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Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +00007What's New in Python 3.2 Alpha 1?
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10*Release date: XX-XXX-XXX*
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12Core and Builtins
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14
Benjamin Petersonaea44282010-01-04 01:10:28 +000015- The __complex__ method is now looked up on the class of instances to make it
16 consistent with other special methods.
17
Antoine Pitrouda2ecaf2010-01-02 21:40:36 +000018- Issue #7462: Implement the stringlib fast search algorithm for the `rfind`,
19 `rindex`, `rsplit` and `rpartition` methods. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
20
Benjamin Petersond12362a2009-12-30 19:44:54 +000021- Issue #7604: Deleting an unset slotted attribute did not raise an
22 AttributeError.
23
Mark Dickinson9ab44b52009-12-30 16:22:49 +000024- Issue #7534: Fix handling of IEEE specials (infinities, nans,
25 negative zero) in ** operator. The behaviour now conforms to that
26 described in C99 Annex F.
27
Mark Dickinsoncbb62742009-12-27 15:09:50 +000028- Issue #1811: improve accuracy and cross-platform consistency for
29 true division of integers: the result of a/b is now correctly
30 rounded for ints a and b (at least on IEEE 754 platforms), and in
31 particular does not depend on the internal representation of an int.
32
Ronald Oussoren6f6c5622009-12-24 14:03:19 +000033- Issue #6834: replace the implementation for the 'python' and 'pythonw'
34 executables on OSX.
35
36 These executables now work properly with the arch(1) command:
37 ``arch -ppc python`` will start a universal binary version of python
38 in PPC mode (unlike previous releases).
39
Antoine Pitrou6b7dfc92009-12-12 19:18:27 +000040- Issue #7466: segmentation fault when the garbage collector is called
41 in the middle of populating a tuple. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
42
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc64f3ca42009-12-01 21:59:18 +000043- Issue #7419: setlocale() could crash the interpreter on Windows when called
44 with invalid values.
45
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7d0bddd2009-11-30 00:08:56 +000046- Issue #6077: On Windows, files opened with tempfile.TemporaryFile in "wt+"
47 mode would appear truncated on the first '0x1a' byte (aka. Ctrl+Z).
48
Ronald Oussoren3c1928a2009-11-19 17:15:31 +000049- Issue #7085: Fix crash when importing some extensions in a thread
50 on MacOSX 10.6.
51
Philip Jenvey1309adb2009-11-17 03:43:14 +000052- Issue #1757126: Fix the cyrillic-asian alias for the ptcp154 encoding.
53
Mark Dickinson6f1d0492009-11-15 13:58:49 +000054- Issue #6970: Remove redundant calls when comparing objects that don't
55 implement the relevant rich comparison methods.
56
Mark Dickinsond550c9a2009-11-15 09:57:26 +000057- Issue #7298: fixes for range and reversed(range(...)). Iteration
58 over range(a, b, c) incorrectly gave an empty iterator when a, b and
59 c fit in C long but the length of the range did not. Also fix
60 several cases where reversed(range(a, b, c)) gave wrong results, and
61 fix a refleak for reversed(range(a, b, c)) with large arguments.
62
Raymond Hettingerfc438512009-11-01 20:55:33 +000063- Issue #7244: itertools.izip_longest() no longer ignores exceptions
64 raised during the formation of an output tuple.
65
Benjamin Petersonb2e796a2009-10-28 21:59:39 +000066- Issue #3297: On wide unicode builds, do not split unicode characters into
67 surrogates.
68
Mark Dickinsonf9724882009-10-26 21:51:18 +000069- Remove length limitation when constructing a complex number from a string.
70
Mark Dickinson27a87a22009-10-25 20:43:34 +000071- Issue #1087418: Boost performance of bitwise operations for longs.
72
Antoine Pitroub6ef9632009-10-24 20:47:05 +000073- Support for AtheOS has been completely removed from the code base. It was
74 disabled since Python 3.0.
75
76- Support for several legacy threading libraries has been disabled. These
77 libraries are: Mach C threads, SunOS LWP, GNU pth, Irix threads. Support code
78 will be entirely removed in 3.3.
79
Raymond Hettingeraf7adad2009-10-22 11:22:50 +000080- Peephole constant folding had missed UNARY_POSITIVE.
81
Antoine Pitrou011bd622009-10-20 21:52:47 +000082- Issue #1722344: threading._shutdown() is now called in Py_Finalize(), which
83 fixes the problem of some exceptions being thrown at shutdown when the
84 interpreter is killed. Patch by Adam Olsen.
85
Antoine Pitrou671141d2009-10-19 19:37:25 +000086- Issue #7147: Remove support for compiling Python without complex number
Skip Montanaroba1e0f42009-10-18 14:25:35 +000087 support.
88
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +000089- Issue #7120: logging: Removed import of multiprocessing which is causing
90 crash in GAE.
91
Neil Schemenauere441cb72009-10-14 19:14:38 +000092- Issue #1754094: Improve the stack depth calculation in the compiler.
93 There should be no other effect than a small decrease in memory use.
94 Patch by Christopher Tur Lesniewski-Laas.
95
Antoine Pitrou403ce782009-10-14 17:14:16 +000096- Issue #7065: Fix a crash in bytes.maketrans and bytearray.maketrans when
Antoine Pitrou671141d2009-10-19 19:37:25 +000097 using byte values greater than 127. Patch by Derk Drukker.
Antoine Pitrou403ce782009-10-14 17:14:16 +000098
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7d520792009-10-06 21:03:20 +000099- Issue #1571184: The Unicode database contains properties for more characters.
100 The tables for code points representing numeric values, white spaces or line
101 breaks are now generated from the official Unicode Character Database files,
102 and include information from the Unihan.txt file.
103
Mark Dickinson2683ab02009-09-29 19:21:35 +0000104- Issue #7019: Raise ValueError when unmarshalling bad long data, instead
105 of producing internally inconsistent Python longs.
106
Philip Jenvey26713ca2009-09-29 04:57:18 +0000107- Issue #6990: Fix threading.local subclasses leaving old state around
108 after a reference cycle GC which could be recycled by new locals.
109
Benjamin Peterson4905e802009-09-27 02:43:28 +0000110- Issue #5460: Fix an ambiguity in the grammar.
111
Mark Dickinson3e124ae2009-09-22 21:47:24 +0000112- Issue #1766304: Improve performance of membership tests on range objects.
113
Mark Dickinson0a1efd02009-09-16 21:23:34 +0000114- Issue #6713: Improve performance of integer -> string conversions.
115
Mark Dickinson54a3db92009-09-06 10:19:23 +0000116- Issue #6846: Fix bug where bytearray.pop() returns negative integers.
117
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcccd686a2009-08-29 23:00:38 +0000118- Issue #6750: A text file opened with io.open() could duplicate its output
119 when writing from multiple threads at the same time.
120
Benjamin Peterson14327712009-08-15 13:23:05 +0000121- Issue #6707: dir() on an uninitialized module caused a crash.
122
Georg Brandl953152f2009-07-22 12:03:59 +0000123- Issue #6540: Fixed crash for bytearray.translate() with invalid parameters.
124
Raymond Hettingere805ecc2009-07-27 20:16:37 +0000125- Issue #6573: set.union() stopped processing inputs if an instance of self
126 occurred in the argument chain.
127
R. David Murray046f7232009-07-19 02:22:05 +0000128- Issue #6070: On posix platforms import no longer copies the execute bit
129 from the .py file to the .pyc file if it is set.
130
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc8b84ea02009-07-13 20:38:21 +0000131- Issue #1616979: Added the cp720 (Arabic DOS) encoding.
132
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc097cd072009-07-07 00:43:08 +0000133- Issue #6428: Since Python 3.0, the __bool__ method must return a bool
134 object, and not an int. Fix the corresponding error message, and the
135 documentation.
136
Benjamin Petersonf1664ae2009-07-01 01:28:55 +0000137- The deprecated PyCObject has been removed.
138
Mark Dickinson835a6c82009-06-30 15:45:17 +0000139- Issue #6347: Include inttypes.h as well as stdint.h in pyport.h.
140 This fixes a build failure on HP-UX: int32_t and uint32_t are
141 defined in inttypes.h instead of stdint.h on that platform.
142
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca4aba662009-07-01 00:48:39 +0000143- Issue #6373: Fixed a SystemError when encoding with the latin-1 codec and
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc84ec8d92009-06-29 22:36:49 +0000144 the 'surrogateescape' error handler, a string which contains unpaired
145 surrogates.
146
Hirokazu Yamamoto892a37a2009-06-28 11:07:03 +0000147- Issue #4856: Remove checks for win NT.
148
Alexandre Vassalottieb6f8de2009-12-31 03:56:09 +0000149- Issue #6687: PyBytes_FromObject() no longer accepts an integer as its
150 argument to construct a null-initialized bytes object.
151
Alexandre Vassalottic36c3782010-01-09 20:35:09 +0000152- Issue #1023290: Add from_bytes() and to_bytes() methods to integers.
153 These methods allow the conversion of integers to bytes, and vice-versa.
154
Benjamin Peterson466a7822009-07-02 21:44:01 +0000155C-API
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157
Mark Dickinsonde604012010-01-01 19:27:32 +0000158- Issue #5080: The argument parsing functions PyArg_ParseTuple,
159 PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords, PyArg_VaParse,
160 PyArg_VaParseTupleAndKeywords and PyArg_Parse now raise a
161 DeprecationWarning for float arguments passed with the 'L' format
162 code. This will become a TypeError in a future version of Python,
163 to match the behaviour of the other integer format codes.
164
Georg Brandl1e28a272009-12-28 08:41:01 +0000165- Issue #7033: function ``PyErr_NewExceptionWithDoc()`` added.
166
Mark Dickinsonf08173b2009-12-03 10:59:46 +0000167- Issue #7414: 'C' code wasn't being skipped properly (for keyword arguments)
168 in PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords.
169
Mark Dickinson0b2b2322009-12-04 11:32:26 +0000170- Issue #7228: Add '%lld' and '%llu' support to PyString_FromFormat(V)
Mark Dickinson6ce4a9a2009-11-16 17:00:11 +0000171 and PyErr_Format, on machines with HAVE_LONG_LONG defined.
172
Alexandre Vassalotti2db046d2009-07-22 03:56:36 +0000173- Issue #6151: Made PyDescr_COMMON conform to standard C (like PyObject_HEAD
174 in PEP 3123). The PyDescr_TYPE and PyDescr_NAME macros should be
175 should used for accessing the d_type and d_name members of structures
176 using PyDescr_COMMON.
177
178- Issue #6405: Remove duplicate type declarations in descrobject.h.
Benjamin Peterson89b89172009-07-03 13:30:25 +0000179
Benjamin Peterson466a7822009-07-02 21:44:01 +0000180- The code flags for old __future__ features are now available again.
181
Alexandre Vassalotti7b82b402009-07-21 04:30:03 +0000182- Issue #5954: Add a PyFrame_GetLineNumber() function to replace most uses of
183 PyCode_Addr2Line().
184
185- Issue #5959: Add a PyCode_NewEmpty() function to create a new empty code
186 object at a specified file, function, and line number.
187
188- Issue #1419652: Change the first argument to PyImport_AppendInittab() to
189 ``const char *`` as the string is stored beyond the call.
190
Alexandre Vassalotti2db046d2009-07-22 03:56:36 +0000191
Benjamin Peterson05159c42009-12-03 03:01:27 +0000192- Issue #2422: When compiled with the ``--with-valgrind`` option, the
193 pymalloc allocator will be automatically disabled when running under
194 Valgrind. This gives improved memory leak detection when running
195 under Valgrind, while taking advantage of pymalloc at other times.
196
Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +0000197Library
198-------
199
Tarek Ziadéaf77a2f2010-01-08 23:57:53 +0000200- Issue #7617: Make sure distutils.unixccompiler.UnixCCompiler recognizes
201 gcc when it has a fully qualified configuration prefix. Initial patch
202 by Arfrever.
203
Antoine Pitrouc1baa602010-01-08 17:54:23 +0000204- Issue #7105: Make WeakKeyDictionary and WeakValueDictionary robust against
205 the destruction of weakref'ed objects while iterating.
206
Antoine Pitrou01a15ea2010-01-07 17:57:31 +0000207- Issue #7455: Fix possible crash in cPickle on invalid input. Patch by
208 Victor Stinner.
209
Gregory P. Smithaafdca82010-01-04 04:50:36 +0000210- Issue #1628205: Socket file objects returned by socket.socket.makefile() now
211 properly handles EINTR within the read, readline, write & flush methods.
212 The socket.sendall() method now properly handles interrupted system calls.
213
Antoine Pitroub1f88352010-01-03 22:37:40 +0000214- Issue #7471: Improve the performance of GzipFile's buffering mechanism,
215 and make it implement the `io.BufferedIOBase` ABC to allow for further
216 speedups by wrapping it in an `io.BufferedReader`. Patch by Nir Aides.
217
218- Issue #3972: http.client.HTTPConnection now accepts an optional source_address
Gregory P. Smithb4066372010-01-03 03:28:29 +0000219 parameter to allow specifying where your connections come from.
220
221- socket.create_connection now accepts an optional source_address parameter.
222
Ezio Melottifaa6b7f2009-12-30 12:34:59 +0000223- Issue #5511: now zipfile.ZipFile can be used as a context manager.
224 Initial patch by Brian Curtin.
225
Tarek Ziadéc60ea322009-12-21 23:12:41 +0000226- Issue #7556: Make sure Distutils' msvc9compile reads and writes the
227 MSVC XML Manifest file in text mode so string patterns can be used
228 in regular expressions.
229
Tarek Ziadé8b9361a2009-12-21 00:02:20 +0000230- Issue #7552: Removed line feed in the base64 Authorization header in
231 the Distutils upload command to avoid an error when PyPI reads it.
232 This occurs on long passwords. Initial patch by JP St. Pierre.
233
Senthil Kumaran47fff872009-12-20 07:10:31 +0000234- Issue #7231: urllib2 cannot handle https with proxy requiring auth. Patch by
235 Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa.
236
Antoine Pitrou77b338b2009-12-14 18:00:06 +0000237- Issue #4757: `zlib.compress` and other methods in the zlib module now
238 raise a TypeError when given an `str` object (rather than a `bytes`-like
239 object). Patch by Victor Stinner and Florent Xicluna.
240
Benjamin Petersonbf5ff762009-12-13 19:25:34 +0000241- Issue #7349: Make methods of file objects in the io module accept None as an
242 argument where file-like objects (ie StringIO and BytesIO) accept them to mean
243 the same as passing no argument.
244
Lars Gustäbel365aff32009-12-13 11:42:29 +0000245- Issue #7357: tarfile no longer suppresses fatal extraction errors by
246 default.
247
R. David Murraye8dc2582009-12-10 02:08:06 +0000248- Issue #5949: added check for correct lineends in input from IMAP server
249 in imaplib.
250
Raymond Hettingere5fdedb2009-12-10 00:47:21 +0000251- Add a reverse() method to collections.deque().
252
Raymond Hettinger3f9afd82009-12-10 03:03:02 +0000253- Fix variations of extending deques: d.extend(d) d.extendleft(d) d+=d
254
Antoine Pitrou781eba72009-12-08 15:57:31 +0000255- Issue #6986: Fix crash in the JSON C accelerator when called with the
256 wrong parameter types. Patch by Victor Stinner.
257
Tarek Ziadéb88a4962009-12-08 09:45:25 +0000258- Issue #7457: added a read_pkg_file method to
259 distutils.dist.DistributionMetadata.
260
Vinay Sajip540f2152009-12-06 17:57:11 +0000261- logging: Added optional `secure` parameter to SMTPHandler, to enable use of
262 TLS with authentication credentials.
263
Tarek Ziadédf872d42009-12-06 09:28:17 +0000264- Issue #1923: Fixed the removal of meaningful spaces when PKG-INFO is
265 generated in Distutils. Patch by Stephen Emslie.
