2684
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002685- Issue #9792: In case of connection failure, socket.create_connection() would
2686 swallow the exception and raise a new one, making it impossible to fetch the
2687 original errno, or to filter timeout errors. Now the original error is
2688 re-raised.
Antoine Pitrou4b92b5f2010-09-07 21:05:49 +00002689
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002690- Issue #9758: When fcntl.ioctl() was called with mutable_flag set to True, and
2691 the passed buffer was exactly 1024 bytes long, the buffer wouldn't be updated
2692 back after the system call. Original patch by Brian Brazil.
Antoine Pitrou5e38aae2010-09-07 16:30:09 +00002693
Raymond Hettinger435cb0f2010-09-06 23:36:31 +00002694- Updates to the random module:
2695
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002696 * Document which parts of the module are guaranteed to stay the same across
2697 versions and which parts are subject to change.
Raymond Hettinger435cb0f2010-09-06 23:36:31 +00002698
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002699 * Update the seed() method to use all of the bits in a string instead of just
2700 the hash value. This makes better use of the seed value and assures the
2701 seeding is platform independent. Issue #7889.
Raymond Hettinger05156612010-09-07 04:44:52 +00002702
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002703 * Improved the random()-->integer algorithm used in choice(), shuffle(),
2704 sample(), randrange(), and randint(). Formerly, it used int(n*random())
2705 which has a slight bias whenever n is not a power of two. Issue #9025.
Raymond Hettinger05156612010-09-07 04:44:52 +00002706
2707 * Improved documentation of arguments to randrange(). Issue #9379.
Raymond Hettingerf763a722010-09-07 00:38:15 +00002708
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002709- collections.OrderedDict now supports a new method for repositioning keys to
2710 either end.
Raymond Hettingerf45abc92010-09-06 21:26:09 +00002711
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002712- Issue #9754: Similarly to assertRaises and assertRaisesRegexp, unittest test
2713 cases now also have assertWarns and assertWarnsRegexp methods to check that a
2714 given warning type was triggered by the code under test.
Antoine Pitrou4bc12ef2010-09-06 19:25:46 +00002715
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002716- Issue #5506: BytesIO objects now have a getbuffer() method exporting a view of
2717 their contents without duplicating them. The view is both readable and
2718 writable.
Antoine Pitrou972ee132010-09-06 18:48:21 +00002719
Brian Curtin62857742010-09-06 17:07:27 +00002720- Issue #7566: Implement os.path.sameopenfile for Windows.
2721
Antoine Pitrou0d739d72010-09-05 23:01:12 +00002722- Issue #9293: I/O streams now raise ``io.UnsupportedOperation`` when an
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002723 unsupported operation is attempted (for example, writing to a file open only
2724 for reading).
Antoine Pitrou0d739d72010-09-05 23:01:12 +00002725
Gregory P. Smith13b55292010-09-06 08:30:23 +00002726- hashlib has two new constant attributes: algorithms_guaranteed and
2727 algorithms_avaiable that respectively list the names of hash algorithms
2728 guaranteed to exist in all Python implementations and the names of hash
2729 algorithms available in the current process.
2730
Brian Quinlanaf38dc52010-09-21 12:28:43 +00002731- A new package ``concurrent.futures`` as defined by PEP 3148.
2732
Benjamin Peterson568867a2010-09-11 16:02:03 +00002733C-API
2734-----
2735
Benjamin Peterson2bc5c0b2010-09-20 23:01:33 +00002736- Add PyErr_SyntaxLocationEx, which supports passing a column offset.
2737
Benjamin Peterson568867a2010-09-11 16:02:03 +00002738- Issue #9834: Don't segfault in PySequence_GetSlice, PySequence_SetSlice, or
2739 PySequence_DelSlice when the object doesn't have any mapping operations
2740 defined.
2741
Antoine Pitroub41e1282010-09-08 20:57:48 +00002742Tools/Demos
2743-----------
2744
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002745- Issue #9188: The gdb extension now handles correctly narrow (UCS2) as well as
2746 wide (UCS4) unicode builds for both the host interpreter (embedded inside gdb)
2747 and the interpreter under test.
Antoine Pitroub41e1282010-09-08 20:57:48 +00002748
Florent Xiclunadc69e722010-09-13 16:35:02 +00002749Tests
2750-----
2751
Alexander Belopolskye8f58322010-10-15 16:28:20 +00002752- Issue #9308: Added tests for importing encoded modules that do not
2753 depend on specific stdlib modules being encoded in a certain way.
2754
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002755- Issue #1051: Add a script (Lib/test/make_ssl_certs.py) to generate the custom
2756 certificate and private key files used by SSL-related certs.
Antoine Pitrou81564092010-10-08 23:06:24 +00002757
Hirokazu Yamamoto54c950f2010-10-08 08:38:15 +00002758- Issue #9978: Wait until subprocess completes initialization. (Win32KillTests
2759 in test_os)
2760
R. David Murray11cabcf2010-09-29 01:08:05 +00002761- Issue #7110: regrtest now sends test failure reports and single-failure
2762 tracebacks to stderr rather than stdout.
2763
R. David Murrayb78b4892010-09-28 22:25:18 +00002764- Issue #9628: fix runtests.sh -x option so more than one test can be excluded.
2765
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002766- Issue #9899: Fix test_tkinter.test_font on various platforms. Patch by Ned
2767 Deily.
Antoine Pitroub3bfc3d2010-09-21 16:26:09 +00002768
Antoine Pitrou679e0f22010-09-18 17:56:02 +00002769- Issue #9894: Do not hardcode ENOENT in test_subprocess.
2770
Alexander Belopolsky4d770172010-09-13 18:14:34 +00002771- Issue #9315: Added tests for the trace module. Patch by Eli Bendersky.
2772
Florent Xiclunadc69e722010-09-13 16:35:02 +00002773- Issue #9323: Make test.regrtest.__file__ absolute, this was not always the
2774 case when running profile or trace, for example.
2775
Ronald Oussoren01c42892010-09-28 14:38:31 +00002776- Issue #9568: Fix test_urllib2_localnet on OS X 10.3.
2777
Antoine Pitroua3000072010-09-07 14:52:42 +00002778Build
2779-----
2780
Antoine Pitrou19f8edc2010-10-10 08:37:22 +00002781- Issue #10062: Allow building on platforms which do not have sem_timedwait.
2782
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002783- Issue #10054: Some platforms provide uintptr_t in inttypes.h. Patch by Akira
2784 Kitada.
Antoine Pitrou1bf29b72010-10-10 08:10:16 +00002785
Antoine Pitrou5b0e9e82010-10-09 15:24:28 +00002786- Issue #10055: Make json C89-compliant in UCS4 mode.
2787
Hirokazu Yamamoto2f816e62010-09-21 18:23:05 +00002788- Issue #9552: Avoid unnecessary rebuild of OpenSSL. (Windows)
2789
Antoine Pitrouf6350d22010-09-21 15:19:14 +00002790- Issue #1633863: Don't ignore $CC under AIX.
2791
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002792- Issue #9810: Compile bzip2 source files in Python's project file directly. It
2793 used to be built with bzip2's makefile.
Hirokazu Yamamoto234f88d2010-09-16 17:50:57 +00002794
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002795- Issue #9848: Stopping trying to build _weakref in setup.py as it is a built-in
2796 module.
Brett Cannonb82489d2010-09-14 19:41:23 +00002797
Georg Brandlb084b482010-09-12 17:14:26 +00002798- Issue #9806: python-config now has an ``--extension-suffix`` option that
2799 outputs the suffix for dynamic libraries including the ABI version name
2800 defined by PEP 3149.
2801
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002802- Issue #941346: Improve the build process under AIX and allow Python to be
2803 built as a shared library. Patch by Sébastien Sablé.
Antoine Pitrou8e6b4072010-09-10 19:44:44 +00002804
Antoine Pitroua3000072010-09-07 14:52:42 +00002805- Issue #4026: Make the fcntl extension build under AIX. Patch by Sébastien
2806 Sablé.
2807
Ronald Oussoren9af73802010-09-28 13:57:58 +00002808- Issue #9701: The MacOSX installer can patch the shell profile to ensure that
2809 the "bin" directory inside the framework is on the shell's search path. This
2810 feature now also supports the ZSH shell.
2811
Georg Brandlbad09252010-09-05 21:29:17 +00002812
Georg Brandlee449c42010-07-31 18:05:35 +00002813What's New in Python 3.2 Alpha 2?
2814=================================
2815
Georg Brandl58a7b462010-09-05 08:30:40 +00002816*Release date: 05-Sep-2010*
Georg Brandlee449c42010-07-31 18:05:35 +00002817
2818Core and Builtins
2819-----------------
2820
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002821- Issue #9225: Remove the ROT_FOUR and DUP_TOPX opcode, the latter replaced by
2822 the new (and simpler) DUP_TOP_TWO. Performance isn't changed, but our
2823 bytecode is a bit simplified. Patch by Demur Rumed.
Antoine Pitrou74a69fa2010-09-04 18:43:52 +00002824
Brett Cannonef0e6c32010-09-04 18:24:04 +00002825- Issue #9766: Rename poorly named variables exposed by _warnings to prevent
2826 confusion with the proper variables names from 'warnings' itself.
2827
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002828- Issue #9212: dict_keys and dict_items now provide the isdisjoint() method, to
2829 conform to the Set ABC. Patch by Daniel Urban.
Daniel Stutzbach045b3ba2010-09-02 15:06:06 +00002830
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002831- Issue #9737: Fix a crash when trying to delete a slice or an item from a
2832 memoryview object.
Antoine Pitroue0793ba2010-09-01 21:14:16 +00002833
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002834- Issue #9549: sys.setdefaultencoding() and PyUnicode_SetDefaultEncoding() are
2835 now removed, since their effect was inexistent in 3.x (the default encoding is
2836 hardcoded to utf-8 and cannot be changed).
Antoine Pitroufce7fd62010-09-01 18:54:56 +00002837
Antoine Pitroub0fa8312010-09-01 15:10:12 +00002838- Issue #7415: PyUnicode_FromEncodedObject() now uses the new buffer API
2839 properly. Patch by Stefan Behnel.
2840
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002841- Issue #5553: The Py_LOCAL_INLINE macro now results in inlining on most
2842 platforms. Previously, it inlined only when using Microsoft Visual C.
Daniel Stutzbacha606faa2010-08-31 19:51:07 +00002843
Benjamin Peterson33856de2010-08-30 14:41:20 +00002844- Issue #9712: Fix tokenize on identifiers that start with non-ascii names.
2845
Benjamin Peterson0e102062010-08-25 23:13:17 +00002846- Issue #9688: __basicsize__ and __itemsize__ must be accessed as Py_ssize_t.
2847
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002848- Issue #9684: Added a definition for SIZEOF_WCHAR_T to PC/pyconfig.h, to match
2849 the pyconfig.h generated by configure on other systems.
Daniel Stutzbach864078a2010-08-25 19:18:59 +00002850
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002851- Issue #9666: Only catch AttributeError in hasattr(). All other exceptions that
2852 occur during attribute lookup are now propagated to the caller.
Benjamin Peterson17689992010-08-24 03:26:23 +00002853
Victor Stinner94908bb2010-08-18 21:23:25 +00002854- Issue #8622: Add PYTHONFSENCODING environment variable to override the
2855 filesystem encoding.
2856
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc324ac652010-08-18 20:44:58 +00002857- Issue #5127: The C functions that access the Unicode Database now accept and
2858 return characters from the full Unicode range, even on narrow unicode builds
2859 (Py_UNICODE_TOLOWER, Py_UNICODE_ISDECIMAL, and others). A visible difference
2860 in Python is that unicodedata.numeric() now returns the correct value for
2861 large code points, and repr() may consider more characters as printable.
2862
Victor Stinner6c00c142010-08-17 23:37:11 +00002863- Issue #9425: Create PyModule_GetFilenameObject() function to get the filename
2864 as a unicode object, instead of a byte string. Function needed to support
2865 unencodable filenames. Deprecate PyModule_GetFilename() in favor on the new
2866 function.
2867
Victor Stinner6961bd62010-08-17 22:26:51 +00002868- Issue #8063: Call _PyGILState_Init() earlier in Py_InitializeEx().
2869
Antoine Pitrou671b4d92010-08-17 17:55:07 +00002870- Issue #9612: The set object is now 64-bit clean under Windows.
2871
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002872- Issue #8202: sys.argv[0] is now set to '-m' instead of '-c' when searching for
2873 the module file to be executed with the -m command line option.
Nick Coghland26c18a2010-08-17 13:06:11 +00002874
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002875- Issue #9599: Create PySys_FormatStdout() and PySys_FormatStderr() functions to
2876 write a message formatted by PyUnicode_FromFormatV() to sys.stdout and
Victor Stinner79766632010-08-16 17:36:42 +00002877 sys.stderr.
2878
Victor Stinner47fcb5b2010-08-13 23:59:58 +00002879- Issue #9542: Create PyUnicode_FSDecoder() function, a ParseTuple converter:
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002880 decode bytes objects to unicode using PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefaultAndSize(); str
2881 objects are output as-is.
Victor Stinner47fcb5b2010-08-13 23:59:58 +00002882
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002883- Issue #9203: Computed gotos are now enabled by default on supported compilers
2884 (which are detected by the configure script). They can still be disable
2885 selectively by specifying --without-computed-gotos.
Antoine Pitrou042b1282010-08-13 21:15:58 +00002886
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002887- Issue #9425: Create PyErr_WarnFormat() function, similar to PyErr_WarnEx() but
2888 use PyUnicode_FromFormatV() to format the warning message.
Victor Stinner4a2b7a12010-08-13 14:03:48 +00002889
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002890- Issue #8530: Prevent stringlib fastsearch from reading beyond the front of an
2891 array.
Florent Xiclunaeb6f3ea2010-08-08 22:07:16 +00002892
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002893- Issue #5319: Print an error if flushing stdout fails at interpreter shutdown.
Antoine Pitroubddc9fe2010-08-08 20:46:42 +00002894
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002895- Issue #9337: The str() of a float or complex number is now identical to its
2896 repr().
Mark Dickinson388122d2010-08-04 20:56:28 +00002897
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002898- Issue #9416: Fix some issues with complex formatting where the output with no
2899 type specifier failed to match the str output:
Mark Dickinson5b65df72010-08-01 10:41:49 +00002900
2901 - format(complex(-0.0, 2.0), '-') omitted the real part from the output,
2902 - format(complex(0.0, 2.0), '-') included a sign and parentheses.
2903
Hirokazu Yamamoto35adf5d2010-11-07 11:32:01 +00002904Extension Modules
2905-----------------
Georg Brandl0bccc182010-08-01 14:50:00 +00002906
Alexander Belopolskyb9588b52011-01-04 16:34:30 +00002907- Issue #8013: time.asctime and time.ctime no longer call system
2908 asctime and ctime functions. The year range for time.asctime is now
2909 1900 through maxint. The range for time.ctime is the same as for
2910 time.localtime. The string produced by these functions is longer
2911 than 24 characters when year is greater than 9999.
2912
Alexander Belopolsky38e29962010-10-01 14:18:49 +00002913- Issue #6608: time.asctime is now checking struct tm fields its input
2914 before passing it to the system asctime. Patch by MunSic Jeong.
2915
Antoine Pitrou00492492010-09-04 20:53:29 +00002916- Issue #8734: Avoid crash in msvcrt.get_osfhandle() when an invalid file
2917 descriptor is provided. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
2918
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002919- Issue #7736: Release the GIL around calls to opendir() and closedir() in the
2920 posix module. Patch by Marcin Bachry.
Antoine Pitroud3ccde82010-09-04 17:21:57 +00002921
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002922- Issue #4835: make PyLong_FromSocket_t() and PyLong_AsSocket_t() private to the
2923 socket module, and fix the width of socket descriptors to be correctly
2924 detected under 64-bit Windows.
Antoine Pitrou67c7ce42010-08-28 20:42:55 +00002925
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002926- Issue #1027206: Support IDNA in gethostbyname, gethostbyname_ex, getaddrinfo
2927 and gethostbyaddr. getnameinfo is now restricted to numeric addresses as
2928 input.
Martin v. Löwisfc0275a2010-08-22 19:33:47 +00002929
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002930- Issue #9214: Set operations on a KeysView or ItemsView in collections now
2931 correctly return a set. Patch by Eli Bendersky.
Raymond Hettinger9117c752010-08-22 07:44:24 +00002932
Antoine Pitroub85e1652010-08-18 21:05:19 +00002933- Issue #5737: Add Solaris-specific mnemonics in the errno module. Patch by
2934 Matthew Ahrens.
2935
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002936- Restore GIL in nis_cat in case of error. Decode NIS data to fs encoding, using
2937 the surrogate error handler.
Martin v. Löwisdfaf9ec2010-08-18 16:12:23 +00002938
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002939- Issue #665761: ``functools.reduce()`` will no longer mask exceptions other
2940 than ``TypeError`` raised by the iterator argument.
Alexander Belopolskye29e6bf2010-08-16 18:55:46 +00002941
Benjamin Petersond4efbf92010-08-11 19:20:42 +00002942- Issue #9570: Use PEP 383 decoding in os.mknod and os.mkfifo.
2943
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002944- Issue #6915: Under Windows, os.listdir() didn't release the Global Interpreter
2945 Lock around all system calls. Original patch by Ryan Kelly.
Antoine Pitroub73caab2010-08-09 23:39:31 +00002946
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002947- Issue #8524: Add a detach() method to socket objects, so as to put the socket
2948 into the closed state without closing the underlying file descriptor.
Antoine Pitroue43f9d02010-08-08 23:24:50 +00002949
Georg Brandl08be72d2010-10-24 15:11:22 +00002950- Issue #477863: Emit a ResourceWarning at shutdown if gc.garbage is not empty.
Antoine Pitrou696e0352010-08-08 22:18:46 +00002951
Thomas Hellerbf4cc5d2010-08-08 18:16:20 +00002952- Issue #6869: Fix a refcount problem in the _ctypes extension.
2953
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002954- Issue #5504: ctypes should now work with systems where mmap can't be
2955 PROT_WRITE and PROT_EXEC.
Thomas Heller864cc672010-08-08 17:58:53 +00002956
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002957- Issue #9507: Named tuple repr will now automatically display the right name in
2958 a tuple subclass.
Raymond Hettingerd331ce92010-08-08 01:13:42 +00002959
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002960- Issue #9324: Add parameter validation to signal.signal on Windows in order to
2961 prevent crashes.
Brian Curtinef9efbd2010-08-06 19:27:32 +00002962
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002963- Issue #9526: Remove some outdated (int) casts that were preventing the array
2964 module from working correctly with arrays of more than 2**31 elements.
Mark Dickinson4f3086f2010-08-06 09:38:58 +00002965
Mark Dickinsondf7f2fd2010-08-03 18:44:16 +00002966- Fix memory leak in ssl._ssl._test_decode_cert.
2967
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002968- Issue #8065: Fix memory leak in readline module (from failure to free the
2969 result of history_get_history_state()).
Mark Dickinson6b54e1f2010-08-03 16:49:49 +00002970
Mark Dickinson29b238e2010-08-03 16:08:16 +00002971- Issue #9450: Fix memory leak in readline.replace_history_item and
2972 readline.remove_history_item for readline version >= 5.0.
2973
Brian Curtinea47eaa2010-08-01 15:26:26 +00002974- Issue #8105: Validate file descriptor passed to mmap.mmap on Windows.
2975
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002976- Issue #8046: Add context manager protocol support and .closed property to mmap
2977 objects.
Georg Brandl0bccc182010-08-01 14:50:00 +00002978
Georg Brandlee449c42010-07-31 18:05:35 +00002979Library
2980-------
2981
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002982- Issue #7451: Improve decoding performance of JSON objects, and reduce the
2983 memory consumption of said decoded objects when they use the same strings as
2984 keys.
Antoine Pitrou7d6e0762010-09-04 20:16:53 +00002985
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002986- Issue #1100562: Fix deep-copying of objects derived from the list and dict
2987 types. Patch by Michele Orrù and Björn Lindqvist.
Antoine Pitrou3941a8f2010-09-04 17:40:21 +00002988
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002989- Issue #9753: Fixed socket.dup, which did not always work correctly on Windows.
Daniel Stutzbach6c765282010-09-03 12:38:33 +00002990
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002991- Issue #9421: Made the get<type> methods consistently accept the vars and
2992 default arguments on all parser classes.
Fred Drakecc645b92010-09-04 04:35:34 +00002993
Fred Drake88444412010-09-03 04:22:36 +00002994- Issue #7005: Fixed output of None values for RawConfigParser.write and
2995 ConfigParser.write.
2996
Antoine Pitrou1ce3eb52010-09-01 20:29:34 +00002997- Issue #8990: array.fromstring() and array.tostring() get renamed to
2998 frombytes() and tobytes(), respectively, to avoid confusion. Furthermore,
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002999 array.frombytes(), array.extend() as well as the array.array() constructor now
3000 accept bytearray objects. Patch by Thomas Jollans.
Antoine Pitrou1ce3eb52010-09-01 20:29:34 +00003001
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003002- Issue #808164: Fixed socket.close to avoid references to globals, to avoid
3003 issues when socket.close is called from a __del__ method.
Daniel Stutzbach19d6a4f2010-08-31 20:08:07 +00003004
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003005- Issue #9706: ssl module provides a better error handling in various
Giampaolo Rodolà51078b12010-08-29 19:31:49 +00003006 circumstances.
3007
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003008- Issue #1868: Eliminate subtle timing issues in thread-local objects by getting
3009 rid of the cached copy of thread-local attribute dictionary.
Antoine Pitrou1a9a9d52010-08-28 18:17:03 +00003010
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003011- Issue #1512791: In setframerate() in the wave module, non-integral frame rates
3012 are rounded to the nearest integer.
Mark Dickinson64a38c02010-08-28 17:22:16 +00003013
Senthil Kumaran4bb5c272010-08-26 06:16:22 +00003014- Issue #8797: urllib2 does a retry for Basic Authentication failure instead of
3015 falling into recursion.
3016
R. David Murray219d1c82010-08-25 00:45:55 +00003017- Issue #1194222: email.utils.parsedate now returns RFC2822 compliant four
3018 character years even if the message contains RFC822 two character years.
3019
Benjamin Petersonf52c2c62010-08-24 21:03:37 +00003020- Issue #8750: Fixed MutableSet's methods to correctly handle reflexive
3021 operations on its self, namely x -= x and x ^= x.
Daniel Stutzbach31da5b22010-08-24 20:49:57 +00003022
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003023- Issue #9129: smtpd.py is vulnerable to DoS attacks deriving from missing error
3024 handling when accepting a new connection.
Giampaolo Rodolà9cf5ef42010-08-23 22:28:13 +00003025
Barry Warsawaa44b2b2010-09-03 18:36:11 +00003026- Issue #9601: ftplib now provides a workaround for non-compliant
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003027 implementations such as IIS shipped with Windows server 2003 returning invalid
3028 response codes for MKD and PWD commands.
Giampaolo Rodolàbbc47822010-08-23 22:10:32 +00003029
Giampaolo Rodolà76fc8c72010-08-23 21:53:41 +00003030- Issue #658749: asyncore's connect() method now correctly interprets winsock
Giampaolo Rodolàbbc47822010-08-23 22:10:32 +00003031 errors.
Giampaolo Rodolà76fc8c72010-08-23 21:53:41 +00003032
Vinay Sajipde6e9d62010-08-23 17:50:30 +00003033- Issue #9501: Fixed logging regressions in cleanup code.
3034
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003035- Fix functools.total_ordering() to skip methods inherited from object.
Benjamin Peterson06b8b102010-08-23 17:47:43 +00003036
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003037- Issue #9572: Importlib should not raise an exception if a directory it thought
3038 it needed to create was done concurrently by another process.
Brett Cannonee6d6472010-08-22 22:19:11 +00003039
Antoine Pitroub46b9d52010-08-21 19:09:32 +00003040- Issue #9617: Signals received during a low-level write operation aren't
3041 ignored by the buffered IO layer anymore.
3042
Benjamin Peterson23110e72010-08-21 02:54:44 +00003043- Issue #843590: Make "macintosh" an alias to the "mac_roman" encoding.
3044
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003045- Create os.fsdecode(): decode from the filesystem encoding with surrogateescape
3046 error handler, or strict error handler on Windows.
Victor Stinnere8d51452010-08-19 01:05:19 +00003047
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003048- Issue #3488: Provide convenient shorthand functions ``gzip.compress`` and
3049 ``gzip.decompress``. Original patch by Anand B. Pillai.
Antoine Pitrou79c5ef12010-08-17 21:10:05 +00003050
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003051- Issue #8807: poplib.POP3_SSL class now accepts a context parameter, which is a
3052 ssl.SSLContext object allowing bundling SSL configuration options,
Giampaolo Rodolà42382fe2010-08-17 16:09:53 +00003053 certificates and private keys into a single (potentially long-lived)
3054 structure.
3055
Giampaolo Rodolàccfb91c2010-08-17 15:30:23 +00003056- Issue #8866: parameters passed to socket.getaddrinfo can now be specified as
3057 single keyword arguments.
3058
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003059- Address XXX comment in dis.py by having inspect.py prefer to reuse the dis.py
3060 compiler flag values over defining its own.
Nick Coghlan09c81232010-08-17 10:18:16 +00003061
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003062- Issue #9147: Added dis.code_info() which is similar to show_code() but returns
3063 formatted code information in a string rather than displaying on screen.
Nick Coghlaneae2da12010-08-17 08:03:36 +00003064
Nick Coghlan98876832010-08-17 06:17:18 +00003065- Issue #9567: functools.update_wrapper now adds a __wrapped__ attribute
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003066 pointing to the original callable.
Nick Coghlan98876832010-08-17 06:17:18 +00003067
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003068- Issue #3445: functools.update_wrapper now tolerates missing attributes on
3069 wrapped callables.
Nick Coghlan98876832010-08-17 06:17:18 +00003070
Benjamin Peterson45c257f2010-08-17 00:52:52 +00003071- Issue #5867: Add abc.abstractclassmethod and abc.abstractstaticmethod.
3072
Victor Stinnere039ffe2010-08-15 09:33:08 +00003073- Issue #9605: posix.getlogin() decodes the username with file filesystem
3074 encoding and surrogateescape error handler. Patch written by David Watson.
3075
Victor Stinner61ec5dc2010-08-15 09:22:44 +00003076- Issue #9604: posix.initgroups() encodes the username using the fileystem
3077 encoding and surrogateescape error handler. Patch written by David Watson.
3078
Victor Stinner5fe6de82010-08-15 09:12:51 +00003079- Issue #9603: posix.ttyname() and posix.ctermid() decode the terminal name
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003080 using the filesystem encoding and surrogateescape error handler. Patch written
3081 by David Watson.
Victor Stinner5fe6de82010-08-15 09:12:51 +00003082
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003083- Issue #7647: The posix module now has the ST_RDONLY and ST_NOSUID constants,
3084 for use with the statvfs() function. Patch by Adam Jackson.
Andrew M. Kuchling4ea04a32010-08-18 22:30:34 +00003085
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003086- Issue #8688: MANIFEST files created by distutils now include a magic comment
3087 indicating they are generated. Manually maintained MANIFESTs without this
3088 marker will not be overwritten or removed.
Éric Araujoda668ff2010-08-14 02:30:34 +00003089
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003090- Issue #7467: when reading a file from a ZIP archive, its CRC is checked and a
3091 BadZipfile error is raised if it doesn't match (as used to be the case in
3092 Python 2.5 and earlier).
Antoine Pitrou7c8bcb62010-08-12 15:11:50 +00003093
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003094- Issue #9550: a BufferedReader could issue an additional read when the original
3095 read request had been satisfied, which could block indefinitely when the
3096 underlying raw IO channel was e.g. a socket. Report and original patch by
3097 Jason V. Miller.
Antoine Pitrou32cfede2010-08-11 13:31:33 +00003098
Antoine Pitrou5af4f4b2010-08-09 22:38:19 +00003099- Issue #3757: thread-local objects now support cyclic garbage collection.
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003100 Thread-local objects involved in reference cycles will be deallocated timely
3101 by the cyclic GC, even if the underlying thread is still running.
Antoine Pitrou5af4f4b2010-08-09 22:38:19 +00003102
Victor Stinner4a2b7a12010-08-13 14:03:48 +00003103- Issue #9452: Add read_file, read_string, and read_dict to the configparser
Fred Drakea4923622010-08-09 12:52:45 +00003104 API; new source attribute to exceptions.
3105
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003106- Issue #6231: Fix xml.etree.ElementInclude to include the tail of the current
3107 node.
Florent Xiclunaba8a9862010-08-08 23:08:41 +00003108
Florent Xiclunac17f1722010-08-08 19:48:29 +00003109- Issue #8047: Fix the xml.etree serializer to return bytes by default. Use
3110 ``encoding="unicode"`` to generate a Unicode string.
3111
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003112- Issue #8280: urllib2's Request method will remove fragments in the url. This
3113 is how it is supposed to work, wget and curl do the same. Previous behavior
3114 was wrong.
Senthil Kumaranc41e1fa2010-08-08 11:50:22 +00003115
Gerhard Häring1c5471f2010-08-05 14:08:44 +00003116- Issue #6683: For SMTP logins we now try all authentication methods advertised
Florent Xicluna09245d82010-08-14 16:56:27 +00003117 by the server. Many servers are buggy and advertise authentication methods
3118 they do not support in reality.
Gerhard Häring1c5471f2010-08-05 14:08:44 +00003119
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003120- Issue #8814: function annotations (the ``__annotations__`` attribute) are now
3121 included in the set of attributes copied by default by functools.wraps and
3122 functools.update_wrapper. Patch by Terrence Cole.
Antoine Pitrou560f7642010-08-04 18:28:02 +00003123
Giampaolo Rodolà934abdd2010-08-04 09:02:27 +00003124- Issue #2944: asyncore doesn't handle connection refused correctly.
3125
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003126- Issue #4184: Private attributes on smtpd.SMTPChannel made public and deprecate
3127 the private attributes. Add tests for smtpd module.
Richard Jonesdd24cf62010-08-04 01:19:22 +00003128
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003129- Issue #3196: email header decoding is now forgiving if an RFC2047 encoded word
3130 encoded in base64 is lacking padding.
R. David Murrayc4e69cc2010-08-03 22:14:10 +00003131
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003132- Issue #9444: Argparse now uses the first element of prefix_chars as the option
3133 character for the added 'h/help' option if prefix_chars does not contain a
3134 '-', instead of raising an error.
R. David Murray88c49fe2010-08-03 17:56:09 +00003135
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003136- Issue #7372: Fix pstats regression when stripping paths from profile data
3137 generated with the profile module.
Georg Brandl2d3c4e72010-08-02 17:24:49 +00003138
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003139- Issue #9428: Fix running scripts with the profile/cProfile modules from the
3140 command line.
Georg Brandl8e43fbf2010-08-02 12:20:23 +00003141
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003142- Issue #7781: Fix restricting stats by entry counts in the pstats interactive
3143 browser.
Georg Brandlb1a97af2010-08-02 12:06:18 +00003144
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003145- Issue #9209: Do not crash in the pstats interactive browser on invalid regular
3146 expressions.
Georg Brandlb1a97af2010-08-02 12:06:18 +00003147
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003148- Update collections.OrderedDict to match the implementation in Py2.7 (based on
3149 lists instead of weakly referenced Link objects).
Raymond Hettinger5be21b72010-08-01 22:10:57 +00003150
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003151- Issue #8397: Raise an error when attempting to mix iteration and regular reads
3152 on a BZ2File object, rather than returning incorrect results.
Antoine Pitrou7ffa1962010-08-01 20:08:46 +00003153
Antoine Pitrouc881f152010-08-01 16:53:42 +00003154- Issue #9448: Fix a leak of OS resources (mutexes or semaphores) when
3155 re-initializing a buffered IO object by calling its ``__init__`` method.
