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Georg Brandlab6f2f62009-03-31 04:16:10 +00001+++++++++++
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Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00003+++++++++++
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Anthony Baxterb0c66302004-11-04 05:23:17 +00005(editors: check NEWS.help for information about editing NEWS using ReST.)
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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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Antoine Pitrou6b7dfc92009-12-12 19:18:27 +000015- Issue #7466: segmentation fault when the garbage collector is called
16 in the middle of populating a tuple. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
17
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc64f3ca42009-12-01 21:59:18 +000018- Issue #7419: setlocale() could crash the interpreter on Windows when called
19 with invalid values.
20
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7d0bddd2009-11-30 00:08:56 +000021- Issue #6077: On Windows, files opened with tempfile.TemporaryFile in "wt+"
22 mode would appear truncated on the first '0x1a' byte (aka. Ctrl+Z).
23
Ronald Oussoren3c1928a2009-11-19 17:15:31 +000024- Issue #7085: Fix crash when importing some extensions in a thread
25 on MacOSX 10.6.
26
Philip Jenvey1309adb2009-11-17 03:43:14 +000027- Issue #1757126: Fix the cyrillic-asian alias for the ptcp154 encoding.
28
Mark Dickinson6f1d0492009-11-15 13:58:49 +000029- Issue #6970: Remove redundant calls when comparing objects that don't
30 implement the relevant rich comparison methods.
31
Mark Dickinsond550c9a2009-11-15 09:57:26 +000032- Issue #7298: fixes for range and reversed(range(...)). Iteration
33 over range(a, b, c) incorrectly gave an empty iterator when a, b and
34 c fit in C long but the length of the range did not. Also fix
35 several cases where reversed(range(a, b, c)) gave wrong results, and
36 fix a refleak for reversed(range(a, b, c)) with large arguments.
37
Raymond Hettingerfc438512009-11-01 20:55:33 +000038- Issue #7244: itertools.izip_longest() no longer ignores exceptions
39 raised during the formation of an output tuple.
40
Benjamin Petersonb2e796a2009-10-28 21:59:39 +000041- Issue #3297: On wide unicode builds, do not split unicode characters into
42 surrogates.
43
Mark Dickinsonf9724882009-10-26 21:51:18 +000044- Remove length limitation when constructing a complex number from a string.
45
Mark Dickinson27a87a22009-10-25 20:43:34 +000046- Issue #1087418: Boost performance of bitwise operations for longs.
47
Antoine Pitroub6ef9632009-10-24 20:47:05 +000048- Support for AtheOS has been completely removed from the code base. It was
49 disabled since Python 3.0.
50
51- Support for several legacy threading libraries has been disabled. These
52 libraries are: Mach C threads, SunOS LWP, GNU pth, Irix threads. Support code
53 will be entirely removed in 3.3.
54
Raymond Hettingeraf7adad2009-10-22 11:22:50 +000055- Peephole constant folding had missed UNARY_POSITIVE.
56
Antoine Pitrou011bd622009-10-20 21:52:47 +000057- Issue #1722344: threading._shutdown() is now called in Py_Finalize(), which
58 fixes the problem of some exceptions being thrown at shutdown when the
59 interpreter is killed. Patch by Adam Olsen.
60
Antoine Pitrou671141d2009-10-19 19:37:25 +000061- Issue #7147: Remove support for compiling Python without complex number
Skip Montanaroba1e0f42009-10-18 14:25:35 +000062 support.
63
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +000064- Issue #7120: logging: Removed import of multiprocessing which is causing
65 crash in GAE.
66
Neil Schemenauere441cb72009-10-14 19:14:38 +000067- Issue #1754094: Improve the stack depth calculation in the compiler.
68 There should be no other effect than a small decrease in memory use.
69 Patch by Christopher Tur Lesniewski-Laas.
70
Antoine Pitrou403ce782009-10-14 17:14:16 +000071- Issue #7065: Fix a crash in bytes.maketrans and bytearray.maketrans when
Antoine Pitrou671141d2009-10-19 19:37:25 +000072 using byte values greater than 127. Patch by Derk Drukker.
Antoine Pitrou403ce782009-10-14 17:14:16 +000073
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7d520792009-10-06 21:03:20 +000074- Issue #1571184: The Unicode database contains properties for more characters.
75 The tables for code points representing numeric values, white spaces or line
76 breaks are now generated from the official Unicode Character Database files,
77 and include information from the Unihan.txt file.
78
Mark Dickinson2683ab02009-09-29 19:21:35 +000079- Issue #7019: Raise ValueError when unmarshalling bad long data, instead
80 of producing internally inconsistent Python longs.
81
Philip Jenvey26713ca2009-09-29 04:57:18 +000082- Issue #6990: Fix threading.local subclasses leaving old state around
83 after a reference cycle GC which could be recycled by new locals.
84
Benjamin Peterson4905e802009-09-27 02:43:28 +000085- Issue #5460: Fix an ambiguity in the grammar.
86
Mark Dickinson3e124ae2009-09-22 21:47:24 +000087- Issue #1766304: Improve performance of membership tests on range objects.
88
Mark Dickinson0a1efd02009-09-16 21:23:34 +000089- Issue #6713: Improve performance of integer -> string conversions.
90
Mark Dickinson54a3db92009-09-06 10:19:23 +000091- Issue #6846: Fix bug where bytearray.pop() returns negative integers.
92
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcccd686a2009-08-29 23:00:38 +000093- Issue #6750: A text file opened with io.open() could duplicate its output
94 when writing from multiple threads at the same time.
95
Benjamin Peterson14327712009-08-15 13:23:05 +000096- Issue #6707: dir() on an uninitialized module caused a crash.
97
Georg Brandl953152f2009-07-22 12:03:59 +000098- Issue #6540: Fixed crash for bytearray.translate() with invalid parameters.
99
Raymond Hettingere805ecc2009-07-27 20:16:37 +0000100- Issue #6573: set.union() stopped processing inputs if an instance of self
101 occurred in the argument chain.
102
R. David Murray046f7232009-07-19 02:22:05 +0000103- Issue #6070: On posix platforms import no longer copies the execute bit
104 from the .py file to the .pyc file if it is set.
105
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc8b84ea02009-07-13 20:38:21 +0000106- Issue #1616979: Added the cp720 (Arabic DOS) encoding.
107
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc097cd072009-07-07 00:43:08 +0000108- Issue #6428: Since Python 3.0, the __bool__ method must return a bool
109 object, and not an int. Fix the corresponding error message, and the
110 documentation.
111
Benjamin Petersonf1664ae2009-07-01 01:28:55 +0000112- The deprecated PyCObject has been removed.
113
Mark Dickinson835a6c82009-06-30 15:45:17 +0000114- Issue #6347: Include inttypes.h as well as stdint.h in pyport.h.
115 This fixes a build failure on HP-UX: int32_t and uint32_t are
116 defined in inttypes.h instead of stdint.h on that platform.
117
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca4aba662009-07-01 00:48:39 +0000118- Issue #6373: Fixed a SystemError when encoding with the latin-1 codec and
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc84ec8d92009-06-29 22:36:49 +0000119 the 'surrogateescape' error handler, a string which contains unpaired
120 surrogates.
121
Hirokazu Yamamoto892a37a2009-06-28 11:07:03 +0000122- Issue #4856: Remove checks for win NT.
123
Benjamin Peterson466a7822009-07-02 21:44:01 +0000124C-API
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Mark Dickinsonf08173b2009-12-03 10:59:46 +0000127- Issue #7414: 'C' code wasn't being skipped properly (for keyword arguments)
128 in PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords.
129
Mark Dickinson0b2b2322009-12-04 11:32:26 +0000130- Issue #7228: Add '%lld' and '%llu' support to PyString_FromFormat(V)
Mark Dickinson6ce4a9a2009-11-16 17:00:11 +0000131 and PyErr_Format, on machines with HAVE_LONG_LONG defined.
132
Alexandre Vassalotti2db046d2009-07-22 03:56:36 +0000133- Issue #6151: Made PyDescr_COMMON conform to standard C (like PyObject_HEAD
134 in PEP 3123). The PyDescr_TYPE and PyDescr_NAME macros should be
135 should used for accessing the d_type and d_name members of structures
136 using PyDescr_COMMON.
137
138- Issue #6405: Remove duplicate type declarations in descrobject.h.
Benjamin Peterson89b89172009-07-03 13:30:25 +0000139
Benjamin Peterson466a7822009-07-02 21:44:01 +0000140- The code flags for old __future__ features are now available again.
141
Alexandre Vassalotti7b82b402009-07-21 04:30:03 +0000142- Issue #5954: Add a PyFrame_GetLineNumber() function to replace most uses of
143 PyCode_Addr2Line().
144
145- Issue #5959: Add a PyCode_NewEmpty() function to create a new empty code
146 object at a specified file, function, and line number.
147
148- Issue #1419652: Change the first argument to PyImport_AppendInittab() to
149 ``const char *`` as the string is stored beyond the call.
150
Alexandre Vassalotti2db046d2009-07-22 03:56:36 +0000151
Benjamin Peterson05159c42009-12-03 03:01:27 +0000152- Issue #2422: When compiled with the ``--with-valgrind`` option, the
153 pymalloc allocator will be automatically disabled when running under
154 Valgrind. This gives improved memory leak detection when running
155 under Valgrind, while taking advantage of pymalloc at other times.
156
Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +0000157Library
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159
Tarek Ziadéc60ea322009-12-21 23:12:41 +0000160- Issue #7556: Make sure Distutils' msvc9compile reads and writes the
161 MSVC XML Manifest file in text mode so string patterns can be used
162 in regular expressions.
163
Tarek Ziadé8b9361a2009-12-21 00:02:20 +0000164- Issue #7552: Removed line feed in the base64 Authorization header in
165 the Distutils upload command to avoid an error when PyPI reads it.
166 This occurs on long passwords. Initial patch by JP St. Pierre.
167
Senthil Kumaran47fff872009-12-20 07:10:31 +0000168- Issue #7231: urllib2 cannot handle https with proxy requiring auth. Patch by
169 Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa.
170
Antoine Pitrou77b338b2009-12-14 18:00:06 +0000171- Issue #4757: `zlib.compress` and other methods in the zlib module now
172 raise a TypeError when given an `str` object (rather than a `bytes`-like
173 object). Patch by Victor Stinner and Florent Xicluna.
174
Benjamin Petersonbf5ff762009-12-13 19:25:34 +0000175- Issue #7349: Make methods of file objects in the io module accept None as an
176 argument where file-like objects (ie StringIO and BytesIO) accept them to mean
177 the same as passing no argument.
178
Lars Gustäbel365aff32009-12-13 11:42:29 +0000179- Issue #7357: tarfile no longer suppresses fatal extraction errors by
180 default.
181
R. David Murraye8dc2582009-12-10 02:08:06 +0000182- Issue #5949: added check for correct lineends in input from IMAP server
183 in imaplib.
184
Raymond Hettingere5fdedb2009-12-10 00:47:21 +0000185- Add a reverse() method to collections.deque().
186
Raymond Hettinger3f9afd82009-12-10 03:03:02 +0000187- Fix variations of extending deques: d.extend(d) d.extendleft(d) d+=d
188
Antoine Pitrou781eba72009-12-08 15:57:31 +0000189- Issue #6986: Fix crash in the JSON C accelerator when called with the
190 wrong parameter types. Patch by Victor Stinner.
191
Tarek Ziadéb88a4962009-12-08 09:45:25 +0000192- Issue #7457: added a read_pkg_file method to
193 distutils.dist.DistributionMetadata.
194
Vinay Sajip540f2152009-12-06 17:57:11 +0000195- logging: Added optional `secure` parameter to SMTPHandler, to enable use of
196 TLS with authentication credentials.
197
Tarek Ziadédf872d42009-12-06 09:28:17 +0000198- Issue #1923: Fixed the removal of meaningful spaces when PKG-INFO is
199 generated in Distutils. Patch by Stephen Emslie.
200
Martin v. Löwis1679ea82009-12-03 20:57:49 +0000201- Issue #4120: Drop reference to CRT from manifest when building extensions with
202 msvc9compiler.
203
Antoine Pitroub7572f02009-12-02 20:46:48 +0000204- Issue #7333: The `posix` module gains an `initgroups()` function providing
205 access to the initgroups(3) C library call on Unix systems which implement
206 it. Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone.
207
Tarek Ziadéacafc2d2009-11-29 22:24:57 +0000208- Issue #7408: Fixed distutils.tests.sdist so it doesn't check for group
209 ownership when the group is not forced, because the group may be different
210 from the user's group and inherit from its container when the test is run.
211
Antoine Pitrou7b0d4a22009-11-28 16:12:28 +0000212- Issue #4486: When an exception has an explicit cause, do not print its
213 implicit context too. This affects the `traceback` module as well as
214 built-in exception printing.
215
Antoine Pitrou1fc0d2b2009-11-28 15:58:27 +0000216- Issue #1515: Enable use of deepcopy() with instance methods. Patch by
217 Robert Collins.
218
Vinay Sajip03f6c112009-11-27 14:03:36 +0000219- Issue #7403: logging: Fixed possible race condition in lock creation.
220
Antoine Pitrou648bcd72009-11-27 13:23:26 +0000221- Issue #6845: Add restart support for binary upload in ftplib. The
222 `storbinary()` method of FTP and FTP_TLS objects gains an optional `rest`
223 argument. Patch by Pablo Mouzo.
224
Antoine Pitroube6859d2009-11-25 23:02:32 +0000225- Issue #5788: `datetime.timedelta` objects get a new `total_seconds()`
226 method returning the total number of seconds in the duration. Patch by
227 Brian Quinlan.
228
Antoine Pitrou7d7aede2009-11-25 18:55:32 +0000229- Issue #7133: SSL objects now support the new buffer API.
230
Senthil Kumaran758025c2009-11-23 19:02:52 +0000231- Issue #1488943: difflib.Differ() doesn't always add hints for tab characters
232
Lars Gustäbel9520a432009-11-22 18:48:49 +0000233- Issue #6123: tarfile now opens empty archives correctly and consistently
234 raises ReadError on empty files.
235
Tarek Ziadé26afd482009-11-19 05:39:00 +0000236- Issue #7354: distutils.tests.test_msvc9compiler - dragfullwindows can
237 be 2.
238
Benjamin Peterson3ec9b6e2009-11-19 21:22:27 +0000239- Issue #5037: Proxy the __bytes__ special method instead to __bytes__ instead
240 of __str__.
Benjamin Peterson32019772009-11-19 03:08:32 +0000241
Lars Gustäbel7b465392009-11-18 20:29:25 +0000242- Issue #7341: Close the internal file object in the TarFile constructor in
243 case of an error.
244
Tarek Ziadé11c9d252009-11-18 09:32:34 +0000245- Issue #7293: distutils.test_msvc9compiler is fixed to work on any fresh
246 Windows box. Help provided by David Bolen.
247
Antoine Pitrouf988cd02009-11-17 20:21:14 +0000248- Issue #2054: ftplib now provides an FTP_TLS class to do secure FTP using
249 TLS or SSL. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.
250
Nick Coghlan106274b2009-11-15 23:04:33 +0000251- Issue #7328: pydoc no longer corrupts sys.path when run with the '-m' switch
252
Antoine Pitroub8108e22009-11-15 14:25:16 +0000253- Issue #4969: The mimetypes module now reads the MIME database from
254 the registry under Windows. Patch by Gabriel Genellina.