266
Martin v. Löwis1679ea82009-12-03 20:57:49 +0000267- Issue #4120: Drop reference to CRT from manifest when building extensions with
268 msvc9compiler.
269
Antoine Pitroub7572f02009-12-02 20:46:48 +0000270- Issue #7333: The `posix` module gains an `initgroups()` function providing
271 access to the initgroups(3) C library call on Unix systems which implement
272 it. Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone.
273
Tarek Ziadéacafc2d2009-11-29 22:24:57 +0000274- Issue #7408: Fixed distutils.tests.sdist so it doesn't check for group
275 ownership when the group is not forced, because the group may be different
276 from the user's group and inherit from its container when the test is run.
277
Antoine Pitrou7b0d4a22009-11-28 16:12:28 +0000278- Issue #4486: When an exception has an explicit cause, do not print its
279 implicit context too. This affects the `traceback` module as well as
280 built-in exception printing.
281
Antoine Pitrou1fc0d2b2009-11-28 15:58:27 +0000282- Issue #1515: Enable use of deepcopy() with instance methods. Patch by
283 Robert Collins.
284
Vinay Sajip03f6c112009-11-27 14:03:36 +0000285- Issue #7403: logging: Fixed possible race condition in lock creation.
286
Antoine Pitrou648bcd72009-11-27 13:23:26 +0000287- Issue #6845: Add restart support for binary upload in ftplib. The
288 `storbinary()` method of FTP and FTP_TLS objects gains an optional `rest`
289 argument. Patch by Pablo Mouzo.
290
Antoine Pitroube6859d2009-11-25 23:02:32 +0000291- Issue #5788: `datetime.timedelta` objects get a new `total_seconds()`
292 method returning the total number of seconds in the duration. Patch by
293 Brian Quinlan.
294
Antoine Pitrou7d7aede2009-11-25 18:55:32 +0000295- Issue #7133: SSL objects now support the new buffer API.
296
Senthil Kumaran758025c2009-11-23 19:02:52 +0000297- Issue #1488943: difflib.Differ() doesn't always add hints for tab characters
298
Lars Gustäbel9520a432009-11-22 18:48:49 +0000299- Issue #6123: tarfile now opens empty archives correctly and consistently
300 raises ReadError on empty files.
301
Tarek Ziadé26afd482009-11-19 05:39:00 +0000302- Issue #7354: distutils.tests.test_msvc9compiler - dragfullwindows can
303 be 2.
304
Benjamin Peterson3ec9b6e2009-11-19 21:22:27 +0000305- Issue #5037: Proxy the __bytes__ special method instead to __bytes__ instead
306 of __str__.
Benjamin Peterson32019772009-11-19 03:08:32 +0000307
Lars Gustäbel7b465392009-11-18 20:29:25 +0000308- Issue #7341: Close the internal file object in the TarFile constructor in
309 case of an error.
310
Tarek Ziadé11c9d252009-11-18 09:32:34 +0000311- Issue #7293: distutils.test_msvc9compiler is fixed to work on any fresh
312 Windows box. Help provided by David Bolen.
313
Antoine Pitrouf988cd02009-11-17 20:21:14 +0000314- Issue #2054: ftplib now provides an FTP_TLS class to do secure FTP using
315 TLS or SSL. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.
316
Nick Coghlan106274b2009-11-15 23:04:33 +0000317- Issue #7328: pydoc no longer corrupts sys.path when run with the '-m' switch
318
Antoine Pitroub8108e22009-11-15 14:25:16 +0000319- Issue #4969: The mimetypes module now reads the MIME database from
320 the registry under Windows. Patch by Gabriel Genellina.
321
Nick Coghlan260bd3e2009-11-16 06:49:25 +0000322- Issue #6816: runpy now provides a run_path function that allows Python code
323 to execute file paths that refer to source or compiled Python files as well
324 as zipfiles, directories and other valid sys.path entries that contain a
325 __main__.py file. This allows applications that run other Python scripts to
326 support the same flexibility as the CPython command line itself.
327
Antoine Pitrou45d61a32009-11-13 22:35:18 +0000328- Issue #7318: multiprocessing now uses a timeout when it fails to establish
329 a connection with another process, rather than looping endlessly. The
330 default timeout is 20 seconds, which should be amply sufficient for
331 local connections.
332
Antoine Pitrouc63ecee2009-11-10 21:34:48 +0000333- Issue #7197: Allow unittest.TextTestRunner objects to be pickled and
334 unpickled. This fixes crashes under Windows when trying to run
335 test_multiprocessing in verbose mode.
336
Antoine Pitrou434736a2009-11-10 18:46:01 +0000337- Issue #3001: Add a C implementation of recursive locks which is used by
338 default when instantiating a `threading.RLock` object. This makes
339 recursive locks as fast as regular non-recursive locks (previously,
340 they were slower by 10x to 15x).
341
Antoine Pitroub0872682009-11-09 16:08:16 +0000342- Issue #7282: Fix a memory leak when an RLock was used in a thread other
343 than those started through `threading.Thread` (for example, using
344 `_thread.start_new_thread()`).
345
Brett Cannone52c9192009-11-07 23:55:05 +0000346- Issue #7187: Importlib would not silence the IOError raised when trying to
347 write new bytecode when it was made read-only.
348
Antoine Pitroubdec11f2009-11-05 13:49:14 +0000349- Issue #7264: Fix a possible deadlock when deallocating thread-local objects
350 which are part of a reference cycle.
351
Antoine Pitroud83f1e62009-11-04 21:10:38 +0000352- Issue #7211: Allow 64-bit values for the `ident` and `data` fields of kevent
353 objects on 64-bit systems. Patch by Michael Broghton.
354
Antoine Pitrou03f13442009-11-02 11:36:51 +0000355- Issue #6896: mailbox.Maildir now invalidates its internal cache each time
356 a modification is done through it. This fixes inconsistencies and test
357 failures on systems with slightly bogus mtime behaviour.
358
Gregory P. Smith50467882009-11-01 18:42:17 +0000359- Issue #7246 & Issue #7208: getpass now properly flushes input before
360 reading from stdin so that existing input does not confuse it and
361 lead to incorrect entry or an IOError. It also properly flushes it
362 afterwards to avoid the terminal echoing the input afterwards on
363 OSes such as Solaris.
364
Mark Dickinsona2d1fe02009-10-29 12:23:02 +0000365- Issue #7233: Fix a number of two-argument Decimal methods to make
366 sure that they accept an int or long as the second argument. Also
367 fix buggy handling of large arguments (those with coefficient longer
368 than the current precision) in shift and rotate.
369
Lars Gustäbel1440df22009-10-29 09:39:47 +0000370- Issue #4750: Store the basename of the original filename in the gzip FNAME
371 header as required by RFC 1952.
372
Tarek Ziadéc7c71ff2009-10-27 23:12:01 +0000373- Issue #1180: Added a new global option to ignore ~/.pydistutils.cfg in
374 Distutils.
375
Tarek Ziadé8c0e2172009-10-27 21:24:21 +0000376- Issue #7218: Fix test_site for win32, the directory comparison was done with
377 an uppercase.
378
Antoine Pitrouc66363f2009-10-27 17:47:14 +0000379- Issue #7205: Fix a possible deadlock when using a BZ2File object from
380 several threads at once.
381
Vinay Sajip42ead482009-10-21 20:22:14 +0000382- Issue #7077: logging: SysLogHandler now treats Unicode as per RFC 5424.
383
Mark Dickinson06bb6742009-10-20 13:38:04 +0000384- Issue #7099: Decimal.is_normal now returns True for numbers with exponent
385 larger than emax.
386
Antoine Pitrou6a448d42009-10-19 19:43:09 +0000387- Issue #7080: locale.strxfrm() raises a MemoryError on 64-bit non-Windows
388 platforms, and assorted locale fixes by Derk Drukker.
389
Antoine Pitroudc0900b2009-10-19 18:22:37 +0000390- Issue #5833: Fix extra space character in readline completion with the
391 GNU readline library version 6.0.
392
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +0000393- Issue #6894: Fixed the issue urllib2 doesn't respect "no_proxy" environment
Senthil Kumaran7bb04972009-10-11 04:58:55 +0000394
Vinay Sajipcbabd7e2009-10-10 20:32:36 +0000395- Issue #7086: Added TCP support to SysLogHandler, and tidied up some
396 anachronisms in the code which were a relic of 1.5.2 compatibility.
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +0000397
R. David Murraybf2e0aa2009-10-10 00:13:32 +0000398- Issue #7082: When falling back to the MIME 'name' parameter, the
399 correct place to look for it is the Content-Type header.
400
Benjamin Petersond3afada2009-10-09 21:43:09 +0000401- Make tokenize.detect_coding() normalize utf-8 and iso-8859-1 variants like the
402 builtin tokenizer.
403
Mark Dickinson56df8872009-10-07 19:23:50 +0000404- Issue #7048: Force Decimal.logb to round its result when that result
405 is too large to fit in the current precision.
406
Antoine Pitrouca767bd2009-09-21 21:37:02 +0000407- Issue #6236, #6348: Fix various failures in the I/O library under AIX
Antoine Pitrou6a448d42009-10-19 19:43:09 +0000408 and other platforms, when using a non-gcc compiler. Patch by Derk Drukker.
Antoine Pitrouca767bd2009-09-21 21:37:02 +0000409
Thomas Heller69b639f2009-09-18 20:08:39 +0000410- Issue #4606: Passing 'None' if ctypes argtype is set to POINTER(...)
411 does now always result in NULL.
412
Thomas Hellerd7cb1b92009-09-18 19:05:13 +0000413- Issue #5042: Structure sub-subclass does now initialize correctly
414 with base class positional arguments.
415
Eric Smith81fd8042009-09-18 13:23:13 +0000416- Issue #6882: Import uuid creates zombies processes.
417
Matthias Klosef6b76b02009-09-13 15:18:53 +0000418- Issue #6635: Fix profiler printing usage message.
419
Lars Gustäbel049d2aa2009-09-12 10:44:00 +0000420- Issue #6856: Add a filter keyword argument to TarFile.add().
421
Benjamin Petersonbe74a372009-09-11 21:17:13 +0000422- Issue #6888: pdb's alias command was broken when no arguments were given.
423
Mark Dickinson46ab5d02009-09-08 20:22:46 +0000424- Issue #6857: Default format() alignment should be '>' for Decimal
425 instances.
426
Mark Dickinson825fce32009-09-07 18:08:12 +0000427- Issue #6795: int(Decimal('nan')) now raises ValueError instead of
428 returning NaN or raising InvalidContext. Also, fix infinite recursion
429 in long(Decimal('nan')).
430
Mark Dickinson7718d2b2009-09-07 16:21:56 +0000431- Issue #6850: Fix bug in Decimal._parse_format_specifier for formats
432 with no type specifier.
433
Thomas Heller8b939522009-09-04 18:24:41 +0000434- Issue #6239: ctypes.c_char_p return value must return bytes.
435
Chris Withers9c33cbf2009-09-04 17:04:16 +0000436- Issue #6838: Use a list to accumulate the value instead of
437 repeatedly concatenating strings in http.client's
438 HTTPResponse._read_chunked providing a significant speed increase
439 when downloading large files servend with a Transfer-Encoding of 'chunked'.
440
Brett Cannon1c1dcbf2009-08-30 20:22:21 +0000441- Trying to import a submodule from a module that is not a package, ImportError
442 should be raised, not AttributeError.
443
Brett Cannonde4ebfe2009-08-30 19:53:48 +0000444- When the globals past to importlib.__import__() has __package__ set to None,
445 fall back to computing what __package__ should be instead of giving up.
446
Brett Cannon6afbaef2009-08-30 19:08:58 +0000447- Raise a TypeError when the name of a module to be imported for
448 importlib.__import__ is not a string (was raising an
449 AttributeError before).
450
Brett Cannon9e0e1a62009-08-30 18:28:46 +0000451- Allow the fromlist passed into importlib.__import__ to be any iterable.
452
Brett Cannon4d75fc12009-08-30 03:47:36 +0000453- Have importlib raise ImportError if None is found in sys.modules.
454
Lars Gustäbelbfdfdda2009-08-28 19:59:59 +0000455- Issue #6054: Do not normalize stored pathnames in tarfile.
456
Mark Dickinsond314e1b2009-08-28 13:39:53 +0000457- Issue #6794: Fix Decimal.compare_total and Decimal.compare_total_mag: NaN
458 payloads are now ordered by integer value rather than lexicographically.
459
Guilherme Polobcd03df2009-08-18 15:35:57 +0000460- Issue #1356969: Add missing info methods in tix.HList.
461
462- Issue #1522587: New constants and methods for the tix.Grid widget.
463
464- Issue #1250469: Fix the return value of tix.PanedWindow.panes.
465
466- Issue #1119673: Do not override tkinter.Text methods when creating a
467 ScrolledText.
468
Gregory P. Smith01099702009-08-16 18:58:46 +0000469- Issue #6665: Fix fnmatch to properly match filenames with newlines in them.
470
Guilherme Poloc3b2ae42009-08-16 14:46:16 +0000471- Issue #1135: Add the XView and YView mix-ins to avoid duplicating
472 the xview* and yview* methods.
473
Antoine Pitroua0ceb732009-08-06 20:29:56 +0000474- Issue #6629: Fix a data corruption issue in the new I/O library, which could
475 occur when writing to a BufferedRandom object (e.g. a file opened in "rb+" or
476 "wb+" mode) after having buffered a certain amount of data for reading. This
477 bug was not present in the pure Python implementation.
478
Mark Dickinsonea1158f2009-08-06 16:06:25 +0000479- Issue #6622: Fix "local variable 'secret' referenced before
480 assignment" bug in POP3.apop.
481
Mark Dickinson45f799f2009-08-02 20:08:54 +0000482- Issue #2715: Remove remnants of Carbon.File from binhex module.
483
Mark Dickinson345adc42009-08-02 10:14:23 +0000484- Issue #6595: The Decimal constructor now allows arbitrary Unicode
485 decimal digits in input, as recommended by the standard. Previously
486 it was restricted to accepting [0-9].
487
Jack Diederich36596a32009-07-26 22:23:04 +0000488- Issue #6106: telnetlib.Telnet.process_rawq doesn't handle default WILL/WONT
489 DO/DONT correctly.
490
Senthil Kumaran67305382009-07-26 04:46:00 +0000491- Issue #1424152: Fix for http.client, urllib.request to support SSL while
492 working through proxy. Original patch by Christopher Li, changes made by
493 Senthil Kumaran
Senthil Kumaran97f0c6b2009-07-25 04:24:38 +0000494
Brett Cannon69194272009-07-20 04:23:48 +0000495- Add importlib.abc.ExecutionLoader to represent the PEP 302 protocol for
496 loaders that allow for modules to be executed. Both importlib.abc.PyLoader
497 and PyPycLoader inherit from this class and provide implementations in
498 relation to other methods required by the ABCs.
499
Brett Cannon64ef00f2009-07-20 03:19:18 +0000500- importlib.abc.PyLoader did not inherit from importlib.abc.ResourceLoader like
501 the documentation said it did even though the code in PyLoader relied on the
502 abstract method required by ResourceLoader.
503
Mark Dickinson85424c92009-07-18 14:41:42 +0000504- Issue #6431: Make Fraction type return NotImplemented when it doesn't
505 know how to handle a comparison without loss of precision. Also add
506 correct handling of infinities and nans for comparisons with float.
507
Antoine Pitrouf3637322009-08-06 21:00:37 +0000508- Issue #6415: Fixed warnings.warn segfault on bad formatted string.
Hirokazu Yamamoto1c0c0032009-07-17 06:55:42 +0000509
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc97e5f282009-07-11 09:35:13 +0000510- Issue #6358: The exit status of a command started with os.popen() was
511 reported differently than it did with python 2.x.
512
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc2de11152009-07-09 23:07:52 +0000513- Issue #6323: The pdb debugger did not exit when running a script with a
514 syntax error.
