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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 Pitroucc0cfd32010-06-11 21:46:32 +000015- Issue #8941: decoding big endian UTF-32 data in UCS-2 builds could crash
16 the interpreter with characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane
17 (higher than 0x10000).
18
Mark Dickinsonc7301312010-06-10 16:05:10 +000019- Issue #8950: (See also issue #5080). Py_ArgParse*() functions now
20 raise TypeError instead of giving a DeprecationWarning when a float
21 is parsed using the 'L' code (for long long). (All other integer
22 codes already raise TypeError in this case.)
23
Victor Stinner600d3be2010-06-10 12:00:55 +000024- Issue #8922: Normalize the encoding name in PyUnicode_AsEncodedString() to
25 enable shortcuts for upper case encoding name. Add also a shortcut for
26 "iso-8859-1" in PyUnicode_AsEncodedString() and PyUnicode_Decode().
27
Victor Stinner3dcb5ac2010-06-08 22:54:19 +000028- Issue #8838: Remove codecs.charbuffer_encode() function. The buffer protocol
29 doesn't support "char buffer" anymore in Python3.
30
31- Issue #8339: Remove "t#" format of PyArg_Parse*() functions, use "s#" or "s*"
32 instead. codecs.charbuffer_encode() now accepts modifiable buffer objects
33 like bytearray.
34
Victor Stinner33109a12010-05-28 21:55:10 +000035- Issue #8837: Remove "O?" format of PyArg_Parse*() functions. The format is no
36 used anymore and it was never documented.
37
Benjamin Peterson95304522010-06-08 14:57:22 +000038- In the str.format(), raise a ValueError when indexes to arguments are too
39 large.
Benjamin Peterson59a1b2f2010-06-07 22:31:26 +000040
Mark Dickinsonf9a5a8e2010-05-26 20:07:58 +000041- Issue #2844: Make int('42', n) consistently raise ValueError for
42 invalid integers n (including n = -909).
43
Mark Dickinsondc787d22010-05-23 13:33:13 +000044- Issue #8188: Introduce a new scheme for computing hashes of numbers
45 (instances of int, float, complex, decimal.Decimal and
46 fractions.Fraction) that makes it easy to maintain the invariant
47 that hash(x) == hash(y) whenever x and y have equal value.
48
Mark Dickinsoncc6a9822010-05-21 14:55:26 +000049- Issue #8748: Fix two issues with comparisons between complex and integer
50 objects. (1) The comparison could incorrectly return True in some cases
51 (2**53+1 == complex(2**53) == 2**53), breaking transivity of equality.
52 (2) The comparison raised an OverflowError for large integers, leading
53 to unpredictable exceptions when combining integers and complex objects
54 in sets or dicts.
55
Victor Stinner7d79b8b2010-05-19 20:40:50 +000056- Issue #8766: Initialize _warnings module before importing the first module.
57 Fix a crash if an empty directory called "encodings" exists in sys.path.
58
Victor Stinner9ca9c252010-05-19 16:53:30 +000059- Issue #8589: Decode PYTHONWARNINGS environment variable with the file system
60 encoding and surrogateespace error handler instead of the locale encoding to
61 be consistent with os.environ. Add PySys_AddWarnOptionUnicode() function.
62
Victor Stinner372ac5e2010-05-17 01:26:01 +000063- PyObject_Dump() encodes unicode objects to utf8 with backslashreplace
64 (instead of strict) error handler to escape surrogates
65
Victor Stinnerae6265f2010-05-15 16:27:27 +000066- Issue #8715: Create PyUnicode_EncodeFSDefault() function: Encode a Unicode
67 object to Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding with the "surrogateescape" error
Benjamin Peterson0c3d21d2010-05-15 17:43:57 +000068 handler, and return bytes. If Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding is not set, fall
69 back to UTF-8.
Victor Stinnerae6265f2010-05-15 16:27:27 +000070
Victor Stinner59e62db2010-05-15 13:14:32 +000071- Enable shortcuts for common encodings in PyUnicode_AsEncodedString() for any
72 error handler, not only the default error handler (strict)
73
Victor Stinnerb744ba12010-05-15 12:27:16 +000074- Issue #8610: Load file system codec at startup, and display a fatal error on
75 failure. Set the file system encoding to utf-8 (instead of None) if getting
76 the locale encoding failed, or if nl_langinfo(CODESET) function is missing.
77
Victor Stinner0964ee12010-04-30 16:48:45 +000078- PyFile_FromFd() uses PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefault() instead of
79 PyUnicode_FromString() to support surrogates in the filename and use the
80 right encoding
81
Georg Brandl8569e582010-05-19 20:57:08 +000082- Issue #7507: Quote "!" in pipes.quote(); it is special to some shells.
83
Victor Stinnerb9a20ad2010-04-30 16:37:52 +000084- PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefaultAndSize() uses surrogateescape error handler
85
Benjamin Petersonfb886362010-04-24 18:21:17 +000086- Issue #8419: Prevent the dict constructor from accepting non-string keyword
87 arguments.
88
Victor Stinner14284c22010-04-23 12:02:30 +000089- Issue #8124: PySys_WriteStdout() and PySys_WriteStderr() don't execute
90 indirectly Python signal handlers anymore because mywrite() ignores
91 exceptions (KeyboardInterrupt)
92
Victor Stinner31be90b2010-04-22 19:38:16 +000093- Issue #8092: Fix PyUnicode_EncodeUTF8() to support error handler producing
94 unicode string (eg. backslashreplace)
95
Victor Stinnerdcb24032010-04-22 12:08:36 +000096- Issue #8485: PyUnicode_FSConverter() doesn't accept bytearray object anymore,
97 you have to convert your bytearray filenames to bytes
98
Antoine Pitrou5bc7ec92010-04-21 22:56:22 +000099- Issue #7332: Remove the 16KB stack-based buffer in
100 PyMarshal_ReadLastObjectFromFile, which doesn't bring any noticeable
101 benefit compared to the dynamic memory allocation fallback. Patch by
102 Charles-François Natali.
103
Benjamin Peterson8380dd52010-04-16 22:51:37 +0000104- Issue #8417: Raise an OverflowError when an integer larger than sys.maxsize is
105 passed to bytes or bytearray.
106
Philip Jenvey0805ca32010-04-07 04:04:10 +0000107- Issue #7301: Add environment variable $PYTHONWARNINGS.
108
Benjamin Petersond856ab62010-04-06 21:55:16 +0000109- Issue #8329: Don't return the same lists from select.select when no fds are
110 changed.
111
Mark Dickinson3318d292010-04-06 16:53:17 +0000112- Issue #8259: 1L << (2**31) no longer produces an 'outrageous shift error'
113 on 64-bit machines. The shift count for either left or right shift is
114 permitted to be up to sys.maxsize.
115
Benjamin Peterson8daa49e2010-04-03 22:55:48 +0000116- Ensure that tokenization of identifiers is not affected by locale.
117
Tarek Ziadé03d788d2010-04-03 08:46:49 +0000118- Issue #1222585: Added LDCXXSHARED for C++ support. Patch by Arfrever.
119
Benjamin Peterson80d8fd82010-04-03 01:40:24 +0000120- Raise a TypeError when trying to delete a T_STRING_INPLACE struct member.
121
Marc-André Lemburg177ab082010-05-05 13:32:59 +0000122- Issue #8211: Save/restore CFLAGS around AC_PROG_CC in configure.in, in
123 case it is set.
Victor Stinner00d6a1d2010-03-25 01:02:29 +0000124
Victor Stinner120c2122010-03-25 00:30:28 +0000125- Issue #8226: sys.setfilesystemencoding() raises a LookupError if the encoding
126 is unknown
127
Victor Stinner808fc0a2010-03-22 12:50:40 +0000128- Issue #1583863: An str subclass can now override the __str__ method
129
Mark Dickinsond59b4162010-03-13 11:34:40 +0000130- Issue #8014: Setting a T_UINT or T_PYSSIZET attribute of an object with
131 PyMemberDefs could produce an internal error; raise TypeError instead.
132
Mark Dickinsonf673f0c2010-03-13 09:48:39 +0000133- Issue #7845: Rich comparison methods on the complex type now return
134 NotImplemented rather than raising a TypeError when comparing with an
135 incompatible type; this allows user-defined classes to implement their own
136 comparisons with complex.
137
Victor Stinner52f6dd72010-03-12 14:45:56 +0000138- Issue #3137: Don't ignore errors at startup, especially a keyboard interrupt
139 (SIGINT). If an error occurs while importing the site module, the error is
140 printed and Python exits. Initialize the GIL before importing the site
141 module.
142
Benjamin Petersonae5f2f42010-03-07 17:10:51 +0000143- Issue #7173: Generator finalization could invalidate sys.exc_info().
144
Victor Stinner45b9be52010-03-03 23:28:07 +0000145- Issue #7544: Preallocate thread memory before creating the thread to avoid
146 a fatal error in low memory condition.
147
Victor Stinner6aa278e2010-03-03 00:18:49 +0000148- Issue #7820: The parser tokenizer restores all bytes in the right if
149 the BOM check fails.
150
Benjamin Peterson23e018a2010-02-27 17:40:01 +0000151- Handle errors from looking up __prepare__ correctly.
152
Larry Hastings1373a072010-02-24 22:49:58 +0000153- Issue #5939: Add additional runtime checking to ensure a valid capsule
154 in Modules/_ctypes/callproc.c.
155
Eric Smith0facd772010-02-24 15:42:29 +0000156- Issue #7309: Fix unchecked attribute access when converting
157 UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError, and UnicodeTranslateError to
158 strings.
159
Eric Smithabb28c62010-02-23 00:22:24 +0000160- Issue #6902: Fix problem with built-in types format incorrectly with
161 0 padding.
162
Eric Smith4e260c52010-02-22 18:54:44 +0000163- Issue #7988: Fix default alignment to be right aligned for
164 complex.__format__. Now it matches other numeric types.
165
Eric Smith68af50b2010-02-22 14:58:30 +0000166- Issue #5988: Remove deprecated functions PyOS_ascii_formatd,
167 PyOS_ascii_strtod, and PyOS_ascii_atof. Use PyOS_double_to_string
168 and PyOS_string_to_double instead. See issue #5835 for the original
169 deprecations.
170
Antoine Pitrou05b7c562010-02-02 22:47:00 +0000171- Issue #7385: Fix a crash in `MemoryView_FromObject` when
172 `PyObject_GetBuffer` fails. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
173
Mark Dickinsonbc099642010-01-29 17:27:24 +0000174- Issue #7788: Fix an interpreter crash produced by deleting a list
175 slice with very large step value.
176
Eric Smithf7bb5782010-01-27 00:44:57 +0000177- Issue #7766: Change sys.getwindowsversion() return value to a named
178 tuple and add the additional members returned in an OSVERSIONINFOEX
179 structure. The new members are service_pack_major, service_pack_minor,
180 suite_mask, and product_type.
181
Antoine Pitroufc8d6f42010-01-17 12:38:54 +0000182- Issue #7561: Operations on empty bytearrays (such as `int(bytearray())`)
183 could crash in many places because of the PyByteArray_AS_STRING() macro
184 returning NULL. The macro now returns a statically allocated empty
185 string instead.
186
Antoine Pitroub7fbcd32010-01-16 18:37:38 +0000187- Issue #6690: Optimize the bytecode for expressions such as `x in {1, 2, 3}`,
188 where the right hand operand is a set of constants, by turning the set into
189 a frozenset and pre-building it as a constant. The comparison operation
190 is made against the constant instead of building a new set each time it is
191 executed (a similar optimization already existed which turned a list of
192 constants into a pre-built tuple). Patch and additional tests by Dave
193 Malcolm.
194
Antoine Pitrouf2c54842010-01-13 08:07:53 +0000195- Issue #7622: Improve the split(), rsplit(), splitlines() and replace()
196 methods of bytes, bytearray and unicode objects by using a common
197 implementation based on stringlib's fast search. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
198
Mark Dickinson45b63652010-01-16 18:10:25 +0000199- Issue #7632: Fix various str -> float conversion bugs present in 2.7
200 alpha 2, including: (1) a serious 'wrong output' bug that could
201 occur for long (> 40 digit) input strings, (2) a crash in dtoa.c
202 that occurred in debug builds when parsing certain long numeric
Mark Dickinsonc4f18682010-01-17 14:39:12 +0000203 strings corresponding to subnormal values, (3) a memory leak for
204 some values large enough to cause overflow, and (4) a number of
205 flaws that could lead to incorrectly rounded results.