255
Nick Coghlan260bd3e2009-11-16 06:49:25 +0000256- Issue #6816: runpy now provides a run_path function that allows Python code
257 to execute file paths that refer to source or compiled Python files as well
258 as zipfiles, directories and other valid sys.path entries that contain a
259 __main__.py file. This allows applications that run other Python scripts to
260 support the same flexibility as the CPython command line itself.
261
Antoine Pitrou45d61a32009-11-13 22:35:18 +0000262- Issue #7318: multiprocessing now uses a timeout when it fails to establish
263 a connection with another process, rather than looping endlessly. The
264 default timeout is 20 seconds, which should be amply sufficient for
265 local connections.
266
Antoine Pitrouc63ecee2009-11-10 21:34:48 +0000267- Issue #7197: Allow unittest.TextTestRunner objects to be pickled and
268 unpickled. This fixes crashes under Windows when trying to run
269 test_multiprocessing in verbose mode.
270
Antoine Pitrou434736a2009-11-10 18:46:01 +0000271- Issue #3001: Add a C implementation of recursive locks which is used by
272 default when instantiating a `threading.RLock` object. This makes
273 recursive locks as fast as regular non-recursive locks (previously,
274 they were slower by 10x to 15x).
275
Antoine Pitroub0872682009-11-09 16:08:16 +0000276- Issue #7282: Fix a memory leak when an RLock was used in a thread other
277 than those started through `threading.Thread` (for example, using
278 `_thread.start_new_thread()`).
279
Brett Cannone52c9192009-11-07 23:55:05 +0000280- Issue #7187: Importlib would not silence the IOError raised when trying to
281 write new bytecode when it was made read-only.
282
Antoine Pitroubdec11f2009-11-05 13:49:14 +0000283- Issue #7264: Fix a possible deadlock when deallocating thread-local objects
284 which are part of a reference cycle.
285
Antoine Pitroud83f1e62009-11-04 21:10:38 +0000286- Issue #7211: Allow 64-bit values for the `ident` and `data` fields of kevent
287 objects on 64-bit systems. Patch by Michael Broghton.
288
Antoine Pitrou03f13442009-11-02 11:36:51 +0000289- Issue #6896: mailbox.Maildir now invalidates its internal cache each time
290 a modification is done through it. This fixes inconsistencies and test
291 failures on systems with slightly bogus mtime behaviour.
292
Gregory P. Smith50467882009-11-01 18:42:17 +0000293- Issue #7246 & Issue #7208: getpass now properly flushes input before
294 reading from stdin so that existing input does not confuse it and
295 lead to incorrect entry or an IOError. It also properly flushes it
296 afterwards to avoid the terminal echoing the input afterwards on
297 OSes such as Solaris.
298
Mark Dickinsona2d1fe02009-10-29 12:23:02 +0000299- Issue #7233: Fix a number of two-argument Decimal methods to make
300 sure that they accept an int or long as the second argument. Also
301 fix buggy handling of large arguments (those with coefficient longer
302 than the current precision) in shift and rotate.
303
Lars Gustäbel1440df22009-10-29 09:39:47 +0000304- Issue #4750: Store the basename of the original filename in the gzip FNAME
305 header as required by RFC 1952.
306
Tarek Ziadéc7c71ff2009-10-27 23:12:01 +0000307- Issue #1180: Added a new global option to ignore ~/.pydistutils.cfg in
308 Distutils.
309
Tarek Ziadé8c0e2172009-10-27 21:24:21 +0000310- Issue #7218: Fix test_site for win32, the directory comparison was done with
311 an uppercase.
312
Antoine Pitrouc66363f2009-10-27 17:47:14 +0000313- Issue #7205: Fix a possible deadlock when using a BZ2File object from
314 several threads at once.
315
Vinay Sajip42ead482009-10-21 20:22:14 +0000316- Issue #7077: logging: SysLogHandler now treats Unicode as per RFC 5424.
317
Mark Dickinson06bb6742009-10-20 13:38:04 +0000318- Issue #7099: Decimal.is_normal now returns True for numbers with exponent
319 larger than emax.
320
Antoine Pitrou6a448d42009-10-19 19:43:09 +0000321- Issue #7080: locale.strxfrm() raises a MemoryError on 64-bit non-Windows
322 platforms, and assorted locale fixes by Derk Drukker.
323
Antoine Pitroudc0900b2009-10-19 18:22:37 +0000324- Issue #5833: Fix extra space character in readline completion with the
325 GNU readline library version 6.0.
326
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +0000327- Issue #6894: Fixed the issue urllib2 doesn't respect "no_proxy" environment
Senthil Kumaran7bb04972009-10-11 04:58:55 +0000328
Vinay Sajipcbabd7e2009-10-10 20:32:36 +0000329- Issue #7086: Added TCP support to SysLogHandler, and tidied up some
330 anachronisms in the code which were a relic of 1.5.2 compatibility.
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +0000331
R. David Murraybf2e0aa2009-10-10 00:13:32 +0000332- Issue #7082: When falling back to the MIME 'name' parameter, the
333 correct place to look for it is the Content-Type header.
334
Benjamin Petersond3afada2009-10-09 21:43:09 +0000335- Make tokenize.detect_coding() normalize utf-8 and iso-8859-1 variants like the
336 builtin tokenizer.
337
Mark Dickinson56df8872009-10-07 19:23:50 +0000338- Issue #7048: Force Decimal.logb to round its result when that result
339 is too large to fit in the current precision.
340
Antoine Pitrouca767bd2009-09-21 21:37:02 +0000341- Issue #6236, #6348: Fix various failures in the I/O library under AIX
Antoine Pitrou6a448d42009-10-19 19:43:09 +0000342 and other platforms, when using a non-gcc compiler. Patch by Derk Drukker.
Antoine Pitrouca767bd2009-09-21 21:37:02 +0000343
Thomas Heller69b639f2009-09-18 20:08:39 +0000344- Issue #4606: Passing 'None' if ctypes argtype is set to POINTER(...)
345 does now always result in NULL.
346
Thomas Hellerd7cb1b92009-09-18 19:05:13 +0000347- Issue #5042: Structure sub-subclass does now initialize correctly
348 with base class positional arguments.
349
Eric Smith81fd8042009-09-18 13:23:13 +0000350- Issue #6882: Import uuid creates zombies processes.
351
Matthias Klosef6b76b02009-09-13 15:18:53 +0000352- Issue #6635: Fix profiler printing usage message.
353
Lars Gustäbel049d2aa2009-09-12 10:44:00 +0000354- Issue #6856: Add a filter keyword argument to TarFile.add().
355
Benjamin Petersonbe74a372009-09-11 21:17:13 +0000356- Issue #6888: pdb's alias command was broken when no arguments were given.
357
Mark Dickinson46ab5d02009-09-08 20:22:46 +0000358- Issue #6857: Default format() alignment should be '>' for Decimal
359 instances.
360
Mark Dickinson825fce32009-09-07 18:08:12 +0000361- Issue #6795: int(Decimal('nan')) now raises ValueError instead of
362 returning NaN or raising InvalidContext. Also, fix infinite recursion
363 in long(Decimal('nan')).
364
Mark Dickinson7718d2b2009-09-07 16:21:56 +0000365- Issue #6850: Fix bug in Decimal._parse_format_specifier for formats
366 with no type specifier.
367
Thomas Heller8b939522009-09-04 18:24:41 +0000368- Issue #6239: ctypes.c_char_p return value must return bytes.
369
Chris Withers9c33cbf2009-09-04 17:04:16 +0000370- Issue #6838: Use a list to accumulate the value instead of
371 repeatedly concatenating strings in http.client's
372 HTTPResponse._read_chunked providing a significant speed increase
373 when downloading large files servend with a Transfer-Encoding of 'chunked'.
374
Brett Cannon1c1dcbf2009-08-30 20:22:21 +0000375- Trying to import a submodule from a module that is not a package, ImportError
376 should be raised, not AttributeError.
377
Brett Cannonde4ebfe2009-08-30 19:53:48 +0000378- When the globals past to importlib.__import__() has __package__ set to None,
379 fall back to computing what __package__ should be instead of giving up.
380
Brett Cannon6afbaef2009-08-30 19:08:58 +0000381- Raise a TypeError when the name of a module to be imported for
382 importlib.__import__ is not a string (was raising an
383 AttributeError before).
384
Brett Cannon9e0e1a62009-08-30 18:28:46 +0000385- Allow the fromlist passed into importlib.__import__ to be any iterable.
386
Brett Cannon4d75fc12009-08-30 03:47:36 +0000387- Have importlib raise ImportError if None is found in sys.modules.
388
Lars Gustäbelbfdfdda2009-08-28 19:59:59 +0000389- Issue #6054: Do not normalize stored pathnames in tarfile.
390
Mark Dickinsond314e1b2009-08-28 13:39:53 +0000391- Issue #6794: Fix Decimal.compare_total and Decimal.compare_total_mag: NaN
392 payloads are now ordered by integer value rather than lexicographically.
393
Guilherme Polobcd03df2009-08-18 15:35:57 +0000394- Issue #1356969: Add missing info methods in tix.HList.
395
396- Issue #1522587: New constants and methods for the tix.Grid widget.
397
398- Issue #1250469: Fix the return value of tix.PanedWindow.panes.
399
400- Issue #1119673: Do not override tkinter.Text methods when creating a
401 ScrolledText.
402
Gregory P. Smith01099702009-08-16 18:58:46 +0000403- Issue #6665: Fix fnmatch to properly match filenames with newlines in them.
404
Guilherme Poloc3b2ae42009-08-16 14:46:16 +0000405- Issue #1135: Add the XView and YView mix-ins to avoid duplicating
406 the xview* and yview* methods.
407
Antoine Pitroua0ceb732009-08-06 20:29:56 +0000408- Issue #6629: Fix a data corruption issue in the new I/O library, which could
409 occur when writing to a BufferedRandom object (e.g. a file opened in "rb+" or
410 "wb+" mode) after having buffered a certain amount of data for reading. This
411 bug was not present in the pure Python implementation.
412
Mark Dickinsonea1158f2009-08-06 16:06:25 +0000413- Issue #6622: Fix "local variable 'secret' referenced before
414 assignment" bug in POP3.apop.
415
Mark Dickinson45f799f2009-08-02 20:08:54 +0000416- Issue #2715: Remove remnants of Carbon.File from binhex module.
417
Mark Dickinson345adc42009-08-02 10:14:23 +0000418- Issue #6595: The Decimal constructor now allows arbitrary Unicode
419 decimal digits in input, as recommended by the standard. Previously
420 it was restricted to accepting [0-9].
421
Jack Diederich36596a32009-07-26 22:23:04 +0000422- Issue #6106: telnetlib.Telnet.process_rawq doesn't handle default WILL/WONT
423 DO/DONT correctly.
424
Senthil Kumaran67305382009-07-26 04:46:00 +0000425- Issue #1424152: Fix for http.client, urllib.request to support SSL while
426 working through proxy. Original patch by Christopher Li, changes made by
427 Senthil Kumaran
Senthil Kumaran97f0c6b2009-07-25 04:24:38 +0000428
Brett Cannon69194272009-07-20 04:23:48 +0000429- Add importlib.abc.ExecutionLoader to represent the PEP 302 protocol for
430 loaders that allow for modules to be executed. Both importlib.abc.PyLoader
431 and PyPycLoader inherit from this class and provide implementations in
432 relation to other methods required by the ABCs.
433
Brett Cannon64ef00f2009-07-20 03:19:18 +0000434- importlib.abc.PyLoader did not inherit from importlib.abc.ResourceLoader like
435 the documentation said it did even though the code in PyLoader relied on the
436 abstract method required by ResourceLoader.
437
Mark Dickinson85424c92009-07-18 14:41:42 +0000438- Issue #6431: Make Fraction type return NotImplemented when it doesn't
439 know how to handle a comparison without loss of precision. Also add
440 correct handling of infinities and nans for comparisons with float.
441
Antoine Pitrouf3637322009-08-06 21:00:37 +0000442- Issue #6415: Fixed warnings.warn segfault on bad formatted string.
Hirokazu Yamamoto1c0c0032009-07-17 06:55:42 +0000443
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc97e5f282009-07-11 09:35:13 +0000444- Issue #6358: The exit status of a command started with os.popen() was
445 reported differently than it did with python 2.x.
446
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc2de11152009-07-09 23:07:52 +0000447- Issue #6323: The pdb debugger did not exit when running a script with a
448 syntax error.
449
Gregory P. Smithd06fa472009-07-04 02:46:54 +0000450- Issue #3392: The subprocess communicate() method no longer fails in select()
451 when file descriptors are large; communicate() now uses poll() when possible.
452
Antoine Pitrou54923952009-07-01 14:53:06 +0000453- Issue #6369: Fix an RLE decompression bug in the binhex module.
454
Hirokazu Yamamoto7a9e1bd2009-06-29 14:54:12 +0000455- Issue #6344: Fixed a crash of mmap.read() when passed a negative argument.
456
Benjamin Peterson5a6deb42009-06-28 21:35:31 +0000457- The deprecated function string.maketrans has been removed.
458
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +0000459- Issue #4005: Fixed a crash of pydoc when there was a zip file present in
460 sys.path.
461
Alexandre Vassalotticf76e1a2009-07-22 03:24:36 +0000462- Issue #6218: io.StringIO and io.BytesIO instances are now picklable.
463
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +0000464Extension Modules
465-----------------
Mark Dickinson12c4bdb2009-09-28 19:21:11 +0000466
Martin v. Löwis7aed61a2009-11-27 14:09:49 +0000467- Issue #6508: Add posix.{getresuid,getresgid,setresuid,setresgid}.
468
Mark Dickinson40714af2009-10-08 15:59:20 +0000469- Issue #7078: Set struct.__doc__ from _struct.__doc__.
470
Mark Dickinson45f992a2009-12-19 11:20:49 +0000471- Issue #3366: Add erf, erfc, expm1, gamma, lgamma functions to math module.
Mark Dickinson12c4bdb2009-09-28 19:21:11 +0000472
Ronald Oussoren2efd9242009-09-20 14:53:22 +0000473- Issue #6877: It is now possible to link the readline extension to the
474 libedit readline emulation on OSX 10.5 or later.
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +0000475
Mark Dickinson5ea7d642009-09-06 21:24:55 +0000476- Issue #6848: Fix curses module build failure on OS X 10.6.
477
Brett Cannon2f827382009-08-13 19:58:01 +0000478- Fix a segfault that could be triggered by expat with specially formed input.
479
Mark Dickinson1f268282009-07-28 17:22:36 +0000480- Issue #6561: '\d' in a regex now matches only characters with
481 Unicode category 'Nd' (Number, Decimal Digit). Previously it also
482 matched characters with category 'No'.
483
Alexandre Vassalottiad077152009-07-15 17:49:23 +0000484- Issue #4509: Array objects are no longer modified after an operation
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +0000485 failing due to the resize restriction in-place when the object has exported
486 buffers.
487
Alexandre Vassalottiad077152009-07-15 17:49:23 +0000488- Issue #2389: Array objects are now pickled in a portable manner.