515
Gregory P. Smithd06fa472009-07-04 02:46:54 +0000516- Issue #3392: The subprocess communicate() method no longer fails in select()
517 when file descriptors are large; communicate() now uses poll() when possible.
518
Antoine Pitrou54923952009-07-01 14:53:06 +0000519- Issue #6369: Fix an RLE decompression bug in the binhex module.
520
Hirokazu Yamamoto7a9e1bd2009-06-29 14:54:12 +0000521- Issue #6344: Fixed a crash of mmap.read() when passed a negative argument.
522
Benjamin Peterson5a6deb42009-06-28 21:35:31 +0000523- The deprecated function string.maketrans has been removed.
524
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +0000525- Issue #4005: Fixed a crash of pydoc when there was a zip file present in
526 sys.path.
527
Alexandre Vassalotticf76e1a2009-07-22 03:24:36 +0000528- Issue #6218: io.StringIO and io.BytesIO instances are now picklable.
529
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +0000530Extension Modules
531-----------------
Mark Dickinson12c4bdb2009-09-28 19:21:11 +0000532
Martin v. Löwis7aed61a2009-11-27 14:09:49 +0000533- Issue #6508: Add posix.{getresuid,getresgid,setresuid,setresgid}.
534
Mark Dickinson40714af2009-10-08 15:59:20 +0000535- Issue #7078: Set struct.__doc__ from _struct.__doc__.
536
Mark Dickinson45f992a2009-12-19 11:20:49 +0000537- Issue #3366: Add erf, erfc, expm1, gamma, lgamma functions to math module.
Mark Dickinson12c4bdb2009-09-28 19:21:11 +0000538
Ronald Oussoren2efd9242009-09-20 14:53:22 +0000539- Issue #6877: It is now possible to link the readline extension to the
540 libedit readline emulation on OSX 10.5 or later.
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +0000541
Mark Dickinson5ea7d642009-09-06 21:24:55 +0000542- Issue #6848: Fix curses module build failure on OS X 10.6.
543
Brett Cannon2f827382009-08-13 19:58:01 +0000544- Fix a segfault that could be triggered by expat with specially formed input.
545
Mark Dickinson1f268282009-07-28 17:22:36 +0000546- Issue #6561: '\d' in a regex now matches only characters with
547 Unicode category 'Nd' (Number, Decimal Digit). Previously it also
548 matched characters with category 'No'.
549
Alexandre Vassalottiad077152009-07-15 17:49:23 +0000550- Issue #4509: Array objects are no longer modified after an operation
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +0000551 failing due to the resize restriction in-place when the object has exported
552 buffers.
553
Alexandre Vassalottiad077152009-07-15 17:49:23 +0000554- Issue #2389: Array objects are now pickled in a portable manner.
555
Martin v. Löwis95c46012009-06-28 09:36:14 +0000556Build
557-----
558
Benjamin Petersond78735d2010-01-01 16:04:23 +0000559- Issue #6491: Allow --with-dbmliborder to specify that no dbms will be built.
560
561- Issue #6943: Use pkg-config to find the libffi headers when the
562 --with-system-ffi flag is used.
563
Benjamin Petersonb2d90462009-12-31 03:23:10 +0000564- Issue #7609: Add a --with-system-expat option that causes the system's expat
565 library to be used for the pyexpat module instead of the one included with
566 Python.
567
Benjamin Petersone57d6762009-12-30 03:02:03 +0000568- Issue #7589: Only build the nis module when the correct header files are
569 found.
570
Martin v. Löwis7df3b9e2010-01-02 10:06:19 +0000571- Switch to OpenSSL 0.9.8l and sqlite 3.6.21 on Windows.
Martin v. Löwise5692cd2009-12-22 08:57:39 +0000572
Mark Dickinsonf4243f62009-11-15 13:47:27 +0000573- Issue #5792: Extend the short float repr support to x86 systems using
574 icc or suncc.
575
Mark Dickinsona25b1312009-10-31 10:18:44 +0000576- Issue #6603: Change READ_TIMESTAMP macro in ceval.c so that it
577 compiles correctly under gcc on x86-64. This fixes a reported
578 problem with the --with-tsc build on x86-64.
579
Ronald Oussoren5bbab3e2009-09-06 11:01:15 +0000580- Issue #6802: Fix build issues on MacOSX 10.6
581
Guilherme Polo5d377bd2009-08-16 14:44:14 +0000582- Issue #6244: Allow detect_tkinter to look for Tcl/Tk 8.6.
583
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc321e5332009-07-02 23:08:45 +0000584- Issue 4601: 'make install' did not set the appropriate permissions on
585 directories.
586
Martin v. Löwis95c46012009-06-28 09:36:14 +0000587- Issue 5390: Add uninstall icon independent of whether file
588 extensions are installed.
589
Ronald Oussoren585c1732009-12-24 14:21:55 +0000590- Issue #7541: when using ``python-config`` with a framework install the compiler might
591 use the wrong library.
592
Mark Dickinsond3aa6462009-09-17 00:06:41 +0000593Documentation
Tarek Ziadéf3b33222009-08-21 14:22:45 +0000594------------
595
Brett Cannon757df6e2009-08-30 04:00:12 +0000596- Document that importing a module that has None in sys.modules triggers an
597 ImportError.
598
Tarek Ziadéf3b33222009-08-21 14:22:45 +0000599- Issue #6556: Fixed the Distutils configuration files location explanation
600 for Windows.
601
Brett Cannonb49c70c2009-07-15 04:08:33 +0000602Tests
603-----
604
R. David Murray445448c2009-12-20 17:28:31 +0000605- Issue #7376: instead of running a self-test (which was failing) when called
606 with no arguments, doctest.py now gives a usage message.
607
R. David Murrayef1992b2009-12-16 15:19:27 +0000608- Issue #7396: fix regrtest -s, which was broken by the -j enhancement.
609
R. David Murray596da442009-12-14 23:06:11 +0000610- Issue #7498: test_multiprocessing now uses test.support.find_unused_port
R. David Murray83396232009-12-14 22:45:15 +0000611 instead of a hardcoded port number in test_rapid_restart.
612
R. David Murrayba311052009-12-04 00:09:14 +0000613- Issue #7431: use TESTFN in test_linecache instead of trying to create a
614 file in the Lib/test directory, which might be read-only for the
615 user running the tests.
616
R. David Murray35768ad2009-11-15 00:23:21 +0000617- Issue #7324: add a sanity check to regrtest argument parsing to
618 catch the case of an option with no handler.
619
R. David Murray7dc72cc2009-11-14 16:13:02 +0000620- Issue #7312: Add a -F flag to run the selected tests in a loop until
621 a test fails. Can be combined with -j.
622
Antoine Pitrou060cee22009-11-13 16:29:04 +0000623- Issue #6551: test_zipimport could import and then destroy some modules of
624 the encodings package, which would make other tests fail further down
625 the road because the internally cached encoders and decoders would point
626 to empty global variables.
627
Antoine Pitrou941ee882009-11-11 20:59:38 +0000628- Issue #7295: Do not use a hardcoded file name in test_tarfile.
629
Antoine Pitrou557934f2009-11-06 22:41:14 +0000630- Issue #7270: Add some dedicated unit tests for multi-thread synchronization
631 primitives such as Lock, RLock, Condition, Event and Semaphore.
632
Brett Cannoncfed0292009-11-05 01:26:57 +0000633- Issue #7248 (part 2): Use a unique temporary directory for importlib source
634 tests instead of tempfile.tempdir. This prevents the tests from sharing state
635 between concurrent executions on the same system.
636
Brett Cannon0ae45112009-11-05 01:17:22 +0000637- Issue #7248: In importlib.test.source.util a try/finally block did not make
638 sure that some referenced objects actually were created in the block before
639 calling methods on the object.
640
Antoine Pitrou65c9c642009-10-30 17:25:12 +0000641- Issue #7222: Make thread "reaping" more reliable so that reference
642 leak-chasing test runs give sensible results. The previous method of
643 reaping threads could return successfully while some Thread objects were
644 still referenced. This also introduces a new private function:
645 :func:`_thread._count()`.
646
R. David Murray27144602009-10-19 15:26:16 +0000647- Issue #7151: fixed regrtest -j so that output to stderr from a test no
648 longer runs the risk of causing the worker thread to fail.
649
Antoine Pitrou4de39cd2009-10-10 21:08:31 +0000650- Issue #7055: test___all__ now greedily detects all modules which have an
651 __all__ attribute, rather than using a hardcoded and incomplete list.
652
R. David Murray0bc11ae2009-10-18 22:18:17 +0000653- Issue #7058: Added save/restore for things like sys.argv and cwd to
654 runtest_inner in regrtest, with warnings if the called test modifies them,
655 and a new section in the summary report at the end.
R. David Murray097e51f2009-10-07 23:38:55 +0000656
Mark Dickinson2e304402009-10-04 18:43:54 +0000657- Issue #7042: Fix test_signal (test_itimer_virtual) failure on OS X 10.6.
658
Brett Cannon3c273842009-07-20 00:14:29 +0000659- Fixed tests in importlib.test.source.test_abc_loader that were masking
660 the proper exceptions that should be raised for missing or improper code
661 object bytecode.
662
Brett Cannonb49c70c2009-07-15 04:08:33 +0000663- Removed importlib's custom test discovery code and switched to
664 unittest.TestLoader.discover().
665
Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +0000666
Benjamin Peterson01bf2362009-06-13 14:50:22 +0000667What's New in Python 3.1?
668=========================
669
670*Release date: 27-June-2009*
671
672Core and Builtins
673-----------------
674
Mark Dickinsonad195562009-06-24 19:01:32 +0000675- Issue #6334: Fix bug in range length calculation for ranges with
676 large arguments.
677
Raymond Hettinger159eac92009-06-23 20:38:54 +0000678- Issue #6329: Fixed iteration for memoryview objects (it was being blocked
679 because it wasn't recognized as a sequence).
680
Benjamin Peterson01bf2362009-06-13 14:50:22 +0000681Library
682-------
683
Georg Brandld07ac642009-08-13 07:50:57 +0000684- Issue #6126: Fixed pdb command-line usage.
685
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +0000686- Issue #6314: logging: performs extra checks on the "level" argument.
Vinay Sajip0f6eac22009-06-21 17:46:49 +0000687
Facundo Batista10706e22009-06-19 20:34:30 +0000688- Issue #6274: Fixed possible file descriptors leak in subprocess.py
689
Benjamin Peterson6a38ced2009-06-14 18:32:19 +0000690- Accessing io.StringIO.buffer now raises an AttributeError instead of
691 io.UnsupportedOperation.
692
Vinay Sajip0f6eac22009-06-21 17:46:49 +0000693- Issue #6271: mmap tried to close invalid file handle (-1) when anonymous.
Hirokazu Yamamoto3d8827d2009-06-14 04:58:16 +0000694 (On Unix)
695
Gregory P. Smithe88749b2009-06-26 08:05:13 +0000696- Issue #1202: zipfile module would cause a struct.error when attempting to
697 store files with a CRC32 > 2**31-1.
698
Matthias Kloseab2b7552009-06-22 13:05:52 +0000699Extension Modules
700-----------------
701
702- Issue #5590: Remove unused global variable in pyexpat extension.
703
Benjamin Peterson01bf2362009-06-13 14:50:22 +0000704
Antoine Pitrou3b1b8072009-05-30 21:01:23 +0000705What's New in Python 3.1 Release Candidate 2?
706=============================================
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +0000707
Benjamin Petersonc7c12282009-06-13 13:15:04 +0000708*Release date: 13-June-2009*
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +0000709
710Core and Builtins
711-----------------
712
Raymond Hettinger94f55832009-06-12 18:40:16 +0000713- Fixed SystemError triggered by "range([], 1, -1)".
714
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc66f8c432009-06-09 21:30:01 +0000715- Issue #5924: On Windows, a large PYTHONPATH environment variable
716 (more than 255 characters) would be completely ignored.
717
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc24e581f2009-06-01 21:28:37 +0000718- Issue #4547: When debugging a very large function, it was not always
719 possible to update the lineno attribute of the current frame.
720
Antoine Pitrou8e124f32009-05-30 21:41:10 +0000721- Issue #5330: C functions called with keyword arguments were not reported by
Alexandre Vassalottiea3714e2009-07-17 09:34:31 +0000722 the various profiling modules (profile, cProfile). Patch by Hagen Fürstenau.
Antoine Pitrou8e124f32009-05-30 21:41:10 +0000723
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +0000724Library
725-------
726
Tarek Ziadéc9e6cec2009-07-12 08:27:26 +0000727- Issue #6438: Fixed distutils.cygwinccompiler.get_versions : the regular
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +0000728 expression string pattern was trying to match against a bytes returned by
Tarek Ziadéc9e6cec2009-07-12 08:27:26 +0000729 Popen. Tested under win32 to build the py-postgresql project.
730
Martin v. Löwis83eacca2009-06-12 17:31:41 +0000731- Issue #6258: Support AMD64 in bdist_msi.
732
R. David Murray58641de2009-06-12 15:33:19 +0000733- Issue #6195: fixed doctest to no longer try to read 'source' data from
734 binary files.
735
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +0000736- Issue #5262: Fixed bug in next rollover time computation in
737 TimedRotatingFileHandler.
738
Benjamin Peterson0926ad12009-06-06 18:02:12 +0000739- Issue #6217: The C implementation of io.TextIOWrapper didn't include the
740 errors property. Additionally, the errors and encoding properties of StringIO
741 are always None now.
742
Antoine Pitroud9dfaa92009-06-04 20:32:06 +0000743- Issue #6137: The pickle module now translates module names when loading
744 or dumping pickles with a 2.x-compatible protocol, in order to make data
745 sharing and migration easier. This behaviour can be disabled using the
746 new `fix_imports` optional argument.
747
Raymond Hettinger40925d22009-06-04 18:32:39 +0000748- Removed the ipaddr module.
749
Georg Brandlb54d8012009-06-04 09:11:51 +0000750- Issue #3613: base64.{encode,decode}string are now called
751 base64.{encode,decode}bytes which reflects what type they accept and return.
752 The old names are still there as deprecated aliases.
753
Georg Brandl317185a2009-06-04 09:00:56 +0000754- Issue #5767: Remove sgmlop support from xmlrpc.client.
755
Martin v. Löwis74b7e442009-06-01 04:23:07 +0000756- Issue #6150: Fix test_unicode on wide-unicode builds.
757
Antoine Pitrouc06de472009-05-30 21:04:26 +0000758- Issue #6149: Fix initialization of WeakValueDictionary objects from non-empty
759 parameters.
760
Martin v. Löwis79b13872009-06-01 04:13:14 +0000761Windows
762-------
763
Martin v. Löwisb7a51562009-06-07 17:55:17 +0000764- Issue #6221: Delete test registry key before running the test.
765
Martin v. Löwis79b13872009-06-01 04:13:14 +0000766- Issue #6158: Package Sine-1000Hz-300ms.aif in MSI file.
767
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc11729992009-06-01 21:16:17 +0000768C-API
769-----
770
771- Issue #5735: Python compiled with --with-pydebug should throw an
772 ImportError when trying to import modules compiled without
773 --with-pydebug, and vice-versa.
774
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +0000775
Brett Cannonc6d936e2009-06-07 20:09:53 +0000776Build
777-----
778
779- Issue #6154: Make sure the intl library is added to LIBS if needed. Also
780 added LIBS to OS X framework builds.
781
Ronald Oussoren99aab652009-06-08 21:22:57 +0000782- Issue #5809: Specifying both --enable-framework and --enable-shared is
783 an error. Configure now explicity tells you about this.
784
785
Brett Cannonc6d936e2009-06-07 20:09:53 +0000786
Mark Dickinson4eb88b32009-05-11 16:41:34 +0000787What's New in Python 3.1 release candidate 1?