Mark Dickinson81612e82010-01-12 23:04:19 +0000206
Benjamin Petersonaea44282010-01-04 01:10:28 +0000207- The __complex__ method is now looked up on the class of instances to make it
208 consistent with other special methods.
209
Antoine Pitrouda2ecaf2010-01-02 21:40:36 +0000210- Issue #7462: Implement the stringlib fast search algorithm for the `rfind`,
211 `rindex`, `rsplit` and `rpartition` methods. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
212
Benjamin Petersond12362a2009-12-30 19:44:54 +0000213- Issue #7604: Deleting an unset slotted attribute did not raise an
214 AttributeError.
215
Mark Dickinson9ab44b52009-12-30 16:22:49 +0000216- Issue #7534: Fix handling of IEEE specials (infinities, nans,
217 negative zero) in ** operator. The behaviour now conforms to that
218 described in C99 Annex F.
219
Mark Dickinsoncbb62742009-12-27 15:09:50 +0000220- Issue #1811: improve accuracy and cross-platform consistency for
221 true division of integers: the result of a/b is now correctly
222 rounded for ints a and b (at least on IEEE 754 platforms), and in
223 particular does not depend on the internal representation of an int.
224
Ronald Oussoren6f6c5622009-12-24 14:03:19 +0000225- Issue #6834: replace the implementation for the 'python' and 'pythonw'
226 executables on OSX.
227
228 These executables now work properly with the arch(1) command:
229 ``arch -ppc python`` will start a universal binary version of python
230 in PPC mode (unlike previous releases).
231
Antoine Pitrou6b7dfc92009-12-12 19:18:27 +0000232- Issue #7466: segmentation fault when the garbage collector is called
233 in the middle of populating a tuple. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
234
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc64f3ca42009-12-01 21:59:18 +0000235- Issue #7419: setlocale() could crash the interpreter on Windows when called
236 with invalid values.
237
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7d0bddd2009-11-30 00:08:56 +0000238- Issue #6077: On Windows, files opened with tempfile.TemporaryFile in "wt+"
239 mode would appear truncated on the first '0x1a' byte (aka. Ctrl+Z).
240
Ronald Oussoren3c1928a2009-11-19 17:15:31 +0000241- Issue #7085: Fix crash when importing some extensions in a thread
242 on MacOSX 10.6.
243
Philip Jenvey1309adb2009-11-17 03:43:14 +0000244- Issue #1757126: Fix the cyrillic-asian alias for the ptcp154 encoding.
245
Mark Dickinson6f1d0492009-11-15 13:58:49 +0000246- Issue #6970: Remove redundant calls when comparing objects that don't
247 implement the relevant rich comparison methods.
248
Mark Dickinsond550c9a2009-11-15 09:57:26 +0000249- Issue #7298: fixes for range and reversed(range(...)). Iteration
250 over range(a, b, c) incorrectly gave an empty iterator when a, b and
251 c fit in C long but the length of the range did not. Also fix
252 several cases where reversed(range(a, b, c)) gave wrong results, and
253 fix a refleak for reversed(range(a, b, c)) with large arguments.
254
Raymond Hettingerfc438512009-11-01 20:55:33 +0000255- Issue #7244: itertools.izip_longest() no longer ignores exceptions
256 raised during the formation of an output tuple.
257
Benjamin Petersonb2e796a2009-10-28 21:59:39 +0000258- Issue #3297: On wide unicode builds, do not split unicode characters into
259 surrogates.
260
Mark Dickinsonf9724882009-10-26 21:51:18 +0000261- Remove length limitation when constructing a complex number from a string.
262
Mark Dickinson27a87a22009-10-25 20:43:34 +0000263- Issue #1087418: Boost performance of bitwise operations for longs.
264
Antoine Pitroub6ef9632009-10-24 20:47:05 +0000265- Support for AtheOS has been completely removed from the code base. It was
266 disabled since Python 3.0.
267
268- Support for several legacy threading libraries has been disabled. These
269 libraries are: Mach C threads, SunOS LWP, GNU pth, Irix threads. Support code
270 will be entirely removed in 3.3.
271
Jesus Cea6a792292010-05-03 21:18:48 +0000272- Support for OSF* has been disabled. If nobody stands up, support will be
273 removed in 3.3. See http://bugs.python.org/issue8606 .
274
Raymond Hettingeraf7adad2009-10-22 11:22:50 +0000275- Peephole constant folding had missed UNARY_POSITIVE.
276
Antoine Pitrou011bd622009-10-20 21:52:47 +0000277- Issue #1722344: threading._shutdown() is now called in Py_Finalize(), which
278 fixes the problem of some exceptions being thrown at shutdown when the
279 interpreter is killed. Patch by Adam Olsen.
280
Antoine Pitrou671141d2009-10-19 19:37:25 +0000281- Issue #7147: Remove support for compiling Python without complex number
Skip Montanaroba1e0f42009-10-18 14:25:35 +0000282 support.
283
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +0000284- Issue #7120: logging: Removed import of multiprocessing which is causing
285 crash in GAE.
286
Neil Schemenauere441cb72009-10-14 19:14:38 +0000287- Issue #1754094: Improve the stack depth calculation in the compiler.
288 There should be no other effect than a small decrease in memory use.
289 Patch by Christopher Tur Lesniewski-Laas.
290
Antoine Pitrou403ce782009-10-14 17:14:16 +0000291- Issue #7065: Fix a crash in bytes.maketrans and bytearray.maketrans when
Antoine Pitrou671141d2009-10-19 19:37:25 +0000292 using byte values greater than 127. Patch by Derk Drukker.
Antoine Pitrou403ce782009-10-14 17:14:16 +0000293
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7d520792009-10-06 21:03:20 +0000294- Issue #1571184: The Unicode database contains properties for more characters.
295 The tables for code points representing numeric values, white spaces or line
296 breaks are now generated from the official Unicode Character Database files,
297 and include information from the Unihan.txt file.
298
Mark Dickinson2683ab02009-09-29 19:21:35 +0000299- Issue #7019: Raise ValueError when unmarshalling bad long data, instead
300 of producing internally inconsistent Python longs.
301
Philip Jenvey26713ca2009-09-29 04:57:18 +0000302- Issue #6990: Fix threading.local subclasses leaving old state around
303 after a reference cycle GC which could be recycled by new locals.
304
Benjamin Peterson4905e802009-09-27 02:43:28 +0000305- Issue #5460: Fix an ambiguity in the grammar.
306
Mark Dickinson3e124ae2009-09-22 21:47:24 +0000307- Issue #1766304: Improve performance of membership tests on range objects.
308
Mark Dickinson0a1efd02009-09-16 21:23:34 +0000309- Issue #6713: Improve performance of integer -> string conversions.
310
Mark Dickinson54a3db92009-09-06 10:19:23 +0000311- Issue #6846: Fix bug where bytearray.pop() returns negative integers.
312
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcccd686a2009-08-29 23:00:38 +0000313- Issue #6750: A text file opened with io.open() could duplicate its output
314 when writing from multiple threads at the same time.
315
Benjamin Peterson14327712009-08-15 13:23:05 +0000316- Issue #6707: dir() on an uninitialized module caused a crash.
317
Georg Brandl953152f2009-07-22 12:03:59 +0000318- Issue #6540: Fixed crash for bytearray.translate() with invalid parameters.
319
Raymond Hettingere805ecc2009-07-27 20:16:37 +0000320- Issue #6573: set.union() stopped processing inputs if an instance of self
321 occurred in the argument chain.
322
R. David Murray046f7232009-07-19 02:22:05 +0000323- Issue #6070: On posix platforms import no longer copies the execute bit
324 from the .py file to the .pyc file if it is set.
325
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc8b84ea02009-07-13 20:38:21 +0000326- Issue #1616979: Added the cp720 (Arabic DOS) encoding.
327
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc097cd072009-07-07 00:43:08 +0000328- Issue #6428: Since Python 3.0, the __bool__ method must return a bool
329 object, and not an int. Fix the corresponding error message, and the
330 documentation.
331
Benjamin Petersonf1664ae2009-07-01 01:28:55 +0000332- The deprecated PyCObject has been removed.
333
Mark Dickinson835a6c82009-06-30 15:45:17 +0000334- Issue #6347: Include inttypes.h as well as stdint.h in pyport.h.
335 This fixes a build failure on HP-UX: int32_t and uint32_t are
336 defined in inttypes.h instead of stdint.h on that platform.
337
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca4aba662009-07-01 00:48:39 +0000338- Issue #6373: Fixed a SystemError when encoding with the latin-1 codec and
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc84ec8d92009-06-29 22:36:49 +0000339 the 'surrogateescape' error handler, a string which contains unpaired
340 surrogates.
341
Hirokazu Yamamoto892a37a2009-06-28 11:07:03 +0000342- Issue #4856: Remove checks for win NT.
343
Alexandre Vassalottieb6f8de2009-12-31 03:56:09 +0000344- Issue #6687: PyBytes_FromObject() no longer accepts an integer as its
345 argument to construct a null-initialized bytes object.
346
Alexandre Vassalottic36c3782010-01-09 20:35:09 +0000347- Issue #1023290: Add from_bytes() and to_bytes() methods to integers.
348 These methods allow the conversion of integers to bytes, and vice-versa.
349
Alexandre Vassalotti41f58a72010-01-12 01:23:09 +0000350- Issue #7382: Fix bug in bytes.__getnewargs__ that prevented bytes
351 instances from being copied with copy.copy(), and bytes subclasses
352 from being pickled properly.
353
Collin Winter4222e9c2010-03-18 22:46:40 +0000354- Code objects now support weak references.
355
Ronald Oussoren501aeff2010-04-18 15:02:38 +0000356- Issue #7072: isspace(0xa0) is true on Mac OS X
357
Ronald Oussoren4cda46a2010-05-08 10:49:43 +0000358- Issue #8084: PEP 370 now conforms to system conventions for framework
359 builds on MacOS X. That is, "python setup.py install --user" will install
360 into "~/Library/Python/2.7" instead of "~/.local".
Ronald Oussoren501aeff2010-04-18 15:02:38 +0000361
Benjamin Peterson466a7822009-07-02 21:44:01 +0000362C-API
363-----
364
Antoine Pitrouf978fac2010-05-21 17:25:34 +0000365- Issue #5753: A new C API function, :cfunc:`PySys_SetArgvEx`, allows
366 embedders of the interpreter to set sys.argv without also modifying
367 sys.path. This helps fix `CVE-2008-5983
368 <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5983>`_.
369
Benjamin Petersonfb886362010-04-24 18:21:17 +0000370- Add PyArg_ValidateKeywordArguments, which checks if all keyword arguments are
371 strings in an efficient manner.
372
Antoine Pitrou8689a102010-04-01 16:53:15 +0000373- Issue #8276: PyEval_CallObject() is now only available in macro form. The
374 function declaration, which was kept for backwards compatibility reasons,
375 is now removed (the macro was introduced in 1997!).
376
Mark Dickinson93f562c2010-01-30 10:30:15 +0000377- Issue #7767: New function PyLong_AsLongLongAndOverflow added,
378 analogous to PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow.
379
Benjamin Peterson8667a9b2010-01-09 21:45:28 +0000380- Make PyUnicode_CompareWithASCIIString return not equal if the Python string
381 has '\0' at the end.
382
Mark Dickinsonde604012010-01-01 19:27:32 +0000383- Issue #5080: The argument parsing functions PyArg_ParseTuple,
384 PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords, PyArg_VaParse,
385 PyArg_VaParseTupleAndKeywords and PyArg_Parse now raise a
386 DeprecationWarning for float arguments passed with the 'L' format
387 code. This will become a TypeError in a future version of Python,
388 to match the behaviour of the other integer format codes.
389
Georg Brandl1e28a272009-12-28 08:41:01 +0000390- Issue #7033: function ``PyErr_NewExceptionWithDoc()`` added.