489
Martin v. Löwis95c46012009-06-28 09:36:14 +0000490Build
491-----
492
Mark Dickinsonf4243f62009-11-15 13:47:27 +0000493- Issue #5792: Extend the short float repr support to x86 systems using
494 icc or suncc.
495
Mark Dickinsona25b1312009-10-31 10:18:44 +0000496- Issue #6603: Change READ_TIMESTAMP macro in ceval.c so that it
497 compiles correctly under gcc on x86-64. This fixes a reported
498 problem with the --with-tsc build on x86-64.
499
Ronald Oussoren5bbab3e2009-09-06 11:01:15 +0000500- Issue #6802: Fix build issues on MacOSX 10.6
501
Guilherme Polo5d377bd2009-08-16 14:44:14 +0000502- Issue #6244: Allow detect_tkinter to look for Tcl/Tk 8.6.
503
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc321e5332009-07-02 23:08:45 +0000504- Issue 4601: 'make install' did not set the appropriate permissions on
505 directories.
506
Martin v. Löwis95c46012009-06-28 09:36:14 +0000507- Issue 5390: Add uninstall icon independent of whether file
508 extensions are installed.
509
Mark Dickinsond3aa6462009-09-17 00:06:41 +0000510Documentation
Tarek Ziadéf3b33222009-08-21 14:22:45 +0000511------------
512
Brett Cannon757df6e2009-08-30 04:00:12 +0000513- Document that importing a module that has None in sys.modules triggers an
514 ImportError.
515
Tarek Ziadéf3b33222009-08-21 14:22:45 +0000516- Issue #6556: Fixed the Distutils configuration files location explanation
517 for Windows.
518
Brett Cannonb49c70c2009-07-15 04:08:33 +0000519Tests
520-----
521
R. David Murray445448c2009-12-20 17:28:31 +0000522- Issue #7376: instead of running a self-test (which was failing) when called
523 with no arguments, doctest.py now gives a usage message.
524
R. David Murrayef1992b2009-12-16 15:19:27 +0000525- Issue #7396: fix regrtest -s, which was broken by the -j enhancement.
526
R. David Murray596da442009-12-14 23:06:11 +0000527- Issue #7498: test_multiprocessing now uses test.support.find_unused_port
R. David Murray83396232009-12-14 22:45:15 +0000528 instead of a hardcoded port number in test_rapid_restart.
529
R. David Murrayba311052009-12-04 00:09:14 +0000530- Issue #7431: use TESTFN in test_linecache instead of trying to create a
531 file in the Lib/test directory, which might be read-only for the
532 user running the tests.
533
R. David Murray35768ad2009-11-15 00:23:21 +0000534- Issue #7324: add a sanity check to regrtest argument parsing to
535 catch the case of an option with no handler.
536
R. David Murray7dc72cc2009-11-14 16:13:02 +0000537- Issue #7312: Add a -F flag to run the selected tests in a loop until
538 a test fails. Can be combined with -j.
539
Antoine Pitrou060cee22009-11-13 16:29:04 +0000540- Issue #6551: test_zipimport could import and then destroy some modules of
541 the encodings package, which would make other tests fail further down
542 the road because the internally cached encoders and decoders would point
543 to empty global variables.
544
Antoine Pitrou941ee882009-11-11 20:59:38 +0000545- Issue #7295: Do not use a hardcoded file name in test_tarfile.
546
Antoine Pitrou557934f2009-11-06 22:41:14 +0000547- Issue #7270: Add some dedicated unit tests for multi-thread synchronization
548 primitives such as Lock, RLock, Condition, Event and Semaphore.
549
Brett Cannoncfed0292009-11-05 01:26:57 +0000550- Issue #7248 (part 2): Use a unique temporary directory for importlib source
551 tests instead of tempfile.tempdir. This prevents the tests from sharing state
552 between concurrent executions on the same system.
553
Brett Cannon0ae45112009-11-05 01:17:22 +0000554- Issue #7248: In importlib.test.source.util a try/finally block did not make
555 sure that some referenced objects actually were created in the block before
556 calling methods on the object.
557
Antoine Pitrou65c9c642009-10-30 17:25:12 +0000558- Issue #7222: Make thread "reaping" more reliable so that reference
559 leak-chasing test runs give sensible results. The previous method of
560 reaping threads could return successfully while some Thread objects were
561 still referenced. This also introduces a new private function:
562 :func:`_thread._count()`.
563
R. David Murray27144602009-10-19 15:26:16 +0000564- Issue #7151: fixed regrtest -j so that output to stderr from a test no
565 longer runs the risk of causing the worker thread to fail.
566
Antoine Pitrou4de39cd2009-10-10 21:08:31 +0000567- Issue #7055: test___all__ now greedily detects all modules which have an
568 __all__ attribute, rather than using a hardcoded and incomplete list.
569
R. David Murray0bc11ae2009-10-18 22:18:17 +0000570- Issue #7058: Added save/restore for things like sys.argv and cwd to
571 runtest_inner in regrtest, with warnings if the called test modifies them,
572 and a new section in the summary report at the end.
R. David Murray097e51f2009-10-07 23:38:55 +0000573
Mark Dickinson2e304402009-10-04 18:43:54 +0000574- Issue #7042: Fix test_signal (test_itimer_virtual) failure on OS X 10.6.
575
Brett Cannon3c273842009-07-20 00:14:29 +0000576- Fixed tests in importlib.test.source.test_abc_loader that were masking
577 the proper exceptions that should be raised for missing or improper code
578 object bytecode.
579
Brett Cannonb49c70c2009-07-15 04:08:33 +0000580- Removed importlib's custom test discovery code and switched to
581 unittest.TestLoader.discover().
582
Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +0000583
Benjamin Peterson01bf2362009-06-13 14:50:22 +0000584What's New in Python 3.1?
585=========================
586
587*Release date: 27-June-2009*
588
589Core and Builtins
590-----------------
591
Mark Dickinsonad195562009-06-24 19:01:32 +0000592- Issue #6334: Fix bug in range length calculation for ranges with
593 large arguments.
594
Raymond Hettinger159eac92009-06-23 20:38:54 +0000595- Issue #6329: Fixed iteration for memoryview objects (it was being blocked
596 because it wasn't recognized as a sequence).
597
Benjamin Peterson01bf2362009-06-13 14:50:22 +0000598Library
599-------
600
Georg Brandld07ac642009-08-13 07:50:57 +0000601- Issue #6126: Fixed pdb command-line usage.
602
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +0000603- Issue #6314: logging: performs extra checks on the "level" argument.
Vinay Sajip0f6eac22009-06-21 17:46:49 +0000604
Facundo Batista10706e22009-06-19 20:34:30 +0000605- Issue #6274: Fixed possible file descriptors leak in subprocess.py
606
Benjamin Peterson6a38ced2009-06-14 18:32:19 +0000607- Accessing io.StringIO.buffer now raises an AttributeError instead of
608 io.UnsupportedOperation.
609
Vinay Sajip0f6eac22009-06-21 17:46:49 +0000610- Issue #6271: mmap tried to close invalid file handle (-1) when anonymous.
Hirokazu Yamamoto3d8827d2009-06-14 04:58:16 +0000611 (On Unix)
612
Gregory P. Smithe88749b2009-06-26 08:05:13 +0000613- Issue #1202: zipfile module would cause a struct.error when attempting to
614 store files with a CRC32 > 2**31-1.
615
Matthias Kloseab2b7552009-06-22 13:05:52 +0000616Extension Modules
617-----------------
618
619- Issue #5590: Remove unused global variable in pyexpat extension.
620
Benjamin Peterson01bf2362009-06-13 14:50:22 +0000621
Antoine Pitrou3b1b8072009-05-30 21:01:23 +0000622What's New in Python 3.1 Release Candidate 2?
623=============================================
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +0000624
Benjamin Petersonc7c12282009-06-13 13:15:04 +0000625*Release date: 13-June-2009*
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +0000626
627Core and Builtins
628-----------------
629
Raymond Hettinger94f55832009-06-12 18:40:16 +0000630- Fixed SystemError triggered by "range([], 1, -1)".
631
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc66f8c432009-06-09 21:30:01 +0000632- Issue #5924: On Windows, a large PYTHONPATH environment variable
633 (more than 255 characters) would be completely ignored.
634
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc24e581f2009-06-01 21:28:37 +0000635- Issue #4547: When debugging a very large function, it was not always
636 possible to update the lineno attribute of the current frame.
637
Antoine Pitrou8e124f32009-05-30 21:41:10 +0000638- Issue #5330: C functions called with keyword arguments were not reported by
Alexandre Vassalottiea3714e2009-07-17 09:34:31 +0000639 the various profiling modules (profile, cProfile). Patch by Hagen Fürstenau.
Antoine Pitrou8e124f32009-05-30 21:41:10 +0000640
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +0000641Library
642-------
643
Tarek Ziadéc9e6cec2009-07-12 08:27:26 +0000644- Issue #6438: Fixed distutils.cygwinccompiler.get_versions : the regular
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +0000645 expression string pattern was trying to match against a bytes returned by
Tarek Ziadéc9e6cec2009-07-12 08:27:26 +0000646 Popen. Tested under win32 to build the py-postgresql project.
647
Martin v. Löwis83eacca2009-06-12 17:31:41 +0000648- Issue #6258: Support AMD64 in bdist_msi.
649
R. David Murray58641de2009-06-12 15:33:19 +0000650- Issue #6195: fixed doctest to no longer try to read 'source' data from
651 binary files.
652
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +0000653- Issue #5262: Fixed bug in next rollover time computation in
654 TimedRotatingFileHandler.
655
Benjamin Peterson0926ad12009-06-06 18:02:12 +0000656- Issue #6217: The C implementation of io.TextIOWrapper didn't include the
657 errors property. Additionally, the errors and encoding properties of StringIO
658 are always None now.
659
Antoine Pitroud9dfaa92009-06-04 20:32:06 +0000660- Issue #6137: The pickle module now translates module names when loading
661 or dumping pickles with a 2.x-compatible protocol, in order to make data
662 sharing and migration easier. This behaviour can be disabled using the
663 new `fix_imports` optional argument.
664
Raymond Hettinger40925d22009-06-04 18:32:39 +0000665- Removed the ipaddr module.
666
Georg Brandlb54d8012009-06-04 09:11:51 +0000667- Issue #3613: base64.{encode,decode}string are now called
668 base64.{encode,decode}bytes which reflects what type they accept and return.
669 The old names are still there as deprecated aliases.
670
Georg Brandl317185a2009-06-04 09:00:56 +0000671- Issue #5767: Remove sgmlop support from xmlrpc.client.
672
Martin v. Löwis74b7e442009-06-01 04:23:07 +0000673- Issue #6150: Fix test_unicode on wide-unicode builds.
674
Antoine Pitrouc06de472009-05-30 21:04:26 +0000675- Issue #6149: Fix initialization of WeakValueDictionary objects from non-empty
676 parameters.
677
Martin v. Löwis79b13872009-06-01 04:13:14 +0000678Windows
679-------
680
Martin v. Löwisb7a51562009-06-07 17:55:17 +0000681- Issue #6221: Delete test registry key before running the test.
682
Martin v. Löwis79b13872009-06-01 04:13:14 +0000683- Issue #6158: Package Sine-1000Hz-300ms.aif in MSI file.
684
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc11729992009-06-01 21:16:17 +0000685C-API
686-----
687
688- Issue #5735: Python compiled with --with-pydebug should throw an
689 ImportError when trying to import modules compiled without
690 --with-pydebug, and vice-versa.
691
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +0000692
Brett Cannonc6d936e2009-06-07 20:09:53 +0000693Build
694-----
695
696- Issue #6154: Make sure the intl library is added to LIBS if needed. Also
697 added LIBS to OS X framework builds.
698
Ronald Oussoren99aab652009-06-08 21:22:57 +0000699- Issue #5809: Specifying both --enable-framework and --enable-shared is
700 an error. Configure now explicity tells you about this.
701
702
Brett Cannonc6d936e2009-06-07 20:09:53 +0000703
Mark Dickinson4eb88b32009-05-11 16:41:34 +0000704What's New in Python 3.1 release candidate 1?
705=============================================
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +0000706
Benjamin Petersone6ad3872009-05-30 15:30:16 +0000707*Release date: 2009-05-30*
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +0000708
709Core and Builtins
710-----------------
711
Martin v. Löwis8ed91b22009-05-29 16:22:26 +0000712- Issue #6097: Escape UTF-8 surrogates resulting from mbstocs conversion
713 of the command line.
714
Martin v. Löwisc15bdef2009-05-29 14:47:46 +0000715- Issue #6012: Add cleanup support to O& argument parsing.
716
Eric Smith41669ca2009-05-23 14:23:22 +0000717- Issue #6089: Fixed str.format with certain invalid field specifiers
718 that would raise SystemError.
719
Raymond Hettinger2bcde142009-05-29 04:52:27 +0000720- Issue #5982: staticmethod and classmethod now expose the wrapped
721 function with __func__.
722
Raymond Hettinger91e3b9d2009-05-28 22:20:03 +0000723- Added support for multiple context managers in the same with-statement.
724 Deprecated contextlib.nested() which is no longer needed.
Georg Brandl0c315622009-05-25 21:10:36 +0000725
Mark Dickinson6b1e43b2009-05-20 18:41:04 +0000726- Issue #5829: complex("1e500") no longer raises OverflowError. This
727 makes it consistent with float("1e500") and interpretation of real
728 and imaginary literals.
729
Hirokazu Yamamoto8223c242009-05-17 04:21:53 +0000730- Issue #3527: Removed Py_WIN_WIDE_FILENAMES which is not used any more.
731
R. David Murraydd226ea2009-05-13 12:27:21 +0000732- Issue #5994: the marshal module now has docstrings.
733
Mark Dickinsond1ec8b22009-05-11 15:45:15 +0000734- Issue #5981: Fix three minor inf/nan issues in float.fromhex:
735 (1) inf and nan strings with trailing whitespace were incorrectly
736 rejected; (2) parsing of strings representing infinities and nans
737 was locale aware; and (3) the interpretation of fromhex('-nan')
738 didn't match that of float('-nan').
739
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +0000740Library
741-------
742
Martin v. Löwisb6a748b2009-05-29 15:23:17 +0000743- Issue #4859: Implement PEP 383 for pwd, spwd, and grp.
744
R. David Murrayfb123912009-05-28 18:19:00 +0000745- smtplib 'login' and 'cram-md5' login are also fixed (see Issue #5259).
746
R. David Murray1f1b9d32009-05-27 20:56:59 +0000747- Issue #6121: pydoc now ignores leading and trailing spaces in the
748 argument to the 'help' function.
749
Georg Brandlfaf41492009-05-26 18:31:11 +0000750- Issue #6118: urllib.parse.quote_plus ignored the encoding and errors
751 arguments for strings with a space in them.
752
Raymond Hettinger089ba7f2009-05-27 00:38:24 +0000753- collections.namedtuple() was not working with the following field
754 names: cls, self, tuple, itemgetter, and property.
755
Benjamin Peterson14a3dd72009-05-25 00:51:58 +0000756- In unittest, using a skipping decorator on a class is now equivalent to
757 skipping every test on the class. The ClassTestSuite class has been removed.
758
Martin v. Löwis70ccd162009-05-24 19:47:22 +0000759- Issue #6050: Don't fail extracting a directory from a zipfile if
760 the directory already exists.