3156
Georg Brandle6c59502010-08-01 15:30:56 +00003157- Issue #1713: Fix os.path.ismount(), which returned true for symbolic links
3158 across devices.
3159
Georg Brandlb16e38b2010-08-01 09:06:34 +00003160- Issue #8826: Properly load old-style "expires" attribute in http.cookies.
3161
Georg Brandl8f9f4662010-08-01 08:35:29 +00003162- Issue #1690103: Fix initial namespace for code run with trace.main().
3163
Georg Brandl920bc0f2010-08-01 08:10:08 +00003164- Issue #7395: Fix tracebacks in pstats interactive browser.
3165
Georg Brandlf325e032010-08-01 08:07:49 +00003166- Issue #8230: Fix Lib/test/sortperf.py.
3167
Terry Reedy74901002010-12-29 19:02:07 +00003168- Issue #8620: when a cmd.Cmd() is fed input that reaches EOF without a final
3169 newline, it no longer truncates the last character of the last command line.
R. David Murray7905d612010-08-01 03:31:09 +00003170
Georg Brandl05245f72010-07-31 22:32:52 +00003171- Issue #5146: Handle UID THREAD command correctly in imaplib.
3172
Georg Brandl87a15642010-07-31 22:11:11 +00003173- Issue #5147: Fix the header generated for cookie files written by
3174 http.cookiejar.MozillaCookieJar.
3175
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003176- Issue #8198: In pydoc, output all help text to the correct stream when
3177 sys.stdout is reassigned.
Georg Brandl78aa3962010-07-31 21:51:48 +00003178
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003179- Issue #7909: Do not touch paths with the special prefixes ``\\.\`` or ``\\?\``
3180 in ntpath.normpath().
Georg Brandlcfb68212010-07-31 21:40:15 +00003181
Georg Brandl6cb7b652010-07-31 20:08:15 +00003182- Issue #1286: Allow using fileinput.FileInput as a context manager.
3183
Nick Coghlan632a0c12010-08-17 05:22:50 +00003184- Add lru_cache() decorator to the functools module.
Georg Brandlebb280c2010-07-31 18:09:46 +00003185
Antoine Pitrouf767f082010-08-03 17:09:36 +00003186Tools/Demos
3187-----------
3188
Florent Xiclunac7eaede2010-08-09 12:26:44 +00003189- Fix ``Tools/scripts/checkpyc.py`` after PEP 3147.
3190
Antoine Pitrouf767f082010-08-03 17:09:36 +00003191- Issue #8867: Fix ``Tools/scripts/serve.py`` to work with files containing
3192 non-ASCII content.
3193
Giampaolo Rodolàb5c23762010-08-04 09:28:05 +00003194Tests
3195-----
3196
Giampaolo Rodolàbbc47822010-08-23 22:10:32 +00003197- Issue #9601: Provide a test case for ftplib.parse257.
3198
Giampaolo Rodolà419f7042010-08-14 16:45:41 +00003199- Issue #8857: Provide a test case for socket.getaddrinfo.
3200
Florent Xicluna39d795d2010-08-08 18:06:13 +00003201- Issue #7564: Skip test_ioctl if another process is attached to /dev/tty.
3202
Mark Dickinsonaf43e9a2010-08-07 12:33:36 +00003203- Issue #8433: Fix test_curses failure with newer versions of ncurses.
3204
Antoine Pitrou482e66a2010-08-04 15:43:16 +00003205- Issue #9496: Provide a test suite for the rlcompleter module. Patch by
3206 Michele Orrù.
3207
Giampaolo Rodolàb5c23762010-08-04 09:28:05 +00003208- Issue #8687: provide a test suite for sched.py module.
3209
Martin v. Löwis907229a2010-08-15 15:47:25 +00003210Build
3211-----
3212
Martin v. Löwisa5e31092010-09-04 14:38:09 +00003213- Issue #1303434: Generate ZIP file containing all PDBs.
3214
Barry Warsawaa44b2b2010-09-03 18:36:11 +00003215- Issue #9193: PEP 3149 is accepted.
3216
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003217- Issue #3101: Helper functions _add_one_to_index_C() and _add_one_to_index_F()
3218 become _Py_add_one_to_index_C() and _Py_add_one_to_index_F(), respectively.
Antoine Pitrouf68c2a72010-09-01 12:58:21 +00003219
Antoine Pitrou33a29942010-08-30 14:52:00 +00003220- Issue #9700: define HAVE_BROKEN_POSIX_SEMAPHORES under AIX 6.x. Patch by
3221 Sébastien Sablé.
3222
Martin v. Löwis907229a2010-08-15 15:47:25 +00003223- Don't run pgen twice when using make -j.
3224
Georg Brandlee449c42010-07-31 18:05:35 +00003225
Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +00003226What's New in Python 3.2 Alpha 1?
3227=================================
3228
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003229*Release date: 01-Aug-2010*
Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +00003230
3231Core and Builtins
3232-----------------
3233
Victor Stinner8182b712010-07-28 00:40:58 +00003234- Issue #8991: convertbuffer() rejects discontigious buffers.
3235
Antoine Pitrou1ac745b2010-07-11 12:12:00 +00003236- Issue #7616: Fix copying of overlapping memoryview slices with the Intel
3237 compiler.
3238
Benjamin Petersonccabcd42010-07-07 20:54:01 +00003239- Issue #8413: structsequence now subclasses tuple.
3240
Ezio Melotti57221d02010-07-01 07:32:02 +00003241- Issue #8271: during the decoding of an invalid UTF-8 byte sequence, only the
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003242 start byte and the continuation byte(s) are now considered invalid, instead of
3243 the number of bytes specified by the start byte. E.g.:
3244 '\xf1\x80AB'.decode('utf-8', 'replace') now returns u'\ufffdAB' and replaces
3245 with U+FFFD only the start byte ('\xf1') and the continuation byte ('\x80')
3246 even if '\xf1' is the start byte of a 4-bytes sequence. Previous versions
3247 returned a single u'\ufffd'.
Ezio Melotti57221d02010-07-01 07:32:02 +00003248
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003249- Issue #9011: A negated imaginary literal (e.g., "-7j") now has real part -0.0
3250 rather than 0.0. So "-7j" is now exactly equivalent to "-(7j)".
Mark Dickinson50b79a82010-06-30 11:13:36 +00003251
Benjamin Peterson88968ad2010-06-25 19:30:21 +00003252- Be more specific in error messages about positional arguments.
3253
Victor Stinner4aae1eb2010-06-24 22:08:25 +00003254- Issue #8949: "z" format of PyArg_Parse*() functions doesn't accept bytes
3255 objects, as described in the documentation.
3256
Victor Stinner0fe25a42010-06-17 23:08:50 +00003257- Issue #6543: Write the traceback in the terminal encoding instead of utf-8.
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003258 Fix the encoding of the modules filename. Patch written by Amaury Forgeot
Victor Stinner2cd12522010-06-17 23:17:37 +00003259 d'Arc.
Victor Stinner0fe25a42010-06-17 23:08:50 +00003260
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003261- Issue #9011: Remove buggy and unnecessary (in 3.x) ST->AST compilation code
3262 dealing with unary minus applied to a constant. The removed code was mutating
3263 the ST, causing a second compilation to fail.
Mark Dickinsond35a32e2010-06-17 12:33:22 +00003264
Victor Stinner554f3f02010-06-16 23:33:54 +00003265- Issue #850997: mbcs encoding (Windows only) handles errors argument: strict
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003266 mode raises unicode errors. The encoder only supports "strict" and "replace"
Victor Stinner554f3f02010-06-16 23:33:54 +00003267 error handlers, the decoder only supports "strict" and "ignore" error
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003268 handlers. Patch written by Mark Hammond.
Victor Stinner554f3f02010-06-16 23:33:54 +00003269
Victor Stinner25e8ec42010-06-25 00:02:38 +00003270- Issue #8850: Remove "w" and "w#" formats from PyArg_Parse*() functions, use
3271 "w*" format instead. Add tests for "w*" format.
3272
Victor Stinner06e49dd2010-06-13 18:21:50 +00003273- Issue #8592: PyArg_Parse*() functions raise a TypeError for "y", "u" and "Z"
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003274 formats if the string contains a null byte/character. Write unit tests for
Victor Stinner06e49dd2010-06-13 18:21:50 +00003275 string formats.
3276
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003277- Issue #7490: To facilitate sharing of doctests between 2.x and 3.x test
Nick Coghlan5e76e942010-06-12 13:42:46 +00003278 suites, the IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL directive now also ignores the module
3279 location of the raised exception.
3280
Victor Stinner313a1202010-06-11 23:56:51 +00003281- Issue #8969: On Windows, use mbcs codec in strict mode to encode and decode
3282 filenames and enable os.fsencode().
3283
Benjamin Peterson285a6892010-06-22 19:21:52 +00003284- Issue #9058: Remove assertions about INT_MAX in UnicodeDecodeError.
3285
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003286- Issue #8941: Decoding big endian UTF-32 data in UCS-2 builds could crash the
3287 interpreter with characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane (higher than
3288 0x10000).
Antoine Pitroucc0cfd32010-06-11 21:46:32 +00003289
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003290- Issue #8950: (See also issue #5080). Py_ArgParse*() functions now raise
3291 TypeError instead of giving a DeprecationWarning when a float is parsed using
3292 the 'L' code (for long long). (All other integer codes already raise
3293 TypeError in this case.)
Mark Dickinsonc7301312010-06-10 16:05:10 +00003294
Victor Stinner600d3be2010-06-10 12:00:55 +00003295- Issue #8922: Normalize the encoding name in PyUnicode_AsEncodedString() to
3296 enable shortcuts for upper case encoding name. Add also a shortcut for
3297 "iso-8859-1" in PyUnicode_AsEncodedString() and PyUnicode_Decode().
3298
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003299- Issue #8838: Remove codecs.charbuffer_encode() function. The buffer protocol
3300 doesn't support "char buffer" anymore in Python 3.
Victor Stinner3dcb5ac2010-06-08 22:54:19 +00003301
3302- Issue #8339: Remove "t#" format of PyArg_Parse*() functions, use "s#" or "s*"
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003303 instead. codecs.charbuffer_encode() now accepts modifiable buffer objects
Victor Stinner3dcb5ac2010-06-08 22:54:19 +00003304 like bytearray.
3305
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003306- Issue #8837: Remove "O?" format of PyArg_Parse*() functions. The format is no
Victor Stinner33109a12010-05-28 21:55:10 +00003307 used anymore and it was never documented.
3308
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003309- In str.format(), raise a ValueError when indexes to arguments are too large.
Benjamin Peterson59a1b2f2010-06-07 22:31:26 +00003310
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003311- Issue #2844: Make int('42', n) consistently raise ValueError for invalid
3312 integers n (including n = -909).
Mark Dickinsonf9a5a8e2010-05-26 20:07:58 +00003313
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003314- Issue #8188: Introduce a new scheme for computing hashes of numbers (instances
3315 of int, float, complex, decimal.Decimal and fractions.Fraction) that makes it
3316 easy to maintain the invariant that hash(x) == hash(y) whenever x and y have
3317 equal value.
Mark Dickinsondc787d22010-05-23 13:33:13 +00003318
Mark Dickinsoncc6a9822010-05-21 14:55:26 +00003319- Issue #8748: Fix two issues with comparisons between complex and integer
3320 objects. (1) The comparison could incorrectly return True in some cases
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003321 (2**53+1 == complex(2**53) == 2**53), breaking transitivity of equality.
3322 (2) The comparison raised an OverflowError for large integers, leading to
3323 unpredictable exceptions when combining integers and complex objects in sets
3324 or dicts.
Mark Dickinsoncc6a9822010-05-21 14:55:26 +00003325
Victor Stinner7d79b8b2010-05-19 20:40:50 +00003326- Issue #8766: Initialize _warnings module before importing the first module.
3327 Fix a crash if an empty directory called "encodings" exists in sys.path.
3328
Victor Stinner9ca9c252010-05-19 16:53:30 +00003329- Issue #8589: Decode PYTHONWARNINGS environment variable with the file system
Victor Stinnere039ffe2010-08-15 09:33:08 +00003330 encoding and surrogateescape error handler instead of the locale encoding to
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003331 be consistent with os.environ. Add PySys_AddWarnOptionUnicode() function.
Victor Stinner9ca9c252010-05-19 16:53:30 +00003332
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003333- PyObject_Dump() encodes unicode objects to utf8 with backslashreplace (instead
3334 of strict) error handler to escape surrogates.
Victor Stinner372ac5e2010-05-17 01:26:01 +00003335
Victor Stinnerae6265f2010-05-15 16:27:27 +00003336- Issue #8715: Create PyUnicode_EncodeFSDefault() function: Encode a Unicode
3337 object to Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding with the "surrogateescape" error
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003338 handler, and return bytes. If Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding is not set, fall
Benjamin Peterson0c3d21d2010-05-15 17:43:57 +00003339 back to UTF-8.
Victor Stinnerae6265f2010-05-15 16:27:27 +00003340
Victor Stinner59e62db2010-05-15 13:14:32 +00003341- Enable shortcuts for common encodings in PyUnicode_AsEncodedString() for any
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003342 error handler, not only the default error handler (strict).
Victor Stinner59e62db2010-05-15 13:14:32 +00003343
Victor Stinnerb744ba12010-05-15 12:27:16 +00003344- Issue #8610: Load file system codec at startup, and display a fatal error on
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003345 failure. Set the file system encoding to utf-8 (instead of None) if getting
Victor Stinnerb744ba12010-05-15 12:27:16 +00003346 the locale encoding failed, or if nl_langinfo(CODESET) function is missing.
3347
Victor Stinner0964ee12010-04-30 16:48:45 +00003348- PyFile_FromFd() uses PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefault() instead of
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003349 PyUnicode_FromString() to support surrogates in the filename and use the right
3350 encoding.
Victor Stinner0964ee12010-04-30 16:48:45 +00003351
Georg Brandl8569e582010-05-19 20:57:08 +00003352- Issue #7507: Quote "!" in pipes.quote(); it is special to some shells.
3353
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003354- PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefaultAndSize() uses surrogateescape error handler.
Victor Stinnerb9a20ad2010-04-30 16:37:52 +00003355
Benjamin Petersonfb886362010-04-24 18:21:17 +00003356- Issue #8419: Prevent the dict constructor from accepting non-string keyword
3357 arguments.
3358
Victor Stinner14284c22010-04-23 12:02:30 +00003359- Issue #8124: PySys_WriteStdout() and PySys_WriteStderr() don't execute
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003360 indirectly Python signal handlers anymore because mywrite() ignores exceptions
3361 (KeyboardInterrupt).
Victor Stinner14284c22010-04-23 12:02:30 +00003362
Victor Stinner31be90b2010-04-22 19:38:16 +00003363- Issue #8092: Fix PyUnicode_EncodeUTF8() to support error handler producing
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003364 unicode string (eg. backslashreplace).
Victor Stinner31be90b2010-04-22 19:38:16 +00003365
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003366- Issue #8485: PyUnicode_FSConverter() doesn't accept byteearray objects
3367 anymore, you have to convert your bytearray filenames to bytes.
Victor Stinnerdcb24032010-04-22 12:08:36 +00003368
Antoine Pitrou5bc7ec92010-04-21 22:56:22 +00003369- Issue #7332: Remove the 16KB stack-based buffer in
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003370 PyMarshal_ReadLastObjectFromFile, which doesn't bring any noticeable benefit
3371 compared to the dynamic memory allocation fallback. Patch by Charles-François
3372 Natali.
Antoine Pitrou5bc7ec92010-04-21 22:56:22 +00003373
Benjamin Peterson8380dd52010-04-16 22:51:37 +00003374- Issue #8417: Raise an OverflowError when an integer larger than sys.maxsize is
3375 passed to bytes or bytearray.
3376
Philip Jenvey0805ca32010-04-07 04:04:10 +00003377- Issue #7301: Add environment variable $PYTHONWARNINGS.
3378
Benjamin Petersond856ab62010-04-06 21:55:16 +00003379- Issue #8329: Don't return the same lists from select.select when no fds are
3380 changed.
3381
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003382- Issue #8259: 1L << (2**31) no longer produces an 'outrageous shift error' on
3383 64-bit machines. The shift count for either left or right shift is permitted
3384 to be up to sys.maxsize.
Mark Dickinson3318d292010-04-06 16:53:17 +00003385
Benjamin Peterson8daa49e2010-04-03 22:55:48 +00003386- Ensure that tokenization of identifiers is not affected by locale.
3387
Tarek Ziadé03d788d2010-04-03 08:46:49 +00003388- Issue #1222585: Added LDCXXSHARED for C++ support. Patch by Arfrever.
3389
Benjamin Peterson80d8fd82010-04-03 01:40:24 +00003390- Raise a TypeError when trying to delete a T_STRING_INPLACE struct member.
3391
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003392- Issue #8211: Save/restore CFLAGS around AC_PROG_CC in configure.in, in case it
3393 is set.
Victor Stinner00d6a1d2010-03-25 01:02:29 +00003394
Victor Stinner120c2122010-03-25 00:30:28 +00003395- Issue #8226: sys.setfilesystemencoding() raises a LookupError if the encoding
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003396 is unknown.
Victor Stinner120c2122010-03-25 00:30:28 +00003397
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003398- Issue #1583863: A str subclass can now override the __str__ method.
Victor Stinner808fc0a2010-03-22 12:50:40 +00003399
Mark Dickinsond59b4162010-03-13 11:34:40 +00003400- Issue #8014: Setting a T_UINT or T_PYSSIZET attribute of an object with
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003401 PyMemberDefs could produce an internal error; raise TypeError instead.
Mark Dickinsond59b4162010-03-13 11:34:40 +00003402
Mark Dickinsonf673f0c2010-03-13 09:48:39 +00003403- Issue #7845: Rich comparison methods on the complex type now return
3404 NotImplemented rather than raising a TypeError when comparing with an
3405 incompatible type; this allows user-defined classes to implement their own
3406 comparisons with complex.
3407
Victor Stinner52f6dd72010-03-12 14:45:56 +00003408- Issue #3137: Don't ignore errors at startup, especially a keyboard interrupt
3409 (SIGINT). If an error occurs while importing the site module, the error is
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003410 printed and Python exits. Initialize the GIL before importing the site module.
Victor Stinner52f6dd72010-03-12 14:45:56 +00003411
Benjamin Petersonae5f2f42010-03-07 17:10:51 +00003412- Issue #7173: Generator finalization could invalidate sys.exc_info().
3413
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003414- Issue #7544: Preallocate thread memory before creating the thread to avoid a
3415 fatal error in low memory condition.
Victor Stinner45b9be52010-03-03 23:28:07 +00003416
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003417- Issue #7820: The parser tokenizer restores all bytes in the right if the BOM
3418 check fails.
Victor Stinner6aa278e2010-03-03 00:18:49 +00003419
Benjamin Peterson23e018a2010-02-27 17:40:01 +00003420- Handle errors from looking up __prepare__ correctly.
3421
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003422- Issue #5939: Add additional runtime checking to ensure a valid capsule in
3423 Modules/_ctypes/callproc.c.
Larry Hastings1373a072010-02-24 22:49:58 +00003424
Eric Smith0facd772010-02-24 15:42:29 +00003425- Issue #7309: Fix unchecked attribute access when converting
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003426 UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError, and UnicodeTranslateError to strings.
Eric Smith0facd772010-02-24 15:42:29 +00003427
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003428- Issue #6902: Fix problem with built-in types format incorrectly with 0
3429 padding.
Eric Smithabb28c62010-02-23 00:22:24 +00003430
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003431- Issue #7988: Fix default alignment to be right aligned for complex.__format__.
3432 Now it matches other numeric types.
Eric Smith4e260c52010-02-22 18:54:44 +00003433
Eric Smith68af50b2010-02-22 14:58:30 +00003434- Issue #5988: Remove deprecated functions PyOS_ascii_formatd,
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003435 PyOS_ascii_strtod, and PyOS_ascii_atof. Use PyOS_double_to_string and
3436 PyOS_string_to_double instead. See issue #5835 for the original deprecations.
Eric Smith68af50b2010-02-22 14:58:30 +00003437
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003438- Issue #7385: Fix a crash in `MemoryView_FromObject` when `PyObject_GetBuffer`
3439 fails. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou05b7c562010-02-02 22:47:00 +00003440
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003441- Issue #7788: Fix an interpreter crash produced by deleting a list slice with
3442 very large step value.
Mark Dickinsonbc099642010-01-29 17:27:24 +00003443
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003444- Issue #7766: Change sys.getwindowsversion() return value to a named tuple and
3445 add the additional members returned in an OSVERSIONINFOEX structure. The new
3446 members are service_pack_major, service_pack_minor, suite_mask, and
3447 product_type.
Eric Smithf7bb5782010-01-27 00:44:57 +00003448
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003449- Issue #7561: Operations on empty bytearrays (such as `int(bytearray())`) could
3450 crash in many places because of the PyByteArray_AS_STRING() macro returning
3451 NULL. The macro now returns a statically allocated empty string instead.
Antoine Pitroufc8d6f42010-01-17 12:38:54 +00003452
Antoine Pitroub7fbcd32010-01-16 18:37:38 +00003453- Issue #6690: Optimize the bytecode for expressions such as `x in {1, 2, 3}`,
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003454 where the right hand operand is a set of constants, by turning the set into a
3455 frozenset and pre-building it as a constant. The comparison operation is made
3456 against the constant instead of building a new set each time it is executed (a
3457 similar optimization already existed which turned a list of constants into a
3458 pre-built tuple). Patch and additional tests by Dave Malcolm.
Antoine Pitroub7fbcd32010-01-16 18:37:38 +00003459
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003460- Issue #7622: Improve the split(), rsplit(), splitlines() and replace() methods
3461 of bytes, bytearray and unicode objects by using a common implementation based
3462 on stringlib's fast search. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrouf2c54842010-01-13 08:07:53 +00003463
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003464- Issue #7632: Fix various str -> float conversion bugs present in 2.7 alpha 2,
3465 including: (1) a serious 'wrong output' bug that could occur for long (> 40
3466 digit) input strings, (2) a crash in dtoa.c that occurred in debug builds when
3467 parsing certain long numeric strings corresponding to subnormal values, (3) a
3468 memory leak for some values large enough to cause overflow, and (4) a number
3469 of flaws that could lead to incorrectly rounded results.
Mark Dickinson81612e82010-01-12 23:04:19 +00003470
Benjamin Petersonaea44282010-01-04 01:10:28 +00003471- The __complex__ method is now looked up on the class of instances to make it
3472 consistent with other special methods.
3473
Antoine Pitrouda2ecaf2010-01-02 21:40:36 +00003474- Issue #7462: Implement the stringlib fast search algorithm for the `rfind`,
3475 `rindex`, `rsplit` and `rpartition` methods. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
3476
Benjamin Petersond12362a2009-12-30 19:44:54 +00003477- Issue #7604: Deleting an unset slotted attribute did not raise an
3478 AttributeError.
3479
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003480- Issue #7534: Fix handling of IEEE specials (infinities, nans, negative zero)
3481 in ** operator. The behaviour now conforms to that described in C99 Annex F.
Mark Dickinson9ab44b52009-12-30 16:22:49 +00003482
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003483- Issue #1811: improve accuracy and cross-platform consistency for true division
3484 of integers: the result of a/b is now correctly rounded for ints a and b (at
3485 least on IEEE 754 platforms), and in particular does not depend on the
3486 internal representation of an int.
Mark Dickinsoncbb62742009-12-27 15:09:50 +00003487
Ronald Oussoren6f6c5622009-12-24 14:03:19 +00003488- Issue #6834: replace the implementation for the 'python' and 'pythonw'
3489 executables on OSX.
3490
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003491 These executables now work properly with the arch(1) command: ``arch -ppc
3492 python`` will start a universal binary version of python in PPC mode (unlike
3493 previous releases).
Ronald Oussoren6f6c5622009-12-24 14:03:19 +00003494
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003495- Issue #7466: Segmentation fault when the garbage collector is called in the
3496 middle of populating a tuple. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou6b7dfc92009-12-12 19:18:27 +00003497
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc64f3ca42009-12-01 21:59:18 +00003498- Issue #7419: setlocale() could crash the interpreter on Windows when called
3499 with invalid values.
3500
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7d0bddd2009-11-30 00:08:56 +00003501- Issue #6077: On Windows, files opened with tempfile.TemporaryFile in "wt+"
3502 mode would appear truncated on the first '0x1a' byte (aka. Ctrl+Z).
3503
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003504- Issue #7085: Fix crash when importing some extensions in a thread on MacOSX
3505 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren3c1928a2009-11-19 17:15:31 +00003506
Philip Jenvey1309adb2009-11-17 03:43:14 +00003507- Issue #1757126: Fix the cyrillic-asian alias for the ptcp154 encoding.
3508
Mark Dickinson6f1d0492009-11-15 13:58:49 +00003509- Issue #6970: Remove redundant calls when comparing objects that don't
3510 implement the relevant rich comparison methods.
3511
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003512- Issue #7298: Fixes for range and reversed(range(...)). Iteration over
3513 range(a, b, c) incorrectly gave an empty iterator when a, b and c fit in C
3514 long but the length of the range did not. Also fix several cases where
3515 reversed(range(a, b, c)) gave wrong results, and fix a refleak for
3516 reversed(range(a, b, c)) with large arguments.
Mark Dickinsond550c9a2009-11-15 09:57:26 +00003517
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003518- Issue #7244: itertools.izip_longest() no longer ignores exceptions raised
3519 during the formation of an output tuple.
Raymond Hettingerfc438512009-11-01 20:55:33 +00003520
Benjamin Petersonb2e796a2009-10-28 21:59:39 +00003521- Issue #3297: On wide unicode builds, do not split unicode characters into
3522 surrogates.
3523
Mark Dickinsonf9724882009-10-26 21:51:18 +00003524- Remove length limitation when constructing a complex number from a string.
3525
Mark Dickinson27a87a22009-10-25 20:43:34 +00003526- Issue #1087418: Boost performance of bitwise operations for longs.
3527
Antoine Pitroub6ef9632009-10-24 20:47:05 +00003528- Support for AtheOS has been completely removed from the code base. It was
3529 disabled since Python 3.0.
3530
3531- Support for several legacy threading libraries has been disabled. These
3532 libraries are: Mach C threads, SunOS LWP, GNU pth, Irix threads. Support code
3533 will be entirely removed in 3.3.
3534
Jesus Cea6a792292010-05-03 21:18:48 +00003535- Support for OSF* has been disabled. If nobody stands up, support will be
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003536 removed in 3.3. See <http://bugs.python.org/issue8606>.
Jesus Cea6a792292010-05-03 21:18:48 +00003537
Raymond Hettingeraf7adad2009-10-22 11:22:50 +00003538- Peephole constant folding had missed UNARY_POSITIVE.
3539
Antoine Pitrou011bd622009-10-20 21:52:47 +00003540- Issue #1722344: threading._shutdown() is now called in Py_Finalize(), which
3541 fixes the problem of some exceptions being thrown at shutdown when the
3542 interpreter is killed. Patch by Adam Olsen.
3543
Antoine Pitrou671141d2009-10-19 19:37:25 +00003544- Issue #7147: Remove support for compiling Python without complex number
Skip Montanaroba1e0f42009-10-18 14:25:35 +00003545 support.
3546
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003547- Issue #7120: logging: Removed import of multiprocessing which is causing crash
3548 in GAE.
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +00003549
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003550- Issue #1754094: Improve the stack depth calculation in the compiler. There
3551 should be no other effect than a small decrease in memory use. Patch by
3552 Christopher Tur Lesniewski-Laas.
Neil Schemenauere441cb72009-10-14 19:14:38 +00003553
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003554- Issue #7065: Fix a crash in bytes.maketrans and bytearray.maketrans when using
3555 byte values greater than 127. Patch by Derk Drukker.
Antoine Pitrou403ce782009-10-14 17:14:16 +00003556
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7d520792009-10-06 21:03:20 +00003557- Issue #1571184: The Unicode database contains properties for more characters.
3558 The tables for code points representing numeric values, white spaces or line
3559 breaks are now generated from the official Unicode Character Database files,
3560 and include information from the Unihan.txt file.
3561
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003562- Issue #7019: Raise ValueError when unmarshalling bad long data, instead of
3563 producing internally inconsistent Python longs.
Mark Dickinson2683ab02009-09-29 19:21:35 +00003564
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003565- Issue #6990: Fix threading.local subclasses leaving old state around after a
3566 reference cycle GC which could be recycled by new locals.
Philip Jenvey26713ca2009-09-29 04:57:18 +00003567
Benjamin Peterson4905e802009-09-27 02:43:28 +00003568- Issue #5460: Fix an ambiguity in the grammar.
3569
Mark Dickinson3e124ae2009-09-22 21:47:24 +00003570- Issue #1766304: Improve performance of membership tests on range objects.
3571
Mark Dickinson0a1efd02009-09-16 21:23:34 +00003572- Issue #6713: Improve performance of integer -> string conversions.
3573
Mark Dickinson54a3db92009-09-06 10:19:23 +00003574- Issue #6846: Fix bug where bytearray.pop() returns negative integers.
3575
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003576- Issue #6750: A text file opened with io.open() could duplicate its output when
3577 writing from multiple threads at the same time.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcccd686a2009-08-29 23:00:38 +00003578
Benjamin Peterson14327712009-08-15 13:23:05 +00003579- Issue #6707: dir() on an uninitialized module caused a crash.
3580
Georg Brandl953152f2009-07-22 12:03:59 +00003581- Issue #6540: Fixed crash for bytearray.translate() with invalid parameters.
3582
Raymond Hettingere805ecc2009-07-27 20:16:37 +00003583- Issue #6573: set.union() stopped processing inputs if an instance of self
3584 occurred in the argument chain.
3585
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003586- Issue #6070: On posix platforms import no longer copies the execute bit from
3587 the .py file to the .pyc file if it is set.
R. David Murray046f7232009-07-19 02:22:05 +00003588
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc8b84ea02009-07-13 20:38:21 +00003589- Issue #1616979: Added the cp720 (Arabic DOS) encoding.
3590
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003591- Issue #6428: Since Python 3.0, the __bool__ method must return a bool object,
3592 and not an int. Fix the corresponding error message, and the documentation.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc097cd072009-07-07 00:43:08 +00003593
Benjamin Petersonf1664ae2009-07-01 01:28:55 +00003594- The deprecated PyCObject has been removed.
3595
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003596- Issue #6347: Include inttypes.h as well as stdint.h in pyport.h. This fixes a
3597 build failure on HP-UX: int32_t and uint32_t are defined in inttypes.h instead
3598 of stdint.h on that platform.
Mark Dickinson835a6c82009-06-30 15:45:17 +00003599
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003600- Issue #6373: Fixed a SystemError when encoding with the latin-1 codec and the
3601 'surrogateescape' error handler, a string which contains unpaired surrogates.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc84ec8d92009-06-29 22:36:49 +00003602
Hirokazu Yamamoto892a37a2009-06-28 11:07:03 +00003603- Issue #4856: Remove checks for win NT.
3604
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003605- Issue #6687: PyBytes_FromObject() no longer accepts an integer as its argument
3606 to construct a null-initialized bytes object.
Alexandre Vassalottieb6f8de2009-12-31 03:56:09 +00003607
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003608- Issue #1023290: Add from_bytes() and to_bytes() methods to integers. These
3609 methods allow the conversion of integers to bytes, and vice-versa.
Alexandre Vassalottic36c3782010-01-09 20:35:09 +00003610
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003611- Issue #7382: Fix bug in bytes.__getnewargs__ that prevented bytes instances
3612 from being copied with copy.copy(), and bytes subclasses from being pickled
3613 properly.