391
Mark Dickinsonf08173b2009-12-03 10:59:46 +0000392- Issue #7414: 'C' code wasn't being skipped properly (for keyword arguments)
393 in PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords.
394
Mark Dickinson0b2b2322009-12-04 11:32:26 +0000395- Issue #7228: Add '%lld' and '%llu' support to PyString_FromFormat(V)
Mark Dickinson6ce4a9a2009-11-16 17:00:11 +0000396 and PyErr_Format, on machines with HAVE_LONG_LONG defined.
397
Alexandre Vassalotti2db046d2009-07-22 03:56:36 +0000398- Issue #6151: Made PyDescr_COMMON conform to standard C (like PyObject_HEAD
399 in PEP 3123). The PyDescr_TYPE and PyDescr_NAME macros should be
400 should used for accessing the d_type and d_name members of structures
401 using PyDescr_COMMON.
402
403- Issue #6405: Remove duplicate type declarations in descrobject.h.
Benjamin Peterson89b89172009-07-03 13:30:25 +0000404
Benjamin Peterson466a7822009-07-02 21:44:01 +0000405- The code flags for old __future__ features are now available again.
406
Alexandre Vassalotti7b82b402009-07-21 04:30:03 +0000407- Issue #5954: Add a PyFrame_GetLineNumber() function to replace most uses of
408 PyCode_Addr2Line().
409
410- Issue #5959: Add a PyCode_NewEmpty() function to create a new empty code
411 object at a specified file, function, and line number.
412
413- Issue #1419652: Change the first argument to PyImport_AppendInittab() to
414 ``const char *`` as the string is stored beyond the call.
415
Benjamin Peterson05159c42009-12-03 03:01:27 +0000416- Issue #2422: When compiled with the ``--with-valgrind`` option, the
417 pymalloc allocator will be automatically disabled when running under
418 Valgrind. This gives improved memory leak detection when running
419 under Valgrind, while taking advantage of pymalloc at other times.
420
Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +0000421Library
422-------
423
Mark Dickinson9b88b912010-06-11 10:46:57 +0000424- Issue #8188: Comparisons between Decimal and Fraction objects are
Mark Dickinson08ade6f2010-06-11 10:44:52 +0000425 now permitted, returning a result based on the exact numerical
426 values of the operands. This builds on issue #2531, which allowed
427 Decimal-to-float comparisons; all comparisons involving numeric
428 types (bool, int, float, complex, Decimal, Fraction) should now
429 act as expected.
430
Victor Stinner7f3652e2010-06-07 20:14:04 +0000431- Issue #8897: Fix sunau module, use bytes to write the header. Patch written
432 by Thomas Jollans.
433
Alexander Belopolsky69f3fd02010-06-05 15:04:51 +0000434- Issue #8899: time.struct_time now has class and atribute docstrings.
435
Martin v. Löwis2d5157e2010-06-04 19:50:26 +0000436- Issue #6470: Drop UNC prefix in FixTk.
437
R. David Murray7da8f062010-06-04 16:11:08 +0000438- Issue #4768: base64 encoded email body parts were incorrectly stored as
439 binary strings. They are now correctly converted to strings.
440
Lars Gustäbel2470ff12010-06-03 10:11:52 +0000441- Issue #8833: tarfile created hard link entries with a size field != 0 by
442 mistake.
443
R. David Murray850fc852010-06-03 01:58:28 +0000444- Charset.body_encode now correctly handles base64 encoding by encoding
445 with the output_charset before calling base64mime.encode. Passes the
446 tests from 2.x issue 1368247.
447
R. David Murrayd35251d2010-06-01 01:32:12 +0000448- Issue #8845: sqlite3 Connection objects now have a read-only in_transaction
449 attribute that is True iff there are uncommitted changes.
450
Alexander Belopolsky1790bc42010-05-31 17:33:47 +0000451- Issue #1289118: datetime.timedelta objects can now be multiplied by float
452 and divided by float and int objects. Results are rounded to the nearest
453 multiple of timedelta.resolution with ties resolved using round-half-to-even
454 method.
455
Alexander Belopolskyf03a6162010-05-27 21:42:58 +0000456- Issue #7150: Raise OverflowError if the result of adding or subtracting
457 timedelta from date or datetime falls outside of the MINYEAR:MAXYEAR range.
458
Giampaolo Rodolàa67299e2010-05-26 18:06:04 +0000459- Issue #8806: add SSL contexts support to ftplib.
460
Victor Stinner479736b2010-05-25 21:12:34 +0000461- Issue #4769: Fix main() function of the base64 module, use sys.stdin.buffer
462 and sys.stdout.buffer (instead of sys.stdin and sys.stdout) to use the bytes
463 API
464
Tarek Ziadéa7514992010-05-25 09:44:36 +0000465- Issue #8770: now sysconfig displays information when it's called as
466 a script. Initial idea by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
467
Victor Stinnere021f4b2010-05-24 21:46:25 +0000468- Issue #6662: Fix parsing of malformatted charref (&#bad;), patch written by
469 Fredrik Håård
470
Mark Dickinsonb1d8e322010-05-22 18:35:36 +0000471- Issue #8540: Decimal module: rename the Context._clamp attribute to
472 Context.clamp and make it public. This is useful in creating
473 contexts that correspond to the decimal interchange formats
474 specified in IEEE 754.
475
Victor Stinnera92ad7e2010-05-22 16:59:09 +0000476- Issue #6268: Fix seek() method of codecs.open(), don't read or write the BOM
477 twice after seek(0). Fix also reset() method of codecs, UTF-16, UTF-32 and
478 StreamWriter classes.
Victor Stinner3fed0872010-05-22 02:16:27 +0000479
Victor Stinner7126dbc2010-05-21 23:45:42 +0000480- Issue #3798: sys.exit(message) writes the message to sys.stderr file, instead
481 of the C file stderr, to use stderr encoding and error handler
482
Benjamin Petersonaada7b82010-05-21 21:45:06 +0000483- Issue #8782: Add a trailing newline in linecache.updatecache to the last line
484 of files without one.
485
Benjamin Peterson4ad6bd52010-05-21 20:55:22 +0000486- Issue #8729: Return NotImplemented from collections.Mapping.__eq__ when
487 comparing to a non-mapping.
488
Victor Stinnerf0feec22010-05-21 10:52:08 +0000489- Issue #8774: tabnanny uses the encoding cookie (#coding:...) to use the
490 correct encoding
491
492- Issue #4870: Add an `options` attribute to SSL contexts, as well as
Antoine Pitroub5218772010-05-21 09:56:06 +0000493 several ``OP_*`` constants to the `ssl` module. This allows to selectively
494 disable protocol versions, when used in combination with `PROTOCOL_SSLv23`.
495
Tarek Ziadé06710a82010-05-19 22:25:00 +0000496- Issue #8759: Fixed user paths in sysconfig for posix and os2 schemes.
497
Victor Stinner2ca03c12010-05-19 17:00:07 +0000498- Issue #8663: distutils.log emulates backslashreplace error handler. Fix
499 compilation in a non-ASCII directory if stdout encoding is ASCII (eg. if
500 stdout is not a TTY).
501
Victor Stinnerb745a742010-05-18 17:17:23 +0000502- Issue #8513: os.get_exec_path() supports b'PATH' key and bytes value.
503 subprocess.Popen() and os._execvpe() support bytes program name. Add
504 os.supports_bytes_environ flag: True if the native OS type of the environment
505 is bytes (eg. False on Windows).
506
Lars Gustäbel1465cc22010-05-17 18:02:50 +0000507- Issue #8633: tarfile is now able to read and write archives with "raw" binary
508 pax headers as described in POSIX.1-2008.
509
Florent Xiclunac7b8e862010-05-17 17:33:07 +0000510- Issue #1285086: Speed up urllib.parse functions: quote, quote_from_bytes,
511 unquote, unquote_to_bytes.
512
Tarek Ziadéc16a85c2010-05-17 10:38:53 +0000513- Issue #8688: Distutils now recalculates MANIFEST everytime.
514
Victor Stinnerf9faaad2010-05-16 21:36:37 +0000515- Issue #8477: ssl.RAND_egd() and ssl._test_decode_cert() support str with
516 surrogates and bytes for the filename
Victor Stinner3800e1e2010-05-16 21:23:48 +0000517
Antoine Pitrou152efa22010-05-16 18:19:27 +0000518- Issue #8550: Add first class ``SSLContext`` objects to the ssl module.
519
Antoine Pitrou53b21662010-05-11 23:46:02 +0000520- Issue #8681: Make the zlib module's error messages more informative when
521 the zlib itself doesn't give any detailed explanation.
522
Mark Dickinson81fece22010-05-11 13:34:35 +0000523- The audioop module now supports sound fragments of length greater
524 than 2**31 bytes on 64-bit machines, and is PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN.
525
Giampaolo Rodolàbd576b72010-05-10 14:53:29 +0000526- Issue #4972: Add support for the context manager protocol to the ftplib.FTP
527 class.
528
Benjamin Petersone87c0fc2010-05-08 19:52:49 +0000529- Issue #8664: In py_compile, create __pycache__ when the compiled path is
530 given.
531
Victor Stinner449c4662010-05-08 11:10:09 +0000532- Issue #8514: Add os.fsencode() function (Unix only): encode a string to bytes
533 for use in the file system, environment variables or the command line.
534
Antoine Pitrou89562712010-05-07 17:04:02 +0000535- Issue #8571: Fix an internal error when compressing or decompressing a
536 chunk larger than 1GB with the zlib module's compressor and decompressor
537 objects.
538
Benjamin Peterson225168e2010-05-06 22:29:53 +0000539- Issue #8603: Support bytes environmental variables on Unix: Add os.environb
540 mapping and os.getenvb() function. os.unsetenv() encodes str argument to the
541 file system encoding with the surrogateescape error handler (instead of
542 utf8/strict) and accepts bytes. posix.environ keys and values are now bytes.
Victor Stinner84ae1182010-05-06 22:05:07 +0000543
Giampaolo Rodolà8d2dc852010-05-06 18:06:30 +0000544- Issue #8573: asyncore _strerror() function might throw ValueError.
545
Victor Stinnere125f132010-05-15 21:04:43 +0000546- Issue #8483: asyncore.dispatcher's __getattr__ method produced confusing
547 error messages when accessing undefined class attributes because of the cheap
548 inheritance with the underlying socket object.
Giampaolo Rodolà8d2dc852010-05-06 18:06:30 +0000549 The cheap inheritance has been deprecated.
550
Tarek Ziadéae4d5c62010-05-05 22:27:31 +0000551- Issue #4265: shutil.copyfile() was leaking file descriptors when disk fills.
552 Patch by Tres Seaver.
553
Victor Stinnerde629d42010-05-05 21:43:57 +0000554- Issue #8390: tarfile uses surrogateespace as the default error handler
555 (instead of replace in read mode or strict in write mode)
556
Barry Warsaw83d89982010-05-05 16:18:31 +0000557- Issue #7755: Use an unencumbered audio file for tests.
558
Ronald Oussorenac764d32010-05-05 15:32:33 +0000559- Issue #8621: uuid.uuid4() returned the same sequence of values in the
560 parent and any children created using ``os.fork`` on MacOS X 10.6.
561
Mark Dickinsonc69160e2010-05-04 14:35:33 +0000562- Issue #8567: Fix precedence of signals in Decimal module: when a
563 Decimal operation raises multiple signals and more than one of those
564 signals is trapped, the specification determines the order in which
565 the signals should be handled. In many cases this order wasn't
566 being followed, leading to the wrong Python exception being raised.
567
Antoine Pitrou6be88762010-05-03 16:48:20 +0000568- Issue #7865: The close() method of :mod:`io` objects should not swallow
569 exceptions raised by the implicit flush(). Also ensure that calling
570 close() several times is supported. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
571
Antoine Pitrou6e20a1b2010-05-02 19:59:47 +0000572- Issue #4687: Fix accuracy of garbage collection runtimes displayed with
573 gc.DEBUG_STATS.
574
Jean-Paul Calderone6f137ca2010-05-09 03:18:57 +0000575- Issue #8354: The siginterrupt setting is now preserved for all signals,
576 not just SIGCHLD.
577
Georg Brandl25106ce2010-05-21 21:49:47 +0000578- Issue #7192: webbrowser.get("firefox") now works on Mac OS X, as does
Ronald Oussoren4d39f6e2010-05-02 09:54:35 +0000579 webbrowser.get("safari").