761
Antoine Pitrou61f77b52009-05-24 15:46:13 +0000762- Issue #1309352: fcntl now converts its third arguments to a C `long` rather
763 than an int, which makes some operations possible under 64-bit Linux (e.g.
764 DN_MULTISHOT with F_NOTIFY).
765
Antoine Pitrou716c4442009-05-23 19:04:03 +0000766- Issue #5761: Add the name of the underlying file to the repr() of various
767 IO objects.
768
R. David Murraycaa27b72009-05-23 18:49:56 +0000769- Issue #5259: smtplib plain auth login no longer gives a traceback. Fix
770 by Musashi Tamura, tests by Marcin Bachry.
771
Antoine Pitrouc3ee1662009-05-23 16:02:33 +0000772- Issue #1983: Fix functions taking or returning a process identifier to use
773 the dedicated C type ``pid_t`` instead of a C ``int``. Some platforms have
774 a process identifier type wider than the standard C integer type.
775
R. David Murray87e20742009-05-23 01:30:26 +0000776- Issue #4066: smtplib.SMTP_SSL._get_socket now correctly returns the socket.
777 Patch by Farhan Ahmad, test by Marcin Bachry.
778
Antoine Pitrou6e610062009-05-15 17:04:50 +0000779- Issue #2116: Weak references and weak dictionaries now support copy()ing and
780 deepcopy()ing.
781
Antoine Pitrouc1d09362009-05-15 12:15:51 +0000782- Issue #1655: Make imaplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
783
Antoine Pitrou37d1c182009-05-14 21:54:00 +0000784- Issue #5918: Fix a crash in the parser module.
785
Antoine Pitrou2ca24f02009-05-14 21:30:46 +0000786- Issue #1664: Make nntplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
787
Antoine Pitroue4501852009-05-14 18:55:55 +0000788- Issue #5006: Better handling of unicode byte-order marks (BOM) in the io
789 library. This means, for example, that opening an UTF-16 text file in
790 append mode doesn't add a BOM at the end of the file if the file isn't
791 empty.
792
R. David Murray74b89242009-05-13 17:33:03 +0000793- Issue #4050: inspect.findsource/getsource now raise an IOError if the 'source'
794 file is a binary. Patch by Brodie Rao, tests by Daniel Diniz. This fix
795 corrects a pydoc regression.
796
R. David Murray99352742009-05-07 18:24:38 +0000797- Issue 5955: aifc's close method did not close the file it wrapped,
798 now it does. This also means getfp method now returns the real fp.
799
Benjamin Peterson932073a2009-05-23 16:14:33 +0000800Installation
801------------
802
803- Issue #6047: fullinstall has been removed because Python 3's executable will
804 now be known as python3.
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +0000805
Ronald Oussorenbe7149e2009-05-26 21:39:08 +0000806- Lib/smtpd.py is no longer installed as a script.
807
Martin v. Löwisdb1c3992009-05-23 10:38:26 +0000808Extension Modules
809-----------------
810
Martin v. Löwisa6a9c4d2009-05-30 06:15:30 +0000811- Issue #3061: Use wcsftime for time.strftime where available.
Martin v. Löwis1b01ccd2009-05-30 06:13:40 +0000812
Martin v. Löwise23c8682009-05-29 16:01:34 +0000813- Issue #4873: Fix resource leaks in error cases of pwd and grp.
814
Martin v. Löwisdb1c3992009-05-23 10:38:26 +0000815- Issue #6093: Fix off-by-one error in locale.strxfrm.
816
Benjamin Peterson744af442009-05-23 18:51:49 +0000817- The _functools and _locale modules are now built into the libpython shared
818 library instead of as extension modules.
Benjamin Peterson3dc22e82009-05-23 17:09:43 +0000819
Antoine Pitrou20327222009-05-24 20:39:11 +0000820Build
821-----
822
823- Issue #3585: Add pkg-config support. It creates a python-2.7.pc file
824 and a python3.pc symlink in the $(LIBDIR)/pkgconfig directory. Patch by
825 Clinton Roy.
826
Brett Cannon1262e7c2009-05-11 01:47:11 +0000827Tests
828-----
829
830- Issue 5442: Tests for importlib were not properly skipping case-sensitivity
831 tests on darwin even when the OS was installed on a case-sensitive
832 filesystem. Also fixed tests that should not be run when
833 sys.dont_write_bytecode is true.
834
835
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +0000836What's New in Python 3.1 beta 1?
837================================
838
Benjamin Peterson5c5f3de2009-05-06 20:43:28 +0000839*Release date: 2009-05-06*
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +0000840
841Core and Builtins
842-----------------
843
Mark Dickinson865e01a2009-05-07 16:37:01 +0000844- Issue #5914: Add new C API function PyOS_string_to_double, and
845 deprecate PyOS_ascii_strtod and PyOS_ascii_atof.
846
Eric Smith741191f2009-05-06 13:08:15 +0000847- Issue #3382: float.__format__, complex.__format__, and %-formatting
848 no longer map 'F' to 'f'. Because of issue #5859 (below), this only
849 affects nan -> NAN and inf -> INF.
850
Mark Hammond5a607a32009-05-06 08:04:54 +0000851- Issue #5799: ntpath (ie, os.path on Windows) fully supports UNC pathnames
852 in all operations, including splitdrive, split, etc. splitunc() now issues
853 a PendingDeprecation warning.
854
Eric Smith63376222009-05-05 14:04:18 +0000855- Issue #5920: For float.__format__, change the behavior with the
856 empty presentation type (that is, not one of 'e', 'f', 'g', or 'n')
857 to be like 'g' but with at least one decimal point and with a
858 default precision of 12. Previously, the behavior the same but with
859 a default precision of 6. This more closely matches str(), and
860 reduces surprises when adding alignment flags to the empty
861 presentation type. This also affects the new complex.__format__ in
862 the same way.
863
Martin v. Löwis011e8422009-05-05 04:43:17 +0000864- Implement PEP 383, Non-decodable Bytes in System Character Interfaces.
865
R. David Murrayb18500d2009-05-04 22:59:07 +0000866- Issue #5890: in subclasses of 'property' the __doc__ attribute was
867 shadowed by classtype's, even if it was None. property now
868 inserts the __doc__ into the subclass instance __dict__.
869
Antoine Pitrou244651a2009-05-04 18:56:13 +0000870- Issue #4426: The UTF-7 decoder was too strict and didn't accept some legal
871 sequences. Patch by Nick Barnes and Victor Stinner.
872
Martin v. Löwise0a2b722009-05-10 08:08:56 +0000873- Issue #3672: Reject surrogates in utf-8 codec; add surrogatepass error handler.
Martin v. Löwisdb12d452009-05-02 18:52:14 +0000874
Benjamin Petersond2e0c792009-05-01 20:40:59 +0000875- Issue #5883: In the io module, the BufferedIOBase and TextIOBase ABCs have
876 received a new method, detach(). detach() disconnects the underlying stream
877 from the buffer or text IO and returns it.
878
Mark Dickinson33841c32009-05-01 15:37:04 +0000879- Issue #5859: Remove switch from '%f' to '%g'-style formatting for
880 floats with absolute value over 1e50. Also remove length
881 restrictions for float formatting: '%.67f' % 12.34 and '%.120e' %
882 12.34 no longer raise an exception.
Mark Dickinsonf489caf2009-05-01 11:42:00 +0000883
Eric Smith741191f2009-05-06 13:08:15 +0000884- Issue #1588: Add complex.__format__. For example,
Eric Smith58a42242009-04-30 01:00:33 +0000885 format(complex(1, 2./3), '.5') now produces a sensible result.
886
Mark Dickinsond3ca5572009-04-29 18:47:07 +0000887- Issue #5864: Fix empty format code formatting for floats so that it
888 never gives more than the requested number of significant digits.
889
Eric Smith6dc46f52009-04-27 20:39:49 +0000890- Issue #5793: Rationalize isdigit / isalpha / tolower, etc. Includes
891 new Py_ISDIGIT / Py_ISALPHA / Py_TOLOWER, etc. in pctypes.h.
892
Eric Smithcc32a112009-04-26 21:35:14 +0000893- Issue #5835: Deprecate PyOS_ascii_formatd.
894
Martin v. Löwis71efeb72009-04-26 01:02:07 +0000895- Issue #4971: Fix titlecase for characters that are their own
896 titlecase, but not their own uppercase.
897
Benjamin Peterson193152c2009-04-25 01:08:45 +0000898- Issue #5283: Setting __class__ in __del__ caused a segfault.
899
Mark Dickinsonad476da2009-04-23 19:14:16 +0000900- Issue #5816: complex(repr(z)) now recovers z exactly, even when
901 z involves nans, infs or negative zeros.
902
Mark Dickinson4a16e3a2009-04-23 19:15:48 +0000903- Issue #3166: Make int -> float conversions correctly rounded.
Mark Dickinsonc6300392009-04-20 21:38:00 +0000904
Mark Dickinsone6a076d2009-04-18 11:48:33 +0000905- Issue #1869 (and many duplicates): make round(x, n) correctly
906 rounded for a float x, by using the decimal <-> binary conversions
907 from Python/dtoa.c. As a consequence, (e.g.) round(x, 2) now
908 consistently agrees with format(x, '.2f').
909
Benjamin Petersonae937c02009-04-18 20:54:08 +0000910- Issue #5787: object.__getattribute__(some_type, "__bases__") segfaulted on
911 some builtin types.
912
Eric Smith0923d1d2009-04-16 20:16:10 +0000913- Issue #5772: format(1e100, '<') produces '1e+100', not '1.0e+100'.
914
Eric Smith35e84722009-04-16 20:21:28 +0000915- Issue #5515: str.format() type 'n' combined with commas and leading
916 zeros no longer gives odd results with ints and floats.
Eric Smith0923d1d2009-04-16 20:16:10 +0000917
918- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for
919 floats.
920
Mark Dickinson3370cce2009-04-17 22:40:53 +0000921- The str function switches to exponential notation at
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +0000922 1e11, not 1e12. This avoids printing 13 significant digits in
923 situations where only 12 of them are correct. Example problem
924 value: str(1e11 + 0.5). (This minor issue has existed in 2.x for a
925 long time.)
926
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +0000927- Issue #1580: On most platforms, use a 'short' float repr: for a
928 finite float x, repr(x) now outputs a string based on the shortest
929 sequence of decimal digits that rounds to x. Previous behaviour was
930 to output 17 significant digits and then strip trailing zeros.
Mark Dickinson3370cce2009-04-17 22:40:53 +0000931 Another minor difference is that the new repr switches to
932 exponential notation at 1e16 instead of the previous 1e17; this
933 avoids misleading output in some cases.
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +0000934
935 There's a new sys attribute sys.float_repr_style, which takes
936 the value 'short' to indicate that we're using short float repr,
937 and 'legacy' if the short float repr isn't available for one
938 reason or another.
939
940 The float repr change involves incorporating David Gay's 'perfect
941 rounding' code into the Python core (it's in Python/dtoa.c). As a
942 secondary consequence, all string-to-float and float-to-string
943 conversions (including all float formatting operations) will be
944 correctly rounded on these platforms.
945
946 See issue 1580 discussions for details of platforms for which
947 this change does not apply.
948
Benjamin Peterson2808d3c2009-04-15 21:34:27 +0000949- Issue #5759: float() didn't call __float__ on str subclasses.
950
Georg Brandlabc38772009-04-12 15:51:51 +0000951- The string.maketrans() function is deprecated; there is a new static method
952 maketrans() on the bytes and bytearray classes. This removes confusion about
953 the types string.maketrans() is supposed to work with, and mirrors the
954 methods available on the str class.
955
R. David Murraydc6da8a2009-04-09 22:16:43 +0000956- Issue #2170: refactored xml.dom.minidom.normalize, increasing both
957 its clarity and its speed.
958
Matthias Klose091c7b12009-04-07 13:24:27 +0000959- Issue #1113244: Py_XINCREF, Py_DECREF, Py_XDECREF: Add `do { ... } while (0)'
960 to avoid compiler warnings.
961
Walter Dörwald8dc33d52009-05-06 14:41:26 +0000962- Issue #3739: The unicode-internal encoder now reports the number of characters
963 consumed like any other encoder (instead of the number of bytes).
964
Benjamin Peterson0b4915e2009-04-25 21:11:45 +0000965Installation
966------------
967
968- Issue #5756: Install idle and pydoc with a 3 suffix.
969
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +0000970Library
971-------
972
Martin v. Löwis403117a2009-05-24 19:19:17 +0000973- Issue #5311: bdist_msi can now build packages that do not depend on a
974 specific Python version.
975
Raymond Hettingereb816952009-05-29 01:22:18 +0000976- Issue #5150: IDLE's format menu now has an option to strip trailing
977 whitespace.
978
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +0000979- Issue #5940: distutils.command.build_clib.check_library_list was not doing
Tarek Ziadédd9f65f2009-05-06 07:26:24 +0000980 the right type checkings anymore.
981
Thomas Heller00cfc372009-05-05 19:04:40 +0000982- Issue #4875: On win32, ctypes.util.find_library does no longer
983 return directories.
984
Georg Brandl243ad662009-05-05 09:00:19 +0000985- Issue #5142: Add the ability to skip modules while stepping to pdb.
986
Georg Brandl991f9202009-05-05 08:31:54 +0000987- Issue #1309567: Fix linecache behavior of stripping subdirectories when
988 looking for files given by a relative filename.
989
Georg Brandleaa84ef2009-05-05 08:14:33 +0000990- Issue #5923: Update the ``turtle`` module to version 1.1, add two new
991 turtle demos in Demo/turtle.
992
Antoine Pitrou3c33e082009-05-04 21:21:36 +0000993- Issue #5692: In :class:`zipfile.Zipfile`, fix wrong path calculation when
994 extracting a file to the root directory.
995
Hirokazu Yamamotobbb9be72009-05-04 05:56:46 +0000996- Issue #5913: os.listdir() should fail for empty path on windows.
997
Antoine Pitroua9f48a02009-05-02 21:41:14 +0000998- Issue #5084: unpickling now interns the attribute names of pickled objects,
999 saving memory and avoiding growth in size of subsequent pickles. Proposal
1000 and original patch by Jake McGuire.
1001
Benjamin Petersonc6b607d2009-05-02 12:36:44 +00001002- The json module now works exclusively with str and not bytes.
1003
Gregory P. Smithe54dff52009-05-01 22:13:48 +00001004- Issue #3959: The ipaddr module has been added to the standard library.
1005 Contributed by Google.
1006
Antoine Pitrou7fff0962009-05-01 21:09:44 +00001007- Issue #3002: ``shutil.copyfile()`` and ``shutil.copytree()`` now raise an
1008 error when a named pipe is encountered, rather than blocking infinitely.
1009
Raymond Hettinger1f0db402009-04-29 00:38:08 +00001010- Issue #5857: tokenize.tokenize() now returns named tuples.
1011
Thomas Hellerc1edc2d2009-04-28 19:55:58 +00001012- Issue #4305: ctypes should now build again on mipsel-linux-gnu
1013
Antoine Pitrou7a0fedf2009-04-27 22:31:40 +00001014- Issue #1734234: Massively speedup ``unicodedata.normalize()`` when the
1015 string is already in normalized form, by performing a quick check beforehand.