788=============================================
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +0000789
Benjamin Petersone6ad3872009-05-30 15:30:16 +0000790*Release date: 2009-05-30*
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +0000791
792Core and Builtins
793-----------------
794
Martin v. Löwis8ed91b22009-05-29 16:22:26 +0000795- Issue #6097: Escape UTF-8 surrogates resulting from mbstocs conversion
796 of the command line.
797
Martin v. Löwisc15bdef2009-05-29 14:47:46 +0000798- Issue #6012: Add cleanup support to O& argument parsing.
799
Eric Smith41669ca2009-05-23 14:23:22 +0000800- Issue #6089: Fixed str.format with certain invalid field specifiers
801 that would raise SystemError.
802
Raymond Hettinger2bcde142009-05-29 04:52:27 +0000803- Issue #5982: staticmethod and classmethod now expose the wrapped
804 function with __func__.
805
Raymond Hettinger91e3b9d2009-05-28 22:20:03 +0000806- Added support for multiple context managers in the same with-statement.
807 Deprecated contextlib.nested() which is no longer needed.
Georg Brandl0c315622009-05-25 21:10:36 +0000808
Mark Dickinson6b1e43b2009-05-20 18:41:04 +0000809- Issue #5829: complex("1e500") no longer raises OverflowError. This
810 makes it consistent with float("1e500") and interpretation of real
811 and imaginary literals.
812
Hirokazu Yamamoto8223c242009-05-17 04:21:53 +0000813- Issue #3527: Removed Py_WIN_WIDE_FILENAMES which is not used any more.
814
R. David Murraydd226ea2009-05-13 12:27:21 +0000815- Issue #5994: the marshal module now has docstrings.
816
Mark Dickinsond1ec8b22009-05-11 15:45:15 +0000817- Issue #5981: Fix three minor inf/nan issues in float.fromhex:
818 (1) inf and nan strings with trailing whitespace were incorrectly
819 rejected; (2) parsing of strings representing infinities and nans
820 was locale aware; and (3) the interpretation of fromhex('-nan')
821 didn't match that of float('-nan').
822
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +0000823Library
824-------
825
Martin v. Löwisb6a748b2009-05-29 15:23:17 +0000826- Issue #4859: Implement PEP 383 for pwd, spwd, and grp.
827
R. David Murrayfb123912009-05-28 18:19:00 +0000828- smtplib 'login' and 'cram-md5' login are also fixed (see Issue #5259).
829
R. David Murray1f1b9d32009-05-27 20:56:59 +0000830- Issue #6121: pydoc now ignores leading and trailing spaces in the
831 argument to the 'help' function.
832
Georg Brandlfaf41492009-05-26 18:31:11 +0000833- Issue #6118: urllib.parse.quote_plus ignored the encoding and errors
834 arguments for strings with a space in them.
835
Raymond Hettinger089ba7f2009-05-27 00:38:24 +0000836- collections.namedtuple() was not working with the following field
837 names: cls, self, tuple, itemgetter, and property.
838
Benjamin Peterson14a3dd72009-05-25 00:51:58 +0000839- In unittest, using a skipping decorator on a class is now equivalent to
840 skipping every test on the class. The ClassTestSuite class has been removed.
841
Martin v. Löwis70ccd162009-05-24 19:47:22 +0000842- Issue #6050: Don't fail extracting a directory from a zipfile if
843 the directory already exists.
844
Antoine Pitrou61f77b52009-05-24 15:46:13 +0000845- Issue #1309352: fcntl now converts its third arguments to a C `long` rather
846 than an int, which makes some operations possible under 64-bit Linux (e.g.
847 DN_MULTISHOT with F_NOTIFY).
848
Antoine Pitrou716c4442009-05-23 19:04:03 +0000849- Issue #5761: Add the name of the underlying file to the repr() of various
850 IO objects.
851
R. David Murraycaa27b72009-05-23 18:49:56 +0000852- Issue #5259: smtplib plain auth login no longer gives a traceback. Fix
853 by Musashi Tamura, tests by Marcin Bachry.
854
Antoine Pitrouc3ee1662009-05-23 16:02:33 +0000855- Issue #1983: Fix functions taking or returning a process identifier to use
856 the dedicated C type ``pid_t`` instead of a C ``int``. Some platforms have
857 a process identifier type wider than the standard C integer type.
858
R. David Murray87e20742009-05-23 01:30:26 +0000859- Issue #4066: smtplib.SMTP_SSL._get_socket now correctly returns the socket.
860 Patch by Farhan Ahmad, test by Marcin Bachry.
861
Antoine Pitrou6e610062009-05-15 17:04:50 +0000862- Issue #2116: Weak references and weak dictionaries now support copy()ing and
863 deepcopy()ing.
864
Antoine Pitrouc1d09362009-05-15 12:15:51 +0000865- Issue #1655: Make imaplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
866
Antoine Pitrou37d1c182009-05-14 21:54:00 +0000867- Issue #5918: Fix a crash in the parser module.
868
Antoine Pitrou2ca24f02009-05-14 21:30:46 +0000869- Issue #1664: Make nntplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
870
Antoine Pitroue4501852009-05-14 18:55:55 +0000871- Issue #5006: Better handling of unicode byte-order marks (BOM) in the io
872 library. This means, for example, that opening an UTF-16 text file in
873 append mode doesn't add a BOM at the end of the file if the file isn't
874 empty.
875
R. David Murray74b89242009-05-13 17:33:03 +0000876- Issue #4050: inspect.findsource/getsource now raise an IOError if the 'source'
877 file is a binary. Patch by Brodie Rao, tests by Daniel Diniz. This fix
878 corrects a pydoc regression.
879
R. David Murray99352742009-05-07 18:24:38 +0000880- Issue 5955: aifc's close method did not close the file it wrapped,
881 now it does. This also means getfp method now returns the real fp.
882
Benjamin Peterson932073a2009-05-23 16:14:33 +0000883Installation
884------------
885
886- Issue #6047: fullinstall has been removed because Python 3's executable will
887 now be known as python3.
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +0000888
Ronald Oussorenbe7149e2009-05-26 21:39:08 +0000889- Lib/smtpd.py is no longer installed as a script.
890
Martin v. Löwisdb1c3992009-05-23 10:38:26 +0000891Extension Modules
892-----------------
893
Martin v. Löwisa6a9c4d2009-05-30 06:15:30 +0000894- Issue #3061: Use wcsftime for time.strftime where available.
Martin v. Löwis1b01ccd2009-05-30 06:13:40 +0000895
Martin v. Löwise23c8682009-05-29 16:01:34 +0000896- Issue #4873: Fix resource leaks in error cases of pwd and grp.
897
Martin v. Löwisdb1c3992009-05-23 10:38:26 +0000898- Issue #6093: Fix off-by-one error in locale.strxfrm.
899
Benjamin Peterson744af442009-05-23 18:51:49 +0000900- The _functools and _locale modules are now built into the libpython shared
901 library instead of as extension modules.
Benjamin Peterson3dc22e82009-05-23 17:09:43 +0000902
Antoine Pitrou20327222009-05-24 20:39:11 +0000903Build
904-----
905
906- Issue #3585: Add pkg-config support. It creates a python-2.7.pc file
907 and a python3.pc symlink in the $(LIBDIR)/pkgconfig directory. Patch by
908 Clinton Roy.
909
Brett Cannon1262e7c2009-05-11 01:47:11 +0000910Tests
911-----
912
913- Issue 5442: Tests for importlib were not properly skipping case-sensitivity
914 tests on darwin even when the OS was installed on a case-sensitive
915 filesystem. Also fixed tests that should not be run when
916 sys.dont_write_bytecode is true.
917
918
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +0000919What's New in Python 3.1 beta 1?
920================================
921
Benjamin Peterson5c5f3de2009-05-06 20:43:28 +0000922*Release date: 2009-05-06*
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +0000923
924Core and Builtins
925-----------------
926
Mark Dickinson865e01a2009-05-07 16:37:01 +0000927- Issue #5914: Add new C API function PyOS_string_to_double, and
928 deprecate PyOS_ascii_strtod and PyOS_ascii_atof.
929
Eric Smith741191f2009-05-06 13:08:15 +0000930- Issue #3382: float.__format__, complex.__format__, and %-formatting
931 no longer map 'F' to 'f'. Because of issue #5859 (below), this only
932 affects nan -> NAN and inf -> INF.
933
Mark Hammond5a607a32009-05-06 08:04:54 +0000934- Issue #5799: ntpath (ie, os.path on Windows) fully supports UNC pathnames
935 in all operations, including splitdrive, split, etc. splitunc() now issues
936 a PendingDeprecation warning.
937
Eric Smith63376222009-05-05 14:04:18 +0000938- Issue #5920: For float.__format__, change the behavior with the
939 empty presentation type (that is, not one of 'e', 'f', 'g', or 'n')
940 to be like 'g' but with at least one decimal point and with a
941 default precision of 12. Previously, the behavior the same but with
942 a default precision of 6. This more closely matches str(), and
943 reduces surprises when adding alignment flags to the empty
944 presentation type. This also affects the new complex.__format__ in
945 the same way.
946
Martin v. Löwis011e8422009-05-05 04:43:17 +0000947- Implement PEP 383, Non-decodable Bytes in System Character Interfaces.
948
R. David Murrayb18500d2009-05-04 22:59:07 +0000949- Issue #5890: in subclasses of 'property' the __doc__ attribute was
950 shadowed by classtype's, even if it was None. property now
951 inserts the __doc__ into the subclass instance __dict__.
952
Antoine Pitrou244651a2009-05-04 18:56:13 +0000953- Issue #4426: The UTF-7 decoder was too strict and didn't accept some legal
954 sequences. Patch by Nick Barnes and Victor Stinner.
955
Martin v. Löwise0a2b722009-05-10 08:08:56 +0000956- Issue #3672: Reject surrogates in utf-8 codec; add surrogatepass error handler.
Martin v. Löwisdb12d452009-05-02 18:52:14 +0000957
Benjamin Petersond2e0c792009-05-01 20:40:59 +0000958- Issue #5883: In the io module, the BufferedIOBase and TextIOBase ABCs have
959 received a new method, detach(). detach() disconnects the underlying stream
960 from the buffer or text IO and returns it.
961
Mark Dickinson33841c32009-05-01 15:37:04 +0000962- Issue #5859: Remove switch from '%f' to '%g'-style formatting for
963 floats with absolute value over 1e50. Also remove length
964 restrictions for float formatting: '%.67f' % 12.34 and '%.120e' %
965 12.34 no longer raise an exception.
Mark Dickinsonf489caf2009-05-01 11:42:00 +0000966
Eric Smith741191f2009-05-06 13:08:15 +0000967- Issue #1588: Add complex.__format__. For example,
Eric Smith58a42242009-04-30 01:00:33 +0000968 format(complex(1, 2./3), '.5') now produces a sensible result.
969
Mark Dickinsond3ca5572009-04-29 18:47:07 +0000970- Issue #5864: Fix empty format code formatting for floats so that it
971 never gives more than the requested number of significant digits.
972
Eric Smith6dc46f52009-04-27 20:39:49 +0000973- Issue #5793: Rationalize isdigit / isalpha / tolower, etc. Includes
974 new Py_ISDIGIT / Py_ISALPHA / Py_TOLOWER, etc. in pctypes.h.
975
Eric Smithcc32a112009-04-26 21:35:14 +0000976- Issue #5835: Deprecate PyOS_ascii_formatd.
977
Martin v. Löwis71efeb72009-04-26 01:02:07 +0000978- Issue #4971: Fix titlecase for characters that are their own
979 titlecase, but not their own uppercase.
980
Benjamin Peterson193152c2009-04-25 01:08:45 +0000981- Issue #5283: Setting __class__ in __del__ caused a segfault.
982
Mark Dickinsonad476da2009-04-23 19:14:16 +0000983- Issue #5816: complex(repr(z)) now recovers z exactly, even when
984 z involves nans, infs or negative zeros.
985
Mark Dickinson4a16e3a2009-04-23 19:15:48 +0000986- Issue #3166: Make int -> float conversions correctly rounded.
Mark Dickinsonc6300392009-04-20 21:38:00 +0000987
Mark Dickinsone6a076d2009-04-18 11:48:33 +0000988- Issue #1869 (and many duplicates): make round(x, n) correctly
989 rounded for a float x, by using the decimal <-> binary conversions
990 from Python/dtoa.c. As a consequence, (e.g.) round(x, 2) now
991 consistently agrees with format(x, '.2f').
992
Benjamin Petersonae937c02009-04-18 20:54:08 +0000993- Issue #5787: object.__getattribute__(some_type, "__bases__") segfaulted on
994 some builtin types.
995
Eric Smith0923d1d2009-04-16 20:16:10 +0000996- Issue #5772: format(1e100, '<') produces '1e+100', not '1.0e+100'.
997
Eric Smith35e84722009-04-16 20:21:28 +0000998- Issue #5515: str.format() type 'n' combined with commas and leading
999 zeros no longer gives odd results with ints and floats.
Eric Smith0923d1d2009-04-16 20:16:10 +00001000
1001- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for
1002 floats.
1003
Mark Dickinson3370cce2009-04-17 22:40:53 +00001004- The str function switches to exponential notation at
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00001005 1e11, not 1e12. This avoids printing 13 significant digits in
1006 situations where only 12 of them are correct. Example problem
1007 value: str(1e11 + 0.5). (This minor issue has existed in 2.x for a
1008 long time.)
1009
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00001010- Issue #1580: On most platforms, use a 'short' float repr: for a
1011 finite float x, repr(x) now outputs a string based on the shortest
1012 sequence of decimal digits that rounds to x. Previous behaviour was
1013 to output 17 significant digits and then strip trailing zeros.
Mark Dickinson3370cce2009-04-17 22:40:53 +00001014 Another minor difference is that the new repr switches to
1015 exponential notation at 1e16 instead of the previous 1e17; this
1016 avoids misleading output in some cases.
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00001017
1018 There's a new sys attribute sys.float_repr_style, which takes
1019 the value 'short' to indicate that we're using short float repr,
1020 and 'legacy' if the short float repr isn't available for one
1021 reason or another.
1022
1023 The float repr change involves incorporating David Gay's 'perfect
1024 rounding' code into the Python core (it's in Python/dtoa.c). As a
1025 secondary consequence, all string-to-float and float-to-string
1026 conversions (including all float formatting operations) will be
1027 correctly rounded on these platforms.
1028
1029 See issue 1580 discussions for details of platforms for which
1030 this change does not apply.
1031
Benjamin Peterson2808d3c2009-04-15 21:34:27 +00001032- Issue #5759: float() didn't call __float__ on str subclasses.
1033
Georg Brandlabc38772009-04-12 15:51:51 +00001034- The string.maketrans() function is deprecated; there is a new static method
1035 maketrans() on the bytes and bytearray classes. This removes confusion about
1036 the types string.maketrans() is supposed to work with, and mirrors the
1037 methods available on the str class.
1038
R. David Murraydc6da8a2009-04-09 22:16:43 +00001039- Issue #2170: refactored xml.dom.minidom.normalize, increasing both
1040 its clarity and its speed.
1041
Matthias Klose091c7b12009-04-07 13:24:27 +00001042- Issue #1113244: Py_XINCREF, Py_DECREF, Py_XDECREF: Add `do { ... } while (0)'
1043 to avoid compiler warnings.
1044
Walter Dörwald8dc33d52009-05-06 14:41:26 +00001045- Issue #3739: The unicode-internal encoder now reports the number of characters
1046 consumed like any other encoder (instead of the number of bytes).
1047
Benjamin Peterson0b4915e2009-04-25 21:11:45 +00001048Installation
1049------------
1050
1051- Issue #5756: Install idle and pydoc with a 3 suffix.
1052
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00001053Library
1054-------
1055
Martin v. Löwis403117a2009-05-24 19:19:17 +00001056- Issue #5311: bdist_msi can now build packages that do not depend on a
1057 specific Python version.
1058
Raymond Hettingereb816952009-05-29 01:22:18 +00001059- Issue #5150: IDLE's format menu now has an option to strip trailing
1060 whitespace.