580
Lars Gustäbeld6eb70b2010-04-29 15:37:02 +0000581- Issue #8464: tarfile no longer creates files with execute permissions set
582 when mode="w|" is used.
583
Antoine Pitroubf043492010-04-29 10:11:46 +0000584- Issue #7834: Fix connect() of Bluetooth L2CAP sockets with recent versions
585 of the Linux kernel. Patch by Yaniv Aknin.
586
Tarek Ziadé6ac91722010-04-28 17:51:36 +0000587- Issue #8295: Added shutil.unpack_archive.
588
Senthil Kumaran71fb6c82010-04-28 17:39:48 +0000589- Issue #6312: Fixed http HEAD request when the transfer encoding is chunked.
590 It should correctly return an empty response now.
591
Benjamin Peterson95e392c2010-04-27 21:07:21 +0000592- Issue #8546: Reject None given as the buffering argument to _pyio.open.
593
Antoine Pitrou06e34a92010-04-27 19:14:15 +0000594- Issue #8549: Fix compiling the _ssl extension under AIX. Patch by
595 Sridhar Ratnakumar.
596
R. David Murrayad78d152010-04-27 02:45:53 +0000597- Issue #6656: fix locale.format_string to handle escaped percents
598 and mappings.
599
Antoine Pitrou3bcba8e2010-04-25 22:01:43 +0000600- Issue #2302: Fix a race condition in SocketServer.BaseServer.shutdown,
601 where the method could block indefinitely if called just before the
602 event loop started running. This also fixes the occasional freezes
603 witnessed in test_httpservers.
604
Antoine Pitrou40f08742010-04-24 22:04:40 +0000605- Issue #8524: When creating an SSL socket, the timeout value of the
606 original socket wasn't retained (instead, a socket with a positive timeout
607 would be turned into a non-blocking SSL socket).
608
Antoine Pitroud3f8ab82010-04-24 21:26:44 +0000609- Issue #5103: SSL handshake would ignore the socket timeout and block
610 indefinitely if the other end didn't respond.
611
612- The do_handshake() method of SSL objects now adjusts the blocking mode of
613 the SSL structure if necessary (as other methods already do).
614
Victor Stinner13bb71c2010-04-23 21:41:56 +0000615- Issue #8391: os.execvpe() and os.getenv() supports unicode with surrogates
616 and bytes strings for environment keys and values
617
Victor Stinner4d078042010-04-23 19:28:32 +0000618- Issue #8467: Pure Python implementation of subprocess encodes the error
619 message using surrogatepass error handler to support surrogates in the
620 message
621
Victor Stinner349fd522010-04-23 10:56:17 +0000622- Issue #8468: bz2.BZ2File() accepts str with surrogates and bytes filenames
623
Sean Reifscheider13daf122010-04-23 09:29:52 +0000624- Issue #8451: Syslog module now uses basename(sys.argv[0]) instead of
625 the string "python" as the *ident*. openlog() arguments are all optional
626 and keywords.
627
Antoine Pitrou2c4f98b2010-04-23 00:16:21 +0000628- Issue #8108: Fix the unwrap() method of SSL objects when the socket has
629 a non-infinite timeout. Also make that method friendlier with applications
630 wanting to continue using the socket in clear-text mode, by disabling
631 OpenSSL's internal readahead. Thanks to Darryl Miles for guidance.
632
Antoine Pitrou7062db82010-04-22 13:30:10 +0000633- Issue #8496: make mailcap.lookup() always return a list, rather than an
634 iterator. Patch by Gregory Nofi.
635
Victor Stinner35466c52010-04-22 11:23:23 +0000636- Issue #8195: Fix a crash in sqlite Connection.create_collation() if the
637 collation name contains a surrogate character.
638
Antoine Pitroufec12ff2010-04-21 19:46:23 +0000639- Issue #8484: Load all ciphers and digest algorithms when initializing
640 the _ssl extension, such that verification of some SSL certificates
641 doesn't fail because of an "unknown algorithm".
642
Tarek Ziadéfb437512010-04-20 08:57:33 +0000643- Issue #6547: Added the ignore_dangling_symlinks option to shutil.copytree.
644
Victor Stinnere125f132010-05-15 21:04:43 +0000645- Issue #1540112: Now allowing the choice of a copy function in
Tarek Ziadé5340db32010-04-19 22:30:51 +0000646 shutil.copytree.
647
Giampaolo Rodolà5fb313b2010-04-19 22:05:54 +0000648- Issue #4814: timeout parameter is now applied also for connections resulting
649 from PORT/EPRT commands.
650
Tarek Ziadé10a51af2010-04-19 21:31:42 +0000651- Issue #8463: added missing reference to bztar in shutil's documentation.
652
Ronald Oussoren84151202010-04-18 20:46:11 +0000653- Issue #7154: urllib.request can now detect the proxy settings on OSX 10.6
654 (as long as the user didn't specify 'automatic proxy configuration').
655
Giampaolo Rodolàceb513a2010-04-18 13:36:35 +0000656- Issue #3817: ftplib.FTP.abort() method now considers 225 a valid response
657 code as stated in RFC-959 at chapter 5.4.
658
Victor Stinner738446f02010-04-18 00:00:44 +0000659- Issue #8394: _ctypes.dlopen() accepts bytes, bytearray and str with
660 surrogates.
661
Antoine Pitrou0454af92010-04-17 23:51:58 +0000662- Issue #850728: Add a *timeout* parameter to the `acquire()` method of
Antoine Pitroua7ecfe72010-04-17 23:52:21 +0000663 `threading.Semaphore` objects. Original patch by Torsten Landschoff.
Antoine Pitrou0454af92010-04-17 23:51:58 +0000664
Antoine Pitrou2d9cb9c2010-04-17 17:40:45 +0000665- Issue #8322: Add a *ciphers* argument to SSL sockets, so as to change the
666 available cipher list. Helps fix test_ssl with OpenSSL 1.0.0.
667
Victor Stinner0e59cc32010-04-16 23:49:32 +0000668- Issue #8393: subprocess accepts bytes, bytearray and str with surrogates for
669 the current working directory.
670
Victor Stinner5bfe1462010-04-16 13:28:05 +0000671- Issue #7606: XML-RPC traceback stored in X-traceback is now encoded to ASCII
672 using backslashreplace error handler
673
Victor Stinnercfa72782010-04-16 11:45:13 +0000674- Issue #8412: os.system() now accepts bytes, bytearray and str with
675 surrogates.
676
Senthil Kumaranad02d232010-04-16 03:02:13 +0000677- Issue #2987: RFC2732 support for urlparse (IPv6 addresses). Patch by Tony
678 Locke and Hans Ulrich Niedermann.
679
R. David Murrayd48739f2010-04-14 18:59:18 +0000680- Issue #5277: Fix quote counting when parsing RFC 2231 encoded parameters.
681
Antoine Pitrou7c3e5772010-04-14 15:44:10 +0000682- Issue #7316: the acquire() method of lock objects in the :mod:`threading`
683 module now takes an optional timeout argument in seconds. Timeout support
684 relies on the system threading library, so as to avoid a semi-busy wait
685 loop.
686
Victor Stinner485fb562010-04-13 11:07:24 +0000687- Issue #8383: pickle and pickletools use surrogatepass error handler when
688 encoding unicode as utf8 to support lone surrogates and stay compatible with
689 Python 2.x and 3.0
690
R. David Murrayb2416e52010-04-12 16:58:02 +0000691- Issue #7585: difflib context and unified diffs now place a tab between
692 filename and date, conforming to the 'standards' they were originally
693 designed to follow. This improves compatibility with patch tools.
694
R. David Murrayef3d6bd2010-04-12 14:48:58 +0000695- Issue #7472: Fixed typo in email.encoders module; messages using ISO-2022
696 character sets will now consistently use a Content-Transfer-Encoding of
697 7bit rather than sometimes being marked as 8bit.
698
Tarek Ziadé46cd93a2010-04-12 08:23:49 +0000699- Issue #8375: test_distutils now checks if the temporary directory are still
700 present before it cleans them.
701
Antoine Pitrou0c70d2d2010-04-11 22:35:34 +0000702- Issue #8374: Update the internal alias table in the :mod:`locale` module
703 to cover recent locale changes and additions.
704
Antoine Pitrou04f6a322010-04-05 21:40:07 +0000705- Issue #8321: Give access to OpenSSL version numbers from the `ssl` module,
706 using the new attributes `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION`, `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_INFO`
707 and `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER`.
708
Raymond Hettingerc50846a2010-04-05 18:56:31 +0000709- Add functools.total_ordering() and functools.cmp_to_key().
710
Mark Dickinson089b00c2010-04-03 15:51:03 +0000711- Issue #8257: The Decimal construct now accepts a float instance
712 directly, converting that float to a Decimal of equal value:
713
714 >>> Decimal(1.1)
715 Decimal('1.100000000000000088817841970012523233890533447265625')
716
Mark Dickinson98127c32010-04-03 11:18:52 +0000717- Issue #8294: The Fraction constructor now accepts Decimal and float
718 instances directly.
719
Mark Dickinsonac256ab2010-04-03 11:08:14 +0000720- Issue #7279: Comparisons involving a Decimal signaling NaN now
721 signal InvalidOperation instead of returning False. (Comparisons
722 involving a quiet NaN are unchanged.) Also, Decimal quiet NaNs
723 are now hashable; Decimal signaling NaNs remain unhashable.
724
725- Issue #2531: Comparison operations between floats and Decimal
726 instances now return a result based on the numeric values of the
727 operands; previously they returned an arbitrary result based on
Mark Dickinson08ade6f2010-06-11 10:44:52 +0000728 the relative ordering of id(float) and id(Decimal). See also
Mark Dickinson9b88b912010-06-11 10:46:57 +0000729 issue #8188, which adds Decimal-to-Fraction comparisons.
Mark Dickinsonac256ab2010-04-03 11:08:14 +0000730
Raymond Hettinger9c01e442010-04-03 10:32:58 +0000731- Added a subtract() method to collections.Counter().
732
Barry Warsawd5f9bf52010-03-31 21:36:22 +0000733- Issue #8233: When run as a script, py_compile.py optionally takes a single
734 argument `-` which tells it to read files to compile from stdin. Each line
735 is read on demand and the named file is compiled immediately. (Original
736 patch by Piotr Ożarowski).
737
Florent Xicluna806d8cf2010-03-30 19:34:18 +0000738- Backwards incompatible change: Unicode codepoints line tabulation (0x0B) and
739 form feed (0x0C) are now considered linebreaks, as specified in Unicode
740 Standard Annex #14. See issue #7643.
741 http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr14/
742
Mark Dickinsonab4d63b2010-03-27 11:16:00 +0000743- Comparisons using one of <, <=, >, >= between a complex instance and
744 a Fractions instance now raise TypeError instead of returning
745 True/False. This makes Fraction <=> complex comparisons consistent with
746 int <=> complex, float <=> complex, and complex <=> complex comparisons.
747
Antoine Pitrou39b35432010-03-23 00:25:54 +0000748- Issue #8139: ossaudiodev didn't initialize its types properly, therefore
749 some methods (such as oss_mixer_device.fileno()) were not available.
750 Initial patch by Bertrand Janin.
751
Florent Xiclunafd1b0932010-03-28 00:25:02 +0000752- Issue #8205: Remove the "Modules" directory from sys.path when Python is
753 running from the build directory (POSIX only).
754
Antoine Pitrou910bd512010-03-22 20:11:09 +0000755- Issue #7512: shutil.copystat() could raise an OSError when the filesystem
756 didn't support chflags() (for example ZFS under FreeBSD). The error is
757 now silenced.
758
R. David Murrayca2edce2010-03-22 17:48:48 +0000759- Issue #7860: platform.uname now reports the correct 'machine' type
760 when Python is running in WOW64 mode on 64 bit Windows.
761
Antoine Pitrou3c0fac22010-03-26 19:36:14 +0000762- Issue #3890, #8222: Fix recv() and recv_into() on non-blocking SSL sockets.
763 Also, enable the SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY flag on SSL sockets, so that blocking
764 reads and writes are always retried by OpenSSL itself.