1016 Original patch by Rauli Ruohonen.
1017
Antoine Pitrou57f3d932009-04-27 21:04:19 +00001018- Issue #5853: calling a function of the mimetypes module from several threads
1019 at once could hit the recursion limit if the mimetypes database hadn't been
1020 initialized before.
1021
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00001022- Issue #5854: Updated __all__ to include some missing names and remove some
1023 names which should not be exported.
1024
Thomas Heller34596a92009-04-24 20:50:00 +00001025- Issue #3102: All global symbols that the _ctypes extension defines
1026 are now prefixed with 'Py' or '_ctypes'.
1027
1028- Issue #5041: ctypes does now allow pickling wide character.
1029
Mark Dickinsond4d95f82009-04-24 14:06:19 +00001030- Issue #5812: For the two-argument form of the Fraction constructor,
1031 Fraction(m, n), m and n are permitted to be arbitrary Rational
1032 instances.
1033
Mark Dickinsoncf63f2f2009-04-22 17:50:21 +00001034- Issue #5812: Fraction('1e6') is valid: more generally, any string
1035 that's valid for float() is now valid for Fraction(), with the
1036 exception of strings representing NaNs and infinities.
1037
Antoine Pitroucf4c7492009-04-19 00:09:36 +00001038- Issue #5734: BufferedRWPair was poorly tested and had several glaring
1039 bugs. Patch by Brian Quinlan.
1040
R. David Murray9e94ddf2009-04-13 17:06:33 +00001041- Issue #1161031: fix readwrite select flag handling: POLLPRI now
1042 results in a handle_expt_event call, not handle_read_event, and POLLERR
1043 and POLLNVAL now call handle_close, not handle_expt_event. Also,
1044 dispatcher now has an 'ignore_log_types' attribute for suppressing
1045 log messages, which is set to 'warning' by default.
1046
Matthias Klosea3d29e82009-04-07 13:13:10 +00001047- Issue #2703: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher.__init__: Provide default values for
1048 new arguments introduced in 2.5.
1049
Walter Dörwald1b08b302009-04-25 14:13:56 +00001050- Issue #5828 (Invalid behavior of unicode.lower): Fixed bogus logic in
1051 makeunicodedata.py and regenerated the Unicode database (This fixes
1052 u'\u1d79'.lower() == '\x00').
1053
Matthias Klose535336f2009-04-07 13:49:45 +00001054Extension Modules
1055-----------------
1056
Benjamin Petersone04b6272009-05-04 22:25:21 +00001057- Issue #5881: Remove old undocumented compatibility interfaces in hashlib and
1058 pwd.
1059
Mark Dickinsonea835e72009-04-19 20:40:33 +00001060- Issue #5463: In struct module, remove deprecated float coercion
1061 for integer type codes: struct.pack('L', 0.3) should now raise
1062 an error. The _PY_STRUCT_FLOAT_COERCE constant has been removed.
1063 The version number has been bumped to 0.3.
1064
Matthias Klose535336f2009-04-07 13:49:45 +00001065- Issue #5359: Readd the Berkley-DB detection code to allow _dbm be built
1066 using Berkley-DB.
1067
Nick Coghlan47384702009-04-22 16:13:36 +00001068Tests
1069-----
1070
1071- Issue #5354: New test support function import_fresh_module() makes
1072 it easy to import both normal and optimised versions of modules.
1073 test_heapq and test_warnings have been adjusted to use it, tests for
1074 other modules with both C and Python implementations in the stdlib
1075 can be adjusted to use it over time.
1076
Walter Dörwald4ba80132009-04-25 12:48:43 +00001077- Issue #5837: Certain sequences of calls to set() and unset() for
1078 support.EnvironmentVarGuard objects restored the environment variables
1079 incorrectly on __exit__.
1080
Benjamin Petersonb173f782009-05-05 22:31:58 +00001081C-API
1082-----
1083
1084- Issue #5630: A replacement PyCObject API, PyCapsule, has been added.
1085
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00001086
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00001087What's New in Python 3.1 alpha 2?
1088=================================
1089
Benjamin Peterson88f14352009-04-04 21:06:52 +00001090*Release date: 2009-4-4*
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00001091
1092Core and Builtins
1093-----------------
Benjamin Petersone099b372009-04-04 17:09:35 +00001094
Eric Smith1e1d7d22009-04-03 22:25:33 +00001095- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for
1096 integers.
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00001097
Benjamin Peterson8f76b492009-04-03 22:22:42 +00001098- Issue #5666: Py_BuildValue's 'c' code should create byte strings.
1099
Benjamin Peterson7fe98532009-04-02 00:33:55 +00001100- Issue #5499: The 'c' code for argument parsing functions now only accepts a
1101 byte, and the 'C' code only accepts a unicode character.
1102
Georg Brandl406b3d82009-04-11 21:24:37 +00001103- Fix a problem in PyErr_NormalizeException that leads to "undetected errors"
1104 when hitting the recursion limit under certain circumstances.
1105
Brett Cannon0759dd62009-04-01 18:13:07 +00001106- Issue #1665206: Remove the last eager import in _warnings.c and make it lazy.
1107
Georg Brandlab6f2f62009-03-31 04:16:10 +00001108- Fix a segfault when running test_exceptions with coverage, caused by
1109 insufficient checks in accessors of Exception.__context__.
1110
Guido van Rossum0ad59d42009-03-30 22:01:35 +00001111- Issue #5604: non-ASCII characters in module name passed to
1112 imp.find_module() were converted to UTF-8 while the path is
1113 converted to the default filesystem encoding, causing nonsense.
1114
Benjamin Peterson09832742009-03-26 17:15:46 +00001115- Issue #5126: str.isprintable() returned False for space characters.
1116
Ronald Oussorenfa1fcd12009-03-30 23:16:10 +00001117- Issue #4865: On MacOSX /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages is added to
1118 the end sys.path, for compatibility with the system install of Python.
1119
Antoine Pitrou3a652b12009-03-23 18:52:06 +00001120- Issue #4688: Add a heuristic so that tuples and dicts containing only
1121 untrackable objects are not tracked by the garbage collector. This can
1122 reduce the size of collections and therefore the garbage collection overhead
1123 on long-running programs, depending on their particular use of datatypes.
1124
Mark Dickinson17e4fdd2009-03-23 18:44:57 +00001125- Issue #5512: Rewrite PyLong long division algorithm (x_divrem) to
1126 improve its performance. Long divisions and remainder operations
1127 are now between 50% and 150% faster.
1128
Mark Dickinsonbd792642009-03-18 20:06:12 +00001129- Issue #4258: Make it possible to use base 2**30 instead of base
1130 2**15 for the internal representation of integers, for performance
1131 reasons. Base 2**30 is enabled by default on 64-bit machines. Add
1132 --enable-big-digits option to configure, which overrides the
1133 default. Add sys.int_info structseq to provide information about
1134 the internal format.
1135
Mark Dickinson081dfee2009-03-18 14:47:41 +00001136- Issue #4474: PyUnicode_FromWideChar now converts characters outside
1137 the BMP to surrogate pairs, on systems with sizeof(wchar_t) == 4
1138 and sizeof(Py_UNICODE) == 2.
1139
Eric Smith8ec90442009-03-14 12:29:34 +00001140- Issue #5237: Allow auto-numbered fields in str.format(). For
1141 example: '{} {}'.format(1, 2) == '1 2'.
1142
Antoine Pitrou652e7072009-03-13 19:25:20 +00001143- Issue #5392: when a very low recursion limit was set, the interpreter would
1144 abort with a fatal error after the recursion limit was hit twice.
1145
Matthias Klose042f1332009-04-04 14:32:42 +00001146- Issue #3845: In PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags avoid invalid memory access with
1147 short file names.
1148
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00001149Library
1150-------
1151
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00001152- Issue #2625: added missing items() call to the for loop in
R. David Murray548ac412009-04-02 19:44:43 +00001153 mailbox.MH.get_message().
1154
Hye-Shik Chang944820b2009-04-02 10:33:16 +00001155- Issue #5640: Fix _multibytecodec so that CJK codecs don't repeat
1156 error substitutions from non-strict codec error callbacks in
1157 incrementalencoder and StreamWriter.
1158
Georg Brandl33c28812009-04-01 23:07:29 +00001159- Issue #5656: Fix the coverage reporting when running the test suite with
1160 the -T argument.
1161
Raymond Hettinger3f10a952009-04-01 19:05:50 +00001162- Issue #5647: MutableSet.__iand__() no longer mutates self during iteration.
1163
Georg Brandl4ed72ac2009-04-01 04:28:33 +00001164- Issue #5624: Fix the _winreg module name still used in several modules.
1165
Benjamin Petersona1b49012009-03-31 23:11:32 +00001166- Issue #5628: Fix io.TextIOWrapper.read() with a unreadable buffer.
1167
Jesse Nollera9314042009-03-31 22:36:44 +00001168- Issue #5619: Multiprocessing children disobey the debug flag and causes
1169 popups on windows buildbots. Patch applied to work around this issue.
1170
Jesse Noller32d68c22009-03-31 18:48:42 +00001171- Issue #5400: Added patch for multiprocessing on netbsd compilation/support
1172
Hirokazu Yamamoto16caab02009-03-31 13:44:06 +00001173- Issue #5387: Fixed mmap.move crash by integer overflow.
1174
Jesse Nollerf8d00852009-03-31 03:25:07 +00001175- Issue #5261: Patch multiprocessing's semaphore.c to support context
1176 manager use: "with multiprocessing.Lock()" works now.
1177
Brett Cannon7f6b4f82009-03-30 21:30:26 +00001178- Issue #5236: Change time.strptime() to only take strings. Didn't work with
1179 bytes already but the failure was non-obvious.
1180
Jesse Noller7af4ef82009-03-30 16:47:15 +00001181- Issue #5177: Multiprocessing's SocketListener class now uses
1182 socket.SO_REUSEADDR on all connections so that the user no longer needs
1183 to wait 120 seconds for the socket to expire.
1184
Benjamin Peterson48e24782009-03-29 13:02:52 +00001185- Issue #5595: Fix UnboundedLocalError in ntpath.ismount().
1186
Antoine Pitrou66994e12009-03-29 00:45:26 +00001187- Issue #1174606: Calling read() without arguments of an unbounded file
1188 (typically /dev/zero under Unix) could crash the interpreter.
1189
Benjamin Peterson59406a92009-03-26 17:10:29 +00001190- The max_buffer_size arguments of io.BufferedWriter, io.BufferedRWPair, and
1191 io.BufferedRandom have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.2.
1192
Lars Gustäbel42e00912009-03-22 20:34:29 +00001193- Issue #5068: Fixed the tarfile._BZ2Proxy.read() method that would loop
1194 forever on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used
1195 with mode 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or
1196 partial bzip2 compressed data.
1197
Mark Dickinson79f52032009-03-17 23:12:51 +00001198- Issue #2110: Add support for thousands separator and 'n' type
1199 specifier to Decimal.__format__
1200
Mark Dickinson9c59fe02009-03-17 18:15:08 +00001201- Fix Decimal.__format__ bug that swapped the meanings of the '<' and
1202 '>' alignment characters.
1203
Antoine Pitrou0ae29cf2009-03-13 22:33:17 +00001204- The error detection code in FileIO.close() could fail to reflect the `errno`
1205 value, and report it as -1 instead.
1206
Antoine Pitroua28fcfd2009-03-13 23:42:55 +00001207- Issue #5016: FileIO.seekable() could return False if the file position
1208 was negative when truncated to a C int. Patch by Victor Stinner.
1209
Mark Dickinsonae681df2009-03-21 10:26:31 +00001210Extension Modules
1211-----------------
1212
Benjamin Petersone099b372009-04-04 17:09:35 +00001213- Issue #5391: mmap now deals exclusively with bytes.
1214
Mark Dickinsonae681df2009-03-21 10:26:31 +00001215- Issue #5463: In struct module, remove deprecated overflow wrapping
1216 when packing an integer: struct.pack('=L', -1) now raises
Mark Dickinsonb40b9472009-03-29 16:58:21 +00001217 struct.error instead of returning b'\xff\xff\xff\xff'. The
1218 _PY_STRUCT_RANGE_CHECKING and _PY_STRUCT_OVERFLOW_MASKING constants
1219 have been removed from the struct module.
Mark Dickinsonae681df2009-03-21 10:26:31 +00001220
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00001221
Benjamin Petersona58a6262009-03-07 16:34:40 +00001222What's New in Python 3.1 alpha 1
Barry Warsaw97f005d2008-12-03 16:46:14 +00001223================================
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00001224
Benjamin Petersona58a6262009-03-07 16:34:40 +00001225*Release date: 2009-03-07*
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00001226
1227Core and Builtins
1228-----------------
1229
Benjamin Peterson4fa88fa2009-03-04 00:14:51 +00001230- The io module has been reimplemented in C for speed.
1231
Raymond Hettingerb0d56af2009-03-03 10:52:49 +00001232- Give dict views an informative __repr__.
1233
Eric Smith5e5c0db2009-02-20 14:25:03 +00001234- Issue #5247: Improve error message when unknown format codes are
1235 used when using str.format() with str, int, and float arguments.
1236
Hirokazu Yamamoto575d1332009-02-16 09:13:20 +00001237- Issue #5249: time.strftime returned malformed string when format string
1238 contained non ascii character on windows.
1239
Benjamin Petersonf5b52242009-03-02 23:31:26 +00001240- Issue #4626: compile(), exec(), and eval() ignore the coding cookie if the
1241 source has already been decoded into str.
1242
Antoine Pitrou79eee6b2009-02-13 14:01:05 +00001243- Issue #5186: Reduce hash collisions for objects with no __hash__ method by
1244 rotating the object pointer by 4 bits to the right.
1245
Mark Dickinson87ec0852009-02-09 17:15:59 +00001246- Issue #4575: Fix Py_IS_INFINITY macro to work correctly on x87 FPUs:
1247 it now forces its argument to double before testing for infinity.
1248
Benjamin Petersonee1ae7c2009-02-08 21:07:20 +00001249- Issue #5137: Make len() correctly raise a TypeError when a __len__ method
1250 returns a non-number type.
1251
Benjamin Peterson87618552009-02-08 15:00:52 +00001252- Issue #5182: Removed memoryview.__str__.
1253
Mark Dickinsonc008a172009-02-01 13:59:22 +00001254- Issue #1717: Removed builtin cmp() function, dropped tp_compare
1255 slot, the C API functions PyObject_Compare and PyUnicode_Compare and
Mark Dickinsone94c6792009-02-02 20:36:42 +00001256 the type definition cmpfunc. The tp_compare slot has been renamed
1257 to tp_reserved, and is reserved for future usage.
Mark Dickinsonf02e0aa2009-02-01 12:13:56 +00001258
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00001259- Issue #1242657: the __len__() and __length_hint__() calls in several tools
Raymond Hettingere8364232009-02-02 22:55:09 +00001260 were suppressing all exceptions. These include list() and bytearray().
1261
Mark Dickinson1124e712009-01-28 21:25:58 +00001262- Issue #4707: round(x, n) now returns an integer if x is an integer.
1263 Previously it returned a float.
1264
Antoine Pitroub52ec782009-01-25 16:34:23 +00001265- Issue #4753: By enabling a configure option named '--with-computed-gotos'
1266 on compilers that support it (notably: gcc, SunPro, icc), the bytecode
1267 evaluation loop is compiled with a new dispatch mechanism which gives
1268 speedups of up to 20%, depending on the system, on various benchmarks.