1061
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00001062- Issue #5940: distutils.command.build_clib.check_library_list was not doing
Tarek Ziadédd9f65f2009-05-06 07:26:24 +00001063 the right type checkings anymore.
1064
Thomas Heller00cfc372009-05-05 19:04:40 +00001065- Issue #4875: On win32, ctypes.util.find_library does no longer
1066 return directories.
1067
Georg Brandl243ad662009-05-05 09:00:19 +00001068- Issue #5142: Add the ability to skip modules while stepping to pdb.
1069
Georg Brandl991f9202009-05-05 08:31:54 +00001070- Issue #1309567: Fix linecache behavior of stripping subdirectories when
1071 looking for files given by a relative filename.
1072
Georg Brandleaa84ef2009-05-05 08:14:33 +00001073- Issue #5923: Update the ``turtle`` module to version 1.1, add two new
1074 turtle demos in Demo/turtle.
1075
Antoine Pitrou3c33e082009-05-04 21:21:36 +00001076- Issue #5692: In :class:`zipfile.Zipfile`, fix wrong path calculation when
1077 extracting a file to the root directory.
1078
Hirokazu Yamamotobbb9be72009-05-04 05:56:46 +00001079- Issue #5913: os.listdir() should fail for empty path on windows.
1080
Antoine Pitroua9f48a02009-05-02 21:41:14 +00001081- Issue #5084: unpickling now interns the attribute names of pickled objects,
1082 saving memory and avoiding growth in size of subsequent pickles. Proposal
1083 and original patch by Jake McGuire.
1084
Benjamin Petersonc6b607d2009-05-02 12:36:44 +00001085- The json module now works exclusively with str and not bytes.
1086
Gregory P. Smithe54dff52009-05-01 22:13:48 +00001087- Issue #3959: The ipaddr module has been added to the standard library.
1088 Contributed by Google.
1089
Antoine Pitrou7fff0962009-05-01 21:09:44 +00001090- Issue #3002: ``shutil.copyfile()`` and ``shutil.copytree()`` now raise an
1091 error when a named pipe is encountered, rather than blocking infinitely.
1092
Raymond Hettinger1f0db402009-04-29 00:38:08 +00001093- Issue #5857: tokenize.tokenize() now returns named tuples.
1094
Thomas Hellerc1edc2d2009-04-28 19:55:58 +00001095- Issue #4305: ctypes should now build again on mipsel-linux-gnu
1096
Antoine Pitrou7a0fedf2009-04-27 22:31:40 +00001097- Issue #1734234: Massively speedup ``unicodedata.normalize()`` when the
1098 string is already in normalized form, by performing a quick check beforehand.
1099 Original patch by Rauli Ruohonen.
1100
Antoine Pitrou57f3d932009-04-27 21:04:19 +00001101- Issue #5853: calling a function of the mimetypes module from several threads
1102 at once could hit the recursion limit if the mimetypes database hadn't been
1103 initialized before.
1104
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00001105- Issue #5854: Updated __all__ to include some missing names and remove some
1106 names which should not be exported.
1107
Thomas Heller34596a92009-04-24 20:50:00 +00001108- Issue #3102: All global symbols that the _ctypes extension defines
1109 are now prefixed with 'Py' or '_ctypes'.
1110
1111- Issue #5041: ctypes does now allow pickling wide character.
1112
Mark Dickinsond4d95f82009-04-24 14:06:19 +00001113- Issue #5812: For the two-argument form of the Fraction constructor,
1114 Fraction(m, n), m and n are permitted to be arbitrary Rational
1115 instances.
1116
Mark Dickinsoncf63f2f2009-04-22 17:50:21 +00001117- Issue #5812: Fraction('1e6') is valid: more generally, any string
1118 that's valid for float() is now valid for Fraction(), with the
1119 exception of strings representing NaNs and infinities.
1120
Antoine Pitroucf4c7492009-04-19 00:09:36 +00001121- Issue #5734: BufferedRWPair was poorly tested and had several glaring
1122 bugs. Patch by Brian Quinlan.
1123
R. David Murray9e94ddf2009-04-13 17:06:33 +00001124- Issue #1161031: fix readwrite select flag handling: POLLPRI now
1125 results in a handle_expt_event call, not handle_read_event, and POLLERR
1126 and POLLNVAL now call handle_close, not handle_expt_event. Also,
1127 dispatcher now has an 'ignore_log_types' attribute for suppressing
1128 log messages, which is set to 'warning' by default.
1129
Matthias Klosea3d29e82009-04-07 13:13:10 +00001130- Issue #2703: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher.__init__: Provide default values for
1131 new arguments introduced in 2.5.
1132
Walter Dörwald1b08b302009-04-25 14:13:56 +00001133- Issue #5828 (Invalid behavior of unicode.lower): Fixed bogus logic in
1134 makeunicodedata.py and regenerated the Unicode database (This fixes
1135 u'\u1d79'.lower() == '\x00').
1136
Matthias Klose535336f2009-04-07 13:49:45 +00001137Extension Modules
1138-----------------
1139
Benjamin Petersone04b6272009-05-04 22:25:21 +00001140- Issue #5881: Remove old undocumented compatibility interfaces in hashlib and
1141 pwd.
1142
Mark Dickinsonea835e72009-04-19 20:40:33 +00001143- Issue #5463: In struct module, remove deprecated float coercion
1144 for integer type codes: struct.pack('L', 0.3) should now raise
1145 an error. The _PY_STRUCT_FLOAT_COERCE constant has been removed.
1146 The version number has been bumped to 0.3.
1147
Matthias Klose535336f2009-04-07 13:49:45 +00001148- Issue #5359: Readd the Berkley-DB detection code to allow _dbm be built
1149 using Berkley-DB.
1150
Nick Coghlan47384702009-04-22 16:13:36 +00001151Tests
1152-----
1153
1154- Issue #5354: New test support function import_fresh_module() makes
1155 it easy to import both normal and optimised versions of modules.
1156 test_heapq and test_warnings have been adjusted to use it, tests for
1157 other modules with both C and Python implementations in the stdlib
1158 can be adjusted to use it over time.
1159
Walter Dörwald4ba80132009-04-25 12:48:43 +00001160- Issue #5837: Certain sequences of calls to set() and unset() for
1161 support.EnvironmentVarGuard objects restored the environment variables
1162 incorrectly on __exit__.
1163
Benjamin Petersonb173f782009-05-05 22:31:58 +00001164C-API
1165-----
1166
1167- Issue #5630: A replacement PyCObject API, PyCapsule, has been added.
1168
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00001169
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00001170What's New in Python 3.1 alpha 2?
1171=================================
1172
Benjamin Peterson88f14352009-04-04 21:06:52 +00001173*Release date: 2009-4-4*
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00001174
1175Core and Builtins
1176-----------------
Benjamin Petersone099b372009-04-04 17:09:35 +00001177
Eric Smith1e1d7d22009-04-03 22:25:33 +00001178- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for
1179 integers.
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00001180
Benjamin Peterson8f76b492009-04-03 22:22:42 +00001181- Issue #5666: Py_BuildValue's 'c' code should create byte strings.
1182
Benjamin Peterson7fe98532009-04-02 00:33:55 +00001183- Issue #5499: The 'c' code for argument parsing functions now only accepts a
1184 byte, and the 'C' code only accepts a unicode character.
1185
Georg Brandl406b3d82009-04-11 21:24:37 +00001186- Fix a problem in PyErr_NormalizeException that leads to "undetected errors"
1187 when hitting the recursion limit under certain circumstances.
1188
Brett Cannon0759dd62009-04-01 18:13:07 +00001189- Issue #1665206: Remove the last eager import in _warnings.c and make it lazy.
1190
Georg Brandlab6f2f62009-03-31 04:16:10 +00001191- Fix a segfault when running test_exceptions with coverage, caused by
1192 insufficient checks in accessors of Exception.__context__.
1193
Guido van Rossum0ad59d42009-03-30 22:01:35 +00001194- Issue #5604: non-ASCII characters in module name passed to
1195 imp.find_module() were converted to UTF-8 while the path is
1196 converted to the default filesystem encoding, causing nonsense.
1197
Benjamin Peterson09832742009-03-26 17:15:46 +00001198- Issue #5126: str.isprintable() returned False for space characters.
1199
Ronald Oussorenfa1fcd12009-03-30 23:16:10 +00001200- Issue #4865: On MacOSX /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages is added to
1201 the end sys.path, for compatibility with the system install of Python.
1202
Antoine Pitrou3a652b12009-03-23 18:52:06 +00001203- Issue #4688: Add a heuristic so that tuples and dicts containing only
1204 untrackable objects are not tracked by the garbage collector. This can
1205 reduce the size of collections and therefore the garbage collection overhead
1206 on long-running programs, depending on their particular use of datatypes.
1207
Mark Dickinson17e4fdd2009-03-23 18:44:57 +00001208- Issue #5512: Rewrite PyLong long division algorithm (x_divrem) to
1209 improve its performance. Long divisions and remainder operations
1210 are now between 50% and 150% faster.
1211
Mark Dickinsonbd792642009-03-18 20:06:12 +00001212- Issue #4258: Make it possible to use base 2**30 instead of base
1213 2**15 for the internal representation of integers, for performance
1214 reasons. Base 2**30 is enabled by default on 64-bit machines. Add
1215 --enable-big-digits option to configure, which overrides the
1216 default. Add sys.int_info structseq to provide information about
1217 the internal format.
1218
Mark Dickinson081dfee2009-03-18 14:47:41 +00001219- Issue #4474: PyUnicode_FromWideChar now converts characters outside
1220 the BMP to surrogate pairs, on systems with sizeof(wchar_t) == 4
1221 and sizeof(Py_UNICODE) == 2.
1222
Eric Smith8ec90442009-03-14 12:29:34 +00001223- Issue #5237: Allow auto-numbered fields in str.format(). For
1224 example: '{} {}'.format(1, 2) == '1 2'.
1225
Antoine Pitrou652e7072009-03-13 19:25:20 +00001226- Issue #5392: when a very low recursion limit was set, the interpreter would
1227 abort with a fatal error after the recursion limit was hit twice.
1228
Matthias Klose042f1332009-04-04 14:32:42 +00001229- Issue #3845: In PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags avoid invalid memory access with
1230 short file names.
1231
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00001232Library
1233-------
1234
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00001235- Issue #2625: added missing items() call to the for loop in
R. David Murray548ac412009-04-02 19:44:43 +00001236 mailbox.MH.get_message().
1237
Hye-Shik Chang944820b2009-04-02 10:33:16 +00001238- Issue #5640: Fix _multibytecodec so that CJK codecs don't repeat
1239 error substitutions from non-strict codec error callbacks in
1240 incrementalencoder and StreamWriter.
1241
Georg Brandl33c28812009-04-01 23:07:29 +00001242- Issue #5656: Fix the coverage reporting when running the test suite with
1243 the -T argument.
1244
Raymond Hettinger3f10a952009-04-01 19:05:50 +00001245- Issue #5647: MutableSet.__iand__() no longer mutates self during iteration.
1246
Georg Brandl4ed72ac2009-04-01 04:28:33 +00001247- Issue #5624: Fix the _winreg module name still used in several modules.
1248
Benjamin Petersona1b49012009-03-31 23:11:32 +00001249- Issue #5628: Fix io.TextIOWrapper.read() with a unreadable buffer.
1250
Jesse Nollera9314042009-03-31 22:36:44 +00001251- Issue #5619: Multiprocessing children disobey the debug flag and causes
1252 popups on windows buildbots. Patch applied to work around this issue.
1253
Jesse Noller32d68c22009-03-31 18:48:42 +00001254- Issue #5400: Added patch for multiprocessing on netbsd compilation/support
1255
Hirokazu Yamamoto16caab02009-03-31 13:44:06 +00001256- Issue #5387: Fixed mmap.move crash by integer overflow.
1257
Jesse Nollerf8d00852009-03-31 03:25:07 +00001258- Issue #5261: Patch multiprocessing's semaphore.c to support context
1259 manager use: "with multiprocessing.Lock()" works now.
1260
Brett Cannon7f6b4f82009-03-30 21:30:26 +00001261- Issue #5236: Change time.strptime() to only take strings. Didn't work with
1262 bytes already but the failure was non-obvious.
1263
Jesse Noller7af4ef82009-03-30 16:47:15 +00001264- Issue #5177: Multiprocessing's SocketListener class now uses
1265 socket.SO_REUSEADDR on all connections so that the user no longer needs
1266 to wait 120 seconds for the socket to expire.
1267
Benjamin Peterson48e24782009-03-29 13:02:52 +00001268- Issue #5595: Fix UnboundedLocalError in ntpath.ismount().
1269
Antoine Pitrou66994e12009-03-29 00:45:26 +00001270- Issue #1174606: Calling read() without arguments of an unbounded file
1271 (typically /dev/zero under Unix) could crash the interpreter.
1272
Benjamin Peterson59406a92009-03-26 17:10:29 +00001273- The max_buffer_size arguments of io.BufferedWriter, io.BufferedRWPair, and
1274 io.BufferedRandom have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.2.
1275
Lars Gustäbel42e00912009-03-22 20:34:29 +00001276- Issue #5068: Fixed the tarfile._BZ2Proxy.read() method that would loop
1277 forever on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used
1278 with mode 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or
1279 partial bzip2 compressed data.
1280
Mark Dickinson79f52032009-03-17 23:12:51 +00001281- Issue #2110: Add support for thousands separator and 'n' type
1282 specifier to Decimal.__format__
1283
Mark Dickinson9c59fe02009-03-17 18:15:08 +00001284- Fix Decimal.__format__ bug that swapped the meanings of the '<' and
1285 '>' alignment characters.
1286
Antoine Pitrou0ae29cf2009-03-13 22:33:17 +00001287- The error detection code in FileIO.close() could fail to reflect the `errno`
1288 value, and report it as -1 instead.
1289
Antoine Pitroua28fcfd2009-03-13 23:42:55 +00001290- Issue #5016: FileIO.seekable() could return False if the file position
1291 was negative when truncated to a C int. Patch by Victor Stinner.
1292
Mark Dickinsonae681df2009-03-21 10:26:31 +00001293Extension Modules
1294-----------------
1295
Benjamin Petersone099b372009-04-04 17:09:35 +00001296- Issue #5391: mmap now deals exclusively with bytes.
1297
Mark Dickinsonae681df2009-03-21 10:26:31 +00001298- Issue #5463: In struct module, remove deprecated overflow wrapping
1299 when packing an integer: struct.pack('=L', -1) now raises
Mark Dickinsonb40b9472009-03-29 16:58:21 +00001300 struct.error instead of returning b'\xff\xff\xff\xff'. The
1301 _PY_STRUCT_RANGE_CHECKING and _PY_STRUCT_OVERFLOW_MASKING constants
1302 have been removed from the struct module.
Mark Dickinsonae681df2009-03-21 10:26:31 +00001303
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00001304
Benjamin Petersona58a6262009-03-07 16:34:40 +00001305What's New in Python 3.1 alpha 1
Barry Warsaw97f005d2008-12-03 16:46:14 +00001306================================
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00001307
Benjamin Petersona58a6262009-03-07 16:34:40 +00001308*Release date: 2009-03-07*
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00001309
1310Core and Builtins
1311-----------------
1312
Benjamin Peterson4fa88fa2009-03-04 00:14:51 +00001313- The io module has been reimplemented in C for speed.
1314
Raymond Hettingerb0d56af2009-03-03 10:52:49 +00001315- Give dict views an informative __repr__.
1316
Eric Smith5e5c0db2009-02-20 14:25:03 +00001317- Issue #5247: Improve error message when unknown format codes are
1318 used when using str.format() with str, int, and float arguments.
1319
Hirokazu Yamamoto575d1332009-02-16 09:13:20 +00001320- Issue #5249: time.strftime returned malformed string when format string
1321 contained non ascii character on windows.