Antoine Pitrou5733c082010-03-22 14:49:10 +0000765
Victor Stinnere3a1f6d2010-03-22 01:58:35 +0000766- Issue #4282: Fix the main function of the profile module for a non-ASCII
767 script, open the file in binary mode and not in text mode with the default
768 (utf8) encoding.
769
Florent Xicluna54467e02010-03-21 12:29:50 +0000770- Issue #8179: Fix macpath.realpath() on a non-existing path.
771
Florent Xiclunafaa663f2010-03-19 13:37:08 +0000772- Issue #8024: Update the Unicode database to 5.2.
773
Benjamin Peterson00888932010-03-18 22:37:38 +0000774- Issue #8168: py_compile now handles files with utf-8 BOMS.
775
Benjamin Peterson689a5582010-03-18 22:29:52 +0000776- ``tokenize.detect_encoding`` now returns ``'utf-8-sig'`` when a UTF-8 BOM is
777 detected.
778
Martin v. Löwis4b003072010-03-16 13:19:21 +0000779- Issue #6716/2: Backslash-replace error output in compilall.
780
Matthias Klosea6d9abf2010-03-16 10:51:28 +0000781- Issue #4961: Inconsistent/wrong result of askyesno function in tkMessageBox
782 with Tcl/Tk-8.5.
783
Matthias Klosec33b9022010-03-16 00:36:26 +0000784- Issue #8140: extend compileall to compile single files. Add -i option.
785
Matthias Klose82f60912010-03-15 13:46:04 +0000786- Issue #7356: ctypes.util: Make parsing of ldconfig output independent of
787 the locale.
788
Gregory P. Smitha31f57c2010-03-14 06:52:18 +0000789- The internals of the subprocess module on POSIX systems have been replaced
790 by an extension module (_posixsubprocess) so that the fork()+exec() can be
791 done safely without the possibility of deadlock in multithreaded applications.
792
Gregory P. Smith580d60c2010-03-14 07:13:25 +0000793- subprocess.Popen now has restore_signals and start_new_session features.
794 The default of restore_signals=True is a new behavior compared to earlier
795 Python versions. This means that signals such as SIGPIPE are not ignored
796 by default in subprocesses launched by Python (Issue #1652).
797
Florent Xiclunaf15351d2010-03-13 23:24:31 +0000798- Issue #6472: The xml.etree package is updated to ElementTree 1.3. The
799 cElementTree module is updated too.
800
Victor Stinnerb33062c2010-03-12 14:27:16 +0000801- Issue #7774: Set sys.executable to an empty string if argv[0] has been set to
802 an non existent program name and Python is unable to retrieve the real
803 program name
804
Florent Xiclunaa4707382010-03-11 00:05:17 +0000805- Issue #7880: Fix sysconfig when the python executable is a symbolic link.
806
Ezio Melottib92ed7c2010-03-06 15:24:08 +0000807- Issue #6509: fix re.sub to work properly when the pattern, the string, and
808 the replacement were all bytes. Patch by Antoine Pitrou.
809
Gerhard Häringf9cee222010-03-05 15:20:03 +0000810- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.6.0. This fixes several obscure
811 bugs and allows loading SQLite extensions from shared libraries.
812
Ezio Melottida227042010-03-14 11:51:00 +0000813- Issue #1054943: Fix ``unicodedata.normalize('NFC', text)`` for the Public
814 Review Issue #29 (http://unicode.org/review/pr-29.html).
Victor Stinner7ed9c4c2010-03-04 12:14:57 +0000815
Victor Stinnercee3ae82010-03-04 00:29:24 +0000816- Issue #7494: fix a crash in _lsprof (cProfile) after clearing the profiler,
817 reset also the pointer to the current pointer context.
818
Lars Gustäbel01385812010-03-03 12:08:54 +0000819- Issue #7232: Add support for the context manager protocol to the TarFile
820 class.
821
Barry Warsawb1938262010-03-01 21:53:00 +0000822- Issue #7250: Fix info leak of os.environ across multi-run uses of
823 wsgiref.handlers.CGIHandler.
824
Florent Xicluna59250852010-02-27 14:21:57 +0000825- Issue #1729305: Fix doctest to handle encode error with "backslashreplace".
826
Florent Xiclunac279ebf2010-02-27 11:31:21 +0000827- Issue #691291: codecs.open() should not convert end of lines on reading and
828 writing.
829
Vinay Sajipdb81c4c2010-02-25 23:13:06 +0000830- Issue #7869: logging: improved diagnostic for format-time errors.
831
832- Issue #7868: logging: added loggerClass attribute to Manager.
833
834- logging: Implemented PEP 391.
835
R. David Murraybe0698b2010-02-23 22:57:58 +0000836- Issue #1537721: Add a writeheader() method to csv.DictWriter.
837
Thomas Heller5117b0b2010-02-23 20:25:02 +0000838- Issue #7959: ctypes callback functions are now registered correctly
Ezio Melotti8b1458b2010-02-24 16:55:43 +0000839 with the cycle garbage collector.
Thomas Heller5117b0b2010-02-23 20:25:02 +0000840
Tarek Ziadé8e615ae2010-02-23 06:00:04 +0000841- Issue #5801: removed spurious empty lines in wsgiref.
842
Andrew M. Kuchlinge1f9beb2010-02-22 22:16:58 +0000843- Issue #6666: fix bug in trace.py that applied the list of directories
844 to be ignored only to the first file. Noted by Bogdan Opanchuk.
845
Andrew M. Kuchlingfbacb062010-02-22 16:52:52 +0000846- Issue #7597: curses.use_env() can now be called before initscr().
847 Noted by Kan-Ru Chen.
848
Ezio Melotti19e4acf2010-02-22 15:59:01 +0000849- Issue #7310: fix the __repr__ of os.environ to show the environment variables.
850
R. David Murray57c45ac2010-02-21 04:39:40 +0000851- Issue #7970: email.Generator.flatten now correctly flattens message/rfc822
852 messages parsed by email.Parser.HeaderParser.
853
Brett Cannonef7d6722010-02-19 16:04:36 +0000854- Issue #7361: Importlib was not properly checking the number of bytes in
855 bytecode file when it was less then 8 bytes.
856
Mark Dickinson84230a12010-02-18 14:49:50 +0000857- Issue #7633: In the decimal module, Context class methods (with the
858 exception of canonical and is_canonical) now accept instances of int
859 and long wherever a Decimal instance is accepted, and implicitly
860 convert that argument to Decimal. Previously only some arguments
861 were converted.
862
R. David Murray1f449142010-02-11 00:15:05 +0000863- Issue #7835: shelve should no longer produce mysterious warnings during
864 interpreter shutdown.
865
Antoine Pitrou99f69ee2010-02-09 17:25:47 +0000866- Issue #2746: Don't escape ampersands and angle brackets ("&", "<", ">")
867 in XML processing instructions and comments. These raw characters are
868 allowed by the XML specification, and are necessary when outputting e.g.
869 PHP code in a processing instruction. Patch by Neil Muller.
870
Antoine Pitrouc77dd322010-02-09 16:51:16 +0000871- Issue #6233: ElementTree failed converting unicode characters to XML
872 entities when they could't be represented in the requested output
873 encoding. Patch by Jerry Chen.
874
Ronald Oussorenee5c8852010-02-07 20:24:02 +0000875- Issue #6003: add an argument to ``zipfile.Zipfile.writestr`` to
876 specify the compression type.
877
Antoine Pitroub6375f12010-02-04 20:23:24 +0000878- Issue #4772: Raise a ValueError when an unknown Bluetooth protocol is
879 specified, rather than fall through to AF_PACKET (in the `socket` module).
880 Also, raise ValueError rather than TypeError when an unknown TIPC address
881 type is specified. Patch by Brian Curtin.
882
Antoine Pitrou905a2ff2010-01-31 22:47:27 +0000883- Issue #6939: Fix file I/O objects in the `io` module to keep the original
884 file position when calling `truncate()`. It would previously change the
885 file position to the given argument, which goes against the tradition of
886 ftruncate() and other truncation APIs. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
887
Antoine Pitroua32f9a22010-01-27 21:18:57 +0000888- Issue #7610: Reworked implementation of the internal
889 :class:`zipfile.ZipExtFile` class used to represent files stored inside
890 an archive. The new implementation is significantly faster and can
891 be wrapped in a :class:`io.BufferedReader` object for more speedups.
892 It also solves an issue where interleaved calls to `read()` and
893 `readline()` give wrong results. Patch by Nir Aides.
894
Jesse Noller1f0b6582010-01-27 03:36:01 +0000895- Issue #6963: Added "maxtasksperchild" argument to multiprocessing.Pool,
896 allowing for a maximum number of tasks within the pool to be completed by
897 the worker before that worker is terminated, and a new one created to
898 replace it.
899
Benjamin Petersond6326642010-01-27 02:25:58 +0000900- Issue #7792: Registering non-classes to ABCs raised an obscure error.
901
Benjamin Peterson9a11a362010-01-27 01:51:29 +0000902- Issue #7785: Don't accept bytes in FileIO.write().
Benjamin Peterson255058f2010-01-27 01:47:14 +0000903
Ezio Melotti38f00332010-01-25 12:39:47 +0000904- Removed the functions 'verify' and 'vereq' from Lib/test/support.py.
905
Benjamin Peterson25001472010-01-25 03:37:42 +0000906- Issue #7773: Fix an UnboundLocalError in platform.linux_distribution() when
907 the release file is empty.
908
Antoine Pitrou1119a642010-01-17 12:16:23 +0000909- Issue #7561: Fix crashes when using bytearray objects with the posix
910 module.
911
R. David Murraya8f480f2010-01-16 18:30:03 +0000912- Issue #1670765: Prevent email.generator.Generator from re-wrapping
913 headers in multipart/signed MIME parts, which fixes one of the sources of
914 invalid modifications to such parts by Generator.
915
Antoine Pitrou747e8b32010-01-16 17:55:52 +0000916- Issue #7703: Add support for the new buffer API to `binascii.a2bhqx`.
917 Patch by Florent Xicluna, along with some additional tests.
918
Antoine Pitrou2843aa82010-01-15 00:27:43 +0000919- Issue #7701: Fix crash in binascii.b2a_uu() in debug mode when given a
920 1-byte argument. Patch by Victor Stinner.
921
Antoine Pitrou82feb1f2010-01-14 17:34:48 +0000922- Issue #3299: Fix possible crash in the _sre module when given bad
923 argument values in debug mode. Patch by Victor Stinner.
924
Antoine Pitrou8e33fd72010-01-13 14:37:26 +0000925- Issue #2846: Add support for gzip.GzipFile reading zero-padded files.
926 Patch by Brian Curtin.
927
Benjamin Peterson5efea042010-01-13 03:49:50 +0000928- Issue #7681: Use floor division in appropiate places in the wave module.
929
Tarek Ziadéac4e6ea2010-01-11 23:15:52 +0000930- Issue #5372: Drop the reuse of .o files in Distutils' ccompiler (since
931 Extension extra options may change the output without changing the .c
932 file). Initial patch by Collin Winter.
933
Tarek Ziadéaf77a2f2010-01-08 23:57:53 +0000934- Issue #7617: Make sure distutils.unixccompiler.UnixCCompiler recognizes
935 gcc when it has a fully qualified configuration prefix. Initial patch
936 by Arfrever.
937
Antoine Pitrouc1baa602010-01-08 17:54:23 +0000938- Issue #7105: Make WeakKeyDictionary and WeakValueDictionary robust against
939 the destruction of weakref'ed objects while iterating.
940
Antoine Pitrou01a15ea2010-01-07 17:57:31 +0000941- Issue #7455: Fix possible crash in cPickle on invalid input. Patch by
942 Victor Stinner.
943
Gregory P. Smithaafdca82010-01-04 04:50:36 +0000944- Issue #1628205: Socket file objects returned by socket.socket.makefile() now
945 properly handles EINTR within the read, readline, write & flush methods.
946 The socket.sendall() method now properly handles interrupted system calls.
947
Antoine Pitroub1f88352010-01-03 22:37:40 +0000948- Issue #7471: Improve the performance of GzipFile's buffering mechanism,
949 and make it implement the `io.BufferedIOBase` ABC to allow for further
950 speedups by wrapping it in an `io.BufferedReader`. Patch by Nir Aides.