1269
Antoine Pitrou81fabdb2009-01-22 10:11:36 +00001270- Issue #4874: Most builtin decoders now reject unicode input.
1271
Mark Dickinson9ffc0202009-01-20 20:45:53 +00001272- Issue #4842: Don't allow trailing 'L' when constructing an integer
1273 from a string.
1274
Benjamin Peterson05e782f2009-01-19 15:15:02 +00001275- Issue #4991: os.fdopen now raises an OSError for invalid file descriptors.
1276
Antoine Pitroue4bc7f62009-01-17 21:06:43 +00001277- Issue #4838: When a module is deallocated, free the memory backing the
1278 optional module state data.
1279
Mark Dickinson8055afd2009-01-17 10:04:45 +00001280- Issue #4910: Rename nb_long slot to nb_reserved, and change its
1281 type to (void *).
1282
Antoine Pitrou8d4e5052009-01-13 22:59:11 +00001283- Issue #4935: The overflow checking code in the expandtabs() method common
1284 to str, bytes and bytearray could be optimized away by the compiler, letting
1285 the interpreter segfault instead of raising an error.
1286
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf343e012009-01-12 23:58:21 +00001287- Issue #3720: Fix a crash when an iterator modifies its class and removes its
1288 __next__ method.
1289
Mark Dickinsone5e298f2009-01-12 20:49:19 +00001290- Issue #4910: Builtin int() function and PyNumber_Long/PyNumber_Int API
1291 function no longer attempt to call the __long__ slot to convert an object
1292 to an integer. Only the __int__ and __trunc__ slots are examined.
1293
Martin v. Löwis7c2b66c2009-01-12 08:21:03 +00001294- Issue #4893: Use NT threading on CE.
1295
Martin v. Löwisec59d042009-01-12 07:59:10 +00001296- Issue #4915: Port sysmodule to Windows CE.
1297
Antoine Pitrouab868312009-01-10 15:40:25 +00001298- Issue #4868: utf-8, utf-16 and latin1 decoding are now 2x to 4x faster. The
1299 common cases are optimized thanks to a dedicated fast path and a moderate
1300 amount of loop unrolling.
1301
Antoine Pitrou14b78f52009-01-09 22:27:08 +00001302- Issue #4074: Change the criteria for doing a full garbage collection (i.e.
1303 collecting the oldest generation) so that allocating lots of objects without
1304 destroying them does not show quadratic performance. Based on a proposal by
1305 Martin von Löwis at
1306 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080579.html.
1307
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00001308- Issue #4604: Some objects of the I/O library could still be used after
Antoine Pitrou8043cf82009-01-09 19:54:29 +00001309 having been closed (for instance, a read() call could return some
1310 previously buffered data). Patch by Dmitry Vasiliev.
1311
Antoine Pitrou05608432009-01-09 18:53:14 +00001312- Issue #4705: Fix the -u ("unbuffered binary stdout and stderr") command-line
1313 flag to work properly. Furthermore, when specifying -u, the text stdout
1314 and stderr streams have line-by-line buffering enabled (the default being
1315 to buffer arbitrary chunks of data).
1316
Raymond Hettinger35631532009-01-09 03:58:09 +00001317- The internal table, _PyLong_DigitValue, is now an array of unsigned chars
1318 instead of ints (reducing its size from 4 to 8 times thereby reducing
1319 Python's overall memory).
1320
Antoine Pitroud35cbf62009-01-06 19:02:24 +00001321- Issue #1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with
1322 an existing .py counterpart, override the co_filename attributes of all
1323 code objects if the original filename is obsolete (which can happen if the
1324 file has been renamed, moved, or if it is accessed through different paths).
1325 Patch by Ziga Seilnacht and Jean-Paul Calderone.
1326
Antoine Pitrouc3b39242009-01-03 16:59:18 +00001327- Issue #4580: Fix slicing of memoryviews when the item size is greater than
1328 one byte. Also fixes the meaning of len() so that it returns the number of
1329 items, rather than the size in bytes.
1330
Martin v. Löwis5c88d812009-01-02 20:47:48 +00001331- Issue #4075: Use OutputDebugStringW in Py_FatalError.
1332
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc374e2202009-01-01 23:05:36 +00001333- Issue #4747: When the terminal does not use utf-8, executing a script with
1334 non-ascii characters in its name could fail with a "SyntaxError: None" error.
1335
Hirokazu Yamamoto0f22d692009-01-01 16:03:45 +00001336- Issue #4797: IOError.filename was not set when _fileio.FileIO failed to open
Hirokazu Yamamoto8ed9a802009-01-01 16:09:52 +00001337 file with `bytes' filename on Windows.
Hirokazu Yamamoto0f22d692009-01-01 16:03:45 +00001338
Antoine Pitrou7ddda782009-01-01 15:35:33 +00001339- Issue #3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator
1340 did not get collected.
1341
Nick Coghlanf1f2f682008-12-30 07:29:12 +00001342- Issue #4701: PyObject_Hash now implicitly calls PyType_Ready on types
1343 where the tp_hash and tp_dict slots are both NULL.
1344
Georg Brandlccc47b62008-12-28 11:44:14 +00001345- Issue #4759: None is now allowed as the first argument of
1346 bytearray.translate(). It was always allowed for bytes.translate().
1347
Skip Montanaro80072cb2008-12-23 03:51:14 +00001348- Added test case to ensure attempts to read from a file opened for writing
1349 fail.
1350
Antoine Pitrou51f3ef92008-12-20 13:14:23 +00001351- Issue #3106: Speedup some comparisons (str/str and int/int).
1352
Antoine Pitrouf289ae62008-12-18 11:06:25 +00001353- Issue #2183: Simplify and optimize bytecode for list, dict and set
1354 comprehensions. Original patch for list comprehensions by Neal Norwitz.
1355
Antoine Pitrou621601a2008-12-17 23:18:19 +00001356- Issue #2467: gc.DEBUG_STATS reported invalid elapsed times. Also, always
1357 print elapsed times, not only when some objects are uncollectable /
1358 unreachable. Original patch by Neil Schemenauer.
1359
Mark Dickinson54bc1ec2008-12-17 16:19:07 +00001360- Issue #3439: Add a bit_length method to int.
1361
Mark Dickinsonda2706b2008-12-11 18:03:03 +00001362- Issue #2173: When getting device encoding, check that return value of
1363 nl_langinfo is not the empty string. This was causing silent build
1364 failures on OS X.
1365
Jeffrey Yasskinb9083f32008-12-11 06:18:33 +00001366- Issue #4597: Fixed several opcodes that weren't always propagating
1367 exceptions.
1368
1369- Issue #4589: Fixed exception handling when the __exit__ function of a
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc10b24e82008-12-10 23:49:33 +00001370 context manager returns a value that cannot be converted to a bool.
1371
Mark Dickinsonfd24b322008-12-06 15:33:31 +00001372- Issue #4445: Replace "sizeof(PyBytesObject)" with
1373 "offsetof(PyBytesObject, ob_sval) + 1" when allocating memory for
1374 bytes instances. On a typical machine this saves 3 bytes of memory
1375 (on average) per allocation of a bytes instance.
1376
Christian Heimesa872de52008-12-05 08:26:55 +00001377- Issue #4533: File read operation was dreadfully slow due to a slowly
1378 growing read buffer. Fixed by using the same growth rate algorithm as
1379 Python 2.x.
1380
Antoine Pitrou5504e892008-12-06 21:27:53 +00001381- Issue #4509: Various issues surrounding resize of bytearray objects to
1382 which there are buffer exports (e.g. memoryview instances).
1383
Georg Brandlf9734072008-12-07 15:30:06 +00001384- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()``
1385 method on file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still
1386 kept open but the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO``
1387 object also got a new readonly attribute ``closefd``.
Matthias Klose7e1b8fa2008-11-26 17:22:04 +00001388
Antoine Pitroubc420402008-12-07 20:14:49 +00001389- Issue #4569: Interpreter crash when mutating a memoryview with an item size
1390 larger than 1.
1391
Benjamin Peterson371ccfb2008-12-27 19:03:36 +00001392- Issue #4748: Lambda generators no longer return a value.
1393
Gregory P. Smithccc5ae72009-03-02 05:21:55 +00001394- The re.sub(), re.subn() and re.split() functions now accept a flags parameter.
1395
Walter Dörwaldc1651a02009-05-03 22:55:55 +00001396- Issue #5108: Handle %s like %S, %R and %A in PyUnicode_FromFormatV(): Call
1397 PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8() once, remember the result and output it in a second
1398 step. This avoids problems with counting UTF-8 bytes that ignores the effect
1399 of using the replace error handler in PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8().
1400
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00001401Library
1402-------
Tarek Ziadé38e3d512009-02-27 12:58:56 +00001403
Tarek Ziadé04fe7c02009-10-25 23:08:47 +00001404- Issue #7071: byte-compilation in Distutils is now done with respect to
1405 sys.dont_write_bytecode.
1406
Tarek Ziadé978cca62009-10-24 13:38:27 +00001407- Issue #7066: archive_util.make_archive now restores the cwd if an error is
1408 raised. Initial patch by Ezio Melotti.
1409
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +00001410- Issue #6516: Added owner/group support when creating tar archives in
Tarek Ziadé05b30342009-10-02 23:56:02 +00001411 Distutils.
1412
Tarek Ziadé31d46072009-09-21 13:55:19 +00001413- Issue #6954: Fixed crash when using DISTUTILS_DEBUG flag in Distutils.
1414
Tarek Ziadé165581c2009-09-09 08:48:07 +00001415- Issue #6163: Fixed HP-UX runtime library dir options in
1416 distutils.unixcompiler. Initial patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar and
1417 Michael Haubenwallner.
1418
Tarek Ziadé4a608c02009-08-20 21:28:05 +00001419- Issue #6693: New functions in site.py to get user/global site packages paths.
1420
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbc347802009-07-28 22:18:57 +00001421- Issue #6511: ZipFile now raises BadZipfile (instead of an IOError) when
1422 opening an empty or very small file.
1423
1424- Issue #6545: Removed assert statements in distutils.Extension, so the
Tarek Ziadé2f19bb12009-07-22 08:57:28 +00001425 behavior is similar when used with -O.
1426
Benjamin Petersonbed7d042009-07-19 21:01:52 +00001427- unittest has been split up into a package. All old names should still work.
1428
Tarek Ziadéf8926b22009-07-16 16:18:19 +00001429- Issue #6466: now distutils.cygwinccompiler and distutils.emxccompiler
1430 uses the same refactored function to get gcc/ld/dllwrap versions numbers.
1431 It's `distutils.util.get_compiler_versions`. Added deprecation warnings
1432 for the obsolete get_versions() functions.
1433
Alexandre Vassalottie52e3782009-07-17 09:18:18 +00001434- Issue #6433: fixed issues with multiprocessing.pool.map hanging on empty list
1435
1436- Issue #6314: logging: Extra checks on the "level" argument in more places.
1437
1438- Issue #2622: Fixed an ImportError when importing email.messsage from a
1439 standalone application built with py2exe or py2app.
1440
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00001441- Issue #6455: Fixed test_build_ext under win32.
Tarek Ziadéb7815e32009-07-10 09:14:31 +00001442
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00001443- Issue #6377: Enabled the compiler option, and deprecate its usage as an
Tarek Ziadédd07ebb2009-07-06 13:52:17 +00001444 attribute.
1445
Tarek Ziadé05bf01a2009-07-04 02:04:21 +00001446- Issue #6413: Fixed the log level in distutils.dist for announce.
1447
Tarek Ziadée10d6de2009-07-03 08:33:28 +00001448- Issue #6403: Fixed package path usage in build_ext.
1449
Alexandre Vassalottie52e3782009-07-17 09:18:18 +00001450- Issues #5155, 5313, 5331: multiprocessing.Process._bootstrap was
1451 unconditionally calling "os.close(sys.stdin.fileno())" resulting in file
1452 descriptor errors
1453
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00001454- Issue #6365: Distutils build_ext inplace mode was copying the compiled
Tarek Ziadé0156f912009-06-29 16:19:22 +00001455 extension in a subdirectory if the extension name had dots.
1456
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00001457- Issue #6164: Added an AIX specific linker argument in Distutils
Tarek Ziadé8f480e52009-06-28 21:30:52 +00001458 unixcompiler. Original patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
1459
Tarek Ziadé25bd2062009-06-28 21:26:27 +00001460- Issue #6286: Now Distutils upload command is based on urllib2 instead of
1461 httplib, allowing the usage of http_proxy.
1462
Tarek Ziadé5e06a652009-06-16 07:43:42 +00001463- Issue #6287: Added the license field in Distutils documentation.
1464
Tarek Ziadéff543362009-06-11 09:25:41 +00001465- Issue #6263: Fixed syntax error in distutils.cygwincompiler.
1466
Tarek Ziadéabcc3f42009-06-11 08:31:17 +00001467- Issue #5201: distutils.sysconfig.parse_makefile() now understands `$$`
1468 in Makefiles. This prevents compile errors when using syntax like:
1469 `LDFLAGS='-rpath=\$$LIB:/some/other/path'`. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
1470
Hirokazu Yamamoto2703fd92009-05-29 09:14:04 +00001471- Issue #6131: test_modulefinder leaked when run after test_distutils.
1472 Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
1473
Tarek Ziadé77c8b372009-05-28 13:01:13 +00001474- Issue #6048: Now Distutils uses the tarfile module in archive_util.
1475
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00001476- Issue #6062: In distutils, fixed the package option of build_ext. Feedback
Tarek Ziadé822eb842009-05-19 16:22:57 +00001477 and tests on pywin32 by Tim Golden.
1478
Tarek Ziadé93fb3aa2009-05-18 12:29:06 +00001479- Issue #6053: Fixed distutils tests on win32. patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
1480
Tarek Ziadéd18a84e2009-05-18 08:07:46 +00001481- Issue #6046: Fixed the library extension when distutils build_ext is used
1482 inplace. Initial patch by Roumen Petrov.
1483
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00001484- Issue #6041: Now distutils `sdist` and `register` commands use `check` as a
Tarek Ziadé5af55c62009-05-16 16:52:13 +00001485 subcommand.
1486
Tarek Ziadé4210c6e2009-05-14 20:20:47 +00001487- Issue #6022: a test file was created in the current working directory by
1488 test_get_outputs in Distutils.
1489
Tarek Ziadéff0e5002009-05-12 17:14:01 +00001490- Issue #5977: distutils build_ext.get_outputs was not taking into account the
1491 inplace option. Initial patch by kxroberto.
1492
Tarek Ziadé06fbee12009-05-10 10:34:01 +00001493- Issue #5984: distutils.command.build_ext.check_extensions_list checks were broken
1494 for old-style extensions.
1495
Tarek Ziadébe5b1b92009-05-09 10:09:11 +00001496- Issue #5976: Fixed Distutils test_check_environ.
1497
Tarek Ziadé5662d3e2009-05-07 21:24:43 +00001498- Issue #5941: Distutils build_clib command was not working anymore because
1499 of an incomplete costumization of the archiver command. Added ARFLAGS in the
1500 Makefile besides AR and make Distutils use it. Original patch by David
1501 Cournapeau.
1502
R. David Murrayb507d2e2009-04-29 15:34:32 +00001503- Issue #2245: aifc now skips chunk types it doesn't recognize, per spec.