1322
Benjamin Petersonf5b52242009-03-02 23:31:26 +00001323- Issue #4626: compile(), exec(), and eval() ignore the coding cookie if the
1324 source has already been decoded into str.
1325
Antoine Pitrou79eee6b2009-02-13 14:01:05 +00001326- Issue #5186: Reduce hash collisions for objects with no __hash__ method by
1327 rotating the object pointer by 4 bits to the right.
1328
Mark Dickinson87ec0852009-02-09 17:15:59 +00001329- Issue #4575: Fix Py_IS_INFINITY macro to work correctly on x87 FPUs:
1330 it now forces its argument to double before testing for infinity.
1331
Benjamin Petersonee1ae7c2009-02-08 21:07:20 +00001332- Issue #5137: Make len() correctly raise a TypeError when a __len__ method
1333 returns a non-number type.
1334
Benjamin Peterson87618552009-02-08 15:00:52 +00001335- Issue #5182: Removed memoryview.__str__.
1336
Mark Dickinsonc008a172009-02-01 13:59:22 +00001337- Issue #1717: Removed builtin cmp() function, dropped tp_compare
1338 slot, the C API functions PyObject_Compare and PyUnicode_Compare and
Mark Dickinsone94c6792009-02-02 20:36:42 +00001339 the type definition cmpfunc. The tp_compare slot has been renamed
1340 to tp_reserved, and is reserved for future usage.
Mark Dickinsonf02e0aa2009-02-01 12:13:56 +00001341
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00001342- Issue #1242657: the __len__() and __length_hint__() calls in several tools
Raymond Hettingere8364232009-02-02 22:55:09 +00001343 were suppressing all exceptions. These include list() and bytearray().
1344
Mark Dickinson1124e712009-01-28 21:25:58 +00001345- Issue #4707: round(x, n) now returns an integer if x is an integer.
1346 Previously it returned a float.
1347
Antoine Pitroub52ec782009-01-25 16:34:23 +00001348- Issue #4753: By enabling a configure option named '--with-computed-gotos'
1349 on compilers that support it (notably: gcc, SunPro, icc), the bytecode
1350 evaluation loop is compiled with a new dispatch mechanism which gives
1351 speedups of up to 20%, depending on the system, on various benchmarks.
1352
Antoine Pitrou81fabdb2009-01-22 10:11:36 +00001353- Issue #4874: Most builtin decoders now reject unicode input.
1354
Mark Dickinson9ffc0202009-01-20 20:45:53 +00001355- Issue #4842: Don't allow trailing 'L' when constructing an integer
1356 from a string.
1357
Benjamin Peterson05e782f2009-01-19 15:15:02 +00001358- Issue #4991: os.fdopen now raises an OSError for invalid file descriptors.
1359
Antoine Pitroue4bc7f62009-01-17 21:06:43 +00001360- Issue #4838: When a module is deallocated, free the memory backing the
1361 optional module state data.
1362
Mark Dickinson8055afd2009-01-17 10:04:45 +00001363- Issue #4910: Rename nb_long slot to nb_reserved, and change its
1364 type to (void *).
1365
Antoine Pitrou8d4e5052009-01-13 22:59:11 +00001366- Issue #4935: The overflow checking code in the expandtabs() method common
1367 to str, bytes and bytearray could be optimized away by the compiler, letting
1368 the interpreter segfault instead of raising an error.
1369
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf343e012009-01-12 23:58:21 +00001370- Issue #3720: Fix a crash when an iterator modifies its class and removes its
1371 __next__ method.
1372
Mark Dickinsone5e298f2009-01-12 20:49:19 +00001373- Issue #4910: Builtin int() function and PyNumber_Long/PyNumber_Int API
1374 function no longer attempt to call the __long__ slot to convert an object
1375 to an integer. Only the __int__ and __trunc__ slots are examined.
1376
Martin v. Löwis7c2b66c2009-01-12 08:21:03 +00001377- Issue #4893: Use NT threading on CE.
1378
Martin v. Löwisec59d042009-01-12 07:59:10 +00001379- Issue #4915: Port sysmodule to Windows CE.
1380
Antoine Pitrouab868312009-01-10 15:40:25 +00001381- Issue #4868: utf-8, utf-16 and latin1 decoding are now 2x to 4x faster. The
1382 common cases are optimized thanks to a dedicated fast path and a moderate
1383 amount of loop unrolling.
1384
Antoine Pitrou14b78f52009-01-09 22:27:08 +00001385- Issue #4074: Change the criteria for doing a full garbage collection (i.e.
1386 collecting the oldest generation) so that allocating lots of objects without
1387 destroying them does not show quadratic performance. Based on a proposal by
1388 Martin von Löwis at
1389 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080579.html.
1390
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00001391- Issue #4604: Some objects of the I/O library could still be used after
Antoine Pitrou8043cf82009-01-09 19:54:29 +00001392 having been closed (for instance, a read() call could return some
1393 previously buffered data). Patch by Dmitry Vasiliev.
1394
Antoine Pitrou05608432009-01-09 18:53:14 +00001395- Issue #4705: Fix the -u ("unbuffered binary stdout and stderr") command-line
1396 flag to work properly. Furthermore, when specifying -u, the text stdout
1397 and stderr streams have line-by-line buffering enabled (the default being
1398 to buffer arbitrary chunks of data).
1399
Raymond Hettinger35631532009-01-09 03:58:09 +00001400- The internal table, _PyLong_DigitValue, is now an array of unsigned chars
1401 instead of ints (reducing its size from 4 to 8 times thereby reducing
1402 Python's overall memory).
1403
Antoine Pitroud35cbf62009-01-06 19:02:24 +00001404- Issue #1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with
1405 an existing .py counterpart, override the co_filename attributes of all
1406 code objects if the original filename is obsolete (which can happen if the
1407 file has been renamed, moved, or if it is accessed through different paths).
1408 Patch by Ziga Seilnacht and Jean-Paul Calderone.
1409
Antoine Pitrouc3b39242009-01-03 16:59:18 +00001410- Issue #4580: Fix slicing of memoryviews when the item size is greater than
1411 one byte. Also fixes the meaning of len() so that it returns the number of
1412 items, rather than the size in bytes.
1413
Martin v. Löwis5c88d812009-01-02 20:47:48 +00001414- Issue #4075: Use OutputDebugStringW in Py_FatalError.
1415
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc374e2202009-01-01 23:05:36 +00001416- Issue #4747: When the terminal does not use utf-8, executing a script with
1417 non-ascii characters in its name could fail with a "SyntaxError: None" error.
1418
Hirokazu Yamamoto0f22d692009-01-01 16:03:45 +00001419- Issue #4797: IOError.filename was not set when _fileio.FileIO failed to open
Hirokazu Yamamoto8ed9a802009-01-01 16:09:52 +00001420 file with `bytes' filename on Windows.
Hirokazu Yamamoto0f22d692009-01-01 16:03:45 +00001421
Antoine Pitrou7ddda782009-01-01 15:35:33 +00001422- Issue #3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator
1423 did not get collected.
1424
Nick Coghlanf1f2f682008-12-30 07:29:12 +00001425- Issue #4701: PyObject_Hash now implicitly calls PyType_Ready on types
1426 where the tp_hash and tp_dict slots are both NULL.
1427
Georg Brandlccc47b62008-12-28 11:44:14 +00001428- Issue #4759: None is now allowed as the first argument of
1429 bytearray.translate(). It was always allowed for bytes.translate().
1430
Skip Montanaro80072cb2008-12-23 03:51:14 +00001431- Added test case to ensure attempts to read from a file opened for writing
1432 fail.
1433
Antoine Pitrou51f3ef92008-12-20 13:14:23 +00001434- Issue #3106: Speedup some comparisons (str/str and int/int).
1435
Antoine Pitrouf289ae62008-12-18 11:06:25 +00001436- Issue #2183: Simplify and optimize bytecode for list, dict and set
1437 comprehensions. Original patch for list comprehensions by Neal Norwitz.
1438
Antoine Pitrou621601a2008-12-17 23:18:19 +00001439- Issue #2467: gc.DEBUG_STATS reported invalid elapsed times. Also, always
1440 print elapsed times, not only when some objects are uncollectable /
1441 unreachable. Original patch by Neil Schemenauer.
1442
Mark Dickinson54bc1ec2008-12-17 16:19:07 +00001443- Issue #3439: Add a bit_length method to int.
1444
Mark Dickinsonda2706b2008-12-11 18:03:03 +00001445- Issue #2173: When getting device encoding, check that return value of
1446 nl_langinfo is not the empty string. This was causing silent build
1447 failures on OS X.
1448
Jeffrey Yasskinb9083f32008-12-11 06:18:33 +00001449- Issue #4597: Fixed several opcodes that weren't always propagating
1450 exceptions.
1451
1452- Issue #4589: Fixed exception handling when the __exit__ function of a
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc10b24e82008-12-10 23:49:33 +00001453 context manager returns a value that cannot be converted to a bool.
1454
Mark Dickinsonfd24b322008-12-06 15:33:31 +00001455- Issue #4445: Replace "sizeof(PyBytesObject)" with
1456 "offsetof(PyBytesObject, ob_sval) + 1" when allocating memory for
1457 bytes instances. On a typical machine this saves 3 bytes of memory
1458 (on average) per allocation of a bytes instance.
1459
Christian Heimesa872de52008-12-05 08:26:55 +00001460- Issue #4533: File read operation was dreadfully slow due to a slowly
1461 growing read buffer. Fixed by using the same growth rate algorithm as
1462 Python 2.x.
1463
Antoine Pitrou5504e892008-12-06 21:27:53 +00001464- Issue #4509: Various issues surrounding resize of bytearray objects to
1465 which there are buffer exports (e.g. memoryview instances).
1466
Georg Brandlf9734072008-12-07 15:30:06 +00001467- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()``
1468 method on file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still
1469 kept open but the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO``
1470 object also got a new readonly attribute ``closefd``.
Matthias Klose7e1b8fa2008-11-26 17:22:04 +00001471
Antoine Pitroubc420402008-12-07 20:14:49 +00001472- Issue #4569: Interpreter crash when mutating a memoryview with an item size
1473 larger than 1.
1474
Benjamin Peterson371ccfb2008-12-27 19:03:36 +00001475- Issue #4748: Lambda generators no longer return a value.
1476
Gregory P. Smithccc5ae72009-03-02 05:21:55 +00001477- The re.sub(), re.subn() and re.split() functions now accept a flags parameter.
1478
Walter Dörwaldc1651a02009-05-03 22:55:55 +00001479- Issue #5108: Handle %s like %S, %R and %A in PyUnicode_FromFormatV(): Call
1480 PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8() once, remember the result and output it in a second
1481 step. This avoids problems with counting UTF-8 bytes that ignores the effect
1482 of using the replace error handler in PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8().
1483
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00001484Library
1485-------
Tarek Ziadé38e3d512009-02-27 12:58:56 +00001486
Tarek Ziadé04fe7c02009-10-25 23:08:47 +00001487- Issue #7071: byte-compilation in Distutils is now done with respect to
1488 sys.dont_write_bytecode.
1489
Tarek Ziadé978cca62009-10-24 13:38:27 +00001490- Issue #7066: archive_util.make_archive now restores the cwd if an error is
1491 raised. Initial patch by Ezio Melotti.
1492
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +00001493- Issue #6516: Added owner/group support when creating tar archives in
Tarek Ziadé05b30342009-10-02 23:56:02 +00001494 Distutils.
1495
Tarek Ziadé31d46072009-09-21 13:55:19 +00001496- Issue #6954: Fixed crash when using DISTUTILS_DEBUG flag in Distutils.
1497
Tarek Ziadé165581c2009-09-09 08:48:07 +00001498- Issue #6163: Fixed HP-UX runtime library dir options in
1499 distutils.unixcompiler. Initial patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar and
1500 Michael Haubenwallner.
1501
Tarek Ziadé4a608c02009-08-20 21:28:05 +00001502- Issue #6693: New functions in site.py to get user/global site packages paths.
1503
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbc347802009-07-28 22:18:57 +00001504- Issue #6511: ZipFile now raises BadZipfile (instead of an IOError) when
1505 opening an empty or very small file.
1506
1507- Issue #6545: Removed assert statements in distutils.Extension, so the
Tarek Ziadé2f19bb12009-07-22 08:57:28 +00001508 behavior is similar when used with -O.
1509
Benjamin Petersonbed7d042009-07-19 21:01:52 +00001510- unittest has been split up into a package. All old names should still work.
1511
Tarek Ziadéf8926b22009-07-16 16:18:19 +00001512- Issue #6466: now distutils.cygwinccompiler and distutils.emxccompiler
1513 uses the same refactored function to get gcc/ld/dllwrap versions numbers.
1514 It's `distutils.util.get_compiler_versions`. Added deprecation warnings
1515 for the obsolete get_versions() functions.
1516
Alexandre Vassalottie52e3782009-07-17 09:18:18 +00001517- Issue #6433: fixed issues with multiprocessing.pool.map hanging on empty list
1518
1519- Issue #6314: logging: Extra checks on the "level" argument in more places.
1520
1521- Issue #2622: Fixed an ImportError when importing email.messsage from a
1522 standalone application built with py2exe or py2app.
1523
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00001524- Issue #6455: Fixed test_build_ext under win32.
Tarek Ziadéb7815e32009-07-10 09:14:31 +00001525
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00001526- Issue #6377: Enabled the compiler option, and deprecate its usage as an
Tarek Ziadédd07ebb2009-07-06 13:52:17 +00001527 attribute.
1528
Tarek Ziadé05bf01a2009-07-04 02:04:21 +00001529- Issue #6413: Fixed the log level in distutils.dist for announce.
1530
Tarek Ziadée10d6de2009-07-03 08:33:28 +00001531- Issue #6403: Fixed package path usage in build_ext.
1532
Alexandre Vassalottie52e3782009-07-17 09:18:18 +00001533- Issues #5155, 5313, 5331: multiprocessing.Process._bootstrap was
1534 unconditionally calling "os.close(sys.stdin.fileno())" resulting in file
1535 descriptor errors
1536
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00001537- Issue #6365: Distutils build_ext inplace mode was copying the compiled
Tarek Ziadé0156f912009-06-29 16:19:22 +00001538 extension in a subdirectory if the extension name had dots.
1539
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00001540- Issue #6164: Added an AIX specific linker argument in Distutils
Tarek Ziadé8f480e52009-06-28 21:30:52 +00001541 unixcompiler. Original patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
1542
Tarek Ziadé25bd2062009-06-28 21:26:27 +00001543- Issue #6286: Now Distutils upload command is based on urllib2 instead of
1544 httplib, allowing the usage of http_proxy.
1545
Tarek Ziadé5e06a652009-06-16 07:43:42 +00001546- Issue #6287: Added the license field in Distutils documentation.
1547
Tarek Ziadéff543362009-06-11 09:25:41 +00001548- Issue #6263: Fixed syntax error in distutils.cygwincompiler.
1549
Tarek Ziadéabcc3f42009-06-11 08:31:17 +00001550- Issue #5201: distutils.sysconfig.parse_makefile() now understands `$$`
1551 in Makefiles. This prevents compile errors when using syntax like:
1552 `LDFLAGS='-rpath=\$$LIB:/some/other/path'`. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
1553
Hirokazu Yamamoto2703fd92009-05-29 09:14:04 +00001554- Issue #6131: test_modulefinder leaked when run after test_distutils.
1555 Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
1556
Tarek Ziadé77c8b372009-05-28 13:01:13 +00001557- Issue #6048: Now Distutils uses the tarfile module in archive_util.
1558
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00001559- Issue #6062: In distutils, fixed the package option of build_ext. Feedback
Tarek Ziadé822eb842009-05-19 16:22:57 +00001560 and tests on pywin32 by Tim Golden.
1561
Tarek Ziadé93fb3aa2009-05-18 12:29:06 +00001562- Issue #6053: Fixed distutils tests on win32. patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
1563
Tarek Ziadéd18a84e2009-05-18 08:07:46 +00001564- Issue #6046: Fixed the library extension when distutils build_ext is used
1565 inplace. Initial patch by Roumen Petrov.