951
952- Issue #3972: http.client.HTTPConnection now accepts an optional source_address
Gregory P. Smithb4066372010-01-03 03:28:29 +0000953 parameter to allow specifying where your connections come from.
954
955- socket.create_connection now accepts an optional source_address parameter.
956
Ezio Melottifaa6b7f2009-12-30 12:34:59 +0000957- Issue #5511: now zipfile.ZipFile can be used as a context manager.
958 Initial patch by Brian Curtin.
959
Tarek Ziadéc60ea322009-12-21 23:12:41 +0000960- Issue #7556: Make sure Distutils' msvc9compile reads and writes the
Victor Stinnere125f132010-05-15 21:04:43 +0000961 MSVC XML Manifest file in text mode so string patterns can be used
Tarek Ziadéc60ea322009-12-21 23:12:41 +0000962 in regular expressions.
963
Tarek Ziadé8b9361a2009-12-21 00:02:20 +0000964- Issue #7552: Removed line feed in the base64 Authorization header in
965 the Distutils upload command to avoid an error when PyPI reads it.
966 This occurs on long passwords. Initial patch by JP St. Pierre.
967
Senthil Kumaran47fff872009-12-20 07:10:31 +0000968- Issue #7231: urllib2 cannot handle https with proxy requiring auth. Patch by
969 Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa.
970
Antoine Pitrou77b338b2009-12-14 18:00:06 +0000971- Issue #4757: `zlib.compress` and other methods in the zlib module now
972 raise a TypeError when given an `str` object (rather than a `bytes`-like
973 object). Patch by Victor Stinner and Florent Xicluna.
974
Benjamin Petersonbf5ff762009-12-13 19:25:34 +0000975- Issue #7349: Make methods of file objects in the io module accept None as an
976 argument where file-like objects (ie StringIO and BytesIO) accept them to mean
977 the same as passing no argument.
978
Lars Gustäbel365aff32009-12-13 11:42:29 +0000979- Issue #7357: tarfile no longer suppresses fatal extraction errors by
980 default.
981
R. David Murraye8dc2582009-12-10 02:08:06 +0000982- Issue #5949: added check for correct lineends in input from IMAP server
983 in imaplib.
984
Raymond Hettinger44459de2010-04-03 23:20:46 +0000985- Add count() and reverse() methods to collections.deque().
Raymond Hettingere5fdedb2009-12-10 00:47:21 +0000986
Raymond Hettinger3f9afd82009-12-10 03:03:02 +0000987- Fix variations of extending deques: d.extend(d) d.extendleft(d) d+=d
988
Antoine Pitrou781eba72009-12-08 15:57:31 +0000989- Issue #6986: Fix crash in the JSON C accelerator when called with the
990 wrong parameter types. Patch by Victor Stinner.
991
Victor Stinnere125f132010-05-15 21:04:43 +0000992- Issue #7457: added a read_pkg_file method to
Tarek Ziadéb88a4962009-12-08 09:45:25 +0000993 distutils.dist.DistributionMetadata.
994
Vinay Sajip540f2152009-12-06 17:57:11 +0000995- logging: Added optional `secure` parameter to SMTPHandler, to enable use of
996 TLS with authentication credentials.
997
Victor Stinnere125f132010-05-15 21:04:43 +0000998- Issue #1923: Fixed the removal of meaningful spaces when PKG-INFO is
Tarek Ziadédf872d42009-12-06 09:28:17 +0000999 generated in Distutils. Patch by Stephen Emslie.
1000
Martin v. Löwis1679ea82009-12-03 20:57:49 +00001001- Issue #4120: Drop reference to CRT from manifest when building extensions with
1002 msvc9compiler.
1003
Antoine Pitroub7572f02009-12-02 20:46:48 +00001004- Issue #7333: The `posix` module gains an `initgroups()` function providing
1005 access to the initgroups(3) C library call on Unix systems which implement
1006 it. Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone.
1007
Tarek Ziadéacafc2d2009-11-29 22:24:57 +00001008- Issue #7408: Fixed distutils.tests.sdist so it doesn't check for group
1009 ownership when the group is not forced, because the group may be different
1010 from the user's group and inherit from its container when the test is run.
1011
Antoine Pitrou7b0d4a22009-11-28 16:12:28 +00001012- Issue #4486: When an exception has an explicit cause, do not print its
1013 implicit context too. This affects the `traceback` module as well as
1014 built-in exception printing.
1015
Antoine Pitrou1fc0d2b2009-11-28 15:58:27 +00001016- Issue #1515: Enable use of deepcopy() with instance methods. Patch by
1017 Robert Collins.
1018
Vinay Sajip03f6c112009-11-27 14:03:36 +00001019- Issue #7403: logging: Fixed possible race condition in lock creation.
1020
Antoine Pitrou648bcd72009-11-27 13:23:26 +00001021- Issue #6845: Add restart support for binary upload in ftplib. The
1022 `storbinary()` method of FTP and FTP_TLS objects gains an optional `rest`
1023 argument. Patch by Pablo Mouzo.
1024
Antoine Pitroube6859d2009-11-25 23:02:32 +00001025- Issue #5788: `datetime.timedelta` objects get a new `total_seconds()`
1026 method returning the total number of seconds in the duration. Patch by
1027 Brian Quinlan.
1028
Antoine Pitrou7d7aede2009-11-25 18:55:32 +00001029- Issue #7133: SSL objects now support the new buffer API.
1030
Senthil Kumaran758025c2009-11-23 19:02:52 +00001031- Issue #1488943: difflib.Differ() doesn't always add hints for tab characters
1032
Lars Gustäbel9520a432009-11-22 18:48:49 +00001033- Issue #6123: tarfile now opens empty archives correctly and consistently
1034 raises ReadError on empty files.
1035
Victor Stinnere125f132010-05-15 21:04:43 +00001036- Issue #7354: distutils.tests.test_msvc9compiler - dragfullwindows can
Tarek Ziadé26afd482009-11-19 05:39:00 +00001037 be 2.
1038
Benjamin Peterson3ec9b6e2009-11-19 21:22:27 +00001039- Issue #5037: Proxy the __bytes__ special method instead to __bytes__ instead
1040 of __str__.
Benjamin Peterson32019772009-11-19 03:08:32 +00001041
Lars Gustäbel7b465392009-11-18 20:29:25 +00001042- Issue #7341: Close the internal file object in the TarFile constructor in
1043 case of an error.
1044
Tarek Ziadé11c9d252009-11-18 09:32:34 +00001045- Issue #7293: distutils.test_msvc9compiler is fixed to work on any fresh
1046 Windows box. Help provided by David Bolen.
1047
Antoine Pitrouf988cd02009-11-17 20:21:14 +00001048- Issue #2054: ftplib now provides an FTP_TLS class to do secure FTP using
1049 TLS or SSL. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.
1050
Nick Coghlan106274b2009-11-15 23:04:33 +00001051- Issue #7328: pydoc no longer corrupts sys.path when run with the '-m' switch
1052
Antoine Pitroub8108e22009-11-15 14:25:16 +00001053- Issue #4969: The mimetypes module now reads the MIME database from
1054 the registry under Windows. Patch by Gabriel Genellina.
1055
Nick Coghlan260bd3e2009-11-16 06:49:25 +00001056- Issue #6816: runpy now provides a run_path function that allows Python code
1057 to execute file paths that refer to source or compiled Python files as well
1058 as zipfiles, directories and other valid sys.path entries that contain a
1059 __main__.py file. This allows applications that run other Python scripts to
1060 support the same flexibility as the CPython command line itself.
1061
Antoine Pitrou45d61a32009-11-13 22:35:18 +00001062- Issue #7318: multiprocessing now uses a timeout when it fails to establish
1063 a connection with another process, rather than looping endlessly. The
1064 default timeout is 20 seconds, which should be amply sufficient for
1065 local connections.
1066
Antoine Pitrouc63ecee2009-11-10 21:34:48 +00001067- Issue #7197: Allow unittest.TextTestRunner objects to be pickled and
1068 unpickled. This fixes crashes under Windows when trying to run
1069 test_multiprocessing in verbose mode.
1070
Michael Foord34c94622010-02-10 15:51:42 +00001071- Issue #7893: ``unittest.TextTestResult`` is made public and a ``resultclass``
1072 argument added to the TextTestRunner constructor allowing a different result
1073 class to be used without having to subclass.
Victor Stinnere125f132010-05-15 21:04:43 +00001074
Michael Foord34c94622010-02-10 15:51:42 +00001075- Issue 7588: ``unittest.TextTestResult.getDescription`` now includes the test
1076 name in failure reports even if the test has a docstring.
1077
Antoine Pitrou434736a2009-11-10 18:46:01 +00001078- Issue #3001: Add a C implementation of recursive locks which is used by
Victor Stinnere125f132010-05-15 21:04:43 +00001079 default when instantiating a `threading.RLock` object. This makes
Antoine Pitrou434736a2009-11-10 18:46:01 +00001080 recursive locks as fast as regular non-recursive locks (previously,
1081 they were slower by 10x to 15x).
1082
Antoine Pitroub0872682009-11-09 16:08:16 +00001083- Issue #7282: Fix a memory leak when an RLock was used in a thread other
1084 than those started through `threading.Thread` (for example, using
1085 `_thread.start_new_thread()`).
1086
Brett Cannone52c9192009-11-07 23:55:05 +00001087- Issue #7187: Importlib would not silence the IOError raised when trying to
1088 write new bytecode when it was made read-only.
1089
Antoine Pitroubdec11f2009-11-05 13:49:14 +00001090- Issue #7264: Fix a possible deadlock when deallocating thread-local objects
1091 which are part of a reference cycle.
1092
Antoine Pitroud83f1e62009-11-04 21:10:38 +00001093- Issue #7211: Allow 64-bit values for the `ident` and `data` fields of kevent
1094 objects on 64-bit systems. Patch by Michael Broghton.
1095
Antoine Pitrou03f13442009-11-02 11:36:51 +00001096- Issue #6896: mailbox.Maildir now invalidates its internal cache each time
1097 a modification is done through it. This fixes inconsistencies and test
1098 failures on systems with slightly bogus mtime behaviour.
1099
Gregory P. Smith50467882009-11-01 18:42:17 +00001100- Issue #7246 & Issue #7208: getpass now properly flushes input before
1101 reading from stdin so that existing input does not confuse it and
1102 lead to incorrect entry or an IOError. It also properly flushes it
1103 afterwards to avoid the terminal echoing the input afterwards on
1104 OSes such as Solaris.
1105
Mark Dickinsona2d1fe02009-10-29 12:23:02 +00001106- Issue #7233: Fix a number of two-argument Decimal methods to make
1107 sure that they accept an int or long as the second argument. Also
1108 fix buggy handling of large arguments (those with coefficient longer
1109 than the current precision) in shift and rotate.
1110
Lars Gustäbel1440df22009-10-29 09:39:47 +00001111- Issue #4750: Store the basename of the original filename in the gzip FNAME
1112 header as required by RFC 1952.
1113
Tarek Ziadéc7c71ff2009-10-27 23:12:01 +00001114- Issue #1180: Added a new global option to ignore ~/.pydistutils.cfg in
1115 Distutils.
1116
Tarek Ziadé8c0e2172009-10-27 21:24:21 +00001117- Issue #7218: Fix test_site for win32, the directory comparison was done with
1118 an uppercase.
1119
Antoine Pitrouc66363f2009-10-27 17:47:14 +00001120- Issue #7205: Fix a possible deadlock when using a BZ2File object from
1121 several threads at once.
1122
Vinay Sajip42ead482009-10-21 20:22:14 +00001123- Issue #7077: logging: SysLogHandler now treats Unicode as per RFC 5424.
1124
Mark Dickinson06bb6742009-10-20 13:38:04 +00001125- Issue #7099: Decimal.is_normal now returns True for numbers with exponent
1126 larger than emax.
1127
Antoine Pitrou6a448d42009-10-19 19:43:09 +00001128- Issue #7080: locale.strxfrm() raises a MemoryError on 64-bit non-Windows
1129 platforms, and assorted locale fixes by Derk Drukker.