Alexandre Vassalotti41f58a72010-01-12 01:23:09 +00003614
Collin Winter4222e9c2010-03-18 22:46:40 +00003615- Code objects now support weak references.
3616
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003617- Issue #7072: isspace(0xa0) is true on Mac OS X.
Ronald Oussoren501aeff2010-04-18 15:02:38 +00003618
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003619- Issue #8084: PEP 370 now conforms to system conventions for framework builds
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00003620 on MacOS X. That is, "python setup.py install --user" will install into
3621 "~/Library/Python/2.7" instead of "~/.local".
Ronald Oussoren501aeff2010-04-18 15:02:38 +00003622
Benjamin Peterson466a7822009-07-02 21:44:01 +00003623C-API
3624-----
3625
Alexander Belopolskyf0f45142010-08-11 17:31:17 +00003626- Issue #2443: A new macro, `Py_VA_COPY`, copies the state of the
3627 variable argument list. `Py_VA_COPY` is equivalent to C99
3628 `va_copy`, but available on all python platforms.
3629
Mark Dickinsone6fc7402010-08-06 18:55:26 +00003630- PySlice_GetIndicesEx now clips the step to [-PY_SSIZE_T_MAX, PY_SSIZE_T_MAX]
3631 instead of [-PY_SSIZE_T_MAX-1, PY_SSIZE_T_MAX]. This makes it safe to do
3632 "step = -step" when reversing a slice.
3633
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003634- Issue #5753: A new C API function, `PySys_SetArgvEx`, allows embedders of the
3635 interpreter to set sys.argv without also modifying sys.path. This helps fix
3636 `CVE-2008-5983
Antoine Pitrouf978fac2010-05-21 17:25:34 +00003637 <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5983>`_.
3638
Benjamin Petersonfb886362010-04-24 18:21:17 +00003639- Add PyArg_ValidateKeywordArguments, which checks if all keyword arguments are
3640 strings in an efficient manner.
3641
Antoine Pitrou8689a102010-04-01 16:53:15 +00003642- Issue #8276: PyEval_CallObject() is now only available in macro form. The
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003643 function declaration, which was kept for backwards compatibility reasons, is
3644 now removed (the macro was introduced in 1997!).
Antoine Pitrou8689a102010-04-01 16:53:15 +00003645
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003646- Issue #7767: New function PyLong_AsLongLongAndOverflow added, analogous to
3647 PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow.
Mark Dickinson93f562c2010-01-30 10:30:15 +00003648
Benjamin Peterson8667a9b2010-01-09 21:45:28 +00003649- Make PyUnicode_CompareWithASCIIString return not equal if the Python string
3650 has '\0' at the end.
3651
Mark Dickinsonde604012010-01-01 19:27:32 +00003652- Issue #5080: The argument parsing functions PyArg_ParseTuple,
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003653 PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords, PyArg_VaParse, PyArg_VaParseTupleAndKeywords and
3654 PyArg_Parse now raise a DeprecationWarning for float arguments passed with the
3655 'L' format code. This will become a TypeError in a future version of Python,
Mark Dickinsonde604012010-01-01 19:27:32 +00003656 to match the behaviour of the other integer format codes.
3657
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003658- Issue #7033: Function ``PyErr_NewExceptionWithDoc()`` added.
Georg Brandl1e28a272009-12-28 08:41:01 +00003659
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003660- Issue #7414: 'C' code wasn't being skipped properly (for keyword arguments) in
3661 PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords.
Mark Dickinsonf08173b2009-12-03 10:59:46 +00003662
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003663- Issue #7228: Add '%lld' and '%llu' support to PyString_FromFormat(V) and
3664 PyErr_Format, on machines with HAVE_LONG_LONG defined.
Mark Dickinson6ce4a9a2009-11-16 17:00:11 +00003665
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003666- Issue #6151: Made PyDescr_COMMON conform to standard C (like PyObject_HEAD in
3667 PEP 3123). The PyDescr_TYPE and PyDescr_NAME macros should be should used for
3668 accessing the d_type and d_name members of structures using PyDescr_COMMON.
Alexandre Vassalotti2db046d2009-07-22 03:56:36 +00003669
3670- Issue #6405: Remove duplicate type declarations in descrobject.h.
Benjamin Peterson89b89172009-07-03 13:30:25 +00003671
Benjamin Peterson466a7822009-07-02 21:44:01 +00003672- The code flags for old __future__ features are now available again.
3673
Alexandre Vassalotti7b82b402009-07-21 04:30:03 +00003674- Issue #5954: Add a PyFrame_GetLineNumber() function to replace most uses of
3675 PyCode_Addr2Line().
3676
3677- Issue #5959: Add a PyCode_NewEmpty() function to create a new empty code
3678 object at a specified file, function, and line number.
3679
3680- Issue #1419652: Change the first argument to PyImport_AppendInittab() to
3681 ``const char *`` as the string is stored beyond the call.
3682
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003683- Issue #2422: When compiled with the ``--with-valgrind`` option, the pymalloc
3684 allocator will be automatically disabled when running under Valgrind. This
3685 gives improved memory leak detection when running under Valgrind, while taking
3686 advantage of pymalloc at other times.
Benjamin Peterson05159c42009-12-03 03:01:27 +00003687
Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +00003688Library
3689-------
3690
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003691- In pdb, when Ctrl-C is entered while defining commands for a breakpoint, the
3692 old commands are restored.
Georg Brandlb90ffd82010-07-30 22:20:16 +00003693
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003694- For traceback debugging, the pdb listing now also shows the locations where
3695 the exception was originally (re)raised, if it differs from the last line
3696 executed (e.g. in case of finally clauses).
Georg Brandl0a9c3e92010-07-30 18:46:38 +00003697
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003698- The pdb command "source" has been added. It displays the source code for a
3699 given object, if possible.
Georg Brandle59ca2a2010-07-30 17:04:28 +00003700
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003701- The pdb command "longlist" has been added. It displays the whole source code
3702 for the current function.
Georg Brandle59ca2a2010-07-30 17:04:28 +00003703
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003704- Issue #1503502: Make pdb.Pdb easier to subclass by putting message and error
3705 output into methods.
Georg Brandle59ca2a2010-07-30 17:04:28 +00003706
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003707- Issue #809887: Make the output of pdb's breakpoint deletions more consistent;
3708 emit a message when a breakpoint is enabled or disabled.
Georg Brandl7410dd12010-07-30 12:01:20 +00003709
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003710- Issue #5294: Fix the behavior of pdb's "continue" command when called in the
3711 top-level debugged frame.
Georg Brandl3f940892010-07-30 10:29:19 +00003712
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003713- Issue #5727: Restore the ability to use readline when calling into pdb in
3714 doctests.
Georg Brandld72e0432010-07-30 09:59:28 +00003715
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003716- Issue #6719: In pdb, do not stop somewhere in the encodings machinery if the
3717 source file to be debugged is in a non-builtin encoding.
Georg Brandl34cc0f52010-07-30 09:43:00 +00003718
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003719- Issue #8048: Prevent doctests from failing when sys.displayhook has been
3720 reassigned.
Georg Brandl25fbb892010-07-30 09:23:23 +00003721
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003722- Issue #8015: In pdb, do not crash when an empty line is entered as a
3723 breakpoint command.
Georg Brandl44f8bf92010-07-30 08:54:49 +00003724
Georg Brandl2dfec552010-07-30 08:43:32 +00003725- In pdb, allow giving a line number to the "until" command.
3726
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003727- Issue #1437051: For pdb, allow "continue" and related commands in .pdbrc
3728 files. Also, add a command-line option "-c" that runs a command as if given
3729 in .pdbrc.
Georg Brandle0230912010-07-30 08:29:39 +00003730
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003731- Issue #4179: In pdb, allow "list ." as a command to return to the currently
3732 debugged line.
Georg Brandla91a94b2010-07-30 07:14:01 +00003733
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00003734- Issue #4108: In urllib.robotparser, if there are multiple ``User-agent: *``
Georg Brandl0a0fc072010-07-29 17:55:01 +00003735 entries, consider the first one.
3736
Georg Brandl056cb932010-07-29 17:16:10 +00003737- Issue #6630: Allow customizing regex flags when subclassing the
3738 string.Template class.
3739
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003740- Issue #9411: Allow specifying an encoding for config files in the configparser
3741 module.
Georg Brandl8dcaa732010-07-29 12:17:40 +00003742
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003743- Issue #1682942: Improvements to configparser: support alternate delimiters,
3744 alternate comment prefixes and empty lines in values.
Georg Brandl96a60ae2010-07-28 13:13:46 +00003745
Georg Brandlcbb0ae42010-07-28 08:19:35 +00003746- Issue #9354: Provide getsockopt() in asyncore's file_wrapper.
3747
Victor Stinnercf448832010-07-28 00:15:03 +00003748- Issue #8966: ctypes: Remove implicit bytes-unicode conversion.
3749
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003750- Issue #9378: python -m pickle <pickle file> will now load and display the
3751 first object in the pickle file.
Alexander Belopolsky455f7bd2010-07-27 23:02:38 +00003752
Florent Xiclunaf1046ca2010-07-27 21:20:15 +00003753- Issue #4770: Restrict binascii module to accept only bytes (as specified).
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003754 And fix the email package to encode to ASCII instead of ``raw-unicode-escape``
3755 before ASCII-to-binary decoding.
Florent Xiclunaf1046ca2010-07-27 21:20:15 +00003756
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003757- Issue #9384: ``python -m tkinter`` will now display a simple demo applet.
Alexander Belopolskyc02cc272010-07-27 14:16:32 +00003758
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003759- The default size of the re module's compiled regular expression cache has been
3760 increased from 100 to 500 and the cache replacement policy has changed from
Antoine Pitrou3060c452010-08-13 16:27:38 +00003761 simply clearing the entire cache on overflow to forgetting the least recently
3762 used cached compiled regular expressions. This is a performance win for
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003763 applications that use a lot of regular expressions and limits the impact of
3764 the performance hit anytime the cache is exceeded.
Gregory P. Smith5a631832010-07-27 05:31:29 +00003765
Brian Curtin0f0c3322010-07-26 02:36:32 +00003766- Issue #7113: Speed up loading in configparser. Patch by Łukasz Langa.
3767
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003768- Issue #9032: XML-RPC client retries the request on EPIPE error. The EPIPE
Victor Stinner756f5472010-07-24 02:24:55 +00003769 error occurs when the server closes the socket and the client sends a big
3770 XML-RPC request.
3771
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003772- Issue #4629: getopt raises an error if an argument ends with "=", whereas
3773 getopt doesn't accept a value (eg. --help= is rejected if getopt uses
3774 ['help='] long options).
Victor Stinnereccc5fa2010-07-24 00:49:20 +00003775
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003776- Issue #7989: Added pure python implementation of the `datetime` module. The C
3777 module is renamed to `_datetime` and if available, overrides all classes
3778 defined in datetime with fast C impementation. Python implementation is based
3779 on the original python prototype for the datetime module by Tim Peters with
3780 minor modifications by the PyPy project. The test suite now tests `datetime`
3781 module with and without `_datetime` acceleration using the same test cases.
Alexander Belopolskycf86e362010-07-23 19:25:47 +00003782
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003783- Issue #7895: platform.mac_ver() no longer crashes after calling os.fork().
Ronald Oussorene186e382010-07-23 11:54:59 +00003784
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003785- Issue #9323: Fixed a bug in trace.py that resulted in loosing the name of the
3786 script being traced. Patch by Eli Bendersky.
Alexander Belopolsky3f8ecab2010-07-21 17:43:42 +00003787
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003788- Issue #9282: Fixed --listfuncs option of trace.py. Thanks Eli Bendersky for
3789 the patch.
Alexander Belopolsky533a1672010-07-20 19:55:18 +00003790
Gregory P. Smith41e6c3d2010-07-19 23:17:22 +00003791- Issue #3704: http.cookiejar was not properly handling URLs with a / in the
3792 parameters.
3793
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003794- Issue #9268: ``pickletools.dis()`` now has an optional *annotate* argument
3795 which controls printing of opcode descriptions in ``dis()`` output.
Alexander Belopolsky929d3842010-07-17 15:51:21 +00003796
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003797- Issue #1555570: email no longer inserts extra blank lines when a \r\n combo
3798 crosses an 8192 byte boundary.
R. David Murray45bf773f2010-07-17 01:19:57 +00003799
Victor Stinnere9ebde42010-07-13 23:04:56 +00003800- Issue #9243: Fix sndhdr module and add unit tests, contributed by James Lee.
3801
Benjamin Peterson5ef96e52010-07-11 23:06:06 +00003802- ``ast.literal_eval()`` now allows byte literals.
3803
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003804- Issue #9137: Fix issue in MutableMapping.update, which incorrectly treated
3805 keyword arguments called 'self' or 'other' specially.
Mark Dickinsonb214e902010-07-11 18:53:06 +00003806
Georg Brandl492f3fc2010-07-11 09:41:21 +00003807- ``ast.literal_eval()`` now allows set literals.
3808
3809- Issue #9164: Ensure that sysconfig handles duplicate -arch flags in CFLAGS.
Ronald Oussorend3950522010-07-11 09:05:07 +00003810
R. David Murrayea340a32010-07-09 12:23:21 +00003811- Issue #7646: The fnmatch pattern cache no longer grows without bound.
3812
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003813- Issue #9136: Fix 'dictionary changed size during iteration' RuntimeError
3814 produced when profiling the decimal module. This was due to a dangerous
3815 iteration over 'locals()' in Context.__init__.
Mark Dickinson0dd8f782010-07-08 21:15:36 +00003816
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003817- Fix extreme speed issue in Decimal.pow when the base is an exact power of 10
3818 and the exponent is tiny (for example, ``Decimal(10) **
3819 Decimal('1e-999999999')``).
Mark Dickinsona1236312010-07-08 19:03:34 +00003820
Mark Dickinsonbe64d952010-07-07 16:21:29 +00003821- Issue #9186: Fix math.log1p(-1.0) to raise ValueError, not OverflowError.
3822
Mark Dickinson2cc8a5e2010-07-04 18:11:51 +00003823- Issue #9130: Fix validation of relative imports in parser module.
3824
Mark Dickinson2bd61a92010-07-04 16:37:31 +00003825- Issue #9128: Fix validation of class decorators in parser module.
3826
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003827- Issue #9094: python -m pickletools will now disassemble pickle files listed in
3828 the command line arguments. See output of python -m pickletools -h for more
3829 details.
Alexander Belopolsky60c762b2010-07-03 20:35:53 +00003830
Senthil Kumarandf022da2010-07-03 17:48:22 +00003831- Issue #5468: urlencode to handle bytes type and other encodings in its query
3832 parameter. Patch by Dan Mahn.
3833
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003834- Issue #7673: Fix security vulnerability (CVE-2010-2089) in the audioop module,
3835 ensure that the input string length is a multiple of the frame size.
Victor Stinnerbc5c54b2010-07-03 13:44:22 +00003836
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003837- Issue #6507: Accept source strings in dis.dis(). Original patch by Daniel
3838 Urban.
Nick Coghlan5c8b54e2010-07-03 07:36:51 +00003839
Brett Cannon8315fd12010-07-02 22:03:00 +00003840- Issue #7829: Clearly document that the dis module is exposing an
3841 implementation detail that is not stable between Python VMs or releases.
3842
Victor Stinnerbc5c54b2010-07-03 13:44:22 +00003843- Issue #6589: cleanup asyncore.socket_map in case smtpd.SMTPServer constructor
Giampaolo Rodolà610aa4f2010-06-30 17:47:39 +00003844 raises an exception.
3845
Michael Foordb3a89842010-06-30 12:17:50 +00003846- Issue #9110: Addition of ContextDecorator to contextlib, for creating APIs
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003847 that act as both context managers and decorators. contextmanager changes to
3848 use ContextDecorator.
Michael Foordb3a89842010-06-30 12:17:50 +00003849
Brett Cannonf23e3742010-06-27 23:57:46 +00003850- Implement importlib.abc.SourceLoader and deprecate PyLoader and PyPycLoader
3851 for removal in Python 3.4.
3852
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003853- Issue #9064: pdb's "up" and "down" commands now accept an optional argument
3854 giving the number of frames to go.
Georg Brandleb1f4aa2010-06-27 10:37:48 +00003855
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003856- Issue #9018: os.path.normcase() now raises a TypeError if the argument is not
3857 ``str`` or ``bytes``.
Ezio Melotti5a3ef5b2010-06-25 10:56:11 +00003858
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003859- Issue #9075: In the ssl module, remove the setting of a ``debug`` flag on an
3860 OpenSSL structure.
Antoine Pitrou6186bfb2010-06-25 00:07:34 +00003861
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003862- Issue #8682: The ssl module now temporary increments the reference count of a
3863 socket object got through ``PyWeakref_GetObject``, so as to avoid possible
Antoine Pitrou8bae4ec2010-06-24 22:34:04 +00003864 deallocation while the object is still being used.
3865
Senthil Kumaran80f1b052010-06-18 15:08:18 +00003866- Issue #1368368: FancyURLOpener class changed to throw an Exception on wrong
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003867 password instead of presenting an interactive prompt. Older behavior can be
Senthil Kumaran80f1b052010-06-18 15:08:18 +00003868 obtained by passing retry=True to http_error_xxx methods of FancyURLOpener.
3869
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003870- Issue #8720: Fix regression caused by fix for #4050 by making getsourcefile
R. David Murraya1b37402010-06-17 02:04:29 +00003871 smart enough to find source files in the linecache.
3872
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003873- Issue #5610: feedparser no longer eats extra characters at the end of a body
3874 part if the body part ends with a ``\r\n``.
R. David Murray45e0e142010-06-16 02:19:40 +00003875
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003876- Issue #8986: math.erfc was incorrectly raising OverflowError for values
3877 between -27.3 and -30.0 on some platforms.
Mark Dickinsonbcdf9da2010-06-13 10:52:38 +00003878
Victor Stinner0f35e2c2010-06-11 23:46:47 +00003879- Issue #8784: Set tarfile default encoding to 'utf-8' on Windows.
3880
Victor Stinnerda0eca42010-06-11 21:50:30 +00003881- Issue #8966: If a ctypes structure field is an array of c_char, convert its
3882 value to bytes instead of str (as done for c_char and c_char_p).
3883
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003884- Issue #8188: Comparisons between Decimal and Fraction objects are now
3885 permitted, returning a result based on the exact numerical values of the
3886 operands. This builds on issue #2531, which allowed Decimal-to-float
3887 comparisons; all comparisons involving numeric types (bool, int, float,
3888 complex, Decimal, Fraction) should now act as expected.
Mark Dickinson08ade6f2010-06-11 10:44:52 +00003889
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003890- Issue #8897: Fix sunau module, use bytes to write the header. Patch written by
3891 Thomas Jollans.
Victor Stinner7f3652e2010-06-07 20:14:04 +00003892
Raymond Hettinger48f3bd32010-12-16 00:30:53 +00003893- Issue #8899: time.struct_time now has class and attribute docstrings.
Alexander Belopolsky69f3fd02010-06-05 15:04:51 +00003894
Martin v. Löwis2d5157e2010-06-04 19:50:26 +00003895- Issue #6470: Drop UNC prefix in FixTk.
3896
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003897- Issue #4768: base64 encoded email body parts were incorrectly stored as binary
3898 strings. They are now correctly converted to strings.
R. David Murray7da8f062010-06-04 16:11:08 +00003899
Lars Gustäbel2470ff12010-06-03 10:11:52 +00003900- Issue #8833: tarfile created hard link entries with a size field != 0 by
3901 mistake.
3902
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003903- Charset.body_encode now correctly handles base64 encoding by encoding with the
3904 output_charset before calling base64mime.encode. Passes the tests from 2.x
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00003905 issue #1368247.
R. David Murray850fc852010-06-03 01:58:28 +00003906
R. David Murrayd35251d2010-06-01 01:32:12 +00003907- Issue #8845: sqlite3 Connection objects now have a read-only in_transaction
3908 attribute that is True iff there are uncommitted changes.
3909
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003910- Issue #1289118: datetime.timedelta objects can now be multiplied by float and
3911 divided by float and int objects. Results are rounded to the nearest multiple
3912 of timedelta.resolution with ties resolved using round-half-to-even method.
Alexander Belopolsky1790bc42010-05-31 17:33:47 +00003913
Alexander Belopolskyf03a6162010-05-27 21:42:58 +00003914- Issue #7150: Raise OverflowError if the result of adding or subtracting
3915 timedelta from date or datetime falls outside of the MINYEAR:MAXYEAR range.
3916
Giampaolo Rodolàa67299e2010-05-26 18:06:04 +00003917- Issue #8806: add SSL contexts support to ftplib.
3918
Victor Stinner479736b2010-05-25 21:12:34 +00003919- Issue #4769: Fix main() function of the base64 module, use sys.stdin.buffer
3920 and sys.stdout.buffer (instead of sys.stdin and sys.stdout) to use the bytes
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003921 API.
Victor Stinner479736b2010-05-25 21:12:34 +00003922
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003923- Issue #8770: Now sysconfig displays information when it's called as a script.
3924 Initial idea by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
Tarek Ziadéa7514992010-05-25 09:44:36 +00003925
Victor Stinnere021f4b2010-05-24 21:46:25 +00003926- Issue #6662: Fix parsing of malformatted charref (&#bad;), patch written by
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003927 Fredrik Håård.
Victor Stinnere021f4b2010-05-24 21:46:25 +00003928
Mark Dickinsonb1d8e322010-05-22 18:35:36 +00003929- Issue #8540: Decimal module: rename the Context._clamp attribute to
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003930 Context.clamp and make it public. This is useful in creating contexts that
3931 correspond to the decimal interchange formats specified in IEEE 754.
Mark Dickinsonb1d8e322010-05-22 18:35:36 +00003932
Victor Stinnera92ad7e2010-05-22 16:59:09 +00003933- Issue #6268: Fix seek() method of codecs.open(), don't read or write the BOM
3934 twice after seek(0). Fix also reset() method of codecs, UTF-16, UTF-32 and
3935 StreamWriter classes.
Victor Stinner3fed0872010-05-22 02:16:27 +00003936
Victor Stinner7126dbc2010-05-21 23:45:42 +00003937- Issue #3798: sys.exit(message) writes the message to sys.stderr file, instead
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003938 of the C file stderr, to use stderr encoding and error handler.
Victor Stinner7126dbc2010-05-21 23:45:42 +00003939
Benjamin Petersonaada7b82010-05-21 21:45:06 +00003940- Issue #8782: Add a trailing newline in linecache.updatecache to the last line
3941 of files without one.
3942
Benjamin Peterson4ad6bd52010-05-21 20:55:22 +00003943- Issue #8729: Return NotImplemented from collections.Mapping.__eq__ when
3944 comparing to a non-mapping.
3945
Victor Stinnerf0feec22010-05-21 10:52:08 +00003946- Issue #8774: tabnanny uses the encoding cookie (#coding:...) to use the
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003947 correct encoding.
Victor Stinnerf0feec22010-05-21 10:52:08 +00003948
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003949- Issue #4870: Add an `options` attribute to SSL contexts, as well as several
3950 ``OP_*`` constants to the `ssl` module. This allows to selectively disable
3951 protocol versions, when used in combination with `PROTOCOL_SSLv23`.
Antoine Pitroub5218772010-05-21 09:56:06 +00003952
Tarek Ziadé06710a82010-05-19 22:25:00 +00003953- Issue #8759: Fixed user paths in sysconfig for posix and os2 schemes.
3954
Victor Stinner2ca03c12010-05-19 17:00:07 +00003955- Issue #8663: distutils.log emulates backslashreplace error handler. Fix
3956 compilation in a non-ASCII directory if stdout encoding is ASCII (eg. if
3957 stdout is not a TTY).
3958
Victor Stinnerb745a742010-05-18 17:17:23 +00003959- Issue #8513: os.get_exec_path() supports b'PATH' key and bytes value.
3960 subprocess.Popen() and os._execvpe() support bytes program name. Add
3961 os.supports_bytes_environ flag: True if the native OS type of the environment
3962 is bytes (eg. False on Windows).
3963
Lars Gustäbel1465cc22010-05-17 18:02:50 +00003964- Issue #8633: tarfile is now able to read and write archives with "raw" binary
3965 pax headers as described in POSIX.1-2008.
3966
Florent Xiclunac7b8e862010-05-17 17:33:07 +00003967- Issue #1285086: Speed up urllib.parse functions: quote, quote_from_bytes,
3968 unquote, unquote_to_bytes.
3969
Tarek Ziadéc16a85c2010-05-17 10:38:53 +00003970- Issue #8688: Distutils now recalculates MANIFEST everytime.
3971
Victor Stinnerf9faaad2010-05-16 21:36:37 +00003972- Issue #8477: ssl.RAND_egd() and ssl._test_decode_cert() support str with
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003973 surrogates and bytes for the filename.
Victor Stinner3800e1e2010-05-16 21:23:48 +00003974
Antoine Pitrou152efa22010-05-16 18:19:27 +00003975- Issue #8550: Add first class ``SSLContext`` objects to the ssl module.
3976
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003977- Issue #8681: Make the zlib module's error messages more informative when the
3978 zlib itself doesn't give any detailed explanation.
Antoine Pitrou53b21662010-05-11 23:46:02 +00003979
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003980- The audioop module now supports sound fragments of length greater than 2**31
3981 bytes on 64-bit machines, and is PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN.
Mark Dickinson81fece22010-05-11 13:34:35 +00003982
Giampaolo Rodolàbd576b72010-05-10 14:53:29 +00003983- Issue #4972: Add support for the context manager protocol to the ftplib.FTP
3984 class.
3985
Benjamin Petersone87c0fc2010-05-08 19:52:49 +00003986- Issue #8664: In py_compile, create __pycache__ when the compiled path is
3987 given.
3988
Victor Stinner449c4662010-05-08 11:10:09 +00003989- Issue #8514: Add os.fsencode() function (Unix only): encode a string to bytes
3990 for use in the file system, environment variables or the command line.
3991
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003992- Issue #8571: Fix an internal error when compressing or decompressing a chunk
3993 larger than 1GB with the zlib module's compressor and decompressor objects.
Antoine Pitrou89562712010-05-07 17:04:02 +00003994
Benjamin Peterson225168e2010-05-06 22:29:53 +00003995- Issue #8603: Support bytes environmental variables on Unix: Add os.environb
3996 mapping and os.getenvb() function. os.unsetenv() encodes str argument to the
3997 file system encoding with the surrogateescape error handler (instead of
3998 utf8/strict) and accepts bytes. posix.environ keys and values are now bytes.
Victor Stinner84ae1182010-05-06 22:05:07 +00003999
Giampaolo Rodolà8d2dc852010-05-06 18:06:30 +00004000- Issue #8573: asyncore _strerror() function might throw ValueError.
4001
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004002- Issue #8483: asyncore.dispatcher's __getattr__ method produced confusing error
4003 messages when accessing undefined class attributes because of the cheap
4004 inheritance with the underlying socket object. The cheap inheritance has been
4005 deprecated.
Giampaolo Rodolà8d2dc852010-05-06 18:06:30 +00004006
Tarek Ziadéae4d5c62010-05-05 22:27:31 +00004007- Issue #4265: shutil.copyfile() was leaking file descriptors when disk fills.
4008 Patch by Tres Seaver.
4009
Victor Stinnerd17f2192010-08-15 09:56:07 +00004010- Issue #8390: tarfile uses surrogateescape as the default error handler
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004011 (instead of replace in read mode or strict in write mode).
Victor Stinnerde629d42010-05-05 21:43:57 +00004012
Barry Warsaw83d89982010-05-05 16:18:31 +00004013- Issue #7755: Use an unencumbered audio file for tests.
4014
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004015- Issue #8621: uuid.uuid4() returned the same sequence of values in the parent
4016 and any children created using ``os.fork`` on MacOS X 10.6.
Ronald Oussorenac764d32010-05-05 15:32:33 +00004017
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004018- Issue #8567: Fix precedence of signals in Decimal module: when a Decimal
4019 operation raises multiple signals and more than one of those signals is
4020 trapped, the specification determines the order in which the signals should be
4021 handled. In many cases this order wasn't being followed, leading to the wrong
4022 Python exception being raised.
Mark Dickinsonc69160e2010-05-04 14:35:33 +00004023
Antoine Pitrou6be88762010-05-03 16:48:20 +00004024- Issue #7865: The close() method of :mod:`io` objects should not swallow
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004025 exceptions raised by the implicit flush(). Also qensure that calling close()
4026 several times is supported. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
Antoine Pitrou6be88762010-05-03 16:48:20 +00004027
Antoine Pitrou6e20a1b2010-05-02 19:59:47 +00004028- Issue #4687: Fix accuracy of garbage collection runtimes displayed with
4029 gc.DEBUG_STATS.
4030
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004031- Issue #8354: The siginterrupt setting is now preserved for all signals, not
4032 just SIGCHLD.
Jean-Paul Calderone6f137ca2010-05-09 03:18:57 +00004033
Georg Brandl25106ce2010-05-21 21:49:47 +00004034- Issue #7192: webbrowser.get("firefox") now works on Mac OS X, as does
Ronald Oussoren4d39f6e2010-05-02 09:54:35 +00004035 webbrowser.get("safari").
4036
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004037- Issue #8464: tarfile no longer creates files with execute permissions set when
4038 mode="w|" is used.
Lars Gustäbeld6eb70b2010-04-29 15:37:02 +00004039
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004040- Issue #7834: Fix connect() of Bluetooth L2CAP sockets with recent versions of
4041 the Linux kernel. Patch by Yaniv Aknin.
Antoine Pitroubf043492010-04-29 10:11:46 +00004042
Tarek Ziadé6ac91722010-04-28 17:51:36 +00004043- Issue #8295: Added shutil.unpack_archive.
4044
Senthil Kumaran71fb6c82010-04-28 17:39:48 +00004045- Issue #6312: Fixed http HEAD request when the transfer encoding is chunked.
4046 It should correctly return an empty response now.
4047
Benjamin Peterson95e392c2010-04-27 21:07:21 +00004048- Issue #8546: Reject None given as the buffering argument to _pyio.open.
4049
Antoine Pitrou06e34a92010-04-27 19:14:15 +00004050- Issue #8549: Fix compiling the _ssl extension under AIX. Patch by
4051 Sridhar Ratnakumar.
4052
R. David Murrayad78d152010-04-27 02:45:53 +00004053- Issue #6656: fix locale.format_string to handle escaped percents
4054 and mappings.
4055
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004056- Issue #2302: Fix a race condition in SocketServer.BaseServer.shutdown, where
4057 the method could block indefinitely if called just before the event loop
4058 started running. This also fixes the occasional freezes witnessed in
4059 test_httpservers.
Antoine Pitrou3bcba8e2010-04-25 22:01:43 +00004060
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004061- Issue #8524: When creating an SSL socket, the timeout value of the original
4062 socket wasn't retained (instead, a socket with a positive timeout would be
4063 turned into a non-blocking SSL socket).
Antoine Pitrou40f08742010-04-24 22:04:40 +00004064
Antoine Pitroud3f8ab82010-04-24 21:26:44 +00004065- Issue #5103: SSL handshake would ignore the socket timeout and block
4066 indefinitely if the other end didn't respond.
4067
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004068- The do_handshake() method of SSL objects now adjusts the blocking mode of the
4069 SSL structure if necessary (as other methods already do).
Antoine Pitroud3f8ab82010-04-24 21:26:44 +00004070
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004071- Issue #8391: os.execvpe() and os.getenv() supports unicode with surrogates and
4072 bytes strings for environment keys and values.
Victor Stinner13bb71c2010-04-23 21:41:56 +00004073
Victor Stinner4d078042010-04-23 19:28:32 +00004074- Issue #8467: Pure Python implementation of subprocess encodes the error
4075 message using surrogatepass error handler to support surrogates in the
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004076 message.