1566
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00001567- Issue #6041: Now distutils `sdist` and `register` commands use `check` as a
Tarek Ziadé5af55c62009-05-16 16:52:13 +00001568 subcommand.
1569
Tarek Ziadé4210c6e2009-05-14 20:20:47 +00001570- Issue #6022: a test file was created in the current working directory by
1571 test_get_outputs in Distutils.
1572
Tarek Ziadéff0e5002009-05-12 17:14:01 +00001573- Issue #5977: distutils build_ext.get_outputs was not taking into account the
1574 inplace option. Initial patch by kxroberto.
1575
Tarek Ziadé06fbee12009-05-10 10:34:01 +00001576- Issue #5984: distutils.command.build_ext.check_extensions_list checks were broken
1577 for old-style extensions.
1578
Tarek Ziadébe5b1b92009-05-09 10:09:11 +00001579- Issue #5976: Fixed Distutils test_check_environ.
1580
Tarek Ziadé5662d3e2009-05-07 21:24:43 +00001581- Issue #5941: Distutils build_clib command was not working anymore because
1582 of an incomplete costumization of the archiver command. Added ARFLAGS in the
1583 Makefile besides AR and make Distutils use it. Original patch by David
1584 Cournapeau.
1585
R. David Murrayb507d2e2009-04-29 15:34:32 +00001586- Issue #2245: aifc now skips chunk types it doesn't recognize, per spec.
1587
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00001588- Issue #5874: distutils.tests.test_config_cmd is not locale-sensitive
Tarek Ziadé81623822009-04-29 08:07:44 +00001589 anymore.
1590
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00001591- Issue #5810: Fixed Distutils test_build_scripts so it uses
Tarek Ziadé939f9c82009-04-25 12:53:56 +00001592 sysconfig.get_config_vars.
1593
Tarek Ziadé23336082009-04-25 12:39:56 +00001594- Issue #4951: Fixed failure in test_httpservers.
1595
Thomas Hellerd3cfe992009-04-24 20:10:24 +00001596- Issue #5795: Fixed test_distutils failure on Debian ppc.
1597
Tarek Ziadé822e1d42009-04-13 12:37:57 +00001598- Issue #5607: fixed Distutils test_get_platform for Mac OS X fat binaries.
1599
Georg Brandl1f9fa312009-04-27 16:42:58 +00001600- Issue #5741: don't disallow "%%" (which is an escape for "%") when setting
1601 a value in SafeConfigParser.
1602
Tarek Ziadéf396ecf2009-04-11 15:00:43 +00001603- Issue #5732: added a new command in Distutils: check.
1604
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00001605- Issue #5731: Distutils bdist_wininst no longer worked on non-Windows
Tarek Ziadéa6191802009-04-09 22:02:39 +00001606 platforms. Initial patch by Paul Moore.
1607
Tarek Ziadéf6370502009-04-05 22:57:21 +00001608- Issue #5095: Added bdist_msi to the list of bdist supported formats.
1609 Initial fix by Steven Bethard.
1610
Tarek Ziadé889b0aa2009-04-05 21:49:36 +00001611- Issue #1491431: Fixed distutils.filelist.glob_to_re for edge cases.
1612 Initial fix by Wayne Davison.
1613
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00001614- Issue #5694: removed spurious test output in Distutils (test_clean).
Tarek Ziadéea261632009-04-05 18:33:34 +00001615
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00001616- Issue #1326077: fix the formatting of SyntaxErrors by the traceback module.
Georg Brandl236f7972009-04-05 14:28:42 +00001617
Brett Cannonf47e84c2009-04-01 16:06:01 +00001618- Issue #1665206 (partially): Move imports in cgitb to the top of the module
1619 instead of performing them in functions. Helps prevent import deadlocking in
1620 threads.
1621
R. David Murraye59482e2009-04-01 03:42:00 +00001622- Issue #2522: locale.format now checks its first argument to ensure it has
1623 been passed only one pattern, avoiding mysterious errors where it appeared
1624 that it was failing to do localization.
1625
Tarek Ziadéb2e36f12009-03-31 22:37:55 +00001626- Issue #5583: Added optional Extensions in Distutils. Initial patch by Georg
1627 Brandl.
1628
Antoine Pitrou350370c2009-03-14 00:13:13 +00001629- Issue #1222: locale.format() bug when the thousands separator is a space
1630 character.
1631
Tarek Ziadé516db942009-03-11 12:52:00 +00001632- Issue #5472: Fixed distutils.test_util tear down. Original patch by
1633 Tim Golden.
1634
Raymond Hettinger5bb0f0e2009-03-10 12:56:32 +00001635- collections.deque() objects now have a read-only attribute called maxlen.
1636
Guilherme Polof45b4cc2009-03-07 02:19:14 +00001637- Issue #2638: Show a window constructed with tkSimpleDialog.Dialog only after
1638 it is has been populated and properly configured in order to prevent
1639 window flashing.
1640
Guilherme Polo56f5be52009-03-07 01:54:57 +00001641- Issue #4792: Prevent a segfault in _tkinter by using the
1642 guaranteed to be safe interp argument given to the PythonCmd in place of
1643 the Tcl interpreter taken from a PythonCmd_ClientData.
1644
1645- Issue #5193: Guarantee that tkinter.Text.search returns a string.
1646
Tarek Ziadé63b64c02009-03-07 00:51:53 +00001647- Issue #5394: removed > 2.3 syntax from distutils.msvc9compiler.
1648 Original patch by Akira Kitada.
1649
Hirokazu Yamamoto54d0df62009-03-06 03:04:07 +00001650- Issue #5334: array.fromfile() failed to insert values when EOFError was raised.
1651
Hirokazu Yamamoto8e722bc2009-03-05 14:33:01 +00001652- Issue #5385: Fixed mmap crash after resize failure on windows.
1653
Hirokazu Yamamoto0c988172009-03-03 22:41:26 +00001654- Issue #5179: Fixed subprocess handle leak on failure on windows.
1655
Raymond Hettinger2d32f632009-03-02 21:24:57 +00001656- PEP 372: Added collections.OrderedDict().
1657
Raymond Hettingera4f52b12009-03-02 22:28:31 +00001658- The _asdict() for method for namedtuples now returns an OrderedDict().
1659
Raymond Hettinger0663a1e2009-03-02 23:06:00 +00001660- configparser now defaults to using an ordered dictionary.
1661
Benjamin Petersone0124bd2009-03-09 21:04:33 +00001662- Issue #5401: Fixed a performance problem in mimetypes when ``from mimetypes
1663 import guess_extension`` was used.
1664
Hirokazu Yamamoto10c99372009-02-28 12:21:53 +00001665- Issue #1733986: Fixed mmap crash in accessing elements of second map object
1666 with same tagname but larger size than first map. (Windows)
1667
Hirokazu Yamamoto39c6dea2009-02-28 10:56:50 +00001668- Issue #5386: mmap.write_byte didn't check map size, so it could cause buffer
1669 overrun.
1670
Tarek Ziadéf0721222009-02-28 10:16:43 +00001671- Issue #1533164: Installed but not listed *.pyo was breaking Distutils
1672 bdist_rpm command.
1673
1674- Issue #5378: added --quiet option to Distutils bdist_rpm command.
1675
Tarek Ziadé38e3d512009-02-27 12:58:56 +00001676- Issue #5052: make Distutils compatible with 2.3 again.
1677
Tarek Ziadé0f31e6d2009-02-25 22:31:38 +00001678- Issue #5316: Fixed buildbot failures introduced by multiple inheritance
1679 in Distutils tests.
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00001680
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00001681- Issue #5287: Add exception handling around findCaller() call to help out
1682 IronPython.
1683
Hirokazu Yamamoto0654ccd2009-02-18 16:38:00 +00001684- Issue #5282: Fixed mmap resize on 32bit windows and unix. When offset > 0,
1685 The file was resized to wrong size.
1686
1687- Issue #5292: Fixed mmap crash on its boundary access m[len(m)].
1688
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00001689- Issue #2279: distutils.sdist.add_defaults now add files
Tarek Ziadé0d0506e2009-02-16 21:49:12 +00001690 from the package_data and the data_files metadata.
1691
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00001692- Issue #5257: refactored all tests in distutils, so they use
Tarek Ziadéc1375d52009-02-14 14:35:51 +00001693 support.TempdirManager, to avoid writing in the tests directory.
1694
Tarek Ziadé68c50952009-02-13 23:04:17 +00001695- Issue #4524: distutils build_script command failed with --with-suffix=3.
1696 Initial patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
1697
Tarek Ziadé811d6242009-02-13 22:26:15 +00001698- Issue #2461: added tests for distutils.util
1699
Mark Dickinsonc28ad272009-02-12 17:58:36 +00001700- Issue #4998: The memory saving effect of __slots__ had been lost on Fractions
1701 which inherited from numbers.py which did not have __slots__ defined. The
1702 numbers hierarchy now has its own __slots__ declarations.
1703
Antoine Pitroub353c122009-02-11 00:39:14 +00001704- Issue #4631: Fix urlopen() result when an HTTP response uses chunked
1705 encoding.
1706
Thomas Heller465c8022009-02-10 18:59:04 +00001707- Issue #5203: Fixed ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a
1708 function without argtypes (only occurs if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false).
1709
Tarek Ziadé7d5e9872009-02-10 12:36:33 +00001710- Issue #3386: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument was ignored
1711 under NT and OS2. Patch by Philip Jenvey.
1712
Brett Cannonbefb14f2009-02-10 02:10:16 +00001713- Issue #5128: Make compileall properly inspect bytecode to determine if needs
1714 to be recreated. This avoids a timing hole thanks to the old reliance on the
1715 ctime of the files involved.
1716
Guilherme Polob681df42009-02-09 22:33:59 +00001717- Issue #5122: Synchronize tk load failure check to prevent a potential
1718 deadlock.
1719
Benjamin Petersona86f2c02009-02-10 02:41:10 +00001720- Issue #1818: collections.namedtuple() now supports a keyword argument
1721 'rename' which lets invalid fieldnames be automatically converted to
1722 positional names in the form, _1, _2, ...
1723
Guilherme Poloae098992009-02-09 16:44:24 +00001724- Issue #4890: Handle empty text search pattern in Tkinter.Text.search.
1725
Nick Coghlan9a1d6e32009-02-08 03:37:27 +00001726- Issue #4512 (part 2): Promote ``ZipImporter._get_filename()`` to be a
1727 public documented method ``ZipImporter.get_filename()``.
1728
Nick Coghlan3f48ae32009-02-08 01:58:26 +00001729- Issue #4195: The ``runpy`` module (and the ``-m`` switch) now support
1730 the execution of packages by looking for and executing a ``__main__``
1731 submodule when a package name is supplied. Initial patch by Andi
1732 Vajda.
1733
Guilherme Polo491aee22009-02-06 23:16:11 +00001734- Issue #1731706: Call Tcl_ConditionFinalize for Tcl_Conditions that will
1735 not be used again (this requires Tcl/Tk 8.3.1), also fix a memory leak in
1736 Tkapp_Call when calling from a thread different than the one that created
1737 the Tcl interpreter. Patch by Robert Hancock.
1738
Eric Smith0e5b5622009-02-06 01:32:42 +00001739- Issue #4285: Change sys.version_info to be a named tuple. Patch by
1740 Ross Light.
1741
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00001742- Issue #1520877: Now distutils.sysconfig reads $AR from the
Tarek Ziadéd3409de2009-02-06 01:18:36 +00001743 environment/Makefile. Patch by Douglas Greiman.
1744
Tarek Ziadé70a74eb2009-02-06 00:38:35 +00001745- Issue #1276768: The verbose option was not used in the code of
1746 distutils.file_util and distutils.dir_util.
1747
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00001748- Issue #5132: Fixed trouble building extensions under Solaris with
Tarek Ziadé5874ef12009-02-05 22:56:14 +00001749 --enabled-shared activated. Initial patch by Dave Peterson.
1750
Guilherme Polo7f423952009-02-02 21:17:09 +00001751- Issue #1581476: Always use the Tcl global namespace when calling into Tcl.
1752
Raymond Hettinger85602262009-02-03 04:19:10 +00001753- The shelve module now defaults to pickle protocol 3.
1754
Brett Cannone61426e2009-01-30 01:31:34 +00001755- Fix a bug in the trace module where a bytes object from co_lnotab had its
1756 items being passed through ord().
1757
Antoine Pitrou0dcc3cd2009-01-29 20:26:59 +00001758- Issue #2047: shutil.move() could believe that its destination path was
1759 inside its source path if it began with the same letters (e.g. "src" vs.
1760 "src.new").
1761
Guilherme Polo5f238482009-01-28 14:41:10 +00001762- Added the ttk module. See issue #2983: Ttk support for Tkinter.
1763
Raymond Hettinger89e12962009-01-26 02:09:03 +00001764- Removed isSequenceType(), isMappingType, and isNumberType() from the
1765 operator module; use the abstract base classes instead. Also removed
1766 the repeat() function; use mul() instead.
1767
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00001768- Issue #5021: doctest.testfile() did not create __name__ and
Raymond Hettinger0f055172009-01-27 10:06:09 +00001769 collections.namedtuple() relied on __name__ being defined.
1770
1771- Backport importlib from Python 3.1. Only the import_module() function has
1772 been backported to help facilitate transitions from 2.7 to 3.1.
1773
Tarek Ziadé0302cf52009-01-26 17:23:20 +00001774- Issue #1885: distutils. When running sdist with --formats=tar,gztar
1775 the tar file was overriden by the gztar one.
1776
Tarek Ziadé4d4456f2009-01-25 18:27:45 +00001777- Issue #4863: distutils.mwerkscompiler has been removed.
1778
Raymond Hettingerd07d9392009-01-27 04:20:44 +00001779- Added a new itertools functions: combinations_with_replacement()
1780 and compress().
Raymond Hettinger6b3b0fc2009-01-26 02:56:58 +00001781
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00001782- Issue #5032: added a step argument to itertools.count() and
Raymond Hettinger30729212009-02-12 06:28:27 +00001783 allowed non-integer arguments.
1784
Jesse Noller41faa542009-01-25 03:45:53 +00001785- Fix and properly document the multiprocessing module's logging
1786 support, expose the internal levels and provide proper usage
1787 examples.
1788
Mark Dickinsoncddcf442009-01-24 21:46:33 +00001789- Issue #1672332: fix unpickling of subnormal floats, which was
1790 producing a ValueError on some platforms.
1791
Martin v. Löwisacbf4612009-01-24 16:19:45 +00001792- Issue #3881: Help Tcl to load even when started through the
1793 unreadable local symlink to "Program Files" on Vista.
1794
Martin v. Löwis59e47792009-01-24 14:10:07 +00001795- Issue #4710: Extract directories properly in the zipfile module;
1796 allow adding directories to a zipfile.
1797
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00001798- Issue #3807: _multiprocessing build fails when configure is passed
Jesse Noller6fd47e22009-01-23 14:09:08 +00001799 --without-threads argument. When this occurs, _multiprocessing will
1800 be disabled, and not compiled.
1801
Antoine Pitrou08838b62009-01-21 00:55:13 +00001802- Issue #5008: When a file is opened in append mode with the new IO library,
1803 do an explicit seek to the end of file (so that e.g. tell() returns the
1804 file size rather than 0). This is consistent with the behaviour of the
1805 traditional 2.x file object.
1806
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00001807- Issue #5013: Fixed a bug in FileHandler which occurred when the delay
1808 parameter was set.
1809
Mark Dickinson8dd05142009-01-20 20:43:58 +00001810- Issue #4842: Always append a trailing 'L' when pickling longs using
1811 pickle protocol 0. When reading, the 'L' is optional.
1812
Brett Cannonafccd632009-01-20 02:21:27 +00001813- Add the importlib package.