1130
Antoine Pitroudc0900b2009-10-19 18:22:37 +00001131- Issue #5833: Fix extra space character in readline completion with the
1132 GNU readline library version 6.0.
1133
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +00001134- Issue #6894: Fixed the issue urllib2 doesn't respect "no_proxy" environment
Senthil Kumaran7bb04972009-10-11 04:58:55 +00001135
Vinay Sajipcbabd7e2009-10-10 20:32:36 +00001136- Issue #7086: Added TCP support to SysLogHandler, and tidied up some
1137 anachronisms in the code which were a relic of 1.5.2 compatibility.
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +00001138
R. David Murraybf2e0aa2009-10-10 00:13:32 +00001139- Issue #7082: When falling back to the MIME 'name' parameter, the
1140 correct place to look for it is the Content-Type header.
1141
Benjamin Petersond3afada2009-10-09 21:43:09 +00001142- Make tokenize.detect_coding() normalize utf-8 and iso-8859-1 variants like the
1143 builtin tokenizer.
1144
Mark Dickinson56df8872009-10-07 19:23:50 +00001145- Issue #7048: Force Decimal.logb to round its result when that result
1146 is too large to fit in the current precision.
1147
Antoine Pitrouca767bd2009-09-21 21:37:02 +00001148- Issue #6236, #6348: Fix various failures in the I/O library under AIX
Antoine Pitrou6a448d42009-10-19 19:43:09 +00001149 and other platforms, when using a non-gcc compiler. Patch by Derk Drukker.
Antoine Pitrouca767bd2009-09-21 21:37:02 +00001150
Thomas Heller69b639f2009-09-18 20:08:39 +00001151- Issue #4606: Passing 'None' if ctypes argtype is set to POINTER(...)
1152 does now always result in NULL.
1153
Thomas Hellerd7cb1b92009-09-18 19:05:13 +00001154- Issue #5042: Structure sub-subclass does now initialize correctly
1155 with base class positional arguments.
1156
Eric Smith81fd8042009-09-18 13:23:13 +00001157- Issue #6882: Import uuid creates zombies processes.
1158
Matthias Klosef6b76b02009-09-13 15:18:53 +00001159- Issue #6635: Fix profiler printing usage message.
1160
Lars Gustäbel049d2aa2009-09-12 10:44:00 +00001161- Issue #6856: Add a filter keyword argument to TarFile.add().
1162
Benjamin Petersonbe74a372009-09-11 21:17:13 +00001163- Issue #6888: pdb's alias command was broken when no arguments were given.
1164
Mark Dickinson46ab5d02009-09-08 20:22:46 +00001165- Issue #6857: Default format() alignment should be '>' for Decimal
1166 instances.
1167
Mark Dickinson825fce32009-09-07 18:08:12 +00001168- Issue #6795: int(Decimal('nan')) now raises ValueError instead of
1169 returning NaN or raising InvalidContext. Also, fix infinite recursion
1170 in long(Decimal('nan')).
1171
Mark Dickinson7718d2b2009-09-07 16:21:56 +00001172- Issue #6850: Fix bug in Decimal._parse_format_specifier for formats
1173 with no type specifier.
1174
Thomas Heller8b939522009-09-04 18:24:41 +00001175- Issue #6239: ctypes.c_char_p return value must return bytes.
1176
Chris Withers9c33cbf2009-09-04 17:04:16 +00001177- Issue #6838: Use a list to accumulate the value instead of
1178 repeatedly concatenating strings in http.client's
1179 HTTPResponse._read_chunked providing a significant speed increase
1180 when downloading large files servend with a Transfer-Encoding of 'chunked'.
1181
Brett Cannon1c1dcbf2009-08-30 20:22:21 +00001182- Trying to import a submodule from a module that is not a package, ImportError
1183 should be raised, not AttributeError.
1184
Brett Cannonde4ebfe2009-08-30 19:53:48 +00001185- When the globals past to importlib.__import__() has __package__ set to None,
1186 fall back to computing what __package__ should be instead of giving up.
1187
Brett Cannon6afbaef2009-08-30 19:08:58 +00001188- Raise a TypeError when the name of a module to be imported for
1189 importlib.__import__ is not a string (was raising an
1190 AttributeError before).
1191
Brett Cannon9e0e1a62009-08-30 18:28:46 +00001192- Allow the fromlist passed into importlib.__import__ to be any iterable.
1193
Brett Cannon4d75fc12009-08-30 03:47:36 +00001194- Have importlib raise ImportError if None is found in sys.modules.
1195
Lars Gustäbelbfdfdda2009-08-28 19:59:59 +00001196- Issue #6054: Do not normalize stored pathnames in tarfile.
1197
Mark Dickinsond314e1b2009-08-28 13:39:53 +00001198- Issue #6794: Fix Decimal.compare_total and Decimal.compare_total_mag: NaN
1199 payloads are now ordered by integer value rather than lexicographically.
1200
Guilherme Polobcd03df2009-08-18 15:35:57 +00001201- Issue #1356969: Add missing info methods in tix.HList.
1202
1203- Issue #1522587: New constants and methods for the tix.Grid widget.
1204
1205- Issue #1250469: Fix the return value of tix.PanedWindow.panes.
1206
1207- Issue #1119673: Do not override tkinter.Text methods when creating a
1208 ScrolledText.
1209
Gregory P. Smith01099702009-08-16 18:58:46 +00001210- Issue #6665: Fix fnmatch to properly match filenames with newlines in them.
1211
Guilherme Poloc3b2ae42009-08-16 14:46:16 +00001212- Issue #1135: Add the XView and YView mix-ins to avoid duplicating
1213 the xview* and yview* methods.
1214
Antoine Pitroua0ceb732009-08-06 20:29:56 +00001215- Issue #6629: Fix a data corruption issue in the new I/O library, which could
1216 occur when writing to a BufferedRandom object (e.g. a file opened in "rb+" or
1217 "wb+" mode) after having buffered a certain amount of data for reading. This
1218 bug was not present in the pure Python implementation.
1219
Mark Dickinsonea1158f2009-08-06 16:06:25 +00001220- Issue #6622: Fix "local variable 'secret' referenced before
1221 assignment" bug in POP3.apop.
1222
Mark Dickinson45f799f2009-08-02 20:08:54 +00001223- Issue #2715: Remove remnants of Carbon.File from binhex module.
1224
Mark Dickinson345adc42009-08-02 10:14:23 +00001225- Issue #6595: The Decimal constructor now allows arbitrary Unicode
1226 decimal digits in input, as recommended by the standard. Previously
1227 it was restricted to accepting [0-9].
1228
Jack Diederich36596a32009-07-26 22:23:04 +00001229- Issue #6106: telnetlib.Telnet.process_rawq doesn't handle default WILL/WONT
1230 DO/DONT correctly.
1231
Senthil Kumaran67305382009-07-26 04:46:00 +00001232- Issue #1424152: Fix for http.client, urllib.request to support SSL while
1233 working through proxy. Original patch by Christopher Li, changes made by
1234 Senthil Kumaran
Senthil Kumaran97f0c6b2009-07-25 04:24:38 +00001235
Brett Cannon69194272009-07-20 04:23:48 +00001236- Add importlib.abc.ExecutionLoader to represent the PEP 302 protocol for
1237 loaders that allow for modules to be executed. Both importlib.abc.PyLoader
1238 and PyPycLoader inherit from this class and provide implementations in
1239 relation to other methods required by the ABCs.
1240
Brett Cannon64ef00f2009-07-20 03:19:18 +00001241- importlib.abc.PyLoader did not inherit from importlib.abc.ResourceLoader like
1242 the documentation said it did even though the code in PyLoader relied on the
1243 abstract method required by ResourceLoader.
1244
Mark Dickinson85424c92009-07-18 14:41:42 +00001245- Issue #6431: Make Fraction type return NotImplemented when it doesn't
1246 know how to handle a comparison without loss of precision. Also add
1247 correct handling of infinities and nans for comparisons with float.
1248
Antoine Pitrouf3637322009-08-06 21:00:37 +00001249- Issue #6415: Fixed warnings.warn segfault on bad formatted string.
Hirokazu Yamamoto1c0c0032009-07-17 06:55:42 +00001250
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc97e5f282009-07-11 09:35:13 +00001251- Issue #6358: The exit status of a command started with os.popen() was
1252 reported differently than it did with python 2.x.
1253
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc2de11152009-07-09 23:07:52 +00001254- Issue #6323: The pdb debugger did not exit when running a script with a
1255 syntax error.
1256
Gregory P. Smithd06fa472009-07-04 02:46:54 +00001257- Issue #3392: The subprocess communicate() method no longer fails in select()
1258 when file descriptors are large; communicate() now uses poll() when possible.
1259
Antoine Pitrou54923952009-07-01 14:53:06 +00001260- Issue #6369: Fix an RLE decompression bug in the binhex module.
1261
Hirokazu Yamamoto7a9e1bd2009-06-29 14:54:12 +00001262- Issue #6344: Fixed a crash of mmap.read() when passed a negative argument.
1263
Benjamin Peterson5a6deb42009-06-28 21:35:31 +00001264- The deprecated function string.maketrans has been removed.
1265
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +00001266- Issue #4005: Fixed a crash of pydoc when there was a zip file present in
1267 sys.path.
1268
Alexandre Vassalotticf76e1a2009-07-22 03:24:36 +00001269- Issue #6218: io.StringIO and io.BytesIO instances are now picklable.
1270
Gregory P. Smithb6e8c7e2010-02-27 07:22:22 +00001271- The os.get_exec_path() function to return the list of directories that will
1272 be searched for an executable when launching a subprocess was added.
1273
Gregory P. Smith3fdd9642010-02-28 18:57:46 +00001274- Issue #7481: When a threading.Thread failed to start it would leave the
1275 instance stuck in initial state and present in threading.enumerate().
1276
Gregory P. Smitha59c59f2010-03-01 00:17:40 +00001277- Issue #1068268: The subprocess module now handles EINTR in internal
1278 os.waitpid and os.read system calls where appropriate.
1279
Gregory P. Smith1a530912010-03-01 04:59:27 +00001280- Issue #6729: Added ctypes.c_ssize_t to represent ssize_t.
1281
Steven Bethard6d265692010-03-02 09:22:57 +00001282- Issue #6247: The argparse module has been added to the standard library.
1283
Larry Hastingsf0f37952010-04-02 11:47:10 +00001284- Issue #8235: _socket: Add the constant ``SO_SETFIB``. SO_SETFIB is
1285 a socket option available on FreeBSD 7.1 and newer.
1286
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +00001287Extension Modules
1288-----------------
Mark Dickinson12c4bdb2009-09-28 19:21:11 +00001289
Alexander Belopolsky177e8532010-06-11 16:04:59 +00001290- Issue #3129: Trailing digits in format string are no longer ignored.
1291 For example, "1" or "ilib123" are now invalid formats and cause
1292 ``struct.error`` to be raised.
1293
Stefan Kraha3ac44e2010-06-08 14:00:52 +00001294- Issue #7384: If the system readline library is linked against ncurses,
1295 the curses module must be linked against ncurses as well. Otherwise it
1296 is not safe to load both the readline and curses modules in an application.
1297
Brian Curtin60853212010-05-26 17:43:50 +00001298- Issue #2810: Fix cases where the Windows registry API returns
1299 ERROR_MORE_DATA, requiring a re-try in order to get the complete result.
1300
Mark Dickinson4c8a9a22010-05-15 17:02:38 +00001301- Issue #8692: Optimize math.factorial: replace the previous naive
1302 algorithm with an improved 'binary-split' algorithm that uses fewer
1303 multiplications and allows many of the multiplications to be
1304 performed using plain C integer arithmetic instead of PyLong
1305 arithmetic. Also uses a lookup table for small arguments.
1306
Mark Dickinson85eacea2010-05-10 16:27:45 +00001307- Issue #8674: Fixed a number of incorrect or undefined-behaviour-inducing
1308 overflow checks in the audioop module.
1309
Mark Dickinson0381e3f2010-05-08 14:35:02 +00001310- Issue #8644: The accuracy of td.total_seconds() has been improved (by
1311 calculating with integer arithmetic instead of float arithmetic internally):
1312 the result is now always correctly rounded, and is equivalent to td /
1313 timedelta(seconds=1).