Victor Stinner4d078042010-04-23 19:28:32 +00004077
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004078- Issue #8468: bz2.BZ2File() accepts str with surrogates and bytes filenames.
Victor Stinner349fd522010-04-23 10:56:17 +00004079
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004080- Issue #8451: Syslog module now uses basename(sys.argv[0]) instead of the
4081 string "python" as the *ident*. openlog() arguments are all optional and
4082 keywords.
Sean Reifscheider13daf122010-04-23 09:29:52 +00004083
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004084- Issue #8108: Fix the unwrap() method of SSL objects when the socket has a
4085 non-infinite timeout. Also make that method friendlier with applications
Antoine Pitrou2c4f98b2010-04-23 00:16:21 +00004086 wanting to continue using the socket in clear-text mode, by disabling
4087 OpenSSL's internal readahead. Thanks to Darryl Miles for guidance.
4088
Antoine Pitrou7062db82010-04-22 13:30:10 +00004089- Issue #8496: make mailcap.lookup() always return a list, rather than an
4090 iterator. Patch by Gregory Nofi.
4091
Victor Stinner35466c52010-04-22 11:23:23 +00004092- Issue #8195: Fix a crash in sqlite Connection.create_collation() if the
4093 collation name contains a surrogate character.
4094
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004095- Issue #8484: Load all ciphers and digest algorithms when initializing the _ssl
4096 extension, such that verification of some SSL certificates doesn't fail
4097 because of an "unknown algorithm".
Antoine Pitroufec12ff2010-04-21 19:46:23 +00004098
Tarek Ziadéfb437512010-04-20 08:57:33 +00004099- Issue #6547: Added the ignore_dangling_symlinks option to shutil.copytree.
4100
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004101- Issue #1540112: Now allowing the choice of a copy function in shutil.copytree.
Tarek Ziadé5340db32010-04-19 22:30:51 +00004102
Giampaolo Rodolà5fb313b2010-04-19 22:05:54 +00004103- Issue #4814: timeout parameter is now applied also for connections resulting
4104 from PORT/EPRT commands.
4105
Tarek Ziadé10a51af2010-04-19 21:31:42 +00004106- Issue #8463: added missing reference to bztar in shutil's documentation.
4107
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004108- Issue #7154: urllib.request can now detect the proxy settings on OSX 10.6 (as
4109 long as the user didn't specify 'automatic proxy configuration').
Ronald Oussoren84151202010-04-18 20:46:11 +00004110
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004111- Issue #3817: ftplib.FTP.abort() method now considers 225 a valid response code
4112 as stated in RFC-959 at chapter 5.4.
Giampaolo Rodolàceb513a2010-04-18 13:36:35 +00004113
Victor Stinner738446f02010-04-18 00:00:44 +00004114- Issue #8394: _ctypes.dlopen() accepts bytes, bytearray and str with
4115 surrogates.
4116
Antoine Pitrou0454af92010-04-17 23:51:58 +00004117- Issue #850728: Add a *timeout* parameter to the `acquire()` method of
Antoine Pitroua7ecfe72010-04-17 23:52:21 +00004118 `threading.Semaphore` objects. Original patch by Torsten Landschoff.
Antoine Pitrou0454af92010-04-17 23:51:58 +00004119
Antoine Pitrou2d9cb9c2010-04-17 17:40:45 +00004120- Issue #8322: Add a *ciphers* argument to SSL sockets, so as to change the
4121 available cipher list. Helps fix test_ssl with OpenSSL 1.0.0.
4122
Victor Stinner0e59cc32010-04-16 23:49:32 +00004123- Issue #8393: subprocess accepts bytes, bytearray and str with surrogates for
4124 the current working directory.
4125
Victor Stinner5bfe1462010-04-16 13:28:05 +00004126- Issue #7606: XML-RPC traceback stored in X-traceback is now encoded to ASCII
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004127 using backslashreplace error handler.
Victor Stinner5bfe1462010-04-16 13:28:05 +00004128
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004129- Issue #8412: os.system() now accepts bytes, bytearray and str with surrogates.
Victor Stinnercfa72782010-04-16 11:45:13 +00004130
Senthil Kumaranad02d232010-04-16 03:02:13 +00004131- Issue #2987: RFC2732 support for urlparse (IPv6 addresses). Patch by Tony
4132 Locke and Hans Ulrich Niedermann.
4133
R. David Murrayd48739f2010-04-14 18:59:18 +00004134- Issue #5277: Fix quote counting when parsing RFC 2231 encoded parameters.
4135
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004136- Issue #7316: The acquire() method of lock objects in the :mod:`threading`
Antoine Pitrou7c3e5772010-04-14 15:44:10 +00004137 module now takes an optional timeout argument in seconds. Timeout support
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004138 relies on the system threading library, so as to avoid a semi-busy wait loop.
Antoine Pitrou7c3e5772010-04-14 15:44:10 +00004139
Victor Stinner485fb562010-04-13 11:07:24 +00004140- Issue #8383: pickle and pickletools use surrogatepass error handler when
4141 encoding unicode as utf8 to support lone surrogates and stay compatible with
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004142 Python 2.x and 3.x.
Victor Stinner485fb562010-04-13 11:07:24 +00004143
R. David Murrayb2416e52010-04-12 16:58:02 +00004144- Issue #7585: difflib context and unified diffs now place a tab between
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004145 filename and date, conforming to the 'standards' they were originally designed
4146 to follow. This improves compatibility with patch tools.
R. David Murrayb2416e52010-04-12 16:58:02 +00004147
R. David Murrayef3d6bd2010-04-12 14:48:58 +00004148- Issue #7472: Fixed typo in email.encoders module; messages using ISO-2022
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004149 character sets will now consistently use a Content-Transfer-Encoding of 7bit
4150 rather than sometimes being marked as 8bit.
R. David Murrayef3d6bd2010-04-12 14:48:58 +00004151
Tarek Ziadé46cd93a2010-04-12 08:23:49 +00004152- Issue #8375: test_distutils now checks if the temporary directory are still
4153 present before it cleans them.
4154
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004155- Issue #8374: Update the internal alias table in the :mod:`locale` module to
4156 cover recent locale changes and additions.
Antoine Pitrou0c70d2d2010-04-11 22:35:34 +00004157
Antoine Pitrou04f6a322010-04-05 21:40:07 +00004158- Issue #8321: Give access to OpenSSL version numbers from the `ssl` module,
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004159 using the new attributes `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION`, `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_INFO` and
4160 `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER`.
Antoine Pitrou04f6a322010-04-05 21:40:07 +00004161
Raymond Hettingerc50846a2010-04-05 18:56:31 +00004162- Add functools.total_ordering() and functools.cmp_to_key().
4163
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004164- Issue #8257: The Decimal construct now accepts a float instance directly,
4165 converting that float to a Decimal of equal value:
Mark Dickinson089b00c2010-04-03 15:51:03 +00004166
4167 >>> Decimal(1.1)
4168 Decimal('1.100000000000000088817841970012523233890533447265625')
4169
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004170- Issue #8294: The Fraction constructor now accepts Decimal and float instances
4171 directly.
Mark Dickinson98127c32010-04-03 11:18:52 +00004172
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004173- Issue #7279: Comparisons involving a Decimal signaling NaN now signal
4174 InvalidOperation instead of returning False. (Comparisons involving a quiet
4175 NaN are unchanged.) Also, Decimal quiet NaNs are now hashable; Decimal
4176 signaling NaNs remain unhashable.
Mark Dickinsonac256ab2010-04-03 11:08:14 +00004177
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004178- Issue #2531: Comparison operations between floats and Decimal instances now
4179 return a result based on the numeric values of the operands; previously they
4180 returned an arbitrary result based on the relative ordering of id(float) and
4181 id(Decimal). See also issue #8188, which adds Decimal-to-Fraction
4182 comparisons.
Mark Dickinsonac256ab2010-04-03 11:08:14 +00004183
Raymond Hettinger9c01e442010-04-03 10:32:58 +00004184- Added a subtract() method to collections.Counter().
4185
Barry Warsawd5f9bf52010-03-31 21:36:22 +00004186- Issue #8233: When run as a script, py_compile.py optionally takes a single
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004187 argument `-` which tells it to read files to compile from stdin. Each line is
4188 read on demand and the named file is compiled immediately. (Original patch by
4189 Piotr Ożarowski).
Barry Warsawd5f9bf52010-03-31 21:36:22 +00004190
Florent Xicluna806d8cf2010-03-30 19:34:18 +00004191- Backwards incompatible change: Unicode codepoints line tabulation (0x0B) and
4192 form feed (0x0C) are now considered linebreaks, as specified in Unicode
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004193 Standard Annex #14. See issue #7643. http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr14/
Florent Xicluna806d8cf2010-03-30 19:34:18 +00004194
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004195- Comparisons using one of <, <=, >, >= between a complex instance and a
4196 Fractions instance now raise TypeError instead of returning True/False. This
4197 makes Fraction <=> complex comparisons consistent with int <=> complex, float
4198 <=> complex, and complex <=> complex comparisons.
Mark Dickinsonab4d63b2010-03-27 11:16:00 +00004199
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004200- Issue #8139: ossaudiodev didn't initialize its types properly, therefore some
4201 methods (such as oss_mixer_device.fileno()) were not available. Initial patch
4202 by Bertrand Janin.
Antoine Pitrou39b35432010-03-23 00:25:54 +00004203
Florent Xiclunafd1b0932010-03-28 00:25:02 +00004204- Issue #8205: Remove the "Modules" directory from sys.path when Python is
4205 running from the build directory (POSIX only).
4206
Antoine Pitrou910bd512010-03-22 20:11:09 +00004207- Issue #7512: shutil.copystat() could raise an OSError when the filesystem
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004208 didn't support chflags() (for example ZFS under FreeBSD). The error is now
4209 silenced.
Antoine Pitrou910bd512010-03-22 20:11:09 +00004210
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004211- Issue #7860: platform.uname now reports the correct 'machine' type when Python
4212 is running in WOW64 mode on 64 bit Windows.
R. David Murrayca2edce2010-03-22 17:48:48 +00004213
Antoine Pitrou3c0fac22010-03-26 19:36:14 +00004214- Issue #3890, #8222: Fix recv() and recv_into() on non-blocking SSL sockets.
4215 Also, enable the SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY flag on SSL sockets, so that blocking
4216 reads and writes are always retried by OpenSSL itself.
Antoine Pitrou5733c082010-03-22 14:49:10 +00004217
Victor Stinnere3a1f6d2010-03-22 01:58:35 +00004218- Issue #4282: Fix the main function of the profile module for a non-ASCII
4219 script, open the file in binary mode and not in text mode with the default
4220 (utf8) encoding.
4221
Florent Xicluna54467e02010-03-21 12:29:50 +00004222- Issue #8179: Fix macpath.realpath() on a non-existing path.
4223
Florent Xiclunafaa663f2010-03-19 13:37:08 +00004224- Issue #8024: Update the Unicode database to 5.2.
4225
Benjamin Peterson00888932010-03-18 22:37:38 +00004226- Issue #8168: py_compile now handles files with utf-8 BOMS.
4227
Benjamin Peterson689a5582010-03-18 22:29:52 +00004228- ``tokenize.detect_encoding`` now returns ``'utf-8-sig'`` when a UTF-8 BOM is
4229 detected.
4230
Martin v. Löwis4b003072010-03-16 13:19:21 +00004231- Issue #6716/2: Backslash-replace error output in compilall.
4232
Matthias Klosea6d9abf2010-03-16 10:51:28 +00004233- Issue #4961: Inconsistent/wrong result of askyesno function in tkMessageBox
4234 with Tcl/Tk-8.5.
4235
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004236- Issue #8140: extend compileall to compile single files. Add -i option.
Matthias Klosec33b9022010-03-16 00:36:26 +00004237
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004238- Issue #7356: ctypes.util: Make parsing of ldconfig output independent of the
4239 locale.
Matthias Klose82f60912010-03-15 13:46:04 +00004240
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004241- The internals of the subprocess module on POSIX systems have been replaced by
4242 an extension module (_posixsubprocess) so that the fork()+exec() can be done
4243 safely without the possibility of deadlock in multithreaded applications.
Gregory P. Smitha31f57c2010-03-14 06:52:18 +00004244
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004245- subprocess.Popen now has restore_signals and start_new_session features. The
4246 default of restore_signals=True is a new behavior compared to earlier Python
4247 versions. This means that signals such as SIGPIPE are not ignored by default
4248 in subprocesses launched by Python (Issue #1652).
Gregory P. Smith580d60c2010-03-14 07:13:25 +00004249
Florent Xiclunaf15351d2010-03-13 23:24:31 +00004250- Issue #6472: The xml.etree package is updated to ElementTree 1.3. The
4251 cElementTree module is updated too.
4252
Victor Stinnerb33062c2010-03-12 14:27:16 +00004253- Issue #7774: Set sys.executable to an empty string if argv[0] has been set to
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004254 an non existent program name and Python is unable to retrieve the real program
4255 name.
Victor Stinnerb33062c2010-03-12 14:27:16 +00004256
Florent Xiclunaa4707382010-03-11 00:05:17 +00004257- Issue #7880: Fix sysconfig when the python executable is a symbolic link.
4258
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004259- Issue #6509: fix re.sub to work properly when the pattern, the string, and the
4260 replacement were all bytes. Patch by Antoine Pitrou.
Ezio Melottib92ed7c2010-03-06 15:24:08 +00004261
Gerhard Häringf9cee222010-03-05 15:20:03 +00004262- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.6.0. This fixes several obscure
4263 bugs and allows loading SQLite extensions from shared libraries.
4264
Ezio Melottida227042010-03-14 11:51:00 +00004265- Issue #1054943: Fix ``unicodedata.normalize('NFC', text)`` for the Public
4266 Review Issue #29 (http://unicode.org/review/pr-29.html).
Victor Stinner7ed9c4c2010-03-04 12:14:57 +00004267
Victor Stinnercee3ae82010-03-04 00:29:24 +00004268- Issue #7494: fix a crash in _lsprof (cProfile) after clearing the profiler,
4269 reset also the pointer to the current pointer context.
4270
Lars Gustäbel01385812010-03-03 12:08:54 +00004271- Issue #7232: Add support for the context manager protocol to the TarFile
4272 class.
4273
Barry Warsawb1938262010-03-01 21:53:00 +00004274- Issue #7250: Fix info leak of os.environ across multi-run uses of
4275 wsgiref.handlers.CGIHandler.
4276
Florent Xicluna59250852010-02-27 14:21:57 +00004277- Issue #1729305: Fix doctest to handle encode error with "backslashreplace".
4278
Florent Xiclunac279ebf2010-02-27 11:31:21 +00004279- Issue #691291: codecs.open() should not convert end of lines on reading and
4280 writing.
4281
Vinay Sajipdb81c4c2010-02-25 23:13:06 +00004282- Issue #7869: logging: improved diagnostic for format-time errors.
4283
4284- Issue #7868: logging: added loggerClass attribute to Manager.
4285
4286- logging: Implemented PEP 391.
4287
R. David Murraybe0698b2010-02-23 22:57:58 +00004288- Issue #1537721: Add a writeheader() method to csv.DictWriter.
4289
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004290- Issue #7959: ctypes callback functions are now registered correctly with the
4291 cycle garbage collector.
Thomas Heller5117b0b2010-02-23 20:25:02 +00004292
Tarek Ziadé8e615ae2010-02-23 06:00:04 +00004293- Issue #5801: removed spurious empty lines in wsgiref.
4294
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004295- Issue #6666: fix bug in trace.py that applied the list of directories to be
4296 ignored only to the first file. Noted by Bogdan Opanchuk.
Andrew M. Kuchlinge1f9beb2010-02-22 22:16:58 +00004297
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004298- Issue #7597: curses.use_env() can now be called before initscr(). Noted by
4299 Kan-Ru Chen.
Andrew M. Kuchlingfbacb062010-02-22 16:52:52 +00004300
Ezio Melotti19e4acf2010-02-22 15:59:01 +00004301- Issue #7310: fix the __repr__ of os.environ to show the environment variables.
4302
R. David Murray57c45ac2010-02-21 04:39:40 +00004303- Issue #7970: email.Generator.flatten now correctly flattens message/rfc822
4304 messages parsed by email.Parser.HeaderParser.
4305
Brett Cannonef7d6722010-02-19 16:04:36 +00004306- Issue #7361: Importlib was not properly checking the number of bytes in
4307 bytecode file when it was less then 8 bytes.
4308
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004309- Issue #7633: In the decimal module, Context class methods (with the exception
4310 of canonical and is_canonical) now accept instances of int and long wherever a
4311 Decimal instance is accepted, and implicitly convert that argument to Decimal.
4312 Previously only some arguments were converted.
Mark Dickinson84230a12010-02-18 14:49:50 +00004313
R. David Murray1f449142010-02-11 00:15:05 +00004314- Issue #7835: shelve should no longer produce mysterious warnings during
4315 interpreter shutdown.
4316
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004317- Issue #2746: Don't escape ampersands and angle brackets ("&", "<", ">") in XML
4318 processing instructions and comments. These raw characters are allowed by the
4319 XML specification, and are necessary when outputting e.g. PHP code in a
4320 processing instruction. Patch by Neil Muller.
Antoine Pitrou99f69ee2010-02-09 17:25:47 +00004321
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004322- Issue #6233: ElementTree failed converting unicode characters to XML entities
4323 when they could't be represented in the requested output encoding. Patch by
4324 Jerry Chen.
Antoine Pitrouc77dd322010-02-09 16:51:16 +00004325
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004326- Issue #6003: add an argument to ``zipfile.Zipfile.writestr`` to specify the
4327 compression type.
Ronald Oussorenee5c8852010-02-07 20:24:02 +00004328
Antoine Pitroub6375f12010-02-04 20:23:24 +00004329- Issue #4772: Raise a ValueError when an unknown Bluetooth protocol is
4330 specified, rather than fall through to AF_PACKET (in the `socket` module).
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004331 Also, raise ValueError rather than TypeError when an unknown TIPC address type
4332 is specified. Patch by Brian Curtin.
Antoine Pitroub6375f12010-02-04 20:23:24 +00004333
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004334- Issue #6939: Fix file I/O objects in the `io` module to keep the original file
4335 position when calling `truncate()`. It would previously change the file
4336 position to the given argument, which goes against the tradition of
Antoine Pitrou905a2ff2010-01-31 22:47:27 +00004337 ftruncate() and other truncation APIs. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
4338
Antoine Pitroua32f9a22010-01-27 21:18:57 +00004339- Issue #7610: Reworked implementation of the internal
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004340 :class:`zipfile.ZipExtFile` class used to represent files stored inside an
4341 archive. The new implementation is significantly faster and can be wrapped in
4342 a :class:`io.BufferedReader` object for more speedups. It also solves an
4343 issue where interleaved calls to `read()` and `readline()` give wrong results.
4344 Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitroua32f9a22010-01-27 21:18:57 +00004345
Jesse Noller1f0b6582010-01-27 03:36:01 +00004346- Issue #6963: Added "maxtasksperchild" argument to multiprocessing.Pool,
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004347 allowing for a maximum number of tasks within the pool to be completed by the
4348 worker before that worker is terminated, and a new one created to replace it.
Jesse Noller1f0b6582010-01-27 03:36:01 +00004349
Benjamin Petersond6326642010-01-27 02:25:58 +00004350- Issue #7792: Registering non-classes to ABCs raised an obscure error.
4351
Benjamin Peterson9a11a362010-01-27 01:51:29 +00004352- Issue #7785: Don't accept bytes in FileIO.write().
Benjamin Peterson255058f2010-01-27 01:47:14 +00004353
Ezio Melotti38f00332010-01-25 12:39:47 +00004354- Removed the functions 'verify' and 'vereq' from Lib/test/support.py.
4355
Benjamin Peterson25001472010-01-25 03:37:42 +00004356- Issue #7773: Fix an UnboundLocalError in platform.linux_distribution() when
4357 the release file is empty.
4358
Antoine Pitrou1119a642010-01-17 12:16:23 +00004359- Issue #7561: Fix crashes when using bytearray objects with the posix
4360 module.
4361
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004362- Issue #1670765: Prevent email.generator.Generator from re-wrapping headers in
4363 multipart/signed MIME parts, which fixes one of the sources of invalid
4364 modifications to such parts by Generator.
R. David Murraya8f480f2010-01-16 18:30:03 +00004365
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004366- Issue #7703: Add support for the new buffer API to `binascii.a2bhqx`. Patch
4367 by Florent Xicluna, along with some additional tests.
Antoine Pitrou747e8b32010-01-16 17:55:52 +00004368
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004369- Issue #7701: Fix crash in binascii.b2a_uu() in debug mode when given a 1-byte
4370 argument. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou2843aa82010-01-15 00:27:43 +00004371
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004372- Issue #3299: Fix possible crash in the _sre module when given bad argument
4373 values in debug mode. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou82feb1f2010-01-14 17:34:48 +00004374
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004375- Issue #2846: Add support for gzip.GzipFile reading zero-padded files. Patch
4376 by Brian Curtin.
Antoine Pitrou8e33fd72010-01-13 14:37:26 +00004377
Benjamin Peterson5efea042010-01-13 03:49:50 +00004378- Issue #7681: Use floor division in appropiate places in the wave module.
4379
Tarek Ziadéac4e6ea2010-01-11 23:15:52 +00004380- Issue #5372: Drop the reuse of .o files in Distutils' ccompiler (since
4381 Extension extra options may change the output without changing the .c
4382 file). Initial patch by Collin Winter.
4383
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004384- Issue #7617: Make sure distutils.unixccompiler.UnixCCompiler recognizes gcc
4385 when it has a fully qualified configuration prefix. Initial patch by Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadéaf77a2f2010-01-08 23:57:53 +00004386
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004387- Issue #7105: Make WeakKeyDictionary and WeakValueDictionary robust against the
4388 destruction of weakref'ed objects while iterating.
Antoine Pitrouc1baa602010-01-08 17:54:23 +00004389
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004390- Issue #7455: Fix possible crash in cPickle on invalid input. Patch by Victor
4391 Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou01a15ea2010-01-07 17:57:31 +00004392
Gregory P. Smithaafdca82010-01-04 04:50:36 +00004393- Issue #1628205: Socket file objects returned by socket.socket.makefile() now
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004394 properly handles EINTR within the read, readline, write & flush methods. The
4395 socket.sendall() method now properly handles interrupted system calls.
Gregory P. Smithaafdca82010-01-04 04:50:36 +00004396
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004397- Issue #7471: Improve the performance of GzipFile's buffering mechanism, and
4398 make it implement the `io.BufferedIOBase` ABC to allow for further speedups by
4399 wrapping it in an `io.BufferedReader`. Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitroub1f88352010-01-03 22:37:40 +00004400
4401- Issue #3972: http.client.HTTPConnection now accepts an optional source_address
Gregory P. Smithb4066372010-01-03 03:28:29 +00004402 parameter to allow specifying where your connections come from.
4403
4404- socket.create_connection now accepts an optional source_address parameter.
4405
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004406- Issue #5511: now zipfile.ZipFile can be used as a context manager. Initial
4407 patch by Brian Curtin.
Ezio Melottifaa6b7f2009-12-30 12:34:59 +00004408
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004409- Issue #7556: Make sure Distutils' msvc9compile reads and writes the MSVC XML
4410 Manifest file in text mode so string patterns can be used in regular
4411 expressions.
Tarek Ziadéc60ea322009-12-21 23:12:41 +00004412
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004413- Issue #7552: Removed line feed in the base64 Authorization header in the
4414 Distutils upload command to avoid an error when PyPI reads it. This occurs on
4415 long passwords. Initial patch by JP St. Pierre.
Tarek Ziadé8b9361a2009-12-21 00:02:20 +00004416
Senthil Kumaran47fff872009-12-20 07:10:31 +00004417- Issue #7231: urllib2 cannot handle https with proxy requiring auth. Patch by
4418 Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa.
4419
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004420- Issue #4757: `zlib.compress` and other methods in the zlib module now raise a
4421 TypeError when given an `str` object (rather than a `bytes`-like object).
4422 Patch by Victor Stinner and Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou77b338b2009-12-14 18:00:06 +00004423
Benjamin Petersonbf5ff762009-12-13 19:25:34 +00004424- Issue #7349: Make methods of file objects in the io module accept None as an
4425 argument where file-like objects (ie StringIO and BytesIO) accept them to mean
4426 the same as passing no argument.
4427
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004428- Issue #7357: tarfile no longer suppresses fatal extraction errors by default.
Lars Gustäbel365aff32009-12-13 11:42:29 +00004429
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004430- Issue #5949: added check for correct lineends in input from IMAP server in
4431 imaplib.
R. David Murraye8dc2582009-12-10 02:08:06 +00004432
Raymond Hettinger44459de2010-04-03 23:20:46 +00004433- Add count() and reverse() methods to collections.deque().
Raymond Hettingere5fdedb2009-12-10 00:47:21 +00004434
Raymond Hettinger3f9afd82009-12-10 03:03:02 +00004435- Fix variations of extending deques: d.extend(d) d.extendleft(d) d+=d
4436
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004437- Issue #6986: Fix crash in the JSON C accelerator when called with the wrong
4438 parameter types. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou781eba72009-12-08 15:57:31 +00004439
Victor Stinnere125f132010-05-15 21:04:43 +00004440- Issue #7457: added a read_pkg_file method to
Tarek Ziadéb88a4962009-12-08 09:45:25 +00004441 distutils.dist.DistributionMetadata.
4442
Vinay Sajip540f2152009-12-06 17:57:11 +00004443- logging: Added optional `secure` parameter to SMTPHandler, to enable use of
4444 TLS with authentication credentials.
4445
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004446- Issue #1923: Fixed the removal of meaningful spaces when PKG-INFO is generated
4447 in Distutils. Patch by Stephen Emslie.
Tarek Ziadédf872d42009-12-06 09:28:17 +00004448
Martin v. Löwis1679ea82009-12-03 20:57:49 +00004449- Issue #4120: Drop reference to CRT from manifest when building extensions with
4450 msvc9compiler.
4451
Antoine Pitroub7572f02009-12-02 20:46:48 +00004452- Issue #7333: The `posix` module gains an `initgroups()` function providing
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004453 access to the initgroups(3) C library call on Unix systems which implement it.
4454 Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone.
Antoine Pitroub7572f02009-12-02 20:46:48 +00004455
Tarek Ziadéacafc2d2009-11-29 22:24:57 +00004456- Issue #7408: Fixed distutils.tests.sdist so it doesn't check for group
4457 ownership when the group is not forced, because the group may be different
4458 from the user's group and inherit from its container when the test is run.
4459
Antoine Pitrou7b0d4a22009-11-28 16:12:28 +00004460- Issue #4486: When an exception has an explicit cause, do not print its
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004461 implicit context too. This affects the `traceback` module as well as built-in
4462 exception printing.
Antoine Pitrou7b0d4a22009-11-28 16:12:28 +00004463
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004464- Issue #1515: Enable use of deepcopy() with instance methods. Patch by Robert
4465 Collins.
Antoine Pitrou1fc0d2b2009-11-28 15:58:27 +00004466
Vinay Sajip03f6c112009-11-27 14:03:36 +00004467- Issue #7403: logging: Fixed possible race condition in lock creation.
4468
Antoine Pitrou648bcd72009-11-27 13:23:26 +00004469- Issue #6845: Add restart support for binary upload in ftplib. The
4470 `storbinary()` method of FTP and FTP_TLS objects gains an optional `rest`
4471 argument. Patch by Pablo Mouzo.
4472
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004473- Issue #5788: `datetime.timedelta` objects get a new `total_seconds()` method
4474 returning the total number of seconds in the duration. Patch by Brian
4475 Quinlan.
Antoine Pitroube6859d2009-11-25 23:02:32 +00004476
Antoine Pitrou7d7aede2009-11-25 18:55:32 +00004477- Issue #7133: SSL objects now support the new buffer API.
4478
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004479- Issue #1488943: difflib.Differ() doesn't always add hints for tab characters.
Senthil Kumaran758025c2009-11-23 19:02:52 +00004480
Lars Gustäbel9520a432009-11-22 18:48:49 +00004481- Issue #6123: tarfile now opens empty archives correctly and consistently
4482 raises ReadError on empty files.
4483
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004484- Issue #7354: distutils.tests.test_msvc9compiler - dragfullwindows can be 2.
Tarek Ziadé26afd482009-11-19 05:39:00 +00004485
Benjamin Peterson3ec9b6e2009-11-19 21:22:27 +00004486- Issue #5037: Proxy the __bytes__ special method instead to __bytes__ instead
4487 of __str__.
Benjamin Peterson32019772009-11-19 03:08:32 +00004488
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004489- Issue #7341: Close the internal file object in the TarFile constructor in case
4490 of an error.
Lars Gustäbel7b465392009-11-18 20:29:25 +00004491
Tarek Ziadé11c9d252009-11-18 09:32:34 +00004492- Issue #7293: distutils.test_msvc9compiler is fixed to work on any fresh
4493 Windows box. Help provided by David Bolen.
4494
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004495- Issue #2054: ftplib now provides an FTP_TLS class to do secure FTP using TLS
4496 or SSL. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.
Antoine Pitrouf988cd02009-11-17 20:21:14 +00004497
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004498- Issue #7328: pydoc no longer corrupts sys.path when run with the '-m' switch.
Nick Coghlan106274b2009-11-15 23:04:33 +00004499
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004500- Issue #4969: The mimetypes module now reads the MIME database from the
4501 registry under Windows. Patch by Gabriel Genellina.
Antoine Pitroub8108e22009-11-15 14:25:16 +00004502
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004503- Issue #6816: runpy now provides a run_path function that allows Python code to
4504 execute file paths that refer to source or compiled Python files as well as
4505 zipfiles, directories and other valid sys.path entries that contain a
4506 __main__.py file. This allows applications that run other Python scripts to
Nick Coghlan260bd3e2009-11-16 06:49:25 +00004507 support the same flexibility as the CPython command line itself.
4508
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004509- Issue #7318: multiprocessing now uses a timeout when it fails to establish a
4510 connection with another process, rather than looping endlessly. The default
4511 timeout is 20 seconds, which should be amply sufficient for local connections.
Antoine Pitrou45d61a32009-11-13 22:35:18 +00004512
Antoine Pitrouc63ecee2009-11-10 21:34:48 +00004513- Issue #7197: Allow unittest.TextTestRunner objects to be pickled and
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004514 unpickled. This fixes crashes under Windows when trying to run
Antoine Pitrouc63ecee2009-11-10 21:34:48 +00004515 test_multiprocessing in verbose mode.
4516
Michael Foord34c94622010-02-10 15:51:42 +00004517- Issue #7893: ``unittest.TextTestResult`` is made public and a ``resultclass``
4518 argument added to the TextTestRunner constructor allowing a different result
4519 class to be used without having to subclass.
Victor Stinnere125f132010-05-15 21:04:43 +00004520
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00004521- Issue #7588: ``unittest.TextTestResult.getDescription`` now includes the test
Michael Foord34c94622010-02-10 15:51:42 +00004522 name in failure reports even if the test has a docstring.
4523
Antoine Pitrou434736a2009-11-10 18:46:01 +00004524- Issue #3001: Add a C implementation of recursive locks which is used by
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004525 default when instantiating a `threading.RLock` object. This makes recursive
4526 locks as fast as regular non-recursive locks (previously, they were slower by
4527 10x to 15x).
Antoine Pitrou434736a2009-11-10 18:46:01 +00004528
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004529- Issue #7282: Fix a memory leak when an RLock was used in a thread other than
4530 those started through `threading.Thread` (for example, using
Antoine Pitroub0872682009-11-09 16:08:16 +00004531 `_thread.start_new_thread()`).
4532
Brett Cannone52c9192009-11-07 23:55:05 +00004533- Issue #7187: Importlib would not silence the IOError raised when trying to
4534 write new bytecode when it was made read-only.