1814
Jesse Noller9a0fc972009-01-18 21:12:58 +00001815- Issue #4301: Patch the logging module to add processName support, remove
1816 _check_logger_class from multiprocessing.
1817
Jesse Noller1cbb17a2009-01-18 19:45:18 +00001818- Issue #3325: Remove python2.x try: except: imports for old cPickle from
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00001819 multiprocessing.
Jesse Nollerf70a5382009-01-18 19:44:02 +00001820
Benjamin Peterson9953a8d2009-01-17 04:15:01 +00001821- Issue #4959: inspect.formatargspec now works for keyword only arguments
1822 without defaults.
1823
Jesse Noller6214edd2009-01-19 16:23:53 +00001824- Issue #3321: _multiprocessing.Connection() doesn't check handle; added checks
1825 for *nix machines for negative handles and large int handles. Without this check
1826 it is possible to segfault the interpreter.
1827
Jesse Nollerb0516a62009-01-18 03:11:38 +00001828- Issue #4449: AssertionError in mp_benchmarks.py, caused by an underlying issue
1829 in sharedctypes.py.
1830
1831- Issue #1225107: inspect.isclass() returned True for instances with a custom
1832 __getattr__.
1833
Gregory P. Smithde3369f2009-01-12 04:50:11 +00001834- Issue #3826 and #4791: The socket module now closes the underlying socket
1835 appropriately when it is being used via socket.makefile() objects
1836 rather than delaying the close by waiting for garbage collection to do it.
1837
Raymond Hettingerb8baf632009-01-14 02:20:07 +00001838- Issue #1696199: Add collections.Counter() for rapid and convenient
1839 counting.
1840
Antoine Pitrou308705e2009-01-10 16:22:51 +00001841- Issue #3860: GzipFile and BZ2File now support the context manager protocol.
1842
Thomas Heller5e4e4272009-01-08 09:34:20 +00001843- Issue #4867: Fixed a crash in ctypes when passing a string to a
1844 function without defining argtypes.
1845
Antoine Pitrou42db3ef2009-01-04 21:37:59 +00001846- Issue #4272: Add an optional argument to the GzipFile constructor to override
1847 the timestamp in the gzip stream. The default value remains the current time.
1848 The information can be used by e.g. gunzip when decompressing. Patch by
1849 Jacques Frechet.
1850
Mark Dickinson315a20a2009-01-04 21:34:18 +00001851- Restore Python 2.3 compatibility for decimal.py.
1852
Guilherme Polo3f5f8222009-01-03 22:00:39 +00001853- Issue #3638: Remove functions from _tkinter module level that depend on
1854 TkappObject to work with multiple threads.
1855
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00001856- Issue #4718: Adapt the wsgiref package so that it actually works with
1857 Python 3.x, in accordance with the `official amendments of the spec
Antoine Pitrou38a66ad2009-01-03 18:41:49 +00001858 <http://www.wsgi.org/wsgi/Amendments_1.0>`_.
1859
Raymond Hettinger771ed762009-01-03 19:20:32 +00001860- Issue #4796: Added Decimal.from_float() and Context.create_decimal_from_float()
1861 to the decimal module.
1862
Georg Brandl3a9b0622009-01-03 22:07:57 +00001863- Fractions.from_float() no longer loses precision for integers too big to
1864 cast as floats.
1865
Mark Dickinsonf9236412009-01-02 23:23:21 +00001866- Issue #4812: add missing underscore prefix to some internal-use-only
1867 constants in the decimal module. (Dec_0 becomes _Dec_0, etc.)
1868
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00001869- Issue #4790: The nsmallest() and nlargest() functions in the heapq module
Georg Brandl3a9b0622009-01-03 22:07:57 +00001870 did unnecessary work in the common case where no key function was specified.
1871
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00001872- Issue #4795: inspect.isgeneratorfunction() returns False instead of None when
1873 the function is not a generator.
1874
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00001875- Issue #4702: Throwing a DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError in case
1876 no MSVC compiler is found under Windows. Original patch by Philip Jenvey.
Tarek Ziadé9df8ce32008-12-30 23:09:20 +00001877
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00001878- Issue #4646: distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup
Tarek Ziadé4450dcf2008-12-29 22:38:38 +00001879 function. Original patch by Thomas Heller.
1880
Martin v. Löwis1f1620e2008-12-29 16:27:13 +00001881- Issue #3767: Convert Tk object to string in tkColorChooser.
1882
Martin v. Löwise354d782008-12-29 16:03:04 +00001883- Issue #3248: Allow placing ScrolledText in a PanedWindow.
1884
Antoine Pitrou5acd41e2008-12-28 14:29:00 +00001885- Issue #4444: Allow assertRaises() to be used as a context handler, so that
1886 the code under test can be written inline if more practical.
1887
Georg Brandldb7b6b92009-01-01 15:53:14 +00001888- Issue #4739: Add pydoc help topics for symbols, so that e.g. help('@')
1889 works as expected in the interactive environment.
1890
Antoine Pitroudb5fe662008-12-27 15:50:40 +00001891- Issue #4756: zipfile.is_zipfile() now supports file-like objects. Patch by
1892 Gabriel Genellina.
1893
Antoine Pitrou180a3362008-12-14 16:36:46 +00001894- Issue #4574: reading an UTF16-encoded text file crashes if \r on 64-char
1895 boundary.
1896
Nick Coghlanf088e5e2008-12-14 11:50:48 +00001897- Issue #4223: inspect.getsource() will now correctly display source code
1898 for packages loaded via zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302
1899 loader). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
1900
1901- Issue #4201: pdb can now access and display source code loaded via
1902 zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302 loader). Original patch by
1903 Alexander Belopolsky.
1904
1905- Issue #4197: doctests in modules loaded via zipimport (or any other PEP
1906 302 conformant loader) will now work correctly in most cases (they
1907 are still subject to the constraints that exist for all code running
1908 from inside a module loaded via a PEP 302 loader and attempting to
1909 perform IO operations based on __file__). Original patch by
1910 Alexander Belopolsky.
1911
1912- Issues #4082 and #4512: Add runpy support to zipimport in a manner that
1913 allows backporting to maintenance branches. Original patch by
1914 Alexander Belopolsky.
1915
Antoine Pitrou7c59bc62008-12-13 23:20:54 +00001916- Issue #4163: textwrap module: allow word splitting on a hyphen preceded by
1917 a non-ASCII letter.
1918
Lars Gustäbel43fcf3a2008-12-12 14:58:38 +00001919- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
1920
Benjamin Peterson433f32c2008-12-12 01:25:05 +00001921- Issue #4021: tokenize.detect_encoding() now raises a SyntaxError when the
1922 codec cannot be found. This is for compatibility with the builtin behavior.
1923
Facundo Batista708d5812008-12-11 04:20:07 +00001924- Issue #4084: Fix max, min, max_mag and min_mag Decimal methods to
1925 give correct results in the case where one argument is a quiet NaN
1926 and the other is a finite number that requires rounding.
1927
Skip Montanaroc1ce2862008-12-06 17:25:02 +00001928- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat
1929 libs.
1930
Georg Brandlf9734072008-12-07 15:30:06 +00001931- Added the subprocess.check_call_output() convenience function to get output
1932 from a subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
1933
1934- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
1935 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
1936 Content-Disposition headers.
1937
1938- Issue #4384: Added logging integration with warnings module using
1939 captureWarnings(). This change includes a NullHandler which does nothing;
1940 it will be of use to library developers who want to avoid the "No handlers
1941 could be found for logger XXX" message which can appear if the library user
1942 doesn't configure logging.
1943
1944- Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
1945 exception.
1946
Georg Brandleee31162008-12-07 15:15:22 +00001947- Issue #4529: fix the parser module's validation of try-except-finally
1948 statements.
1949
1950- Issue #4458: getopt.gnu_getopt() now recognizes a single "-" as an argument,
1951 not a malformed option.
1952
1953- Added the subprocess.check_output() convenience function to get output
1954 from a subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
1955
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbc9d4742008-12-05 01:40:43 +00001956- Issue #4542: On Windows, binascii.crc32 still accepted str as binary input;
1957 the corresponding tests now pass.
1958
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbc2ce572008-12-05 01:02:21 +00001959- Issue #4537: webbrowser.UnixBrowser would fail to open the browser because
1960 it was calling the wrong open() function.
1961
Fred Drake9a0a65b2008-12-04 19:24:50 +00001962- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
1963 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
1964 Content-Disposition headers.
1965
Matthias Klose2c7e3ee2009-01-10 17:08:25 +00001966- Issue #4861: ctypes.util.find_library(): Robustify. Fix library detection on
1967 biarch systems. Try to rely on ldconfig only, without using objdump and gcc.
1968
Benjamin Peterson5c6d7872009-02-06 02:40:07 +00001969- Issue #5104: The socket module now raises OverflowError when 16-bit port and
1970 protocol numbers are supplied outside the allowed 0-65536 range on bind()
1971 and getservbyport().
1972
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven0a866942009-05-08 14:18:00 +00001973- Windows locale mapping updated to Vista.
1974
Antoine Pitrou2a013ea2008-12-27 20:39:28 +00001975Tools/Demos
1976-----------
1977
Antoine Pitrou8a681222009-02-07 17:13:31 +00001978- Issue #4704: remove use of cmp() in pybench, bump its version number to 2.1,
1979 and make it 2.6-compatible.
1980
Guilherme Poloa7d27972009-01-28 16:06:51 +00001981- Ttk demos added in Demo/tkinter/ttk/
1982
Antoine Pitrou2a013ea2008-12-27 20:39:28 +00001983- Issue #4677: add two list comprehension tests to pybench.
1984
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00001985
1986Build
1987-----
1988
Benjamin Petersonf53eec82009-05-23 19:36:27 +00001989- Issue #6094: Build correctly with Subversion 1.7.
1990
Martin v. Löwis8482ef92009-05-05 16:14:30 +00001991- Issue #5847: Remove -n switch on "Edit with IDLE" menu item.
1992
Antoine Pitrou8966c992009-05-01 21:18:27 +00001993- Issue #5726: Make Modules/ld_so_aix return the actual exit code of the
1994 linker, rather than always exit successfully. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
1995
Matthias Klose55708cc2009-04-30 08:06:49 +00001996- Issue #4587: Add configure option --with-dbmliborder=db1:db2:... to specify
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00001997 the order that backends for the dbm extension are checked.
Matthias Klose55708cc2009-04-30 08:06:49 +00001998
Matthias Klose906785c2009-02-22 23:18:38 +00001999- Link the shared python library with $(MODLIBS).
2000
Martin v. Löwis11f72102009-02-10 13:13:30 +00002001- Issue #5134: Silence compiler warnings when compiling sqlite with VC++.
2002
Martin v. Löwisbc186a82009-02-02 15:32:22 +00002003- Issue #4494: Fix build with Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED on Windows.
2004
Martin v. Löwise97637d2009-01-11 09:45:11 +00002005- Issue #4895: Use _strdup on Windows CE.
2006
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00002007- Issue #4472: "configure --enable-shared" now works on OSX
2008
2009- Issues #4728 and #4060: WORDS_BIGEDIAN is now correct in Universal builds.
2010
2011- Issue #4389: Add icon to the uninstall entry in "add-and-remove-programs".
2012
2013- Issue #4289: Remove Cancel button from AdvancedDlg.
2014
2015- Issue #1656675: Register a drop handler for .py* files on Windows.
2016
2017- Issue #4120: Exclude manifest from extension modules in VS2008.
2018
2019- Issue #4091: Install pythonxy.dll in system32 again.
2020
2021- Issue #4018: Disable "for me" installations on Vista.
2022
2023- Issue #3758: Add ``patchcheck`` build target to .PHONY.
2024
2025- Issue #4204: Fixed module build errors on FreeBSD 4.
2026
2027
2028C-API
2029-----
2030
Sean Reifscheider642d96a2009-08-01 23:55:06 +00002031- Issue #6624: yArg_ParseTuple with "s" format when parsing argument with
2032 NUL: Bogus TypeError detail string.
2033
Mark Dickinson21776072009-02-10 16:13:25 +00002034- Issue #5175: PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLong now raises OverflowError
2035 for negative arguments. Previously, it raised TypeError.
2036
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00002037- Issue #4720: The format for PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords can begin with '|'.
2038
2039- Issue #3632: from the gdb debugger, the 'pyo' macro can now be called when
2040 the GIL is released, or owned by another thread.
2041
2042- Issue #4122: On Windows, fix a compilation error when using the
2043 Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE macro in an extension module.
2044
2045
Mark Dickinsone675f082008-12-11 21:56:00 +00002046Extension Modules
2047-----------------
2048
Gregory P. Smith365a1862009-02-12 07:35:29 +00002049- Issue #3745: Fix hashlib to always reject unicode and non buffer-api
2050 supporting objects as input no matter how it was compiled (built in
2051 implementations or external openssl library).
2052
Mark Dickinson29500f62009-01-15 15:36:10 +00002053- Issue #4397: Fix occasional test_socket failure on OS X.
2054
Martin v. Löwisa9b54c72009-01-11 09:30:50 +00002055- Issue #4279: Fix build of parsermodule under Cygwin.
2056
Antoine Pitroubcd5cbe2009-01-08 21:17:16 +00002057- Issue #4751: hashlib now releases the GIL when hashing large buffers
2058 (with a hardwired threshold of 2048 bytes), allowing better parallelization
2059 on multi-CPU systems. Contributed by Lukas Lueg (ebfe) and Victor Stinner.
2060
Martin v. Löwis5c88d812009-01-02 20:47:48 +00002061- Issue #4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle.
2062
Antoine Pitrou31f30b12009-01-02 17:34:35 +00002063- Issue #4738: Each zlib object now has a separate lock, allowing to compress
2064 or decompress several streams at once on multi-CPU systems. Also, the GIL
2065 is now released when computing the CRC of a large buffer. Patch by ebfe.
2066
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00002067- Issue #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format.
2068
Martin v. Löwis05bfe1f2008-12-29 18:21:47 +00002069- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
2070
Mark Dickinsone675f082008-12-11 21:56:00 +00002071- Issues #3167, #3682: Fix test_math failures for log, log10 on Solaris,
2072 OpenBSD.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcefae8c42008-11-21 23:08:09 +00002073
Antoine Pitrou3ad3a0d2008-12-18 17:08:32 +00002074- Issue #4583: array.array would not always prohibit resizing when a buffer
2075 has been exported, resulting in an interpreter crash when accessing the
2076 buffer.
2077
Martin v. Löwis841edad2008-11-30 10:36:49 +00002078
Jack Diederiche0cbd692009-04-01 04:27:09 +00002079- Issue #5228: Make functools.partial objects can now be pickled.
2080
Guilherme Polo9de29af2009-01-28 20:40:48 +00002081Tests
2082-----
2083
Antoine Pitrou88909542009-06-29 13:54:42 +00002084- Issue #6152: New option '-j'/'--multiprocess' for regrtest allows running
2085 regression tests in parallel, shortening the total runtime.
2086
Guilherme Polo2a998fa2009-06-21 17:40:07 +00002087- Issue #5450: Moved tests involving loading tk from Lib/test/test_tcl to
2088 Lib/tkinter/test/test_tkinter/test_loadtk. With this, these tests demonstrate
2089 the same behaviour as test_ttkguionly (and now also test_tk) which is to
2090 skip the tests if DISPLAY is defined but can't be used.
2091
R. David Murraya21e4ca2009-03-31 23:16:50 +00002092- regrtest no longer treats ImportError as equivalent to SkipTest. Imports
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00002093 that should cause a test to be skipped are now done using import_module
R. David Murraya21e4ca2009-03-31 23:16:50 +00002094 from test support, which does the conversion.
2095
Guilherme Polo9de29af2009-01-28 20:40:48 +00002096- Issue #5083: New 'gui' resource for regrtest.
2097
2098
Brett Cannon7317c1e2008-11-25 19:19:17 +00002099Docs
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2101
Georg Brandl52b92cc2008-05-25 09:43:03 +00002102
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00002103**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**