1504
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00001505- Issue #5874: distutils.tests.test_config_cmd is not locale-sensitive
Tarek Ziadé81623822009-04-29 08:07:44 +00001506 anymore.
1507
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00001508- Issue #5810: Fixed Distutils test_build_scripts so it uses
Tarek Ziadé939f9c82009-04-25 12:53:56 +00001509 sysconfig.get_config_vars.
1510
Tarek Ziadé23336082009-04-25 12:39:56 +00001511- Issue #4951: Fixed failure in test_httpservers.
1512
Thomas Hellerd3cfe992009-04-24 20:10:24 +00001513- Issue #5795: Fixed test_distutils failure on Debian ppc.
1514
Tarek Ziadé822e1d42009-04-13 12:37:57 +00001515- Issue #5607: fixed Distutils test_get_platform for Mac OS X fat binaries.
1516
Georg Brandl1f9fa312009-04-27 16:42:58 +00001517- Issue #5741: don't disallow "%%" (which is an escape for "%") when setting
1518 a value in SafeConfigParser.
1519
Tarek Ziadéf396ecf2009-04-11 15:00:43 +00001520- Issue #5732: added a new command in Distutils: check.
1521
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00001522- Issue #5731: Distutils bdist_wininst no longer worked on non-Windows
Tarek Ziadéa6191802009-04-09 22:02:39 +00001523 platforms. Initial patch by Paul Moore.
1524
Tarek Ziadéf6370502009-04-05 22:57:21 +00001525- Issue #5095: Added bdist_msi to the list of bdist supported formats.
1526 Initial fix by Steven Bethard.
1527
Tarek Ziadé889b0aa2009-04-05 21:49:36 +00001528- Issue #1491431: Fixed distutils.filelist.glob_to_re for edge cases.
1529 Initial fix by Wayne Davison.
1530
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00001531- Issue #5694: removed spurious test output in Distutils (test_clean).
Tarek Ziadéea261632009-04-05 18:33:34 +00001532
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00001533- Issue #1326077: fix the formatting of SyntaxErrors by the traceback module.
Georg Brandl236f7972009-04-05 14:28:42 +00001534
Brett Cannonf47e84c2009-04-01 16:06:01 +00001535- Issue #1665206 (partially): Move imports in cgitb to the top of the module
1536 instead of performing them in functions. Helps prevent import deadlocking in
1537 threads.
1538
R. David Murraye59482e2009-04-01 03:42:00 +00001539- Issue #2522: locale.format now checks its first argument to ensure it has
1540 been passed only one pattern, avoiding mysterious errors where it appeared
1541 that it was failing to do localization.
1542
Tarek Ziadéb2e36f12009-03-31 22:37:55 +00001543- Issue #5583: Added optional Extensions in Distutils. Initial patch by Georg
1544 Brandl.
1545
Antoine Pitrou350370c2009-03-14 00:13:13 +00001546- Issue #1222: locale.format() bug when the thousands separator is a space
1547 character.
1548
Tarek Ziadé516db942009-03-11 12:52:00 +00001549- Issue #5472: Fixed distutils.test_util tear down. Original patch by
1550 Tim Golden.
1551
Raymond Hettinger5bb0f0e2009-03-10 12:56:32 +00001552- collections.deque() objects now have a read-only attribute called maxlen.
1553
Guilherme Polof45b4cc2009-03-07 02:19:14 +00001554- Issue #2638: Show a window constructed with tkSimpleDialog.Dialog only after
1555 it is has been populated and properly configured in order to prevent
1556 window flashing.
1557
Guilherme Polo56f5be52009-03-07 01:54:57 +00001558- Issue #4792: Prevent a segfault in _tkinter by using the
1559 guaranteed to be safe interp argument given to the PythonCmd in place of
1560 the Tcl interpreter taken from a PythonCmd_ClientData.
1561
1562- Issue #5193: Guarantee that tkinter.Text.search returns a string.
1563
Tarek Ziadé63b64c02009-03-07 00:51:53 +00001564- Issue #5394: removed > 2.3 syntax from distutils.msvc9compiler.
1565 Original patch by Akira Kitada.
1566
Hirokazu Yamamoto54d0df62009-03-06 03:04:07 +00001567- Issue #5334: array.fromfile() failed to insert values when EOFError was raised.
1568
Hirokazu Yamamoto8e722bc2009-03-05 14:33:01 +00001569- Issue #5385: Fixed mmap crash after resize failure on windows.
1570
Hirokazu Yamamoto0c988172009-03-03 22:41:26 +00001571- Issue #5179: Fixed subprocess handle leak on failure on windows.
1572
Raymond Hettinger2d32f632009-03-02 21:24:57 +00001573- PEP 372: Added collections.OrderedDict().
1574
Raymond Hettingera4f52b12009-03-02 22:28:31 +00001575- The _asdict() for method for namedtuples now returns an OrderedDict().
1576
Raymond Hettinger0663a1e2009-03-02 23:06:00 +00001577- configparser now defaults to using an ordered dictionary.
1578
Benjamin Petersone0124bd2009-03-09 21:04:33 +00001579- Issue #5401: Fixed a performance problem in mimetypes when ``from mimetypes
1580 import guess_extension`` was used.
1581
Hirokazu Yamamoto10c99372009-02-28 12:21:53 +00001582- Issue #1733986: Fixed mmap crash in accessing elements of second map object
1583 with same tagname but larger size than first map. (Windows)
1584
Hirokazu Yamamoto39c6dea2009-02-28 10:56:50 +00001585- Issue #5386: mmap.write_byte didn't check map size, so it could cause buffer
1586 overrun.
1587
Tarek Ziadéf0721222009-02-28 10:16:43 +00001588- Issue #1533164: Installed but not listed *.pyo was breaking Distutils
1589 bdist_rpm command.
1590
1591- Issue #5378: added --quiet option to Distutils bdist_rpm command.
1592
Tarek Ziadé38e3d512009-02-27 12:58:56 +00001593- Issue #5052: make Distutils compatible with 2.3 again.
1594
Tarek Ziadé0f31e6d2009-02-25 22:31:38 +00001595- Issue #5316: Fixed buildbot failures introduced by multiple inheritance
1596 in Distutils tests.
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00001597
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00001598- Issue #5287: Add exception handling around findCaller() call to help out
1599 IronPython.
1600
Hirokazu Yamamoto0654ccd2009-02-18 16:38:00 +00001601- Issue #5282: Fixed mmap resize on 32bit windows and unix. When offset > 0,
1602 The file was resized to wrong size.
1603
1604- Issue #5292: Fixed mmap crash on its boundary access m[len(m)].
1605
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00001606- Issue #2279: distutils.sdist.add_defaults now add files
Tarek Ziadé0d0506e2009-02-16 21:49:12 +00001607 from the package_data and the data_files metadata.
1608
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00001609- Issue #5257: refactored all tests in distutils, so they use
Tarek Ziadéc1375d52009-02-14 14:35:51 +00001610 support.TempdirManager, to avoid writing in the tests directory.
1611
Tarek Ziadé68c50952009-02-13 23:04:17 +00001612- Issue #4524: distutils build_script command failed with --with-suffix=3.
1613 Initial patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
1614
Tarek Ziadé811d6242009-02-13 22:26:15 +00001615- Issue #2461: added tests for distutils.util
1616
Mark Dickinsonc28ad272009-02-12 17:58:36 +00001617- Issue #4998: The memory saving effect of __slots__ had been lost on Fractions
1618 which inherited from numbers.py which did not have __slots__ defined. The
1619 numbers hierarchy now has its own __slots__ declarations.
1620
Antoine Pitroub353c122009-02-11 00:39:14 +00001621- Issue #4631: Fix urlopen() result when an HTTP response uses chunked
1622 encoding.
1623
Thomas Heller465c8022009-02-10 18:59:04 +00001624- Issue #5203: Fixed ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a
1625 function without argtypes (only occurs if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false).
1626
Tarek Ziadé7d5e9872009-02-10 12:36:33 +00001627- Issue #3386: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument was ignored
1628 under NT and OS2. Patch by Philip Jenvey.
1629
Brett Cannonbefb14f2009-02-10 02:10:16 +00001630- Issue #5128: Make compileall properly inspect bytecode to determine if needs
1631 to be recreated. This avoids a timing hole thanks to the old reliance on the
1632 ctime of the files involved.
1633
Guilherme Polob681df42009-02-09 22:33:59 +00001634- Issue #5122: Synchronize tk load failure check to prevent a potential
1635 deadlock.
1636
Benjamin Petersona86f2c02009-02-10 02:41:10 +00001637- Issue #1818: collections.namedtuple() now supports a keyword argument
1638 'rename' which lets invalid fieldnames be automatically converted to
1639 positional names in the form, _1, _2, ...
1640
Guilherme Poloae098992009-02-09 16:44:24 +00001641- Issue #4890: Handle empty text search pattern in Tkinter.Text.search.
1642
Nick Coghlan9a1d6e32009-02-08 03:37:27 +00001643- Issue #4512 (part 2): Promote ``ZipImporter._get_filename()`` to be a
1644 public documented method ``ZipImporter.get_filename()``.
1645
Nick Coghlan3f48ae32009-02-08 01:58:26 +00001646- Issue #4195: The ``runpy`` module (and the ``-m`` switch) now support
1647 the execution of packages by looking for and executing a ``__main__``
1648 submodule when a package name is supplied. Initial patch by Andi
1649 Vajda.
1650
Guilherme Polo491aee22009-02-06 23:16:11 +00001651- Issue #1731706: Call Tcl_ConditionFinalize for Tcl_Conditions that will
1652 not be used again (this requires Tcl/Tk 8.3.1), also fix a memory leak in
1653 Tkapp_Call when calling from a thread different than the one that created
1654 the Tcl interpreter. Patch by Robert Hancock.
1655
Eric Smith0e5b5622009-02-06 01:32:42 +00001656- Issue #4285: Change sys.version_info to be a named tuple. Patch by
1657 Ross Light.
1658
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00001659- Issue #1520877: Now distutils.sysconfig reads $AR from the
Tarek Ziadéd3409de2009-02-06 01:18:36 +00001660 environment/Makefile. Patch by Douglas Greiman.
1661
Tarek Ziadé70a74eb2009-02-06 00:38:35 +00001662- Issue #1276768: The verbose option was not used in the code of
1663 distutils.file_util and distutils.dir_util.
1664
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00001665- Issue #5132: Fixed trouble building extensions under Solaris with
Tarek Ziadé5874ef12009-02-05 22:56:14 +00001666 --enabled-shared activated. Initial patch by Dave Peterson.
1667
Guilherme Polo7f423952009-02-02 21:17:09 +00001668- Issue #1581476: Always use the Tcl global namespace when calling into Tcl.
1669
Raymond Hettinger85602262009-02-03 04:19:10 +00001670- The shelve module now defaults to pickle protocol 3.
1671
Brett Cannone61426e2009-01-30 01:31:34 +00001672- Fix a bug in the trace module where a bytes object from co_lnotab had its
1673 items being passed through ord().
1674
Antoine Pitrou0dcc3cd2009-01-29 20:26:59 +00001675- Issue #2047: shutil.move() could believe that its destination path was
1676 inside its source path if it began with the same letters (e.g. "src" vs.
1677 "src.new").
1678
Guilherme Polo5f238482009-01-28 14:41:10 +00001679- Added the ttk module. See issue #2983: Ttk support for Tkinter.
1680
Raymond Hettinger89e12962009-01-26 02:09:03 +00001681- Removed isSequenceType(), isMappingType, and isNumberType() from the
1682 operator module; use the abstract base classes instead. Also removed
1683 the repeat() function; use mul() instead.
1684
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00001685- Issue #5021: doctest.testfile() did not create __name__ and
Raymond Hettinger0f055172009-01-27 10:06:09 +00001686 collections.namedtuple() relied on __name__ being defined.
1687
1688- Backport importlib from Python 3.1. Only the import_module() function has
1689 been backported to help facilitate transitions from 2.7 to 3.1.
1690
Tarek Ziadé0302cf52009-01-26 17:23:20 +00001691- Issue #1885: distutils. When running sdist with --formats=tar,gztar
1692 the tar file was overriden by the gztar one.
1693
Tarek Ziadé4d4456f2009-01-25 18:27:45 +00001694- Issue #4863: distutils.mwerkscompiler has been removed.
1695
Raymond Hettingerd07d9392009-01-27 04:20:44 +00001696- Added a new itertools functions: combinations_with_replacement()
1697 and compress().
Raymond Hettinger6b3b0fc2009-01-26 02:56:58 +00001698
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00001699- Issue #5032: added a step argument to itertools.count() and
Raymond Hettinger30729212009-02-12 06:28:27 +00001700 allowed non-integer arguments.
1701
Jesse Noller41faa542009-01-25 03:45:53 +00001702- Fix and properly document the multiprocessing module's logging
1703 support, expose the internal levels and provide proper usage
1704 examples.
1705
Mark Dickinsoncddcf442009-01-24 21:46:33 +00001706- Issue #1672332: fix unpickling of subnormal floats, which was
1707 producing a ValueError on some platforms.
1708
Martin v. Löwisacbf4612009-01-24 16:19:45 +00001709- Issue #3881: Help Tcl to load even when started through the
1710 unreadable local symlink to "Program Files" on Vista.
1711
Martin v. Löwis59e47792009-01-24 14:10:07 +00001712- Issue #4710: Extract directories properly in the zipfile module;
1713 allow adding directories to a zipfile.
1714
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00001715- Issue #3807: _multiprocessing build fails when configure is passed
Jesse Noller6fd47e22009-01-23 14:09:08 +00001716 --without-threads argument. When this occurs, _multiprocessing will
1717 be disabled, and not compiled.
1718
Antoine Pitrou08838b62009-01-21 00:55:13 +00001719- Issue #5008: When a file is opened in append mode with the new IO library,
1720 do an explicit seek to the end of file (so that e.g. tell() returns the
1721 file size rather than 0). This is consistent with the behaviour of the
1722 traditional 2.x file object.
1723
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00001724- Issue #5013: Fixed a bug in FileHandler which occurred when the delay
1725 parameter was set.
1726
Mark Dickinson8dd05142009-01-20 20:43:58 +00001727- Issue #4842: Always append a trailing 'L' when pickling longs using
1728 pickle protocol 0. When reading, the 'L' is optional.
1729
Brett Cannonafccd632009-01-20 02:21:27 +00001730- Add the importlib package.
1731
Jesse Noller9a0fc972009-01-18 21:12:58 +00001732- Issue #4301: Patch the logging module to add processName support, remove
1733 _check_logger_class from multiprocessing.
1734
Jesse Noller1cbb17a2009-01-18 19:45:18 +00001735- Issue #3325: Remove python2.x try: except: imports for old cPickle from
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00001736 multiprocessing.
Jesse Nollerf70a5382009-01-18 19:44:02 +00001737
Benjamin Peterson9953a8d2009-01-17 04:15:01 +00001738- Issue #4959: inspect.formatargspec now works for keyword only arguments
1739 without defaults.