4535
Antoine Pitroubdec11f2009-11-05 13:49:14 +00004536- Issue #7264: Fix a possible deadlock when deallocating thread-local objects
4537 which are part of a reference cycle.
4538
Antoine Pitroud83f1e62009-11-04 21:10:38 +00004539- Issue #7211: Allow 64-bit values for the `ident` and `data` fields of kevent
4540 objects on 64-bit systems. Patch by Michael Broghton.
4541
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004542- Issue #6896: mailbox.Maildir now invalidates its internal cache each time a
4543 modification is done through it. This fixes inconsistencies and test failures
4544 on systems with slightly bogus mtime behaviour.
Antoine Pitrou03f13442009-11-02 11:36:51 +00004545
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004546- Issue #7246 & Issue #7208: getpass now properly flushes input before reading
4547 from stdin so that existing input does not confuse it and lead to incorrect
4548 entry or an IOError. It also properly flushes it afterwards to avoid the
4549 terminal echoing the input afterwards on OSes such as Solaris.
Gregory P. Smith50467882009-11-01 18:42:17 +00004550
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004551- Issue #7233: Fix a number of two-argument Decimal methods to make sure that
4552 they accept an int or long as the second argument. Also fix buggy handling of
4553 large arguments (those with coefficient longer than the current precision) in
4554 shift and rotate.
Mark Dickinsona2d1fe02009-10-29 12:23:02 +00004555
Lars Gustäbel1440df22009-10-29 09:39:47 +00004556- Issue #4750: Store the basename of the original filename in the gzip FNAME
4557 header as required by RFC 1952.
4558
Tarek Ziadéc7c71ff2009-10-27 23:12:01 +00004559- Issue #1180: Added a new global option to ignore ~/.pydistutils.cfg in
4560 Distutils.
4561
Tarek Ziadé8c0e2172009-10-27 21:24:21 +00004562- Issue #7218: Fix test_site for win32, the directory comparison was done with
4563 an uppercase.
4564
Antoine Pitrouc66363f2009-10-27 17:47:14 +00004565- Issue #7205: Fix a possible deadlock when using a BZ2File object from
4566 several threads at once.
4567
Vinay Sajip42ead482009-10-21 20:22:14 +00004568- Issue #7077: logging: SysLogHandler now treats Unicode as per RFC 5424.
4569
Mark Dickinson06bb6742009-10-20 13:38:04 +00004570- Issue #7099: Decimal.is_normal now returns True for numbers with exponent
4571 larger than emax.
4572
Antoine Pitrou6a448d42009-10-19 19:43:09 +00004573- Issue #7080: locale.strxfrm() raises a MemoryError on 64-bit non-Windows
4574 platforms, and assorted locale fixes by Derk Drukker.
4575
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004576- Issue #5833: Fix extra space character in readline completion with the GNU
4577 readline library version 6.0.
Antoine Pitroudc0900b2009-10-19 18:22:37 +00004578
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004579- Issue #6894: Fixed the issue urllib2 doesn't respect "no_proxy" environment.
Senthil Kumaran7bb04972009-10-11 04:58:55 +00004580
Vinay Sajipcbabd7e2009-10-10 20:32:36 +00004581- Issue #7086: Added TCP support to SysLogHandler, and tidied up some
4582 anachronisms in the code which were a relic of 1.5.2 compatibility.
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +00004583
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004584- Issue #7082: When falling back to the MIME 'name' parameter, the correct place
4585 to look for it is the Content-Type header.
R. David Murraybf2e0aa2009-10-10 00:13:32 +00004586
Benjamin Petersond3afada2009-10-09 21:43:09 +00004587- Make tokenize.detect_coding() normalize utf-8 and iso-8859-1 variants like the
4588 builtin tokenizer.
4589
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004590- Issue #7048: Force Decimal.logb to round its result when that result is too
4591 large to fit in the current precision.
Mark Dickinson56df8872009-10-07 19:23:50 +00004592
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004593- Issue #6236, #6348: Fix various failures in the I/O library under AIX and
4594 other platforms, when using a non-gcc compiler. Patch by Derk Drukker.
Antoine Pitrouca767bd2009-09-21 21:37:02 +00004595
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004596- Issue #4606: Passing 'None' if ctypes argtype is set to POINTER(...) does now
4597 always result in NULL.
Thomas Heller69b639f2009-09-18 20:08:39 +00004598
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004599- Issue #5042: Structure sub-subclass does now initialize correctly with base
4600 class positional arguments.
Thomas Hellerd7cb1b92009-09-18 19:05:13 +00004601
Eric Smith81fd8042009-09-18 13:23:13 +00004602- Issue #6882: Import uuid creates zombies processes.
4603
Matthias Klosef6b76b02009-09-13 15:18:53 +00004604- Issue #6635: Fix profiler printing usage message.
4605
Lars Gustäbel049d2aa2009-09-12 10:44:00 +00004606- Issue #6856: Add a filter keyword argument to TarFile.add().
4607
Benjamin Petersonbe74a372009-09-11 21:17:13 +00004608- Issue #6888: pdb's alias command was broken when no arguments were given.
4609
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004610- Issue #6857: Default format() alignment should be '>' for Decimal instances.
Mark Dickinson46ab5d02009-09-08 20:22:46 +00004611
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004612- Issue #6795: int(Decimal('nan')) now raises ValueError instead of returning
4613 NaN or raising InvalidContext. Also, fix infinite recursion in
4614 long(Decimal('nan')).
Mark Dickinson825fce32009-09-07 18:08:12 +00004615
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004616- Issue #6850: Fix bug in Decimal._parse_format_specifier for formats with no
4617 type specifier.
Mark Dickinson7718d2b2009-09-07 16:21:56 +00004618
Thomas Heller8b939522009-09-04 18:24:41 +00004619- Issue #6239: ctypes.c_char_p return value must return bytes.
4620
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004621- Issue #6838: Use a list to accumulate the value instead of repeatedly
4622 concatenating strings in http.client's HTTPResponse._read_chunked providing a
4623 significant speed increase when downloading large files servend with a
4624 Transfer-Encoding of 'chunked'.
Chris Withers9c33cbf2009-09-04 17:04:16 +00004625
Brett Cannon1c1dcbf2009-08-30 20:22:21 +00004626- Trying to import a submodule from a module that is not a package, ImportError
4627 should be raised, not AttributeError.
4628
Brett Cannonde4ebfe2009-08-30 19:53:48 +00004629- When the globals past to importlib.__import__() has __package__ set to None,
4630 fall back to computing what __package__ should be instead of giving up.
4631
Brett Cannon6afbaef2009-08-30 19:08:58 +00004632- Raise a TypeError when the name of a module to be imported for
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004633 importlib.__import__ is not a string (was raising an AttributeError before).
Brett Cannon6afbaef2009-08-30 19:08:58 +00004634
Brett Cannon9e0e1a62009-08-30 18:28:46 +00004635- Allow the fromlist passed into importlib.__import__ to be any iterable.
4636
Brett Cannon4d75fc12009-08-30 03:47:36 +00004637- Have importlib raise ImportError if None is found in sys.modules.
4638
Lars Gustäbelbfdfdda2009-08-28 19:59:59 +00004639- Issue #6054: Do not normalize stored pathnames in tarfile.
4640
Mark Dickinsond314e1b2009-08-28 13:39:53 +00004641- Issue #6794: Fix Decimal.compare_total and Decimal.compare_total_mag: NaN
4642 payloads are now ordered by integer value rather than lexicographically.
4643
Guilherme Polobcd03df2009-08-18 15:35:57 +00004644- Issue #1356969: Add missing info methods in tix.HList.
4645
4646- Issue #1522587: New constants and methods for the tix.Grid widget.
4647
4648- Issue #1250469: Fix the return value of tix.PanedWindow.panes.
4649
4650- Issue #1119673: Do not override tkinter.Text methods when creating a
4651 ScrolledText.
4652
Gregory P. Smith01099702009-08-16 18:58:46 +00004653- Issue #6665: Fix fnmatch to properly match filenames with newlines in them.
4654
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004655- Issue #1135: Add the XView and YView mix-ins to avoid duplicating the xview*
4656 and yview* methods.
Guilherme Poloc3b2ae42009-08-16 14:46:16 +00004657
Antoine Pitroua0ceb732009-08-06 20:29:56 +00004658- Issue #6629: Fix a data corruption issue in the new I/O library, which could
4659 occur when writing to a BufferedRandom object (e.g. a file opened in "rb+" or
4660 "wb+" mode) after having buffered a certain amount of data for reading. This
4661 bug was not present in the pure Python implementation.
4662
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004663- Issue #6622: Fix "local variable 'secret' referenced before assignment" bug in
4664 POP3.apop.
Mark Dickinsonea1158f2009-08-06 16:06:25 +00004665
Mark Dickinson45f799f2009-08-02 20:08:54 +00004666- Issue #2715: Remove remnants of Carbon.File from binhex module.
4667
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004668- Issue #6595: The Decimal constructor now allows arbitrary Unicode decimal
4669 digits in input, as recommended by the standard. Previously it was restricted
4670 to accepting [0-9].
Mark Dickinson345adc42009-08-02 10:14:23 +00004671
Jack Diederich36596a32009-07-26 22:23:04 +00004672- Issue #6106: telnetlib.Telnet.process_rawq doesn't handle default WILL/WONT
4673 DO/DONT correctly.
4674
Senthil Kumaran67305382009-07-26 04:46:00 +00004675- Issue #1424152: Fix for http.client, urllib.request to support SSL while
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004676 working through proxy. Original patch by Christopher Li, changes made by
4677 Senthil Kumaran.
Senthil Kumaran97f0c6b2009-07-25 04:24:38 +00004678
Brett Cannon69194272009-07-20 04:23:48 +00004679- Add importlib.abc.ExecutionLoader to represent the PEP 302 protocol for
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004680 loaders that allow for modules to be executed. Both importlib.abc.PyLoader and
4681 PyPycLoader inherit from this class and provide implementations in relation to
4682 other methods required by the ABCs.
Brett Cannon69194272009-07-20 04:23:48 +00004683
Brett Cannon64ef00f2009-07-20 03:19:18 +00004684- importlib.abc.PyLoader did not inherit from importlib.abc.ResourceLoader like
4685 the documentation said it did even though the code in PyLoader relied on the
4686 abstract method required by ResourceLoader.
4687
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004688- Issue #6431: Make Fraction type return NotImplemented when it doesn't know how
4689 to handle a comparison without loss of precision. Also add correct handling
4690 of infinities and nans for comparisons with float.
Mark Dickinson85424c92009-07-18 14:41:42 +00004691
Antoine Pitrouf3637322009-08-06 21:00:37 +00004692- Issue #6415: Fixed warnings.warn segfault on bad formatted string.
Hirokazu Yamamoto1c0c0032009-07-17 06:55:42 +00004693
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004694- Issue #6358: The exit status of a command started with os.popen() was reported
4695 differently than it did with python 2.x.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc97e5f282009-07-11 09:35:13 +00004696
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004697- Issue #6323: The pdb debugger did not exit when running a script with a syntax
4698 error.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc2de11152009-07-09 23:07:52 +00004699
Gregory P. Smithd06fa472009-07-04 02:46:54 +00004700- Issue #3392: The subprocess communicate() method no longer fails in select()
4701 when file descriptors are large; communicate() now uses poll() when possible.
4702
Antoine Pitrou54923952009-07-01 14:53:06 +00004703- Issue #6369: Fix an RLE decompression bug in the binhex module.
4704
Hirokazu Yamamoto7a9e1bd2009-06-29 14:54:12 +00004705- Issue #6344: Fixed a crash of mmap.read() when passed a negative argument.
4706
Benjamin Peterson5a6deb42009-06-28 21:35:31 +00004707- The deprecated function string.maketrans has been removed.
4708
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +00004709- Issue #4005: Fixed a crash of pydoc when there was a zip file present in
4710 sys.path.
4711
Alexandre Vassalotticf76e1a2009-07-22 03:24:36 +00004712- Issue #6218: io.StringIO and io.BytesIO instances are now picklable.
4713
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004714- The os.get_exec_path() function to return the list of directories that will be
4715 searched for an executable when launching a subprocess was added.
Gregory P. Smithb6e8c7e2010-02-27 07:22:22 +00004716
Gregory P. Smith3fdd9642010-02-28 18:57:46 +00004717- Issue #7481: When a threading.Thread failed to start it would leave the
4718 instance stuck in initial state and present in threading.enumerate().
4719
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004720- Issue #1068268: The subprocess module now handles EINTR in internal os.waitpid
4721 and os.read system calls where appropriate.
Gregory P. Smitha59c59f2010-03-01 00:17:40 +00004722
Gregory P. Smith1a530912010-03-01 04:59:27 +00004723- Issue #6729: Added ctypes.c_ssize_t to represent ssize_t.
4724
Steven Bethard6d265692010-03-02 09:22:57 +00004725- Issue #6247: The argparse module has been added to the standard library.
4726
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004727- Issue #8235: _socket: Add the constant ``SO_SETFIB``. SO_SETFIB is a socket
4728 option available on FreeBSD 7.1 and newer.
Larry Hastingsf0f37952010-04-02 11:47:10 +00004729
Alexander Belopolsky4d770172010-09-13 18:14:34 +00004730- Issue #9315: Fix for the trace module to record correct class name
4731 for tracing methods.
4732
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +00004733Extension Modules
4734-----------------
Mark Dickinson12c4bdb2009-09-28 19:21:11 +00004735
Mark Dickinsonfa41e602010-09-28 07:22:27 +00004736- Issue #9959: Tweak formula used for computing math.log of an integer,
4737 making it marginally more accurate for exact powers of 2.
4738
Mark Dickinsoncf28b952010-07-29 21:41:59 +00004739- Issue #9422: Fix memory leak when re-initializing a struct.Struct object.
4740
Ronald Oussorenb6ee4f52010-07-23 13:53:51 +00004741- Issue #7900: The getgroups(2) system call on MacOSX behaves rather oddly
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004742 compared to other unix systems. In particular, os.getgroups() does not reflect
4743 any changes made using os.setgroups() but basicly always returns the same
4744 information as the id command. os.getgroups() can now return more than 16
4745 groups on MacOSX.
Ronald Oussorenb6ee4f52010-07-23 13:53:51 +00004746
Martin v. Löwisc9e1c7d2010-07-23 12:16:41 +00004747- Issue #6095: Make directory argument to os.listdir optional.
4748
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004749- Issue #9277: Fix bug in struct.pack for bools in standard mode (e.g.,
4750 struct.pack('>?')): if conversion to bool raised an exception then that
4751 exception wasn't properly propagated on machines where char is unsigned.
Mark Dickinsone26660f2010-07-18 07:48:20 +00004752
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004753- Issue #5180: Fixed a bug that prevented loading 2.x pickles in 3.x python when
4754 they contain instances of old-style classes.
Alexander Belopolskyd92f0402010-07-17 22:50:45 +00004755
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004756- Issue #9165: Add new functions math.isfinite and cmath.isfinite, to accompany
4757 existing isinf and isnan functions.
Mark Dickinson8e0c9962010-07-11 17:38:24 +00004758
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004759- Issue #1578269: Implement os.symlink for Windows 6.0+. Patch by Jason
4760 R. Coombs.
Brian Curtind40e6f72010-07-08 21:39:08 +00004761
Benjamin Petersona9800a82010-07-07 19:04:48 +00004762- In struct.pack, correctly propogate exceptions from computing the truth of an
4763 object in the '?' format.
4764
Alexander Belopolskya11d8c02010-07-06 23:19:45 +00004765- Issue #9000: datetime.timezone objects now have eval-friendly repr.
4766
Benjamin Petersonf751bc92010-07-02 13:46:42 +00004767- In the math module, correctly lookup __trunc__, __ceil__, and __floor__ as
4768 special methods.
Benjamin Peterson8bb9cde2010-07-01 15:16:55 +00004769
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004770- Issue #9005: Prevent utctimetuple() from producing year 0 or year 10,000.
4771 Prior to this change, timezone adjustment in utctimetuple() could produce
4772 tm_year value of 0 or 10,000. Now an OverflowError is raised in these edge
4773 cases.
Alexander Belopolsky75f94c22010-06-21 15:21:14 +00004774
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004775- Issue #6641: The ``datetime.strptime`` method now supports the ``%z``
4776 directive. When the ``%z`` directive is present in the format string, an
4777 aware ``datetime`` object is returned with ``tzinfo`` bound to a
4778 ``datetime.timezone`` instance constructed from the parsed offset. If both
4779 ``%z`` and ``%Z`` are present, the data in ``%Z`` field is used for timezone
4780 name, but ``%Z`` data without ``%z`` is discarded.
Alexander Belopolskyca94f552010-06-17 18:30:34 +00004781
Alexander Belopolsky4e749a12010-06-14 14:15:50 +00004782- Issue #5094: The ``datetime`` module now has a simple concrete class
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004783 implementing ``datetime.tzinfo`` interface. Instances of the new class,
4784 ``datetime.timezone``, return fixed name and UTC offset from their
4785 ``tzname(dt)`` and ``utcoffset(dt)`` methods. The ``dst(dt)`` method always
4786 returns ``None``. A class attribute, ``utc`` contains an instance
4787 representing the UTC timezone. Original patch by Rafe Kaplan.
Alexander Belopolsky4e749a12010-06-14 14:15:50 +00004788
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004789- Issue #8973: Add __all__ to struct module; this ensures that help(struct)
4790 includes documentation for the struct.Struct class.
Mark Dickinson4b80ef52010-06-12 15:17:02 +00004791
Alexander Belopolskyfcdc79a2010-06-12 17:18:45 +00004792- Issue #3129: Trailing digits in struct format string are no longer ignored.
Victor Stinnerda0eca42010-06-11 21:50:30 +00004793 For example, "1" or "ilib123" are now invalid formats and cause
Alexander Belopolskyfcdc79a2010-06-12 17:18:45 +00004794 ``struct.error`` to be raised. Patch by Caleb Deveraux.
Alexander Belopolsky177e8532010-06-11 16:04:59 +00004795
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004796- Issue #7384: If the system readline library is linked against ncurses, the
4797 curses module must be linked against ncurses as well. Otherwise it is not safe
4798 to load both the readline and curses modules in an application.
Stefan Kraha3ac44e2010-06-08 14:00:52 +00004799
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004800- Issue #2810: Fix cases where the Windows registry API returns ERROR_MORE_DATA,
4801 requiring a re-try in order to get the complete result.
Brian Curtin60853212010-05-26 17:43:50 +00004802
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004803- Issue #8692: Optimize math.factorial: replace the previous naive algorithm
4804 with an improved 'binary-split' algorithm that uses fewer multiplications and
4805 allows many of the multiplications to be performed using plain C integer
4806 arithmetic instead of PyLong arithmetic. Also uses a lookup table for small
4807 arguments.
Mark Dickinson4c8a9a22010-05-15 17:02:38 +00004808
Mark Dickinson85eacea2010-05-10 16:27:45 +00004809- Issue #8674: Fixed a number of incorrect or undefined-behaviour-inducing
4810 overflow checks in the audioop module.
4811
Mark Dickinson0381e3f2010-05-08 14:35:02 +00004812- Issue #8644: The accuracy of td.total_seconds() has been improved (by
4813 calculating with integer arithmetic instead of float arithmetic internally):
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004814 the result is now always correctly rounded, and is equivalent to ``td /
4815 timedelta(seconds=1)``.
Mark Dickinson0381e3f2010-05-08 14:35:02 +00004816
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004817- Issue #2706: Allow division of a timedelta by another timedelta: timedelta /
4818 timedelta, timedelta % timedelta, timedelta // timedelta and divmod(timedelta,
4819 timedelta) are all supported.
Mark Dickinson7c186e22010-04-20 22:32:49 +00004820
Victor Stinnerfebecd82010-04-16 12:07:30 +00004821- Issue #8314: Fix unsigned long long bug in libffi on Sparc v8.
4822
Mark Dickinsonc5935772010-04-03 15:54:36 +00004823- Issue #8300: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with any
4824 integer format code, struct.pack first attempts to convert the non-integer
4825 using its __index__ method. If that method is non-existent or raises
4826 TypeError it goes on to try the __int__ method, as described below.
4827
Matthias Klosea8349752010-03-15 13:25:28 +00004828- Issue #8142: Update libffi to the 3.0.9 release.
4829
Matthias Klose9550aa12010-03-15 12:49:46 +00004830- Issue #6949: Allow the _dbm extension to be built with db 4.8.x.
4831
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004832- Issue #6544: Fix a reference leak in the kqueue implementation's error
Georg Brandlc0e22b72010-03-14 10:51:01 +00004833 handling.
4834
Martin v. Löwis3afc62e2010-02-18 16:27:43 +00004835- Stop providing crtassem.h symbols when compiling with Visual Studio 2010, as
4836 msvcr100.dll is not a platform assembly anymore.
4837
Martin v. Löwis7aed61a2009-11-27 14:09:49 +00004838- Issue #6508: Add posix.{getresuid,getresgid,setresuid,setresgid}.
4839
Mark Dickinson40714af2009-10-08 15:59:20 +00004840- Issue #7078: Set struct.__doc__ from _struct.__doc__.
4841
Mark Dickinson45f992a2009-12-19 11:20:49 +00004842- Issue #3366: Add erf, erfc, expm1, gamma, lgamma functions to math module.
Mark Dickinson12c4bdb2009-09-28 19:21:11 +00004843
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004844- Issue #6877: It is now possible to link the readline extension to the libedit
4845 readline emulation on OSX 10.5 or later.
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +00004846
Mark Dickinson5ea7d642009-09-06 21:24:55 +00004847- Issue #6848: Fix curses module build failure on OS X 10.6.
4848
Brett Cannon2f827382009-08-13 19:58:01 +00004849- Fix a segfault that could be triggered by expat with specially formed input.
4850
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004851- Issue #6561: '\d' in a regex now matches only characters with Unicode category
4852 'Nd' (Number, Decimal Digit). Previously it also matched characters with
4853 category 'No'.
Mark Dickinson1f268282009-07-28 17:22:36 +00004854
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004855- Issue #4509: Array objects are no longer modified after an operation failing
4856 due to the resize restriction in-place when the object has exported buffers.
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +00004857
Alexandre Vassalottiad077152009-07-15 17:49:23 +00004858- Issue #2389: Array objects are now pickled in a portable manner.
4859
Matthias Klosea50ffe52010-01-22 01:10:19 +00004860- Expat: Fix DoS via XML document with malformed UTF-8 sequences
4861 (CVE_2009_3560).
4862
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004863- Issue #7242: On Solaris 9 and earlier calling os.fork() from within a thread
4864 could raise an incorrect RuntimeError about not holding the import lock. The
4865 import lock is now reinitialized after fork.
Gregory P. Smith24cec9f2010-03-01 06:18:41 +00004866
Gregory P. Smithc78d79c2010-03-01 05:54:14 +00004867- Issue #7999: os.setreuid() and os.setregid() would refuse to accept a -1
4868 parameter on some platforms such as OS X.
4869
Matthias Klose4c4b0782010-04-21 22:21:03 +00004870- Build the ossaudio extension on GNU/kFreeBSD.
4871
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004872- Issue #7347: winreg: Add CreateKeyEx and DeleteKeyEx, as well as fix a bug in
4873 the return value of QueryReflectionKey.
Brian Curtinb4e8ca12010-04-22 01:52:50 +00004874
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00004875- Issue #7567: PyCurses_setupterm: Don't call ``setupterm`` twice.
Matthias Klose635edd12010-07-30 21:40:57 +00004876
Martin v. Löwis95c46012009-06-28 09:36:14 +00004877Build
4878-----
4879
Martin v. Löwise38de852010-07-30 17:30:51 +00004880- Use OpenSSL 1.0.0a on Windows.
4881
Benjamin Petersonbbda0c52010-07-17 20:39:23 +00004882- Issue #9280: Make sharedinstall depend on sharedmods.
4883
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004884- Issue #9189: Make a user-specified CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS, or LDFLAGS setting
4885 override the configure and makefile defaults, without deleting options the
4886 user didn't intend to override. Developers should no longer need to specify
4887 OPT or EXTRA_CFLAGS, although those variables are still present for
4888 backward-compatibility.
Jeffrey Yasskind4fcdb12010-07-09 16:30:58 +00004889
Benjamin Peterson31b16a52010-06-21 15:37:16 +00004890- Issue #8854: Fix finding Visual Studio 2008 on Windows x64.
4891
Martin v. Löwisec78d0a2010-06-04 17:20:56 +00004892- Issue #1759169, #8864: Drop _XOPEN_SOURCE on Solaris, define it for
4893 multiprocessing only.
Martin v. Löwis1a415762010-05-28 15:44:20 +00004894
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004895- Issue #8625: Turn off optimization in --with-pydebug builds with gcc.
4896 (Optimization was unintentionally turned on in gcc --with-pydebug builds as a
4897 result of the issue #1628484 fix, combined with autoconf's strange choice of
4898 default CFLAGS produced by AC_PROG_CC for gcc.)
Mark Dickinsonb2153e92010-05-05 22:31:36 +00004899
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004900- Issue #3646: It is now easily possible to install a Python framework into your
4901 home directory on MacOSX, see Mac/README for more information.
Ronald Oussoren86b33c82010-04-30 11:41:56 +00004902
Jesus Cea740f53a2010-04-28 11:35:30 +00004903- Issue #3928: os.mknod() now available in Solaris, also.
4904
Benjamin Petersone6c9d242010-03-30 17:34:47 +00004905- Issue #3326: Build Python without -fno-strict-aliasing when the gcc does not
4906 give false warnings.
4907
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004908- Issue #1628484: The Makefile doesn't ignore the CFLAGS environment variable
4909 anymore. It also forwards the LDFLAGS settings to the linker when building a
4910 shared library.
Antoine Pitrou7a61ba92010-03-21 19:25:26 +00004911
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004912- Issue #6716: Quote -x arguments of compileall in MSI installer. Exclude 2to3
4913 tests from compileall.
Martin v. Löwis09c86af2010-03-16 11:03:13 +00004914
Martin v. Löwis19ed3c82010-02-15 21:45:06 +00004915- Issue #3920, #7903: Define _BSD_SOURCE on OpenBSD 4.4 through 4.9.
Martin v. Löwis7671efc2010-02-15 08:35:16 +00004916
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004917- Issue #7632: When Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER is defined, disable the private
4918 memory allocation scheme in dtoa.c and use PyMem_Malloc and PyMem_Free
4919 instead. Also disable caching of powers of 5.
Mark Dickinsonde508002010-01-17 21:02:55 +00004920
Benjamin Petersond78735d2010-01-01 16:04:23 +00004921- Issue #6491: Allow --with-dbmliborder to specify that no dbms will be built.
4922
4923- Issue #6943: Use pkg-config to find the libffi headers when the
4924 --with-system-ffi flag is used.
4925
Benjamin Petersonb2d90462009-12-31 03:23:10 +00004926- Issue #7609: Add a --with-system-expat option that causes the system's expat
4927 library to be used for the pyexpat module instead of the one included with
4928 Python.
4929
Benjamin Petersone57d6762009-12-30 03:02:03 +00004930- Issue #7589: Only build the nis module when the correct header files are
4931 found.
4932
Martin v. Löwis7df3b9e2010-01-02 10:06:19 +00004933- Switch to OpenSSL 0.9.8l and sqlite 3.6.21 on Windows.
Martin v. Löwise5692cd2009-12-22 08:57:39 +00004934
Mark Dickinsonf4243f62009-11-15 13:47:27 +00004935- Issue #5792: Extend the short float repr support to x86 systems using
4936 icc or suncc.
4937
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004938- Issue #6603: Change READ_TIMESTAMP macro in ceval.c so that it compiles
4939 correctly under gcc on x86-64. This fixes a reported problem with the
4940 --with-tsc build on x86-64.
Mark Dickinsona25b1312009-10-31 10:18:44 +00004941
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004942- Issue #6802: Fix build issues on MacOSX 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren5bbab3e2009-09-06 11:01:15 +00004943
Guilherme Polo5d377bd2009-08-16 14:44:14 +00004944- Issue #6244: Allow detect_tkinter to look for Tcl/Tk 8.6.
4945
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00004946- Issue #4601: 'make install' did not set the appropriate permissions on
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc321e5332009-07-02 23:08:45 +00004947 directories.
4948
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00004949- Issue #5390: Add uninstall icon independent of whether file extensions are
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004950 installed.
Martin v. Löwis95c46012009-06-28 09:36:14 +00004951
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004952- Issue #7541: When using ``python-config`` with a framework install the
Florent Xicluna3f88c0e2010-03-19 14:40:31 +00004953 compiler might use the wrong library.
Ronald Oussoren585c1732009-12-24 14:21:55 +00004954
Collin Winterbf199072010-03-19 21:17:17 +00004955- python-config now supports multiple options on the same command line.
4956
Matthias Klosec80c93f2010-04-24 17:04:35 +00004957- Issue #8509: Fix quoting in help strings and code snippets in configure.in.
4958
Matthias Kloseb9621712010-04-24 17:59:49 +00004959- Issue #8510: Update to autoconf2.65.
4960
Mark Dickinsond3aa6462009-09-17 00:06:41 +00004961Documentation
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00004962-------------
Tarek Ziadéf3b33222009-08-21 14:22:45 +00004963
Matthias Klose62d52fd2010-09-12 16:31:58 +00004964- Issue #9817: Add expat COPYING file; add expat, libffi and expat licenses
4965 to Doc/license.rst.
4966
Brian Curtinf045d772010-08-05 18:56:00 +00004967- Issue #9524: Document that two CTRL* signals are meant for use only
4968 with os.kill.
4969
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00004970- Issue #9255: Document that the 'test' package is meant for internal Python use
Brett Cannon3a4e50c2010-07-23 11:31:31 +00004971 only.
4972
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004973- A small WSGI server was added as Tools/scripts/serve.py, and is used to
R. David Murraye821cb62010-03-08 17:48:38 +00004974 implement a local documentation server via 'make serve' in the doc directory.
4975
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004976- Updating `Using Python` documentation to include description of CPython's -J
4977 and -X options.
Barry Warsaw615368f2010-02-05 19:12:30 +00004978
Brett Cannon757df6e2009-08-30 04:00:12 +00004979- Document that importing a module that has None in sys.modules triggers an
4980 ImportError.
4981
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004982- Issue #6556: Fixed the Distutils configuration files location explanation for
4983 Windows.
Florent Xiclunaf089fd62010-03-19 14:25:03 +00004984
Matthias Klosec8b16f82010-01-31 16:14:37 +00004985- Update python manual page (options -B, -O0, -s, environment variables
4986 PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE, PYTHONNOUSERSITE).
Tarek Ziadéf3b33222009-08-21 14:22:45 +00004987
Tarek Ziadé7047eb72010-06-06 20:18:42 +00004988- Issue #8909: Added the size of the bitmap used in the installer created by
4989 distutils' bdist_wininst. Patch by Anatoly Techtonik.
4990
Brett Cannonb49c70c2009-07-15 04:08:33 +00004991Tests
4992-----
4993
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004994- Issue #9251: test_threaded_import didn't fail when run through regrtest if the
4995 import lock was disabled.
Antoine Pitrou1f9dea02010-07-14 11:52:38 +00004996
Antoine Pitrouf48ea7c2010-07-08 18:51:30 +00004997- Issue #8605: Skip test_gdb if Python is compiled with optimizations.
4998
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004999- Issue #7449: Skip test_socketserver if threading support is disabled.
Victor Stinner5f22e722010-05-26 17:33:03 +00005000
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005001- Issue #8672: Add a zlib test ensuring that an incomplete stream can be handled
5002 by a decompressor object without errors (it returns incomplete uncompressed
5003 data).
Antoine Pitrouc09c92f2010-05-11 23:36:40 +00005004
Victor Stinnerf58087b2010-05-02 17:24:51 +00005005- Issue #8533: regrtest uses backslashreplace error handler for stdout to avoid
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005006 UnicodeEncodeError (write non-ASCII character to stdout using ASCII encoding).
Victor Stinner0d80a582010-05-02 09:37:08 +00005007
Antoine Pitrou043bad02010-04-30 23:20:15 +00005008- Issue #8576: Remove use of find_unused_port() in test_smtplib and
5009 test_multiprocessing. Patch by Paul Moore.
5010
Victor Stinner45df8202010-04-28 22:31:17 +00005011- Issue #7449: Fix many tests to support Python compiled without thread
5012 support. Patches written by Jerry Seutter.
5013
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005014- Issue #8108: test_ftplib's non-blocking SSL server now has proper handling of
5015 SSL shutdowns.
Antoine Pitrou2c4f98b2010-04-23 00:16:21 +00005016
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005017- Issues #8279, #8330, #8437, #8480, #8495: Fix test_gdb failures, patch written
5018 by Dave Malcolm.
Victor Stinnere7ed1d72010-04-21 13:55:23 +00005019
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005020- Issue #3864: Skip three test_signal tests on freebsd6 because they fail if any
5021 thread was previously started, most likely due to a platform bug.
R. David Murrayedcfeba2010-04-21 01:51:57 +00005022
Antoine Pitrou90ee4df2010-04-06 17:23:13 +00005023- Issue #8193: Fix test_zlib failure with zlib 1.2.4.
5024
Antoine Pitrou503ab332010-03-30 18:56:19 +00005025- Issue #8248: Add some tests for the bool type. Patch by Gregory Nofi.
5026
Florent Xiclunad6995eb2010-03-30 19:43:09 +00005027- Issue #8263: Now regrtest.py will report a failure if it receives a
5028 KeyboardInterrupt (SIGINT).
5029
Florent Xiclunafd1b0932010-03-28 00:25:02 +00005030- Issue #8180 and #8207: Fix test_pep277 on OS X and add more tests for special
5031 Unicode normalization cases.
Florent Xiclunaeb136182010-03-21 18:49:50 +00005032
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005033- Issue #7783: test.support.open_urlresource invalidates the outdated files from
5034 the local cache.
Florent Xiclunaf089fd62010-03-19 14:25:03 +00005035
Florent Xiclunab14930c2010-03-13 15:26:44 +00005036- Issue #7849: Now the utility ``check_warnings`` verifies if the warnings are
5037 effectively raised.
5038
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005039- The four path modules (genericpath, macpath, ntpath, posixpath) share a common
5040 TestCase for some tests: test_genericpath.CommonTest.
Florent Xiclunac9c79782010-03-08 12:24:53 +00005041
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005042- Print platform information when running the whole test suite, or using the
5043 --verbose flag.
Florent Xicluna0e62a142010-03-06 17:34:48 +00005044
Florent Xicluna683a7e72010-03-03 00:06:37 +00005045- Issue #767675: enable test_pep277 on POSIX platforms with Unicode-friendly
5046 filesystem encoding.
5047
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005048- Issue #6292: for the moment at least, the test suite runs cleanly if python is
5049 run with the -OO flag. Tests requiring docstrings are skipped.
R. David Murray378c0cf2010-02-24 01:46:21 +00005050
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005051- Issue #7712: test.support gained a new `temp_cwd` context manager which is now
5052 also used by regrtest to run all the tests in a temporary directory. The
5053 original CWD is saved in `support.SAVEDCWD`. Thanks to Florent Xicluna who
5054 helped with the patch.
Ezio Melotti184bdfb2010-02-18 09:37:05 +00005055
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005056- Issue #7924: Fix an intermittent 'XXX undetected error' failure in test_capi
5057 (only seen so far on platforms where the curses module wasn't built), due to
5058 an uncleared exception.
Mark Dickinsonedff7af2010-02-13 18:34:53 +00005059
Florent Xicluna3f88c0e2010-03-19 14:40:31 +00005060- Issue #7728: test_timeout was changed to use support.bind_port instead of a
5061 hard coded port.
R. David Murraye9e95932010-02-06 05:00:15 +00005062
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005063- Issue #7376: Instead of running a self-test (which was failing) when called
R. David Murray445448c2009-12-20 17:28:31 +00005064 with no arguments, doctest.py now gives a usage message.
5065
R. David Murrayef1992b2009-12-16 15:19:27 +00005066- Issue #7396: fix regrtest -s, which was broken by the -j enhancement.
5067
R. David Murray596da442009-12-14 23:06:11 +00005068- Issue #7498: test_multiprocessing now uses test.support.find_unused_port
R. David Murray83396232009-12-14 22:45:15 +00005069 instead of a hardcoded port number in test_rapid_restart.
5070
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005071- Issue #7431: Use TESTFN in test_linecache instead of trying to create a file
5072 in the Lib/test directory, which might be read-only for the user running the
5073 tests.
R. David Murrayba311052009-12-04 00:09:14 +00005074
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005075- Issue #7324: Add a sanity check to regrtest argument parsing to catch the case
5076 of an option with no handler.
R. David Murray35768ad2009-11-15 00:23:21 +00005077
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005078- Issue #7312: Add a -F flag to run the selected tests in a loop until a test
5079 fails. Can be combined with -j.
R. David Murray7dc72cc2009-11-14 16:13:02 +00005080
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005081- Issue #6551: test_zipimport could import and then destroy some modules of the
5082 encodings package, which would make other tests fail further down the road
5083 because the internally cached encoders and decoders would point to empty
5084 global variables.
Antoine Pitrou060cee22009-11-13 16:29:04 +00005085
Antoine Pitrou941ee882009-11-11 20:59:38 +00005086- Issue #7295: Do not use a hardcoded file name in test_tarfile.
5087
Antoine Pitrou557934f2009-11-06 22:41:14 +00005088- Issue #7270: Add some dedicated unit tests for multi-thread synchronization
5089 primitives such as Lock, RLock, Condition, Event and Semaphore.
5090
Brett Cannoncfed0292009-11-05 01:26:57 +00005091- Issue #7248 (part 2): Use a unique temporary directory for importlib source
5092 tests instead of tempfile.tempdir. This prevents the tests from sharing state
5093 between concurrent executions on the same system.
5094
Brett Cannon0ae45112009-11-05 01:17:22 +00005095- Issue #7248: In importlib.test.source.util a try/finally block did not make
5096 sure that some referenced objects actually were created in the block before
5097 calling methods on the object.
5098
Antoine Pitrou65c9c642009-10-30 17:25:12 +00005099- Issue #7222: Make thread "reaping" more reliable so that reference
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005100 leak-chasing test runs give sensible results. The previous method of reaping
5101 threads could return successfully while some Thread objects were still
5102 referenced. This also introduces a new private function:
Antoine Pitrou65c9c642009-10-30 17:25:12 +00005103 :func:`_thread._count()`.
5104
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005105- Issue #7151: Fixed regrtest -j so that output to stderr from a test no longer
5106 runs the risk of causing the worker thread to fail.
R. David Murray27144602009-10-19 15:26:16 +00005107
Antoine Pitrou4de39cd2009-10-10 21:08:31 +00005108- Issue #7055: test___all__ now greedily detects all modules which have an
5109 __all__ attribute, rather than using a hardcoded and incomplete list.
5110
R. David Murray0bc11ae2009-10-18 22:18:17 +00005111- Issue #7058: Added save/restore for things like sys.argv and cwd to
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005112 runtest_inner in regrtest, with warnings if the called test modifies them, and
5113 a new section in the summary report at the end.
R. David Murray097e51f2009-10-07 23:38:55 +00005114
Mark Dickinson2e304402009-10-04 18:43:54 +00005115- Issue #7042: Fix test_signal (test_itimer_virtual) failure on OS X 10.6.
5116
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005117- Fixed tests in importlib.test.source.test_abc_loader that were masking the
5118 proper exceptions that should be raised for missing or improper code object
5119 bytecode.
Brett Cannon3c273842009-07-20 00:14:29 +00005120
Brett Cannonb49c70c2009-07-15 04:08:33 +00005121- Removed importlib's custom test discovery code and switched to
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005122 unittest.TestLoader.discover().
Brett Cannonb49c70c2009-07-15 04:08:33 +00005123
Antoine Pitroua69ba652010-01-18 21:20:53 +00005124Tools/Demos
5125-----------
5126
Martin v. Löwis25fcd392010-07-11 17:39:46 +00005127- Issue #5464, #8974: Implement plural forms in msgfmt.py.
Martin v. Löwiscb081b82010-06-04 18:14:42 +00005128
Antoine Pitroua69ba652010-01-18 21:20:53 +00005129- iobench (a file I/O benchmark) and ccbench (a concurrency benchmark) were
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005130 added to the `Tools/` directory. They were previously living in the sandbox.
Antoine Pitroua69ba652010-01-18 21:20:53 +00005131
Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +00005132
Benjamin Peterson01bf2362009-06-13 14:50:22 +00005133What's New in Python 3.1?
5134=========================
5135
5136*Release date: 27-June-2009*
5137
5138Core and Builtins
5139-----------------
5140
Mark Dickinsonad195562009-06-24 19:01:32 +00005141- Issue #6334: Fix bug in range length calculation for ranges with
5142 large arguments.
5143
Raymond Hettinger159eac92009-06-23 20:38:54 +00005144- Issue #6329: Fixed iteration for memoryview objects (it was being blocked
5145 because it wasn't recognized as a sequence).
5146
Benjamin Peterson01bf2362009-06-13 14:50:22 +00005147Library
5148-------
5149
Georg Brandld07ac642009-08-13 07:50:57 +00005150- Issue #6126: Fixed pdb command-line usage.
5151
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00005152- Issue #6314: logging: performs extra checks on the "level" argument.
Vinay Sajip0f6eac22009-06-21 17:46:49 +00005153
Facundo Batista10706e22009-06-19 20:34:30 +00005154- Issue #6274: Fixed possible file descriptors leak in subprocess.py
5155
Benjamin Peterson6a38ced2009-06-14 18:32:19 +00005156- Accessing io.StringIO.buffer now raises an AttributeError instead of
5157 io.UnsupportedOperation.
5158
Vinay Sajip0f6eac22009-06-21 17:46:49 +00005159- Issue #6271: mmap tried to close invalid file handle (-1) when anonymous.
Hirokazu Yamamoto3d8827d2009-06-14 04:58:16 +00005160 (On Unix)
5161
Gregory P. Smithe88749b2009-06-26 08:05:13 +00005162- Issue #1202: zipfile module would cause a struct.error when attempting to
5163 store files with a CRC32 > 2**31-1.
5164
Matthias Kloseab2b7552009-06-22 13:05:52 +00005165Extension Modules
5166-----------------
5167
5168- Issue #5590: Remove unused global variable in pyexpat extension.
5169
Benjamin Peterson01bf2362009-06-13 14:50:22 +00005170
Antoine Pitrou3b1b8072009-05-30 21:01:23 +00005171What's New in Python 3.1 Release Candidate 2?
5172=============================================
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00005173
Benjamin Petersonc7c12282009-06-13 13:15:04 +00005174*Release date: 13-June-2009*
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00005175
5176Core and Builtins
5177-----------------
5178
Raymond Hettinger94f55832009-06-12 18:40:16 +00005179- Fixed SystemError triggered by "range([], 1, -1)".
5180
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc66f8c432009-06-09 21:30:01 +00005181- Issue #5924: On Windows, a large PYTHONPATH environment variable
5182 (more than 255 characters) would be completely ignored.
5183
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc24e581f2009-06-01 21:28:37 +00005184- Issue #4547: When debugging a very large function, it was not always
5185 possible to update the lineno attribute of the current frame.
5186
Antoine Pitrou8e124f32009-05-30 21:41:10 +00005187- Issue #5330: C functions called with keyword arguments were not reported by
Alexandre Vassalottiea3714e2009-07-17 09:34:31 +00005188 the various profiling modules (profile, cProfile). Patch by Hagen Fürstenau.
Antoine Pitrou8e124f32009-05-30 21:41:10 +00005189
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00005190Library
5191-------
5192
Tarek Ziadéc9e6cec2009-07-12 08:27:26 +00005193- Issue #6438: Fixed distutils.cygwinccompiler.get_versions : the regular
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00005194 expression string pattern was trying to match against a bytes returned by
Tarek Ziadéc9e6cec2009-07-12 08:27:26 +00005195 Popen. Tested under win32 to build the py-postgresql project.
5196
Martin v. Löwis83eacca2009-06-12 17:31:41 +00005197- Issue #6258: Support AMD64 in bdist_msi.
5198
R. David Murray58641de2009-06-12 15:33:19 +00005199- Issue #6195: fixed doctest to no longer try to read 'source' data from
5200 binary files.
5201
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00005202- Issue #5262: Fixed bug in next rollover time computation in
5203 TimedRotatingFileHandler.
5204
Benjamin Peterson0926ad12009-06-06 18:02:12 +00005205- Issue #6217: The C implementation of io.TextIOWrapper didn't include the
5206 errors property. Additionally, the errors and encoding properties of StringIO
5207 are always None now.
5208
Antoine Pitroud9dfaa92009-06-04 20:32:06 +00005209- Issue #6137: The pickle module now translates module names when loading
5210 or dumping pickles with a 2.x-compatible protocol, in order to make data
5211 sharing and migration easier. This behaviour can be disabled using the
5212 new `fix_imports` optional argument.
5213
Raymond Hettinger40925d22009-06-04 18:32:39 +00005214- Removed the ipaddr module.
5215
Georg Brandlb54d8012009-06-04 09:11:51 +00005216- Issue #3613: base64.{encode,decode}string are now called
5217 base64.{encode,decode}bytes which reflects what type they accept and return.
5218 The old names are still there as deprecated aliases.
5219
Georg Brandl317185a2009-06-04 09:00:56 +00005220- Issue #5767: Remove sgmlop support from xmlrpc.client.
5221
Martin v. Löwis74b7e442009-06-01 04:23:07 +00005222- Issue #6150: Fix test_unicode on wide-unicode builds.
5223
Antoine Pitrouc06de472009-05-30 21:04:26 +00005224- Issue #6149: Fix initialization of WeakValueDictionary objects from non-empty
5225 parameters.
5226
Martin v. Löwis79b13872009-06-01 04:13:14 +00005227Windows
5228-------
5229
Martin v. Löwisb7a51562009-06-07 17:55:17 +00005230- Issue #6221: Delete test registry key before running the test.
5231
Martin v. Löwis79b13872009-06-01 04:13:14 +00005232- Issue #6158: Package Sine-1000Hz-300ms.aif in MSI file.
5233
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc11729992009-06-01 21:16:17 +00005234C-API
5235-----
5236
5237- Issue #5735: Python compiled with --with-pydebug should throw an
5238 ImportError when trying to import modules compiled without
5239 --with-pydebug, and vice-versa.
5240
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00005241
Brett Cannonc6d936e2009-06-07 20:09:53 +00005242Build
5243-----
5244
5245- Issue #6154: Make sure the intl library is added to LIBS if needed. Also
5246 added LIBS to OS X framework builds.
5247
Ronald Oussoren99aab652009-06-08 21:22:57 +00005248- Issue #5809: Specifying both --enable-framework and --enable-shared is
5249 an error. Configure now explicity tells you about this.
5250
5251
Brett Cannonc6d936e2009-06-07 20:09:53 +00005252
Mark Dickinson4eb88b32009-05-11 16:41:34 +00005253What's New in Python 3.1 release candidate 1?
5254=============================================
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00005255
Benjamin Petersone6ad3872009-05-30 15:30:16 +00005256*Release date: 2009-05-30*
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00005257
5258Core and Builtins
5259-----------------
5260
Martin v. Löwis8ed91b22009-05-29 16:22:26 +00005261- Issue #6097: Escape UTF-8 surrogates resulting from mbstocs conversion
5262 of the command line.
5263
Martin v. Löwisc15bdef2009-05-29 14:47:46 +00005264- Issue #6012: Add cleanup support to O& argument parsing.
5265
Eric Smith41669ca2009-05-23 14:23:22 +00005266- Issue #6089: Fixed str.format with certain invalid field specifiers
5267 that would raise SystemError.
5268
Raymond Hettinger2bcde142009-05-29 04:52:27 +00005269- Issue #5982: staticmethod and classmethod now expose the wrapped
5270 function with __func__.
5271
Raymond Hettinger91e3b9d2009-05-28 22:20:03 +00005272- Added support for multiple context managers in the same with-statement.
5273 Deprecated contextlib.nested() which is no longer needed.
Georg Brandl0c315622009-05-25 21:10:36 +00005274
Mark Dickinson6b1e43b2009-05-20 18:41:04 +00005275- Issue #5829: complex("1e500") no longer raises OverflowError. This
5276 makes it consistent with float("1e500") and interpretation of real
5277 and imaginary literals.
5278
Hirokazu Yamamoto8223c242009-05-17 04:21:53 +00005279- Issue #3527: Removed Py_WIN_WIDE_FILENAMES which is not used any more.
5280
R. David Murraydd226ea2009-05-13 12:27:21 +00005281- Issue #5994: the marshal module now has docstrings.
5282
Mark Dickinsond1ec8b22009-05-11 15:45:15 +00005283- Issue #5981: Fix three minor inf/nan issues in float.fromhex:
5284 (1) inf and nan strings with trailing whitespace were incorrectly
5285 rejected; (2) parsing of strings representing infinities and nans
5286 was locale aware; and (3) the interpretation of fromhex('-nan')
5287 didn't match that of float('-nan').
5288
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00005289Library
5290-------
5291
Martin v. Löwisb6a748b2009-05-29 15:23:17 +00005292- Issue #4859: Implement PEP 383 for pwd, spwd, and grp.
5293
R. David Murrayfb123912009-05-28 18:19:00 +00005294- smtplib 'login' and 'cram-md5' login are also fixed (see Issue #5259).
5295
R. David Murray1f1b9d32009-05-27 20:56:59 +00005296- Issue #6121: pydoc now ignores leading and trailing spaces in the
5297 argument to the 'help' function.
5298
Georg Brandlfaf41492009-05-26 18:31:11 +00005299- Issue #6118: urllib.parse.quote_plus ignored the encoding and errors
5300 arguments for strings with a space in them.
5301
Raymond Hettinger089ba7f2009-05-27 00:38:24 +00005302- collections.namedtuple() was not working with the following field
5303 names: cls, self, tuple, itemgetter, and property.
5304
Benjamin Peterson14a3dd72009-05-25 00:51:58 +00005305- In unittest, using a skipping decorator on a class is now equivalent to
5306 skipping every test on the class. The ClassTestSuite class has been removed.
5307
Martin v. Löwis70ccd162009-05-24 19:47:22 +00005308- Issue #6050: Don't fail extracting a directory from a zipfile if
5309 the directory already exists.
5310
Antoine Pitrou61f77b52009-05-24 15:46:13 +00005311- Issue #1309352: fcntl now converts its third arguments to a C `long` rather
5312 than an int, which makes some operations possible under 64-bit Linux (e.g.
5313 DN_MULTISHOT with F_NOTIFY).
5314
Antoine Pitrou716c4442009-05-23 19:04:03 +00005315- Issue #5761: Add the name of the underlying file to the repr() of various
5316 IO objects.
5317
R. David Murraycaa27b72009-05-23 18:49:56 +00005318- Issue #5259: smtplib plain auth login no longer gives a traceback. Fix
5319 by Musashi Tamura, tests by Marcin Bachry.
5320
Antoine Pitrouc3ee1662009-05-23 16:02:33 +00005321- Issue #1983: Fix functions taking or returning a process identifier to use
5322 the dedicated C type ``pid_t`` instead of a C ``int``. Some platforms have
5323 a process identifier type wider than the standard C integer type.
5324
R. David Murray87e20742009-05-23 01:30:26 +00005325- Issue #4066: smtplib.SMTP_SSL._get_socket now correctly returns the socket.
5326 Patch by Farhan Ahmad, test by Marcin Bachry.
5327
Antoine Pitrou6e610062009-05-15 17:04:50 +00005328- Issue #2116: Weak references and weak dictionaries now support copy()ing and
5329 deepcopy()ing.
5330
Antoine Pitrouc1d09362009-05-15 12:15:51 +00005331- Issue #1655: Make imaplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
5332
Antoine Pitrou37d1c182009-05-14 21:54:00 +00005333- Issue #5918: Fix a crash in the parser module.
5334
Antoine Pitrou2ca24f02009-05-14 21:30:46 +00005335- Issue #1664: Make nntplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
5336
Antoine Pitroue4501852009-05-14 18:55:55 +00005337- Issue #5006: Better handling of unicode byte-order marks (BOM) in the io
5338 library. This means, for example, that opening an UTF-16 text file in
5339 append mode doesn't add a BOM at the end of the file if the file isn't
5340 empty.
5341
R. David Murray74b89242009-05-13 17:33:03 +00005342- Issue #4050: inspect.findsource/getsource now raise an IOError if the 'source'
5343 file is a binary. Patch by Brodie Rao, tests by Daniel Diniz. This fix
5344 corrects a pydoc regression.
5345
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00005346- Issue #5955: aifc's close method did not close the file it wrapped,
R. David Murray99352742009-05-07 18:24:38 +00005347 now it does. This also means getfp method now returns the real fp.
5348
Benjamin Peterson932073a2009-05-23 16:14:33 +00005349Installation
5350------------
5351
5352- Issue #6047: fullinstall has been removed because Python 3's executable will
5353 now be known as python3.
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00005354
Ronald Oussorenbe7149e2009-05-26 21:39:08 +00005355- Lib/smtpd.py is no longer installed as a script.
5356
Martin v. Löwisdb1c3992009-05-23 10:38:26 +00005357Extension Modules
5358-----------------
5359
Martin v. Löwisa6a9c4d2009-05-30 06:15:30 +00005360- Issue #3061: Use wcsftime for time.strftime where available.
Martin v. Löwis1b01ccd2009-05-30 06:13:40 +00005361
Martin v. Löwise23c8682009-05-29 16:01:34 +00005362- Issue #4873: Fix resource leaks in error cases of pwd and grp.
5363
Martin v. Löwisdb1c3992009-05-23 10:38:26 +00005364- Issue #6093: Fix off-by-one error in locale.strxfrm.
5365
Benjamin Peterson744af442009-05-23 18:51:49 +00005366- The _functools and _locale modules are now built into the libpython shared
5367 library instead of as extension modules.
Benjamin Peterson3dc22e82009-05-23 17:09:43 +00005368
Antoine Pitrou20327222009-05-24 20:39:11 +00005369Build
5370-----
5371
5372- Issue #3585: Add pkg-config support. It creates a python-2.7.pc file
5373 and a python3.pc symlink in the $(LIBDIR)/pkgconfig directory. Patch by
5374 Clinton Roy.
5375
Brett Cannon1262e7c2009-05-11 01:47:11 +00005376Tests
5377-----
5378
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00005379- Issue #5442: Tests for importlib were not properly skipping case-sensitivity
Brett Cannon1262e7c2009-05-11 01:47:11 +00005380 tests on darwin even when the OS was installed on a case-sensitive
5381 filesystem. Also fixed tests that should not be run when
5382 sys.dont_write_bytecode is true.
5383
5384
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00005385What's New in Python 3.1 beta 1?
5386================================
5387
Benjamin Peterson5c5f3de2009-05-06 20:43:28 +00005388*Release date: 2009-05-06*
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00005389
5390Core and Builtins
5391-----------------
5392
Mark Dickinson865e01a2009-05-07 16:37:01 +00005393- Issue #5914: Add new C API function PyOS_string_to_double, and
5394 deprecate PyOS_ascii_strtod and PyOS_ascii_atof.
5395
Eric Smith741191f2009-05-06 13:08:15 +00005396- Issue #3382: float.__format__, complex.__format__, and %-formatting
5397 no longer map 'F' to 'f'. Because of issue #5859 (below), this only
5398 affects nan -> NAN and inf -> INF.
5399
Mark Hammond5a607a32009-05-06 08:04:54 +00005400- Issue #5799: ntpath (ie, os.path on Windows) fully supports UNC pathnames
5401 in all operations, including splitdrive, split, etc. splitunc() now issues
5402 a PendingDeprecation warning.
5403
Eric Smith63376222009-05-05 14:04:18 +00005404- Issue #5920: For float.__format__, change the behavior with the
5405 empty presentation type (that is, not one of 'e', 'f', 'g', or 'n')
5406 to be like 'g' but with at least one decimal point and with a
5407 default precision of 12. Previously, the behavior the same but with
5408 a default precision of 6. This more closely matches str(), and
5409 reduces surprises when adding alignment flags to the empty
5410 presentation type. This also affects the new complex.__format__ in
5411 the same way.
5412
Martin v. Löwis011e8422009-05-05 04:43:17 +00005413- Implement PEP 383, Non-decodable Bytes in System Character Interfaces.
5414
R. David Murrayb18500d2009-05-04 22:59:07 +00005415- Issue #5890: in subclasses of 'property' the __doc__ attribute was
5416 shadowed by classtype's, even if it was None. property now
5417 inserts the __doc__ into the subclass instance __dict__.
5418
Antoine Pitrou244651a2009-05-04 18:56:13 +00005419- Issue #4426: The UTF-7 decoder was too strict and didn't accept some legal
5420 sequences. Patch by Nick Barnes and Victor Stinner.
5421
Martin v. Löwise0a2b722009-05-10 08:08:56 +00005422- Issue #3672: Reject surrogates in utf-8 codec; add surrogatepass error handler.
Martin v. Löwisdb12d452009-05-02 18:52:14 +00005423
Benjamin Petersond2e0c792009-05-01 20:40:59 +00005424- Issue #5883: In the io module, the BufferedIOBase and TextIOBase ABCs have
5425 received a new method, detach(). detach() disconnects the underlying stream
5426 from the buffer or text IO and returns it.
5427
Mark Dickinson33841c32009-05-01 15:37:04 +00005428- Issue #5859: Remove switch from '%f' to '%g'-style formatting for
5429 floats with absolute value over 1e50. Also remove length
5430 restrictions for float formatting: '%.67f' % 12.34 and '%.120e' %
5431 12.34 no longer raise an exception.
Mark Dickinsonf489caf2009-05-01 11:42:00 +00005432
Eric Smith741191f2009-05-06 13:08:15 +00005433- Issue #1588: Add complex.__format__. For example,
Eric Smith58a42242009-04-30 01:00:33 +00005434 format(complex(1, 2./3), '.5') now produces a sensible result.
5435
Mark Dickinsond3ca5572009-04-29 18:47:07 +00005436- Issue #5864: Fix empty format code formatting for floats so that it
5437 never gives more than the requested number of significant digits.
5438
Eric Smith6dc46f52009-04-27 20:39:49 +00005439- Issue #5793: Rationalize isdigit / isalpha / tolower, etc. Includes
5440 new Py_ISDIGIT / Py_ISALPHA / Py_TOLOWER, etc. in pctypes.h.
5441
Eric Smithcc32a112009-04-26 21:35:14 +00005442- Issue #5835: Deprecate PyOS_ascii_formatd.
5443
Martin v. Löwis71efeb72009-04-26 01:02:07 +00005444- Issue #4971: Fix titlecase for characters that are their own
5445 titlecase, but not their own uppercase.
5446
Benjamin Peterson193152c2009-04-25 01:08:45 +00005447- Issue #5283: Setting __class__ in __del__ caused a segfault.
5448
Mark Dickinsonad476da2009-04-23 19:14:16 +00005449- Issue #5816: complex(repr(z)) now recovers z exactly, even when
5450 z involves nans, infs or negative zeros.
5451
Mark Dickinson4a16e3a2009-04-23 19:15:48 +00005452- Issue #3166: Make int -> float conversions correctly rounded.
Mark Dickinsonc6300392009-04-20 21:38:00 +00005453
Mark Dickinsone6a076d2009-04-18 11:48:33 +00005454- Issue #1869 (and many duplicates): make round(x, n) correctly
5455 rounded for a float x, by using the decimal <-> binary conversions
5456 from Python/dtoa.c. As a consequence, (e.g.) round(x, 2) now
5457 consistently agrees with format(x, '.2f').
5458
Benjamin Petersonae937c02009-04-18 20:54:08 +00005459- Issue #5787: object.__getattribute__(some_type, "__bases__") segfaulted on
5460 some builtin types.
5461
Eric Smith0923d1d2009-04-16 20:16:10 +00005462- Issue #5772: format(1e100, '<') produces '1e+100', not '1.0e+100'.
5463
Eric Smith35e84722009-04-16 20:21:28 +00005464- Issue #5515: str.format() type 'n' combined with commas and leading
5465 zeros no longer gives odd results with ints and floats.
Eric Smith0923d1d2009-04-16 20:16:10 +00005466
5467- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for
5468 floats.
5469
Mark Dickinson3370cce2009-04-17 22:40:53 +00005470- The str function switches to exponential notation at
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00005471 1e11, not 1e12. This avoids printing 13 significant digits in
5472 situations where only 12 of them are correct. Example problem
5473 value: str(1e11 + 0.5). (This minor issue has existed in 2.x for a
5474 long time.)
5475
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00005476- Issue #1580: On most platforms, use a 'short' float repr: for a
5477 finite float x, repr(x) now outputs a string based on the shortest
5478 sequence of decimal digits that rounds to x. Previous behaviour was
5479 to output 17 significant digits and then strip trailing zeros.
Mark Dickinson3370cce2009-04-17 22:40:53 +00005480 Another minor difference is that the new repr switches to
5481 exponential notation at 1e16 instead of the previous 1e17; this
5482 avoids misleading output in some cases.
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00005483
5484 There's a new sys attribute sys.float_repr_style, which takes
5485 the value 'short' to indicate that we're using short float repr,
5486 and 'legacy' if the short float repr isn't available for one
5487 reason or another.
5488
5489 The float repr change involves incorporating David Gay's 'perfect
5490 rounding' code into the Python core (it's in Python/dtoa.c). As a
5491 secondary consequence, all string-to-float and float-to-string
5492 conversions (including all float formatting operations) will be
5493 correctly rounded on these platforms.
5494
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00005495 See issue #1580 discussions for details of platforms for which
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00005496 this change does not apply.
5497
Benjamin Peterson2808d3c2009-04-15 21:34:27 +00005498- Issue #5759: float() didn't call __float__ on str subclasses.
5499
Georg Brandlabc38772009-04-12 15:51:51 +00005500- The string.maketrans() function is deprecated; there is a new static method
5501 maketrans() on the bytes and bytearray classes. This removes confusion about
5502 the types string.maketrans() is supposed to work with, and mirrors the
5503 methods available on the str class.
5504
R. David Murraydc6da8a2009-04-09 22:16:43 +00005505- Issue #2170: refactored xml.dom.minidom.normalize, increasing both
5506 its clarity and its speed.
5507
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00005508- Issue #1113244: Py_XINCREF, Py_DECREF, Py_XDECREF: Add ``do { ... } while (0)``
Matthias Klose091c7b12009-04-07 13:24:27 +00005509 to avoid compiler warnings.
5510
Walter Dörwald8dc33d52009-05-06 14:41:26 +00005511- Issue #3739: The unicode-internal encoder now reports the number of characters
5512 consumed like any other encoder (instead of the number of bytes).
5513
Benjamin Peterson0b4915e2009-04-25 21:11:45 +00005514Installation
5515------------
5516
5517- Issue #5756: Install idle and pydoc with a 3 suffix.
5518
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00005519Library
5520-------
5521
Victor Stinner870f09a2010-06-17 21:43:33 +00005522- Issue #8203: Fix IDLE Credits dialog: view_file() uses its encoding argument.
5523
Martin v. Löwis403117a2009-05-24 19:19:17 +00005524- Issue #5311: bdist_msi can now build packages that do not depend on a
5525 specific Python version.