1740
Jesse Noller6214edd2009-01-19 16:23:53 +00001741- Issue #3321: _multiprocessing.Connection() doesn't check handle; added checks
1742 for *nix machines for negative handles and large int handles. Without this check
1743 it is possible to segfault the interpreter.
1744
Jesse Nollerb0516a62009-01-18 03:11:38 +00001745- Issue #4449: AssertionError in mp_benchmarks.py, caused by an underlying issue
1746 in sharedctypes.py.
1747
1748- Issue #1225107: inspect.isclass() returned True for instances with a custom
1749 __getattr__.
1750
Gregory P. Smithde3369f2009-01-12 04:50:11 +00001751- Issue #3826 and #4791: The socket module now closes the underlying socket
1752 appropriately when it is being used via socket.makefile() objects
1753 rather than delaying the close by waiting for garbage collection to do it.
1754
Raymond Hettingerb8baf632009-01-14 02:20:07 +00001755- Issue #1696199: Add collections.Counter() for rapid and convenient
1756 counting.
1757
Antoine Pitrou308705e2009-01-10 16:22:51 +00001758- Issue #3860: GzipFile and BZ2File now support the context manager protocol.
1759
Thomas Heller5e4e4272009-01-08 09:34:20 +00001760- Issue #4867: Fixed a crash in ctypes when passing a string to a
1761 function without defining argtypes.
1762
Antoine Pitrou42db3ef2009-01-04 21:37:59 +00001763- Issue #4272: Add an optional argument to the GzipFile constructor to override
1764 the timestamp in the gzip stream. The default value remains the current time.
1765 The information can be used by e.g. gunzip when decompressing. Patch by
1766 Jacques Frechet.
1767
Mark Dickinson315a20a2009-01-04 21:34:18 +00001768- Restore Python 2.3 compatibility for decimal.py.
1769
Guilherme Polo3f5f8222009-01-03 22:00:39 +00001770- Issue #3638: Remove functions from _tkinter module level that depend on
1771 TkappObject to work with multiple threads.
1772
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00001773- Issue #4718: Adapt the wsgiref package so that it actually works with
1774 Python 3.x, in accordance with the `official amendments of the spec
Antoine Pitrou38a66ad2009-01-03 18:41:49 +00001775 <http://www.wsgi.org/wsgi/Amendments_1.0>`_.
1776
Raymond Hettinger771ed762009-01-03 19:20:32 +00001777- Issue #4796: Added Decimal.from_float() and Context.create_decimal_from_float()
1778 to the decimal module.
1779
Georg Brandl3a9b0622009-01-03 22:07:57 +00001780- Fractions.from_float() no longer loses precision for integers too big to
1781 cast as floats.
1782
Mark Dickinsonf9236412009-01-02 23:23:21 +00001783- Issue #4812: add missing underscore prefix to some internal-use-only
1784 constants in the decimal module. (Dec_0 becomes _Dec_0, etc.)
1785
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00001786- Issue #4790: The nsmallest() and nlargest() functions in the heapq module
Georg Brandl3a9b0622009-01-03 22:07:57 +00001787 did unnecessary work in the common case where no key function was specified.
1788
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00001789- Issue #4795: inspect.isgeneratorfunction() returns False instead of None when
1790 the function is not a generator.
1791
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00001792- Issue #4702: Throwing a DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError in case
1793 no MSVC compiler is found under Windows. Original patch by Philip Jenvey.
Tarek Ziadé9df8ce32008-12-30 23:09:20 +00001794
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00001795- Issue #4646: distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup
Tarek Ziadé4450dcf2008-12-29 22:38:38 +00001796 function. Original patch by Thomas Heller.
1797
Martin v. Löwis1f1620e2008-12-29 16:27:13 +00001798- Issue #3767: Convert Tk object to string in tkColorChooser.
1799
Martin v. Löwise354d782008-12-29 16:03:04 +00001800- Issue #3248: Allow placing ScrolledText in a PanedWindow.
1801
Antoine Pitrou5acd41e2008-12-28 14:29:00 +00001802- Issue #4444: Allow assertRaises() to be used as a context handler, so that
1803 the code under test can be written inline if more practical.
1804
Georg Brandldb7b6b92009-01-01 15:53:14 +00001805- Issue #4739: Add pydoc help topics for symbols, so that e.g. help('@')
1806 works as expected in the interactive environment.
1807
Antoine Pitroudb5fe662008-12-27 15:50:40 +00001808- Issue #4756: zipfile.is_zipfile() now supports file-like objects. Patch by
1809 Gabriel Genellina.
1810
Antoine Pitrou180a3362008-12-14 16:36:46 +00001811- Issue #4574: reading an UTF16-encoded text file crashes if \r on 64-char
1812 boundary.
1813
Nick Coghlanf088e5e2008-12-14 11:50:48 +00001814- Issue #4223: inspect.getsource() will now correctly display source code
1815 for packages loaded via zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302
1816 loader). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
1817
1818- Issue #4201: pdb can now access and display source code loaded via
1819 zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302 loader). Original patch by
1820 Alexander Belopolsky.
1821
1822- Issue #4197: doctests in modules loaded via zipimport (or any other PEP
1823 302 conformant loader) will now work correctly in most cases (they
1824 are still subject to the constraints that exist for all code running
1825 from inside a module loaded via a PEP 302 loader and attempting to
1826 perform IO operations based on __file__). Original patch by
1827 Alexander Belopolsky.
1828
1829- Issues #4082 and #4512: Add runpy support to zipimport in a manner that
1830 allows backporting to maintenance branches. Original patch by
1831 Alexander Belopolsky.
1832
Antoine Pitrou7c59bc62008-12-13 23:20:54 +00001833- Issue #4163: textwrap module: allow word splitting on a hyphen preceded by
1834 a non-ASCII letter.
1835
Lars Gustäbel43fcf3a2008-12-12 14:58:38 +00001836- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
1837
Benjamin Peterson433f32c2008-12-12 01:25:05 +00001838- Issue #4021: tokenize.detect_encoding() now raises a SyntaxError when the
1839 codec cannot be found. This is for compatibility with the builtin behavior.
1840
Facundo Batista708d5812008-12-11 04:20:07 +00001841- Issue #4084: Fix max, min, max_mag and min_mag Decimal methods to
1842 give correct results in the case where one argument is a quiet NaN
1843 and the other is a finite number that requires rounding.
1844
Skip Montanaroc1ce2862008-12-06 17:25:02 +00001845- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat
1846 libs.
1847
Georg Brandlf9734072008-12-07 15:30:06 +00001848- Added the subprocess.check_call_output() convenience function to get output
1849 from a subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
1850
1851- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
1852 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
1853 Content-Disposition headers.
1854
1855- Issue #4384: Added logging integration with warnings module using
1856 captureWarnings(). This change includes a NullHandler which does nothing;
1857 it will be of use to library developers who want to avoid the "No handlers
1858 could be found for logger XXX" message which can appear if the library user
1859 doesn't configure logging.
1860
1861- Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
1862 exception.
1863
Georg Brandleee31162008-12-07 15:15:22 +00001864- Issue #4529: fix the parser module's validation of try-except-finally
1865 statements.
1866
1867- Issue #4458: getopt.gnu_getopt() now recognizes a single "-" as an argument,
1868 not a malformed option.
1869
1870- Added the subprocess.check_output() convenience function to get output
1871 from a subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
1872
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbc9d4742008-12-05 01:40:43 +00001873- Issue #4542: On Windows, binascii.crc32 still accepted str as binary input;
1874 the corresponding tests now pass.
1875
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbc2ce572008-12-05 01:02:21 +00001876- Issue #4537: webbrowser.UnixBrowser would fail to open the browser because
1877 it was calling the wrong open() function.
1878
Fred Drake9a0a65b2008-12-04 19:24:50 +00001879- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
1880 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
1881 Content-Disposition headers.
1882
Matthias Klose2c7e3ee2009-01-10 17:08:25 +00001883- Issue #4861: ctypes.util.find_library(): Robustify. Fix library detection on
1884 biarch systems. Try to rely on ldconfig only, without using objdump and gcc.
1885
Benjamin Peterson5c6d7872009-02-06 02:40:07 +00001886- Issue #5104: The socket module now raises OverflowError when 16-bit port and
1887 protocol numbers are supplied outside the allowed 0-65536 range on bind()
1888 and getservbyport().
1889
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven0a866942009-05-08 14:18:00 +00001890- Windows locale mapping updated to Vista.
1891
Antoine Pitrou2a013ea2008-12-27 20:39:28 +00001892Tools/Demos
1893-----------
1894
Antoine Pitrou8a681222009-02-07 17:13:31 +00001895- Issue #4704: remove use of cmp() in pybench, bump its version number to 2.1,
1896 and make it 2.6-compatible.
1897
Guilherme Poloa7d27972009-01-28 16:06:51 +00001898- Ttk demos added in Demo/tkinter/ttk/
1899
Antoine Pitrou2a013ea2008-12-27 20:39:28 +00001900- Issue #4677: add two list comprehension tests to pybench.
1901
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00001902
1903Build
1904-----
1905
Benjamin Petersonf53eec82009-05-23 19:36:27 +00001906- Issue #6094: Build correctly with Subversion 1.7.
1907
Martin v. Löwis8482ef92009-05-05 16:14:30 +00001908- Issue #5847: Remove -n switch on "Edit with IDLE" menu item.
1909
Antoine Pitrou8966c992009-05-01 21:18:27 +00001910- Issue #5726: Make Modules/ld_so_aix return the actual exit code of the
1911 linker, rather than always exit successfully. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
1912
Matthias Klose55708cc2009-04-30 08:06:49 +00001913- Issue #4587: Add configure option --with-dbmliborder=db1:db2:... to specify
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00001914 the order that backends for the dbm extension are checked.
Matthias Klose55708cc2009-04-30 08:06:49 +00001915
Matthias Klose906785c2009-02-22 23:18:38 +00001916- Link the shared python library with $(MODLIBS).
1917
Martin v. Löwis11f72102009-02-10 13:13:30 +00001918- Issue #5134: Silence compiler warnings when compiling sqlite with VC++.
1919
Martin v. Löwisbc186a82009-02-02 15:32:22 +00001920- Issue #4494: Fix build with Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED on Windows.
1921
Martin v. Löwise97637d2009-01-11 09:45:11 +00001922- Issue #4895: Use _strdup on Windows CE.
1923
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00001924- Issue #4472: "configure --enable-shared" now works on OSX
1925
1926- Issues #4728 and #4060: WORDS_BIGEDIAN is now correct in Universal builds.
1927
1928- Issue #4389: Add icon to the uninstall entry in "add-and-remove-programs".
1929
1930- Issue #4289: Remove Cancel button from AdvancedDlg.
1931
1932- Issue #1656675: Register a drop handler for .py* files on Windows.
1933
1934- Issue #4120: Exclude manifest from extension modules in VS2008.
1935
1936- Issue #4091: Install pythonxy.dll in system32 again.
1937
1938- Issue #4018: Disable "for me" installations on Vista.
1939
1940- Issue #3758: Add ``patchcheck`` build target to .PHONY.
1941
1942- Issue #4204: Fixed module build errors on FreeBSD 4.
1943
1944
1945C-API
1946-----
1947
Sean Reifscheider642d96a2009-08-01 23:55:06 +00001948- Issue #6624: yArg_ParseTuple with "s" format when parsing argument with
1949 NUL: Bogus TypeError detail string.
1950
Mark Dickinson21776072009-02-10 16:13:25 +00001951- Issue #5175: PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLong now raises OverflowError
1952 for negative arguments. Previously, it raised TypeError.
1953
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00001954- Issue #4720: The format for PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords can begin with '|'.
1955
1956- Issue #3632: from the gdb debugger, the 'pyo' macro can now be called when
1957 the GIL is released, or owned by another thread.
1958
1959- Issue #4122: On Windows, fix a compilation error when using the
1960 Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE macro in an extension module.
1961
1962
Mark Dickinsone675f082008-12-11 21:56:00 +00001963Extension Modules
1964-----------------
1965
Gregory P. Smith365a1862009-02-12 07:35:29 +00001966- Issue #3745: Fix hashlib to always reject unicode and non buffer-api
1967 supporting objects as input no matter how it was compiled (built in
1968 implementations or external openssl library).
1969
Mark Dickinson29500f62009-01-15 15:36:10 +00001970- Issue #4397: Fix occasional test_socket failure on OS X.
1971
Martin v. Löwisa9b54c72009-01-11 09:30:50 +00001972- Issue #4279: Fix build of parsermodule under Cygwin.
1973
Antoine Pitroubcd5cbe2009-01-08 21:17:16 +00001974- Issue #4751: hashlib now releases the GIL when hashing large buffers
1975 (with a hardwired threshold of 2048 bytes), allowing better parallelization
1976 on multi-CPU systems. Contributed by Lukas Lueg (ebfe) and Victor Stinner.
1977
Martin v. Löwis5c88d812009-01-02 20:47:48 +00001978- Issue #4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle.
1979
Antoine Pitrou31f30b12009-01-02 17:34:35 +00001980- Issue #4738: Each zlib object now has a separate lock, allowing to compress
1981 or decompress several streams at once on multi-CPU systems. Also, the GIL
1982 is now released when computing the CRC of a large buffer. Patch by ebfe.
1983
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00001984- Issue #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format.
1985
Martin v. Löwis05bfe1f2008-12-29 18:21:47 +00001986- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
1987
Mark Dickinsone675f082008-12-11 21:56:00 +00001988- Issues #3167, #3682: Fix test_math failures for log, log10 on Solaris,
1989 OpenBSD.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcefae8c42008-11-21 23:08:09 +00001990
Antoine Pitrou3ad3a0d2008-12-18 17:08:32 +00001991- Issue #4583: array.array would not always prohibit resizing when a buffer
1992 has been exported, resulting in an interpreter crash when accessing the
1993 buffer.
1994
Martin v. Löwis841edad2008-11-30 10:36:49 +00001995
Jack Diederiche0cbd692009-04-01 04:27:09 +00001996- Issue #5228: Make functools.partial objects can now be pickled.
1997
Guilherme Polo9de29af2009-01-28 20:40:48 +00001998Tests
1999-----
2000
Antoine Pitrou88909542009-06-29 13:54:42 +00002001- Issue #6152: New option '-j'/'--multiprocess' for regrtest allows running
2002 regression tests in parallel, shortening the total runtime.
2003
Guilherme Polo2a998fa2009-06-21 17:40:07 +00002004- Issue #5450: Moved tests involving loading tk from Lib/test/test_tcl to
2005 Lib/tkinter/test/test_tkinter/test_loadtk. With this, these tests demonstrate
2006 the same behaviour as test_ttkguionly (and now also test_tk) which is to
2007 skip the tests if DISPLAY is defined but can't be used.
2008
R. David Murraya21e4ca2009-03-31 23:16:50 +00002009- regrtest no longer treats ImportError as equivalent to SkipTest. Imports
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00002010 that should cause a test to be skipped are now done using import_module
R. David Murraya21e4ca2009-03-31 23:16:50 +00002011 from test support, which does the conversion.
2012
Guilherme Polo9de29af2009-01-28 20:40:48 +00002013- Issue #5083: New 'gui' resource for regrtest.
2014
2015
Brett Cannon7317c1e2008-11-25 19:19:17 +00002016Docs
2017----
2018
Georg Brandl52b92cc2008-05-25 09:43:03 +00002019
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00002020**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**