5526
Raymond Hettingereb816952009-05-29 01:22:18 +00005527- Issue #5150: IDLE's format menu now has an option to strip trailing
5528 whitespace.
5529
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00005530- Issue #5940: distutils.command.build_clib.check_library_list was not doing
Tarek Ziadédd9f65f2009-05-06 07:26:24 +00005531 the right type checkings anymore.
5532
Thomas Heller00cfc372009-05-05 19:04:40 +00005533- Issue #4875: On win32, ctypes.util.find_library does no longer
5534 return directories.
5535
Georg Brandl243ad662009-05-05 09:00:19 +00005536- Issue #5142: Add the ability to skip modules while stepping to pdb.
5537
Georg Brandl991f9202009-05-05 08:31:54 +00005538- Issue #1309567: Fix linecache behavior of stripping subdirectories when
5539 looking for files given by a relative filename.
5540
Georg Brandleaa84ef2009-05-05 08:14:33 +00005541- Issue #5923: Update the ``turtle`` module to version 1.1, add two new
5542 turtle demos in Demo/turtle.
5543
Antoine Pitrou3c33e082009-05-04 21:21:36 +00005544- Issue #5692: In :class:`zipfile.Zipfile`, fix wrong path calculation when
5545 extracting a file to the root directory.
5546
Hirokazu Yamamotobbb9be72009-05-04 05:56:46 +00005547- Issue #5913: os.listdir() should fail for empty path on windows.
5548
Antoine Pitroua9f48a02009-05-02 21:41:14 +00005549- Issue #5084: unpickling now interns the attribute names of pickled objects,
5550 saving memory and avoiding growth in size of subsequent pickles. Proposal
5551 and original patch by Jake McGuire.
5552
Benjamin Petersonc6b607d2009-05-02 12:36:44 +00005553- The json module now works exclusively with str and not bytes.
5554
Gregory P. Smithe54dff52009-05-01 22:13:48 +00005555- Issue #3959: The ipaddr module has been added to the standard library.
5556 Contributed by Google.
5557
Antoine Pitrou7fff0962009-05-01 21:09:44 +00005558- Issue #3002: ``shutil.copyfile()`` and ``shutil.copytree()`` now raise an
5559 error when a named pipe is encountered, rather than blocking infinitely.
5560
Raymond Hettinger1f0db402009-04-29 00:38:08 +00005561- Issue #5857: tokenize.tokenize() now returns named tuples.
5562
Thomas Hellerc1edc2d2009-04-28 19:55:58 +00005563- Issue #4305: ctypes should now build again on mipsel-linux-gnu
5564
Antoine Pitrou7a0fedf2009-04-27 22:31:40 +00005565- Issue #1734234: Massively speedup ``unicodedata.normalize()`` when the
5566 string is already in normalized form, by performing a quick check beforehand.
5567 Original patch by Rauli Ruohonen.
5568
Antoine Pitrou57f3d932009-04-27 21:04:19 +00005569- Issue #5853: calling a function of the mimetypes module from several threads
5570 at once could hit the recursion limit if the mimetypes database hadn't been
5571 initialized before.
5572
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00005573- Issue #5854: Updated __all__ to include some missing names and remove some
5574 names which should not be exported.
5575
Thomas Heller34596a92009-04-24 20:50:00 +00005576- Issue #3102: All global symbols that the _ctypes extension defines
5577 are now prefixed with 'Py' or '_ctypes'.
5578
5579- Issue #5041: ctypes does now allow pickling wide character.
5580
Mark Dickinsond4d95f82009-04-24 14:06:19 +00005581- Issue #5812: For the two-argument form of the Fraction constructor,
5582 Fraction(m, n), m and n are permitted to be arbitrary Rational
5583 instances.
5584
Mark Dickinsoncf63f2f2009-04-22 17:50:21 +00005585- Issue #5812: Fraction('1e6') is valid: more generally, any string
5586 that's valid for float() is now valid for Fraction(), with the
5587 exception of strings representing NaNs and infinities.
5588
Antoine Pitroucf4c7492009-04-19 00:09:36 +00005589- Issue #5734: BufferedRWPair was poorly tested and had several glaring
5590 bugs. Patch by Brian Quinlan.
5591
R. David Murray9e94ddf2009-04-13 17:06:33 +00005592- Issue #1161031: fix readwrite select flag handling: POLLPRI now
5593 results in a handle_expt_event call, not handle_read_event, and POLLERR
5594 and POLLNVAL now call handle_close, not handle_expt_event. Also,
5595 dispatcher now has an 'ignore_log_types' attribute for suppressing
5596 log messages, which is set to 'warning' by default.
5597
Matthias Klosea3d29e82009-04-07 13:13:10 +00005598- Issue #2703: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher.__init__: Provide default values for
5599 new arguments introduced in 2.5.
5600
Walter Dörwald1b08b302009-04-25 14:13:56 +00005601- Issue #5828 (Invalid behavior of unicode.lower): Fixed bogus logic in
5602 makeunicodedata.py and regenerated the Unicode database (This fixes
5603 u'\u1d79'.lower() == '\x00').
5604
Matthias Klose535336f2009-04-07 13:49:45 +00005605Extension Modules
5606-----------------
5607
Benjamin Petersone04b6272009-05-04 22:25:21 +00005608- Issue #5881: Remove old undocumented compatibility interfaces in hashlib and
5609 pwd.
5610
Mark Dickinsonea835e72009-04-19 20:40:33 +00005611- Issue #5463: In struct module, remove deprecated float coercion
5612 for integer type codes: struct.pack('L', 0.3) should now raise
5613 an error. The _PY_STRUCT_FLOAT_COERCE constant has been removed.
5614 The version number has been bumped to 0.3.
5615
Georg Brandlbb190152010-07-31 21:41:42 +00005616- Issue #5359: Readd the Berkeley DB detection code to allow _dbm be built
5617 using Berkeley DB.
Matthias Klose535336f2009-04-07 13:49:45 +00005618
Nick Coghlan47384702009-04-22 16:13:36 +00005619Tests
5620-----
5621
5622- Issue #5354: New test support function import_fresh_module() makes
5623 it easy to import both normal and optimised versions of modules.
5624 test_heapq and test_warnings have been adjusted to use it, tests for
5625 other modules with both C and Python implementations in the stdlib
5626 can be adjusted to use it over time.
5627
Walter Dörwald4ba80132009-04-25 12:48:43 +00005628- Issue #5837: Certain sequences of calls to set() and unset() for
5629 support.EnvironmentVarGuard objects restored the environment variables
5630 incorrectly on __exit__.
5631
Benjamin Petersonb173f782009-05-05 22:31:58 +00005632C-API
5633-----
5634
5635- Issue #5630: A replacement PyCObject API, PyCapsule, has been added.
5636
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00005637
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00005638What's New in Python 3.1 alpha 2?
5639=================================
5640
Benjamin Peterson88f14352009-04-04 21:06:52 +00005641*Release date: 2009-4-4*
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00005642
5643Core and Builtins
5644-----------------
Benjamin Petersone099b372009-04-04 17:09:35 +00005645
Eric Smith1e1d7d22009-04-03 22:25:33 +00005646- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for
5647 integers.
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00005648
Benjamin Peterson8f76b492009-04-03 22:22:42 +00005649- Issue #5666: Py_BuildValue's 'c' code should create byte strings.
5650
Benjamin Peterson7fe98532009-04-02 00:33:55 +00005651- Issue #5499: The 'c' code for argument parsing functions now only accepts a
5652 byte, and the 'C' code only accepts a unicode character.
5653
Georg Brandl406b3d82009-04-11 21:24:37 +00005654- Fix a problem in PyErr_NormalizeException that leads to "undetected errors"
5655 when hitting the recursion limit under certain circumstances.
5656
Brett Cannon0759dd62009-04-01 18:13:07 +00005657- Issue #1665206: Remove the last eager import in _warnings.c and make it lazy.
5658
Georg Brandlab6f2f62009-03-31 04:16:10 +00005659- Fix a segfault when running test_exceptions with coverage, caused by
5660 insufficient checks in accessors of Exception.__context__.
5661
Guido van Rossum0ad59d42009-03-30 22:01:35 +00005662- Issue #5604: non-ASCII characters in module name passed to
5663 imp.find_module() were converted to UTF-8 while the path is
5664 converted to the default filesystem encoding, causing nonsense.
5665
Benjamin Peterson09832742009-03-26 17:15:46 +00005666- Issue #5126: str.isprintable() returned False for space characters.
5667
Ronald Oussorenfa1fcd12009-03-30 23:16:10 +00005668- Issue #4865: On MacOSX /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages is added to
5669 the end sys.path, for compatibility with the system install of Python.
5670
Antoine Pitrou3a652b12009-03-23 18:52:06 +00005671- Issue #4688: Add a heuristic so that tuples and dicts containing only
5672 untrackable objects are not tracked by the garbage collector. This can
5673 reduce the size of collections and therefore the garbage collection overhead
5674 on long-running programs, depending on their particular use of datatypes.
5675
Mark Dickinson17e4fdd2009-03-23 18:44:57 +00005676- Issue #5512: Rewrite PyLong long division algorithm (x_divrem) to
5677 improve its performance. Long divisions and remainder operations
5678 are now between 50% and 150% faster.
5679
Mark Dickinsonbd792642009-03-18 20:06:12 +00005680- Issue #4258: Make it possible to use base 2**30 instead of base
5681 2**15 for the internal representation of integers, for performance
5682 reasons. Base 2**30 is enabled by default on 64-bit machines. Add
5683 --enable-big-digits option to configure, which overrides the
5684 default. Add sys.int_info structseq to provide information about
5685 the internal format.
5686
Mark Dickinson081dfee2009-03-18 14:47:41 +00005687- Issue #4474: PyUnicode_FromWideChar now converts characters outside
5688 the BMP to surrogate pairs, on systems with sizeof(wchar_t) == 4
5689 and sizeof(Py_UNICODE) == 2.
5690
Eric Smith8ec90442009-03-14 12:29:34 +00005691- Issue #5237: Allow auto-numbered fields in str.format(). For
5692 example: '{} {}'.format(1, 2) == '1 2'.
5693
Antoine Pitrou652e7072009-03-13 19:25:20 +00005694- Issue #5392: when a very low recursion limit was set, the interpreter would
5695 abort with a fatal error after the recursion limit was hit twice.
5696
Matthias Klose042f1332009-04-04 14:32:42 +00005697- Issue #3845: In PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags avoid invalid memory access with
5698 short file names.
5699
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00005700Library
5701-------
5702
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00005703- Issue #2625: added missing items() call to the for loop in
R. David Murray548ac412009-04-02 19:44:43 +00005704 mailbox.MH.get_message().
5705
Hye-Shik Chang944820b2009-04-02 10:33:16 +00005706- Issue #5640: Fix _multibytecodec so that CJK codecs don't repeat
5707 error substitutions from non-strict codec error callbacks in
5708 incrementalencoder and StreamWriter.
5709
Georg Brandl33c28812009-04-01 23:07:29 +00005710- Issue #5656: Fix the coverage reporting when running the test suite with
5711 the -T argument.
5712
Raymond Hettinger3f10a952009-04-01 19:05:50 +00005713- Issue #5647: MutableSet.__iand__() no longer mutates self during iteration.
5714
Georg Brandl4ed72ac2009-04-01 04:28:33 +00005715- Issue #5624: Fix the _winreg module name still used in several modules.
5716
Benjamin Petersona1b49012009-03-31 23:11:32 +00005717- Issue #5628: Fix io.TextIOWrapper.read() with a unreadable buffer.
5718
Jesse Nollera9314042009-03-31 22:36:44 +00005719- Issue #5619: Multiprocessing children disobey the debug flag and causes
5720 popups on windows buildbots. Patch applied to work around this issue.
5721
Jesse Noller32d68c22009-03-31 18:48:42 +00005722- Issue #5400: Added patch for multiprocessing on netbsd compilation/support
5723
Hirokazu Yamamoto16caab02009-03-31 13:44:06 +00005724- Issue #5387: Fixed mmap.move crash by integer overflow.
5725
Jesse Nollerf8d00852009-03-31 03:25:07 +00005726- Issue #5261: Patch multiprocessing's semaphore.c to support context
5727 manager use: "with multiprocessing.Lock()" works now.
5728
Brett Cannon7f6b4f82009-03-30 21:30:26 +00005729- Issue #5236: Change time.strptime() to only take strings. Didn't work with
5730 bytes already but the failure was non-obvious.
5731
Jesse Noller7af4ef82009-03-30 16:47:15 +00005732- Issue #5177: Multiprocessing's SocketListener class now uses
5733 socket.SO_REUSEADDR on all connections so that the user no longer needs
5734 to wait 120 seconds for the socket to expire.
5735
Benjamin Peterson48e24782009-03-29 13:02:52 +00005736- Issue #5595: Fix UnboundedLocalError in ntpath.ismount().
5737
Antoine Pitrou66994e12009-03-29 00:45:26 +00005738- Issue #1174606: Calling read() without arguments of an unbounded file
5739 (typically /dev/zero under Unix) could crash the interpreter.
5740
Benjamin Peterson59406a92009-03-26 17:10:29 +00005741- The max_buffer_size arguments of io.BufferedWriter, io.BufferedRWPair, and
5742 io.BufferedRandom have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.2.
5743
Lars Gustäbel42e00912009-03-22 20:34:29 +00005744- Issue #5068: Fixed the tarfile._BZ2Proxy.read() method that would loop
5745 forever on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used
5746 with mode 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or
5747 partial bzip2 compressed data.
5748
Mark Dickinson79f52032009-03-17 23:12:51 +00005749- Issue #2110: Add support for thousands separator and 'n' type
5750 specifier to Decimal.__format__
5751
Mark Dickinson9c59fe02009-03-17 18:15:08 +00005752- Fix Decimal.__format__ bug that swapped the meanings of the '<' and
5753 '>' alignment characters.
5754
Antoine Pitrou0ae29cf2009-03-13 22:33:17 +00005755- The error detection code in FileIO.close() could fail to reflect the `errno`
5756 value, and report it as -1 instead.
5757
Antoine Pitroua28fcfd2009-03-13 23:42:55 +00005758- Issue #5016: FileIO.seekable() could return False if the file position
5759 was negative when truncated to a C int. Patch by Victor Stinner.
5760
Mark Dickinsonae681df2009-03-21 10:26:31 +00005761Extension Modules
5762-----------------
5763
Benjamin Petersone099b372009-04-04 17:09:35 +00005764- Issue #5391: mmap now deals exclusively with bytes.
5765
Mark Dickinsonae681df2009-03-21 10:26:31 +00005766- Issue #5463: In struct module, remove deprecated overflow wrapping
5767 when packing an integer: struct.pack('=L', -1) now raises
Mark Dickinsonb40b9472009-03-29 16:58:21 +00005768 struct.error instead of returning b'\xff\xff\xff\xff'. The
5769 _PY_STRUCT_RANGE_CHECKING and _PY_STRUCT_OVERFLOW_MASKING constants
5770 have been removed from the struct module.
Mark Dickinsonae681df2009-03-21 10:26:31 +00005771
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00005772
Benjamin Petersona58a6262009-03-07 16:34:40 +00005773What's New in Python 3.1 alpha 1
Barry Warsaw97f005d2008-12-03 16:46:14 +00005774================================
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00005775
Benjamin Petersona58a6262009-03-07 16:34:40 +00005776*Release date: 2009-03-07*
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00005777
5778Core and Builtins
5779-----------------
5780
Benjamin Peterson4fa88fa2009-03-04 00:14:51 +00005781- The io module has been reimplemented in C for speed.
5782
Raymond Hettingerb0d56af2009-03-03 10:52:49 +00005783- Give dict views an informative __repr__.
5784
Eric Smith5e5c0db2009-02-20 14:25:03 +00005785- Issue #5247: Improve error message when unknown format codes are
5786 used when using str.format() with str, int, and float arguments.
5787
Hirokazu Yamamoto575d1332009-02-16 09:13:20 +00005788- Issue #5249: time.strftime returned malformed string when format string
5789 contained non ascii character on windows.
5790
Benjamin Petersonf5b52242009-03-02 23:31:26 +00005791- Issue #4626: compile(), exec(), and eval() ignore the coding cookie if the
5792 source has already been decoded into str.
5793
Antoine Pitrou79eee6b2009-02-13 14:01:05 +00005794- Issue #5186: Reduce hash collisions for objects with no __hash__ method by
5795 rotating the object pointer by 4 bits to the right.
5796
Mark Dickinson87ec0852009-02-09 17:15:59 +00005797- Issue #4575: Fix Py_IS_INFINITY macro to work correctly on x87 FPUs:
5798 it now forces its argument to double before testing for infinity.
5799
Benjamin Petersonee1ae7c2009-02-08 21:07:20 +00005800- Issue #5137: Make len() correctly raise a TypeError when a __len__ method
5801 returns a non-number type.
5802
Benjamin Peterson87618552009-02-08 15:00:52 +00005803- Issue #5182: Removed memoryview.__str__.
5804
Mark Dickinsonc008a172009-02-01 13:59:22 +00005805- Issue #1717: Removed builtin cmp() function, dropped tp_compare
5806 slot, the C API functions PyObject_Compare and PyUnicode_Compare and
Mark Dickinsone94c6792009-02-02 20:36:42 +00005807 the type definition cmpfunc. The tp_compare slot has been renamed
5808 to tp_reserved, and is reserved for future usage.
Mark Dickinsonf02e0aa2009-02-01 12:13:56 +00005809
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00005810- Issue #1242657: the __len__() and __length_hint__() calls in several tools
Raymond Hettingere8364232009-02-02 22:55:09 +00005811 were suppressing all exceptions. These include list() and bytearray().
5812
Mark Dickinson1124e712009-01-28 21:25:58 +00005813- Issue #4707: round(x, n) now returns an integer if x is an integer.
5814 Previously it returned a float.
5815
Antoine Pitroub52ec782009-01-25 16:34:23 +00005816- Issue #4753: By enabling a configure option named '--with-computed-gotos'
5817 on compilers that support it (notably: gcc, SunPro, icc), the bytecode
5818 evaluation loop is compiled with a new dispatch mechanism which gives
5819 speedups of up to 20%, depending on the system, on various benchmarks.
5820
Antoine Pitrou81fabdb2009-01-22 10:11:36 +00005821- Issue #4874: Most builtin decoders now reject unicode input.
5822
Mark Dickinson9ffc0202009-01-20 20:45:53 +00005823- Issue #4842: Don't allow trailing 'L' when constructing an integer
5824 from a string.
5825
Benjamin Peterson05e782f2009-01-19 15:15:02 +00005826- Issue #4991: os.fdopen now raises an OSError for invalid file descriptors.
5827
Antoine Pitroue4bc7f62009-01-17 21:06:43 +00005828- Issue #4838: When a module is deallocated, free the memory backing the
5829 optional module state data.
5830
Mark Dickinson8055afd2009-01-17 10:04:45 +00005831- Issue #4910: Rename nb_long slot to nb_reserved, and change its
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00005832 type to ``(void *)``.
Mark Dickinson8055afd2009-01-17 10:04:45 +00005833
Antoine Pitrou8d4e5052009-01-13 22:59:11 +00005834- Issue #4935: The overflow checking code in the expandtabs() method common
5835 to str, bytes and bytearray could be optimized away by the compiler, letting
5836 the interpreter segfault instead of raising an error.
5837
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf343e012009-01-12 23:58:21 +00005838- Issue #3720: Fix a crash when an iterator modifies its class and removes its
5839 __next__ method.
5840
Mark Dickinsone5e298f2009-01-12 20:49:19 +00005841- Issue #4910: Builtin int() function and PyNumber_Long/PyNumber_Int API
5842 function no longer attempt to call the __long__ slot to convert an object
5843 to an integer. Only the __int__ and __trunc__ slots are examined.
5844
Martin v. Löwis7c2b66c2009-01-12 08:21:03 +00005845- Issue #4893: Use NT threading on CE.
5846
Martin v. Löwisec59d042009-01-12 07:59:10 +00005847- Issue #4915: Port sysmodule to Windows CE.
5848
Antoine Pitrouab868312009-01-10 15:40:25 +00005849- Issue #4868: utf-8, utf-16 and latin1 decoding are now 2x to 4x faster. The
5850 common cases are optimized thanks to a dedicated fast path and a moderate
5851 amount of loop unrolling.
5852
Antoine Pitrou14b78f52009-01-09 22:27:08 +00005853- Issue #4074: Change the criteria for doing a full garbage collection (i.e.
5854 collecting the oldest generation) so that allocating lots of objects without
5855 destroying them does not show quadratic performance. Based on a proposal by
5856 Martin von Löwis at
5857 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080579.html.
5858
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00005859- Issue #4604: Some objects of the I/O library could still be used after
Antoine Pitrou8043cf82009-01-09 19:54:29 +00005860 having been closed (for instance, a read() call could return some
5861 previously buffered data). Patch by Dmitry Vasiliev.
5862
Antoine Pitrou05608432009-01-09 18:53:14 +00005863- Issue #4705: Fix the -u ("unbuffered binary stdout and stderr") command-line
5864 flag to work properly. Furthermore, when specifying -u, the text stdout
5865 and stderr streams have line-by-line buffering enabled (the default being
5866 to buffer arbitrary chunks of data).
5867
Raymond Hettinger35631532009-01-09 03:58:09 +00005868- The internal table, _PyLong_DigitValue, is now an array of unsigned chars
5869 instead of ints (reducing its size from 4 to 8 times thereby reducing
5870 Python's overall memory).
5871
Antoine Pitroud35cbf62009-01-06 19:02:24 +00005872- Issue #1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with
5873 an existing .py counterpart, override the co_filename attributes of all
5874 code objects if the original filename is obsolete (which can happen if the
5875 file has been renamed, moved, or if it is accessed through different paths).
5876 Patch by Ziga Seilnacht and Jean-Paul Calderone.
5877
Antoine Pitrouc3b39242009-01-03 16:59:18 +00005878- Issue #4580: Fix slicing of memoryviews when the item size is greater than
5879 one byte. Also fixes the meaning of len() so that it returns the number of
5880 items, rather than the size in bytes.
5881
Martin v. Löwis5c88d812009-01-02 20:47:48 +00005882- Issue #4075: Use OutputDebugStringW in Py_FatalError.
5883
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc374e2202009-01-01 23:05:36 +00005884- Issue #4747: When the terminal does not use utf-8, executing a script with
5885 non-ascii characters in its name could fail with a "SyntaxError: None" error.
5886
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00005887- Issue #4797: IOError.filename was not set when ``_fileio.FileIO`` failed
5888 to open file with a bytes filename on Windows.
Hirokazu Yamamoto0f22d692009-01-01 16:03:45 +00005889
Antoine Pitrou7ddda782009-01-01 15:35:33 +00005890- Issue #3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator
5891 did not get collected.
5892
Nick Coghlanf1f2f682008-12-30 07:29:12 +00005893- Issue #4701: PyObject_Hash now implicitly calls PyType_Ready on types
5894 where the tp_hash and tp_dict slots are both NULL.
5895
Georg Brandlccc47b62008-12-28 11:44:14 +00005896- Issue #4759: None is now allowed as the first argument of
5897 bytearray.translate(). It was always allowed for bytes.translate().
5898
Skip Montanaro80072cb2008-12-23 03:51:14 +00005899- Added test case to ensure attempts to read from a file opened for writing
5900 fail.
5901
Antoine Pitrou51f3ef92008-12-20 13:14:23 +00005902- Issue #3106: Speedup some comparisons (str/str and int/int).
5903
Antoine Pitrouf289ae62008-12-18 11:06:25 +00005904- Issue #2183: Simplify and optimize bytecode for list, dict and set
5905 comprehensions. Original patch for list comprehensions by Neal Norwitz.
5906
Antoine Pitrou621601a2008-12-17 23:18:19 +00005907- Issue #2467: gc.DEBUG_STATS reported invalid elapsed times. Also, always
5908 print elapsed times, not only when some objects are uncollectable /
5909 unreachable. Original patch by Neil Schemenauer.
5910
Mark Dickinson54bc1ec2008-12-17 16:19:07 +00005911- Issue #3439: Add a bit_length method to int.
5912
Mark Dickinsonda2706b2008-12-11 18:03:03 +00005913- Issue #2173: When getting device encoding, check that return value of
5914 nl_langinfo is not the empty string. This was causing silent build
5915 failures on OS X.
5916
Jeffrey Yasskinb9083f32008-12-11 06:18:33 +00005917- Issue #4597: Fixed several opcodes that weren't always propagating
5918 exceptions.
5919
5920- Issue #4589: Fixed exception handling when the __exit__ function of a
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc10b24e82008-12-10 23:49:33 +00005921 context manager returns a value that cannot be converted to a bool.
5922
Mark Dickinsonfd24b322008-12-06 15:33:31 +00005923- Issue #4445: Replace "sizeof(PyBytesObject)" with
5924 "offsetof(PyBytesObject, ob_sval) + 1" when allocating memory for
5925 bytes instances. On a typical machine this saves 3 bytes of memory
5926 (on average) per allocation of a bytes instance.
5927
Christian Heimesa872de52008-12-05 08:26:55 +00005928- Issue #4533: File read operation was dreadfully slow due to a slowly
5929 growing read buffer. Fixed by using the same growth rate algorithm as
5930 Python 2.x.
5931
Antoine Pitrou5504e892008-12-06 21:27:53 +00005932- Issue #4509: Various issues surrounding resize of bytearray objects to
5933 which there are buffer exports (e.g. memoryview instances).
5934
Georg Brandlf9734072008-12-07 15:30:06 +00005935- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()``
5936 method on file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still
5937 kept open but the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO``
5938 object also got a new readonly attribute ``closefd``.
Matthias Klose7e1b8fa2008-11-26 17:22:04 +00005939
Antoine Pitroubc420402008-12-07 20:14:49 +00005940- Issue #4569: Interpreter crash when mutating a memoryview with an item size
5941 larger than 1.
5942
Benjamin Peterson371ccfb2008-12-27 19:03:36 +00005943- Issue #4748: Lambda generators no longer return a value.
5944
Gregory P. Smithccc5ae72009-03-02 05:21:55 +00005945- The re.sub(), re.subn() and re.split() functions now accept a flags parameter.
5946
Walter Dörwaldc1651a02009-05-03 22:55:55 +00005947- Issue #5108: Handle %s like %S, %R and %A in PyUnicode_FromFormatV(): Call
5948 PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8() once, remember the result and output it in a second
5949 step. This avoids problems with counting UTF-8 bytes that ignores the effect
5950 of using the replace error handler in PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8().
5951
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00005952Library
5953-------
Tarek Ziadé38e3d512009-02-27 12:58:56 +00005954
Tarek Ziadé04fe7c02009-10-25 23:08:47 +00005955- Issue #7071: byte-compilation in Distutils is now done with respect to
5956 sys.dont_write_bytecode.
5957
Victor Stinnere125f132010-05-15 21:04:43 +00005958- Issue #7066: archive_util.make_archive now restores the cwd if an error is
Tarek Ziadé978cca62009-10-24 13:38:27 +00005959 raised. Initial patch by Ezio Melotti.
5960
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +00005961- Issue #6516: Added owner/group support when creating tar archives in
Tarek Ziadé05b30342009-10-02 23:56:02 +00005962 Distutils.
5963
Tarek Ziadé31d46072009-09-21 13:55:19 +00005964- Issue #6954: Fixed crash when using DISTUTILS_DEBUG flag in Distutils.
5965
Tarek Ziadé165581c2009-09-09 08:48:07 +00005966- Issue #6163: Fixed HP-UX runtime library dir options in
5967 distutils.unixcompiler. Initial patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar and
5968 Michael Haubenwallner.
5969
Tarek Ziadé4a608c02009-08-20 21:28:05 +00005970- Issue #6693: New functions in site.py to get user/global site packages paths.
5971
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbc347802009-07-28 22:18:57 +00005972- Issue #6511: ZipFile now raises BadZipfile (instead of an IOError) when
5973 opening an empty or very small file.
5974
5975- Issue #6545: Removed assert statements in distutils.Extension, so the
Tarek Ziadé2f19bb12009-07-22 08:57:28 +00005976 behavior is similar when used with -O.
5977
Benjamin Petersonbed7d042009-07-19 21:01:52 +00005978- unittest has been split up into a package. All old names should still work.
5979
Tarek Ziadéf8926b22009-07-16 16:18:19 +00005980- Issue #6466: now distutils.cygwinccompiler and distutils.emxccompiler
5981 uses the same refactored function to get gcc/ld/dllwrap versions numbers.
5982 It's `distutils.util.get_compiler_versions`. Added deprecation warnings
5983 for the obsolete get_versions() functions.
5984
Alexandre Vassalottie52e3782009-07-17 09:18:18 +00005985- Issue #6433: fixed issues with multiprocessing.pool.map hanging on empty list
5986
5987- Issue #6314: logging: Extra checks on the "level" argument in more places.
5988
Florent Xiclunae7eaec62010-08-08 18:03:44 +00005989- Issue #2622: Fixed an ImportError when importing email.message from a
Alexandre Vassalottie52e3782009-07-17 09:18:18 +00005990 standalone application built with py2exe or py2app.
5991
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00005992- Issue #6455: Fixed test_build_ext under win32.
Tarek Ziadéb7815e32009-07-10 09:14:31 +00005993
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00005994- Issue #6377: Enabled the compiler option, and deprecate its usage as an
Tarek Ziadédd07ebb2009-07-06 13:52:17 +00005995 attribute.
5996
Tarek Ziadé05bf01a2009-07-04 02:04:21 +00005997- Issue #6413: Fixed the log level in distutils.dist for announce.
5998
Tarek Ziadée10d6de2009-07-03 08:33:28 +00005999- Issue #6403: Fixed package path usage in build_ext.
6000
Alexandre Vassalottie52e3782009-07-17 09:18:18 +00006001- Issues #5155, 5313, 5331: multiprocessing.Process._bootstrap was
6002 unconditionally calling "os.close(sys.stdin.fileno())" resulting in file
6003 descriptor errors
6004
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00006005- Issue #6365: Distutils build_ext inplace mode was copying the compiled
Tarek Ziadé0156f912009-06-29 16:19:22 +00006006 extension in a subdirectory if the extension name had dots.
6007
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00006008- Issue #6164: Added an AIX specific linker argument in Distutils
Tarek Ziadé8f480e52009-06-28 21:30:52 +00006009 unixcompiler. Original patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
6010
Tarek Ziadé25bd2062009-06-28 21:26:27 +00006011- Issue #6286: Now Distutils upload command is based on urllib2 instead of
6012 httplib, allowing the usage of http_proxy.
6013
Tarek Ziadé5e06a652009-06-16 07:43:42 +00006014- Issue #6287: Added the license field in Distutils documentation.
6015
Tarek Ziadéff543362009-06-11 09:25:41 +00006016- Issue #6263: Fixed syntax error in distutils.cygwincompiler.
6017
Tarek Ziadéabcc3f42009-06-11 08:31:17 +00006018- Issue #5201: distutils.sysconfig.parse_makefile() now understands `$$`
6019 in Makefiles. This prevents compile errors when using syntax like:
6020 `LDFLAGS='-rpath=\$$LIB:/some/other/path'`. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
6021
Hirokazu Yamamoto2703fd92009-05-29 09:14:04 +00006022- Issue #6131: test_modulefinder leaked when run after test_distutils.
6023 Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
6024
Tarek Ziadé77c8b372009-05-28 13:01:13 +00006025- Issue #6048: Now Distutils uses the tarfile module in archive_util.
6026
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00006027- Issue #6062: In distutils, fixed the package option of build_ext. Feedback
Tarek Ziadé822eb842009-05-19 16:22:57 +00006028 and tests on pywin32 by Tim Golden.
6029
Tarek Ziadé93fb3aa2009-05-18 12:29:06 +00006030- Issue #6053: Fixed distutils tests on win32. patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
6031
Tarek Ziadéd18a84e2009-05-18 08:07:46 +00006032- Issue #6046: Fixed the library extension when distutils build_ext is used
6033 inplace. Initial patch by Roumen Petrov.
6034
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00006035- Issue #6041: Now distutils `sdist` and `register` commands use `check` as a
Tarek Ziadé5af55c62009-05-16 16:52:13 +00006036 subcommand.
6037
Tarek Ziadé4210c6e2009-05-14 20:20:47 +00006038- Issue #6022: a test file was created in the current working directory by
6039 test_get_outputs in Distutils.
6040
Tarek Ziadéff0e5002009-05-12 17:14:01 +00006041- Issue #5977: distutils build_ext.get_outputs was not taking into account the
6042 inplace option. Initial patch by kxroberto.
6043
Tarek Ziadé06fbee12009-05-10 10:34:01 +00006044- Issue #5984: distutils.command.build_ext.check_extensions_list checks were broken
6045 for old-style extensions.
6046
Tarek Ziadébe5b1b92009-05-09 10:09:11 +00006047- Issue #5976: Fixed Distutils test_check_environ.
6048
Tarek Ziadé5662d3e2009-05-07 21:24:43 +00006049- Issue #5941: Distutils build_clib command was not working anymore because
6050 of an incomplete costumization of the archiver command. Added ARFLAGS in the
6051 Makefile besides AR and make Distutils use it. Original patch by David
6052 Cournapeau.
6053
R. David Murrayb507d2e2009-04-29 15:34:32 +00006054- Issue #2245: aifc now skips chunk types it doesn't recognize, per spec.
6055
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00006056- Issue #5874: distutils.tests.test_config_cmd is not locale-sensitive
Tarek Ziadé81623822009-04-29 08:07:44 +00006057 anymore.
6058
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00006059- Issue #5810: Fixed Distutils test_build_scripts so it uses
Tarek Ziadé939f9c82009-04-25 12:53:56 +00006060 sysconfig.get_config_vars.
6061
Tarek Ziadé23336082009-04-25 12:39:56 +00006062- Issue #4951: Fixed failure in test_httpservers.
6063
Thomas Hellerd3cfe992009-04-24 20:10:24 +00006064- Issue #5795: Fixed test_distutils failure on Debian ppc.
6065
Tarek Ziadé822e1d42009-04-13 12:37:57 +00006066- Issue #5607: fixed Distutils test_get_platform for Mac OS X fat binaries.
6067
Georg Brandl1f9fa312009-04-27 16:42:58 +00006068- Issue #5741: don't disallow "%%" (which is an escape for "%") when setting
6069 a value in SafeConfigParser.
6070
Tarek Ziadéf396ecf2009-04-11 15:00:43 +00006071- Issue #5732: added a new command in Distutils: check.
6072
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00006073- Issue #5731: Distutils bdist_wininst no longer worked on non-Windows
Tarek Ziadéa6191802009-04-09 22:02:39 +00006074 platforms. Initial patch by Paul Moore.
6075
Tarek Ziadéf6370502009-04-05 22:57:21 +00006076- Issue #5095: Added bdist_msi to the list of bdist supported formats.
6077 Initial fix by Steven Bethard.
6078
Tarek Ziadé889b0aa2009-04-05 21:49:36 +00006079- Issue #1491431: Fixed distutils.filelist.glob_to_re for edge cases.
6080 Initial fix by Wayne Davison.
6081
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00006082- Issue #5694: removed spurious test output in Distutils (test_clean).
Tarek Ziadéea261632009-04-05 18:33:34 +00006083
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00006084- Issue #1326077: fix the formatting of SyntaxErrors by the traceback module.
Georg Brandl236f7972009-04-05 14:28:42 +00006085
Brett Cannonf47e84c2009-04-01 16:06:01 +00006086- Issue #1665206 (partially): Move imports in cgitb to the top of the module
6087 instead of performing them in functions. Helps prevent import deadlocking in
6088 threads.
6089
R. David Murraye59482e2009-04-01 03:42:00 +00006090- Issue #2522: locale.format now checks its first argument to ensure it has
6091 been passed only one pattern, avoiding mysterious errors where it appeared
6092 that it was failing to do localization.
6093
Tarek Ziadéb2e36f12009-03-31 22:37:55 +00006094- Issue #5583: Added optional Extensions in Distutils. Initial patch by Georg
6095 Brandl.
6096
Antoine Pitrou350370c2009-03-14 00:13:13 +00006097- Issue #1222: locale.format() bug when the thousands separator is a space
6098 character.
6099
Tarek Ziadé516db942009-03-11 12:52:00 +00006100- Issue #5472: Fixed distutils.test_util tear down. Original patch by
6101 Tim Golden.
6102
Raymond Hettinger5bb0f0e2009-03-10 12:56:32 +00006103- collections.deque() objects now have a read-only attribute called maxlen.
6104
Guilherme Polof45b4cc2009-03-07 02:19:14 +00006105- Issue #2638: Show a window constructed with tkSimpleDialog.Dialog only after
6106 it is has been populated and properly configured in order to prevent
6107 window flashing.
6108
Guilherme Polo56f5be52009-03-07 01:54:57 +00006109- Issue #4792: Prevent a segfault in _tkinter by using the
6110 guaranteed to be safe interp argument given to the PythonCmd in place of
6111 the Tcl interpreter taken from a PythonCmd_ClientData.
6112
6113- Issue #5193: Guarantee that tkinter.Text.search returns a string.
6114
Tarek Ziadé63b64c02009-03-07 00:51:53 +00006115- Issue #5394: removed > 2.3 syntax from distutils.msvc9compiler.
6116 Original patch by Akira Kitada.
6117
Hirokazu Yamamoto54d0df62009-03-06 03:04:07 +00006118- Issue #5334: array.fromfile() failed to insert values when EOFError was raised.
6119
Hirokazu Yamamoto8e722bc2009-03-05 14:33:01 +00006120- Issue #5385: Fixed mmap crash after resize failure on windows.
6121
Hirokazu Yamamoto0c988172009-03-03 22:41:26 +00006122- Issue #5179: Fixed subprocess handle leak on failure on windows.
6123
Raymond Hettinger2d32f632009-03-02 21:24:57 +00006124- PEP 372: Added collections.OrderedDict().
6125
Raymond Hettingera4f52b12009-03-02 22:28:31 +00006126- The _asdict() for method for namedtuples now returns an OrderedDict().
6127
Raymond Hettinger0663a1e2009-03-02 23:06:00 +00006128- configparser now defaults to using an ordered dictionary.
6129
Benjamin Petersone0124bd2009-03-09 21:04:33 +00006130- Issue #5401: Fixed a performance problem in mimetypes when ``from mimetypes
6131 import guess_extension`` was used.
6132
Hirokazu Yamamoto10c99372009-02-28 12:21:53 +00006133- Issue #1733986: Fixed mmap crash in accessing elements of second map object
6134 with same tagname but larger size than first map. (Windows)
6135
Hirokazu Yamamoto39c6dea2009-02-28 10:56:50 +00006136- Issue #5386: mmap.write_byte didn't check map size, so it could cause buffer
6137 overrun.
6138
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00006139- Issue #1533164: Installed but not listed ``*.pyo`` was breaking Distutils
Tarek Ziadéf0721222009-02-28 10:16:43 +00006140 bdist_rpm command.
6141
6142- Issue #5378: added --quiet option to Distutils bdist_rpm command.
6143
Tarek Ziadé38e3d512009-02-27 12:58:56 +00006144- Issue #5052: make Distutils compatible with 2.3 again.
6145
Tarek Ziadé0f31e6d2009-02-25 22:31:38 +00006146- Issue #5316: Fixed buildbot failures introduced by multiple inheritance
6147 in Distutils tests.
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00006148
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00006149- Issue #5287: Add exception handling around findCaller() call to help out
6150 IronPython.
6151
Hirokazu Yamamoto0654ccd2009-02-18 16:38:00 +00006152- Issue #5282: Fixed mmap resize on 32bit windows and unix. When offset > 0,
6153 The file was resized to wrong size.
6154
6155- Issue #5292: Fixed mmap crash on its boundary access m[len(m)].
6156
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00006157- Issue #2279: distutils.sdist.add_defaults now add files
Tarek Ziadé0d0506e2009-02-16 21:49:12 +00006158 from the package_data and the data_files metadata.
6159
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00006160- Issue #5257: refactored all tests in distutils, so they use
Tarek Ziadéc1375d52009-02-14 14:35:51 +00006161 support.TempdirManager, to avoid writing in the tests directory.
6162
Tarek Ziadé68c50952009-02-13 23:04:17 +00006163- Issue #4524: distutils build_script command failed with --with-suffix=3.
6164 Initial patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
6165
Tarek Ziadé811d6242009-02-13 22:26:15 +00006166- Issue #2461: added tests for distutils.util
6167
Mark Dickinsonc28ad272009-02-12 17:58:36 +00006168- Issue #4998: The memory saving effect of __slots__ had been lost on Fractions
6169 which inherited from numbers.py which did not have __slots__ defined. The
6170 numbers hierarchy now has its own __slots__ declarations.
6171
Antoine Pitroub353c122009-02-11 00:39:14 +00006172- Issue #4631: Fix urlopen() result when an HTTP response uses chunked
6173 encoding.
6174
Thomas Heller465c8022009-02-10 18:59:04 +00006175- Issue #5203: Fixed ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a
6176 function without argtypes (only occurs if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false).
6177
Tarek Ziadé7d5e9872009-02-10 12:36:33 +00006178- Issue #3386: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument was ignored
6179 under NT and OS2. Patch by Philip Jenvey.
6180
Brett Cannonbefb14f2009-02-10 02:10:16 +00006181- Issue #5128: Make compileall properly inspect bytecode to determine if needs
6182 to be recreated. This avoids a timing hole thanks to the old reliance on the
6183 ctime of the files involved.
6184
Guilherme Polob681df42009-02-09 22:33:59 +00006185- Issue #5122: Synchronize tk load failure check to prevent a potential
6186 deadlock.
6187
Benjamin Petersona86f2c02009-02-10 02:41:10 +00006188- Issue #1818: collections.namedtuple() now supports a keyword argument
6189 'rename' which lets invalid fieldnames be automatically converted to
6190 positional names in the form, _1, _2, ...
6191
Guilherme Poloae098992009-02-09 16:44:24 +00006192- Issue #4890: Handle empty text search pattern in Tkinter.Text.search.
6193
Nick Coghlan9a1d6e32009-02-08 03:37:27 +00006194- Issue #4512 (part 2): Promote ``ZipImporter._get_filename()`` to be a
6195 public documented method ``ZipImporter.get_filename()``.
6196
Nick Coghlan3f48ae32009-02-08 01:58:26 +00006197- Issue #4195: The ``runpy`` module (and the ``-m`` switch) now support
6198 the execution of packages by looking for and executing a ``__main__``
6199 submodule when a package name is supplied. Initial patch by Andi
6200 Vajda.
6201
Guilherme Polo491aee22009-02-06 23:16:11 +00006202- Issue #1731706: Call Tcl_ConditionFinalize for Tcl_Conditions that will
6203 not be used again (this requires Tcl/Tk 8.3.1), also fix a memory leak in
6204 Tkapp_Call when calling from a thread different than the one that created
6205 the Tcl interpreter. Patch by Robert Hancock.
6206
Eric Smith0e5b5622009-02-06 01:32:42 +00006207- Issue #4285: Change sys.version_info to be a named tuple. Patch by
6208 Ross Light.
6209
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00006210- Issue #1520877: Now distutils.sysconfig reads $AR from the
Tarek Ziadéd3409de2009-02-06 01:18:36 +00006211 environment/Makefile. Patch by Douglas Greiman.
6212
Tarek Ziadé70a74eb2009-02-06 00:38:35 +00006213- Issue #1276768: The verbose option was not used in the code of
6214 distutils.file_util and distutils.dir_util.
6215
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00006216- Issue #5132: Fixed trouble building extensions under Solaris with
Tarek Ziadé5874ef12009-02-05 22:56:14 +00006217 --enabled-shared activated. Initial patch by Dave Peterson.
6218
Guilherme Polo7f423952009-02-02 21:17:09 +00006219- Issue #1581476: Always use the Tcl global namespace when calling into Tcl.
6220
Raymond Hettinger85602262009-02-03 04:19:10 +00006221- The shelve module now defaults to pickle protocol 3.
6222
Brett Cannone61426e2009-01-30 01:31:34 +00006223- Fix a bug in the trace module where a bytes object from co_lnotab had its
6224 items being passed through ord().
6225
Antoine Pitrou0dcc3cd2009-01-29 20:26:59 +00006226- Issue #2047: shutil.move() could believe that its destination path was
6227 inside its source path if it began with the same letters (e.g. "src" vs.
6228 "src.new").
6229
Guilherme Polo5f238482009-01-28 14:41:10 +00006230- Added the ttk module. See issue #2983: Ttk support for Tkinter.
6231
Raymond Hettinger89e12962009-01-26 02:09:03 +00006232- Removed isSequenceType(), isMappingType, and isNumberType() from the
6233 operator module; use the abstract base classes instead. Also removed
6234 the repeat() function; use mul() instead.
6235
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00006236- Issue #5021: doctest.testfile() did not create __name__ and
Raymond Hettinger0f055172009-01-27 10:06:09 +00006237 collections.namedtuple() relied on __name__ being defined.
6238
6239- Backport importlib from Python 3.1. Only the import_module() function has
6240 been backported to help facilitate transitions from 2.7 to 3.1.
6241
Tarek Ziadé0302cf52009-01-26 17:23:20 +00006242- Issue #1885: distutils. When running sdist with --formats=tar,gztar
6243 the tar file was overriden by the gztar one.
6244
Tarek Ziadé4d4456f2009-01-25 18:27:45 +00006245- Issue #4863: distutils.mwerkscompiler has been removed.
6246
Raymond Hettingerd07d9392009-01-27 04:20:44 +00006247- Added a new itertools functions: combinations_with_replacement()
6248 and compress().
Raymond Hettinger6b3b0fc2009-01-26 02:56:58 +00006249
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00006250- Issue #5032: added a step argument to itertools.count() and
Raymond Hettinger30729212009-02-12 06:28:27 +00006251 allowed non-integer arguments.
6252
Jesse Noller41faa542009-01-25 03:45:53 +00006253- Fix and properly document the multiprocessing module's logging
6254 support, expose the internal levels and provide proper usage
6255 examples.
6256
Mark Dickinsoncddcf442009-01-24 21:46:33 +00006257- Issue #1672332: fix unpickling of subnormal floats, which was
6258 producing a ValueError on some platforms.
6259
Martin v. Löwisacbf4612009-01-24 16:19:45 +00006260- Issue #3881: Help Tcl to load even when started through the
6261 unreadable local symlink to "Program Files" on Vista.
6262
Martin v. Löwis59e47792009-01-24 14:10:07 +00006263- Issue #4710: Extract directories properly in the zipfile module;
6264 allow adding directories to a zipfile.
6265
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00006266- Issue #3807: _multiprocessing build fails when configure is passed
Jesse Noller6fd47e22009-01-23 14:09:08 +00006267 --without-threads argument. When this occurs, _multiprocessing will
6268 be disabled, and not compiled.
6269
Antoine Pitrou08838b62009-01-21 00:55:13 +00006270- Issue #5008: When a file is opened in append mode with the new IO library,
6271 do an explicit seek to the end of file (so that e.g. tell() returns the
6272 file size rather than 0). This is consistent with the behaviour of the
6273 traditional 2.x file object.
6274
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00006275- Issue #5013: Fixed a bug in FileHandler which occurred when the delay
6276 parameter was set.
6277
Mark Dickinson8dd05142009-01-20 20:43:58 +00006278- Issue #4842: Always append a trailing 'L' when pickling longs using
6279 pickle protocol 0. When reading, the 'L' is optional.
6280
Brett Cannonafccd632009-01-20 02:21:27 +00006281- Add the importlib package.
6282
Jesse Noller9a0fc972009-01-18 21:12:58 +00006283- Issue #4301: Patch the logging module to add processName support, remove
6284 _check_logger_class from multiprocessing.
6285
Jesse Noller1cbb17a2009-01-18 19:45:18 +00006286- Issue #3325: Remove python2.x try: except: imports for old cPickle from
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00006287 multiprocessing.
Jesse Nollerf70a5382009-01-18 19:44:02 +00006288
Benjamin Peterson9953a8d2009-01-17 04:15:01 +00006289- Issue #4959: inspect.formatargspec now works for keyword only arguments
6290 without defaults.
6291
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00006292- Issue #3321: ``_multiprocessing.Connection()`` doesn't check handle; added checks
6293 for Unix machines for negative handles and large int handles. Without this check
Jesse Noller6214edd2009-01-19 16:23:53 +00006294 it is possible to segfault the interpreter.
6295
Jesse Nollerb0516a62009-01-18 03:11:38 +00006296- Issue #4449: AssertionError in mp_benchmarks.py, caused by an underlying issue
6297 in sharedctypes.py.
6298
6299- Issue #1225107: inspect.isclass() returned True for instances with a custom
6300 __getattr__.
6301
Gregory P. Smithde3369f2009-01-12 04:50:11 +00006302- Issue #3826 and #4791: The socket module now closes the underlying socket
6303 appropriately when it is being used via socket.makefile() objects
6304 rather than delaying the close by waiting for garbage collection to do it.
6305
Raymond Hettingerb8baf632009-01-14 02:20:07 +00006306- Issue #1696199: Add collections.Counter() for rapid and convenient
6307 counting.
6308
Antoine Pitrou308705e2009-01-10 16:22:51 +00006309- Issue #3860: GzipFile and BZ2File now support the context manager protocol.
6310
Thomas Heller5e4e4272009-01-08 09:34:20 +00006311- Issue #4867: Fixed a crash in ctypes when passing a string to a
6312 function without defining argtypes.
6313
Antoine Pitrou42db3ef2009-01-04 21:37:59 +00006314- Issue #4272: Add an optional argument to the GzipFile constructor to override
6315 the timestamp in the gzip stream. The default value remains the current time.
6316 The information can be used by e.g. gunzip when decompressing. Patch by
6317 Jacques Frechet.
6318
Mark Dickinson315a20a2009-01-04 21:34:18 +00006319- Restore Python 2.3 compatibility for decimal.py.
6320
Guilherme Polo3f5f8222009-01-03 22:00:39 +00006321- Issue #3638: Remove functions from _tkinter module level that depend on
6322 TkappObject to work with multiple threads.
6323
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00006324- Issue #4718: Adapt the wsgiref package so that it actually works with
6325 Python 3.x, in accordance with the `official amendments of the spec
Antoine Pitrou38a66ad2009-01-03 18:41:49 +00006326 <http://www.wsgi.org/wsgi/Amendments_1.0>`_.
6327
Raymond Hettinger771ed762009-01-03 19:20:32 +00006328- Issue #4796: Added Decimal.from_float() and Context.create_decimal_from_float()
6329 to the decimal module.
6330
Georg Brandl3a9b0622009-01-03 22:07:57 +00006331- Fractions.from_float() no longer loses precision for integers too big to
6332 cast as floats.
6333
Mark Dickinsonf9236412009-01-02 23:23:21 +00006334- Issue #4812: add missing underscore prefix to some internal-use-only
6335 constants in the decimal module. (Dec_0 becomes _Dec_0, etc.)
6336
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00006337- Issue #4790: The nsmallest() and nlargest() functions in the heapq module
Georg Brandl3a9b0622009-01-03 22:07:57 +00006338 did unnecessary work in the common case where no key function was specified.
6339
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00006340- Issue #4795: inspect.isgeneratorfunction() returns False instead of None when
6341 the function is not a generator.
6342
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00006343- Issue #4702: Throwing a DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError in case
6344 no MSVC compiler is found under Windows. Original patch by Philip Jenvey.
Tarek Ziadé9df8ce32008-12-30 23:09:20 +00006345
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00006346- Issue #4646: distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup
Tarek Ziadé4450dcf2008-12-29 22:38:38 +00006347 function. Original patch by Thomas Heller.
6348
Martin v. Löwis1f1620e2008-12-29 16:27:13 +00006349- Issue #3767: Convert Tk object to string in tkColorChooser.
6350
Martin v. Löwise354d782008-12-29 16:03:04 +00006351- Issue #3248: Allow placing ScrolledText in a PanedWindow.
6352
Antoine Pitrou5acd41e2008-12-28 14:29:00 +00006353- Issue #4444: Allow assertRaises() to be used as a context handler, so that
6354 the code under test can be written inline if more practical.
6355
Georg Brandldb7b6b92009-01-01 15:53:14 +00006356- Issue #4739: Add pydoc help topics for symbols, so that e.g. help('@')
6357 works as expected in the interactive environment.
6358
Antoine Pitroudb5fe662008-12-27 15:50:40 +00006359- Issue #4756: zipfile.is_zipfile() now supports file-like objects. Patch by
6360 Gabriel Genellina.
6361
Antoine Pitrou180a3362008-12-14 16:36:46 +00006362- Issue #4574: reading an UTF16-encoded text file crashes if \r on 64-char
6363 boundary.
6364
Nick Coghlanf088e5e2008-12-14 11:50:48 +00006365- Issue #4223: inspect.getsource() will now correctly display source code
6366 for packages loaded via zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302
6367 loader). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
6368
6369- Issue #4201: pdb can now access and display source code loaded via
6370 zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302 loader). Original patch by
6371 Alexander Belopolsky.
6372
6373- Issue #4197: doctests in modules loaded via zipimport (or any other PEP
6374 302 conformant loader) will now work correctly in most cases (they
6375 are still subject to the constraints that exist for all code running
6376 from inside a module loaded via a PEP 302 loader and attempting to
6377 perform IO operations based on __file__). Original patch by
6378 Alexander Belopolsky.
6379
6380- Issues #4082 and #4512: Add runpy support to zipimport in a manner that
6381 allows backporting to maintenance branches. Original patch by
6382 Alexander Belopolsky.
6383
Antoine Pitrou7c59bc62008-12-13 23:20:54 +00006384- Issue #4163: textwrap module: allow word splitting on a hyphen preceded by
6385 a non-ASCII letter.
6386
Lars Gustäbel43fcf3a2008-12-12 14:58:38 +00006387- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
6388
Benjamin Peterson433f32c2008-12-12 01:25:05 +00006389- Issue #4021: tokenize.detect_encoding() now raises a SyntaxError when the
6390 codec cannot be found. This is for compatibility with the builtin behavior.
6391
Facundo Batista708d5812008-12-11 04:20:07 +00006392- Issue #4084: Fix max, min, max_mag and min_mag Decimal methods to
6393 give correct results in the case where one argument is a quiet NaN
6394 and the other is a finite number that requires rounding.
6395
Skip Montanaroc1ce2862008-12-06 17:25:02 +00006396- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat
6397 libs.
6398
Georg Brandlf9734072008-12-07 15:30:06 +00006399- Added the subprocess.check_call_output() convenience function to get output
6400 from a subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
6401
6402- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
6403 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
6404 Content-Disposition headers.
6405
6406- Issue #4384: Added logging integration with warnings module using
6407 captureWarnings(). This change includes a NullHandler which does nothing;
6408 it will be of use to library developers who want to avoid the "No handlers
6409 could be found for logger XXX" message which can appear if the library user
6410 doesn't configure logging.
6411
6412- Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
6413 exception.
6414
Georg Brandleee31162008-12-07 15:15:22 +00006415- Issue #4529: fix the parser module's validation of try-except-finally
6416 statements.
6417
6418- Issue #4458: getopt.gnu_getopt() now recognizes a single "-" as an argument,
6419 not a malformed option.
6420
6421- Added the subprocess.check_output() convenience function to get output
6422 from a subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
6423
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbc9d4742008-12-05 01:40:43 +00006424- Issue #4542: On Windows, binascii.crc32 still accepted str as binary input;
6425 the corresponding tests now pass.
6426
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbc2ce572008-12-05 01:02:21 +00006427- Issue #4537: webbrowser.UnixBrowser would fail to open the browser because
6428 it was calling the wrong open() function.
6429
Fred Drake9a0a65b2008-12-04 19:24:50 +00006430- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
6431 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
6432 Content-Disposition headers.
6433
Matthias Klose2c7e3ee2009-01-10 17:08:25 +00006434- Issue #4861: ctypes.util.find_library(): Robustify. Fix library detection on
6435 biarch systems. Try to rely on ldconfig only, without using objdump and gcc.
6436
Benjamin Peterson5c6d7872009-02-06 02:40:07 +00006437- Issue #5104: The socket module now raises OverflowError when 16-bit port and
6438 protocol numbers are supplied outside the allowed 0-65536 range on bind()
6439 and getservbyport().
6440
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven0a866942009-05-08 14:18:00 +00006441- Windows locale mapping updated to Vista.
6442
Antoine Pitrou2a013ea2008-12-27 20:39:28 +00006443Tools/Demos
6444-----------
6445
Antoine Pitrou8a681222009-02-07 17:13:31 +00006446- Issue #4704: remove use of cmp() in pybench, bump its version number to 2.1,
6447 and make it 2.6-compatible.
6448
Guilherme Poloa7d27972009-01-28 16:06:51 +00006449- Ttk demos added in Demo/tkinter/ttk/
6450
Antoine Pitrou2a013ea2008-12-27 20:39:28 +00006451- Issue #4677: add two list comprehension tests to pybench.
6452
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00006453
6454Build
6455-----
6456
Benjamin Petersonf53eec82009-05-23 19:36:27 +00006457- Issue #6094: Build correctly with Subversion 1.7.
6458
Martin v. Löwis8482ef92009-05-05 16:14:30 +00006459- Issue #5847: Remove -n switch on "Edit with IDLE" menu item.
6460
Antoine Pitrou8966c992009-05-01 21:18:27 +00006461- Issue #5726: Make Modules/ld_so_aix return the actual exit code of the
6462 linker, rather than always exit successfully. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
6463
Matthias Klose55708cc2009-04-30 08:06:49 +00006464- Issue #4587: Add configure option --with-dbmliborder=db1:db2:... to specify
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00006465 the order that backends for the dbm extension are checked.
Matthias Klose55708cc2009-04-30 08:06:49 +00006466
Matthias Klose906785c2009-02-22 23:18:38 +00006467- Link the shared python library with $(MODLIBS).
6468
Martin v. Löwis11f72102009-02-10 13:13:30 +00006469- Issue #5134: Silence compiler warnings when compiling sqlite with VC++.
6470
Martin v. Löwisbc186a82009-02-02 15:32:22 +00006471- Issue #4494: Fix build with Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED on Windows.
6472
Martin v. Löwise97637d2009-01-11 09:45:11 +00006473- Issue #4895: Use _strdup on Windows CE.
6474
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00006475- Issue #4472: "configure --enable-shared" now works on OSX
6476
6477- Issues #4728 and #4060: WORDS_BIGEDIAN is now correct in Universal builds.
6478
6479- Issue #4389: Add icon to the uninstall entry in "add-and-remove-programs".
6480
6481- Issue #4289: Remove Cancel button from AdvancedDlg.
6482
6483- Issue #1656675: Register a drop handler for .py* files on Windows.
6484
6485- Issue #4120: Exclude manifest from extension modules in VS2008.
6486
6487- Issue #4091: Install pythonxy.dll in system32 again.
6488
6489- Issue #4018: Disable "for me" installations on Vista.
6490
6491- Issue #3758: Add ``patchcheck`` build target to .PHONY.
6492
6493- Issue #4204: Fixed module build errors on FreeBSD 4.
6494
6495
6496C-API
6497-----
6498
Sean Reifscheider642d96a2009-08-01 23:55:06 +00006499- Issue #6624: yArg_ParseTuple with "s" format when parsing argument with
6500 NUL: Bogus TypeError detail string.
6501
Mark Dickinson21776072009-02-10 16:13:25 +00006502- Issue #5175: PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLong now raises OverflowError
6503 for negative arguments. Previously, it raised TypeError.
6504
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00006505- Issue #4720: The format for PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords can begin with '|'.
6506
6507- Issue #3632: from the gdb debugger, the 'pyo' macro can now be called when
6508 the GIL is released, or owned by another thread.
6509
6510- Issue #4122: On Windows, fix a compilation error when using the
6511 Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE macro in an extension module.
6512
6513
Mark Dickinsone675f082008-12-11 21:56:00 +00006514Extension Modules
6515-----------------
6516
Gregory P. Smith365a1862009-02-12 07:35:29 +00006517- Issue #3745: Fix hashlib to always reject unicode and non buffer-api
6518 supporting objects as input no matter how it was compiled (built in
6519 implementations or external openssl library).
6520
Mark Dickinson29500f62009-01-15 15:36:10 +00006521- Issue #4397: Fix occasional test_socket failure on OS X.
6522
Martin v. Löwisa9b54c72009-01-11 09:30:50 +00006523- Issue #4279: Fix build of parsermodule under Cygwin.
6524
Antoine Pitroubcd5cbe2009-01-08 21:17:16 +00006525- Issue #4751: hashlib now releases the GIL when hashing large buffers
6526 (with a hardwired threshold of 2048 bytes), allowing better parallelization
6527 on multi-CPU systems. Contributed by Lukas Lueg (ebfe) and Victor Stinner.
6528
Martin v. Löwis5c88d812009-01-02 20:47:48 +00006529- Issue #4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle.
6530
Antoine Pitrou31f30b12009-01-02 17:34:35 +00006531- Issue #4738: Each zlib object now has a separate lock, allowing to compress
6532 or decompress several streams at once on multi-CPU systems. Also, the GIL
6533 is now released when computing the CRC of a large buffer. Patch by ebfe.
6534
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00006535- Issue #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format.
6536
Martin v. Löwis05bfe1f2008-12-29 18:21:47 +00006537- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
6538
Mark Dickinsone675f082008-12-11 21:56:00 +00006539- Issues #3167, #3682: Fix test_math failures for log, log10 on Solaris,
6540 OpenBSD.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcefae8c42008-11-21 23:08:09 +00006541
Antoine Pitrou3ad3a0d2008-12-18 17:08:32 +00006542- Issue #4583: array.array would not always prohibit resizing when a buffer
6543 has been exported, resulting in an interpreter crash when accessing the
6544 buffer.
6545
Martin v. Löwis841edad2008-11-30 10:36:49 +00006546
Jack Diederiche0cbd692009-04-01 04:27:09 +00006547- Issue #5228: Make functools.partial objects can now be pickled.
6548
Guilherme Polo9de29af2009-01-28 20:40:48 +00006549Tests
6550-----
6551
Antoine Pitrou88909542009-06-29 13:54:42 +00006552- Issue #6152: New option '-j'/'--multiprocess' for regrtest allows running
6553 regression tests in parallel, shortening the total runtime.
6554
Guilherme Polo2a998fa2009-06-21 17:40:07 +00006555- Issue #5450: Moved tests involving loading tk from Lib/test/test_tcl to
6556 Lib/tkinter/test/test_tkinter/test_loadtk. With this, these tests demonstrate
6557 the same behaviour as test_ttkguionly (and now also test_tk) which is to
6558 skip the tests if DISPLAY is defined but can't be used.
6559
R. David Murraya21e4ca2009-03-31 23:16:50 +00006560- regrtest no longer treats ImportError as equivalent to SkipTest. Imports
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00006561 that should cause a test to be skipped are now done using import_module
R. David Murraya21e4ca2009-03-31 23:16:50 +00006562 from test support, which does the conversion.
6563
Guilherme Polo9de29af2009-01-28 20:40:48 +00006564- Issue #5083: New 'gui' resource for regrtest.
6565
6566
Brett Cannon7317c1e2008-11-25 19:19:17 +00006567Docs
6568----
6569
Georg Brandl52b92cc2008-05-25 09:43:03 +00006570
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00006571**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**