1314
Mark Dickinson7c186e22010-04-20 22:32:49 +00001315- Issue #2706: Allow division of a timedelta by another timedelta:
1316 timedelta / timedelta, timedelta % timedelta, timedelta // timedelta
1317 and divmod(timedelta, timedelta) are all supported.
1318
Victor Stinnerfebecd82010-04-16 12:07:30 +00001319- Issue #8314: Fix unsigned long long bug in libffi on Sparc v8.
1320
Mark Dickinsonc5935772010-04-03 15:54:36 +00001321- Issue #8300: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with any
1322 integer format code, struct.pack first attempts to convert the non-integer
1323 using its __index__ method. If that method is non-existent or raises
1324 TypeError it goes on to try the __int__ method, as described below.
1325
Matthias Klosea8349752010-03-15 13:25:28 +00001326- Issue #8142: Update libffi to the 3.0.9 release.
1327
Matthias Klose9550aa12010-03-15 12:49:46 +00001328- Issue #6949: Allow the _dbm extension to be built with db 4.8.x.
1329
Georg Brandlc0e22b72010-03-14 10:51:01 +00001330- Issue #6544: fix a reference leak in the kqueue implementation's error
1331 handling.
1332
Martin v. Löwis3afc62e2010-02-18 16:27:43 +00001333- Stop providing crtassem.h symbols when compiling with Visual Studio 2010, as
1334 msvcr100.dll is not a platform assembly anymore.
1335
Martin v. Löwis7aed61a2009-11-27 14:09:49 +00001336- Issue #6508: Add posix.{getresuid,getresgid,setresuid,setresgid}.
1337
Mark Dickinson40714af2009-10-08 15:59:20 +00001338- Issue #7078: Set struct.__doc__ from _struct.__doc__.
1339
Mark Dickinson45f992a2009-12-19 11:20:49 +00001340- Issue #3366: Add erf, erfc, expm1, gamma, lgamma functions to math module.
Mark Dickinson12c4bdb2009-09-28 19:21:11 +00001341
Ronald Oussoren2efd9242009-09-20 14:53:22 +00001342- Issue #6877: It is now possible to link the readline extension to the
1343 libedit readline emulation on OSX 10.5 or later.
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +00001344
Mark Dickinson5ea7d642009-09-06 21:24:55 +00001345- Issue #6848: Fix curses module build failure on OS X 10.6.
1346
Brett Cannon2f827382009-08-13 19:58:01 +00001347- Fix a segfault that could be triggered by expat with specially formed input.
1348
Mark Dickinson1f268282009-07-28 17:22:36 +00001349- Issue #6561: '\d' in a regex now matches only characters with
1350 Unicode category 'Nd' (Number, Decimal Digit). Previously it also
1351 matched characters with category 'No'.
1352
Alexandre Vassalottiad077152009-07-15 17:49:23 +00001353- Issue #4509: Array objects are no longer modified after an operation
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +00001354 failing due to the resize restriction in-place when the object has exported
1355 buffers.
1356
Alexandre Vassalottiad077152009-07-15 17:49:23 +00001357- Issue #2389: Array objects are now pickled in a portable manner.
1358
Matthias Klosea50ffe52010-01-22 01:10:19 +00001359- Expat: Fix DoS via XML document with malformed UTF-8 sequences
1360 (CVE_2009_3560).
1361
Gregory P. Smith24cec9f2010-03-01 06:18:41 +00001362- Issue #7242: On Solaris 9 and earlier calling os.fork() from within a
1363 thread could raise an incorrect RuntimeError about not holding the import
1364 lock. The import lock is now reinitialized after fork.
1365
Gregory P. Smithc78d79c2010-03-01 05:54:14 +00001366- Issue #7999: os.setreuid() and os.setregid() would refuse to accept a -1
1367 parameter on some platforms such as OS X.
1368
Matthias Klose4c4b0782010-04-21 22:21:03 +00001369- Build the ossaudio extension on GNU/kFreeBSD.
1370
Brian Curtinb4e8ca12010-04-22 01:52:50 +00001371- Issue #7347: winreg: Add CreateKeyEx and DeleteKeyEx, as well as fix a
1372 bug in the return value of QueryReflectionKey.
1373
Martin v. Löwis95c46012009-06-28 09:36:14 +00001374Build
1375-----
1376
Martin v. Löwisec78d0a2010-06-04 17:20:56 +00001377- Issue #1759169, #8864: Drop _XOPEN_SOURCE on Solaris, define it for
1378 multiprocessing only.
Martin v. Löwis1a415762010-05-28 15:44:20 +00001379
Mark Dickinsonb2153e92010-05-05 22:31:36 +00001380- Issue #8625: Turn off optimization in --with-pydebug builds with
1381 gcc. (Optimization was unintentionally turned on in gcc
1382 --with-pydebug builds as a result of the issue #1628484 fix,
1383 combined with autoconf's strange choice of default CFLAGS produced
1384 by AC_PROG_CC for gcc.)
1385
Ronald Oussoren86b33c82010-04-30 11:41:56 +00001386- Issue #3646: It is now easily possible to install a Python framework into
1387 your home directory on MacOSX, see Mac/README for more information.
1388
Jesus Cea740f53a2010-04-28 11:35:30 +00001389- Issue #3928: os.mknod() now available in Solaris, also.
1390
Benjamin Petersone6c9d242010-03-30 17:34:47 +00001391- Issue #3326: Build Python without -fno-strict-aliasing when the gcc does not
1392 give false warnings.
1393
Antoine Pitrou7a61ba92010-03-21 19:25:26 +00001394- Issue #1628484: The Makefile doesn't ignore the CFLAGS environment
1395 variable anymore. It also forwards the LDFLAGS settings to the linker
1396 when building a shared library.
1397
Martin v. Löwis09c86af2010-03-16 11:03:13 +00001398- Issue #6716: Quote -x arguments of compileall in MSI installer.
Martin v. Löwis4ad70df2010-03-16 16:19:47 +00001399 Exclude 2to3 tests from compileall.
Martin v. Löwis09c86af2010-03-16 11:03:13 +00001400
Martin v. Löwis19ed3c82010-02-15 21:45:06 +00001401- Issue #3920, #7903: Define _BSD_SOURCE on OpenBSD 4.4 through 4.9.
Martin v. Löwis7671efc2010-02-15 08:35:16 +00001402
Mark Dickinsonde508002010-01-17 21:02:55 +00001403- Issue #7632: When Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER is defined, disable the
1404 private memory allocation scheme in dtoa.c and use PyMem_Malloc and
1405 PyMem_Free instead. Also disable caching of powers of 5.
1406
Benjamin Petersond78735d2010-01-01 16:04:23 +00001407- Issue #6491: Allow --with-dbmliborder to specify that no dbms will be built.
1408
1409- Issue #6943: Use pkg-config to find the libffi headers when the
1410 --with-system-ffi flag is used.
1411
Benjamin Petersonb2d90462009-12-31 03:23:10 +00001412- Issue #7609: Add a --with-system-expat option that causes the system's expat
1413 library to be used for the pyexpat module instead of the one included with
1414 Python.
1415
Benjamin Petersone57d6762009-12-30 03:02:03 +00001416- Issue #7589: Only build the nis module when the correct header files are
1417 found.
1418
Martin v. Löwis7df3b9e2010-01-02 10:06:19 +00001419- Switch to OpenSSL 0.9.8l and sqlite 3.6.21 on Windows.
Martin v. Löwise5692cd2009-12-22 08:57:39 +00001420
Mark Dickinsonf4243f62009-11-15 13:47:27 +00001421- Issue #5792: Extend the short float repr support to x86 systems using
1422 icc or suncc.
1423
Mark Dickinsona25b1312009-10-31 10:18:44 +00001424- Issue #6603: Change READ_TIMESTAMP macro in ceval.c so that it
1425 compiles correctly under gcc on x86-64. This fixes a reported
1426 problem with the --with-tsc build on x86-64.
1427
Ronald Oussoren5bbab3e2009-09-06 11:01:15 +00001428- Issue #6802: Fix build issues on MacOSX 10.6
1429
Guilherme Polo5d377bd2009-08-16 14:44:14 +00001430- Issue #6244: Allow detect_tkinter to look for Tcl/Tk 8.6.
1431
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc321e5332009-07-02 23:08:45 +00001432- Issue 4601: 'make install' did not set the appropriate permissions on
1433 directories.
1434
Martin v. Löwis95c46012009-06-28 09:36:14 +00001435- Issue 5390: Add uninstall icon independent of whether file
1436 extensions are installed.
1437
Florent Xicluna3f88c0e2010-03-19 14:40:31 +00001438- Issue #7541: when using ``python-config`` with a framework install the
1439 compiler might use the wrong library.
Ronald Oussoren585c1732009-12-24 14:21:55 +00001440
Collin Winterbf199072010-03-19 21:17:17 +00001441- python-config now supports multiple options on the same command line.
1442
Matthias Klosec80c93f2010-04-24 17:04:35 +00001443- Issue #8509: Fix quoting in help strings and code snippets in configure.in.
1444
Matthias Kloseb9621712010-04-24 17:59:49 +00001445- Issue #8510: Update to autoconf2.65.
1446
Matthias Klosec80c93f2010-04-24 17:04:35 +00001447
Mark Dickinsond3aa6462009-09-17 00:06:41 +00001448Documentation
Tarek Ziadéf3b33222009-08-21 14:22:45 +00001449------------
1450
R. David Murraye821cb62010-03-08 17:48:38 +00001451- A small wsgi server was added as Tools/scripts/serve.py, and is used to
1452 implement a local documentation server via 'make serve' in the doc directory.
1453
Barry Warsaw615368f2010-02-05 19:12:30 +00001454- Updating `Using Python` documentation to include description of CPython's
1455 -J and -X options.
1456
Brett Cannon757df6e2009-08-30 04:00:12 +00001457- Document that importing a module that has None in sys.modules triggers an
1458 ImportError.
1459
Tarek Ziadéf3b33222009-08-21 14:22:45 +00001460- Issue #6556: Fixed the Distutils configuration files location explanation
1461 for Windows.
Florent Xiclunaf089fd62010-03-19 14:25:03 +00001462
Matthias Klosec8b16f82010-01-31 16:14:37 +00001463- Update python manual page (options -B, -O0, -s, environment variables
1464 PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE, PYTHONNOUSERSITE).
Tarek Ziadéf3b33222009-08-21 14:22:45 +00001465
Tarek Ziadé7047eb72010-06-06 20:18:42 +00001466- Issue #8909: Added the size of the bitmap used in the installer created by
1467 distutils' bdist_wininst. Patch by Anatoly Techtonik.
1468
Brett Cannonb49c70c2009-07-15 04:08:33 +00001469Tests
1470-----
1471
Victor Stinner5f22e722010-05-26 17:33:03 +00001472- Issue #7449: Skip test_socketserver if threading support is disabled
1473
Antoine Pitrouc09c92f2010-05-11 23:36:40 +00001474- Issue #8672: Add a zlib test ensuring that an incomplete stream can be
1475 handled by a decompressor object without errors (it returns incomplete
1476 uncompressed data).
1477
Victor Stinnerf58087b2010-05-02 17:24:51 +00001478- Issue #8533: regrtest uses backslashreplace error handler for stdout to avoid
1479 UnicodeEncodeError (write non-ASCII character to stdout using ASCII encoding)
Victor Stinner0d80a582010-05-02 09:37:08 +00001480
Antoine Pitrou043bad02010-04-30 23:20:15 +00001481- Issue #8576: Remove use of find_unused_port() in test_smtplib and
1482 test_multiprocessing. Patch by Paul Moore.
1483
Victor Stinner45df8202010-04-28 22:31:17 +00001484- Issue #7449: Fix many tests to support Python compiled without thread
1485 support. Patches written by Jerry Seutter.
1486
Antoine Pitrou2c4f98b2010-04-23 00:16:21 +00001487- Issue #8108: test_ftplib's non-blocking SSL server now has proper handling
1488 of SSL shutdowns.
1489
Victor Stinner534db4e2010-04-23 20:33:55 +00001490- Issues #8279, #8330, #8437, #8480, #8495: Fix test_gdb failures, patch
1491 written by Dave Malcolm
Victor Stinnere7ed1d72010-04-21 13:55:23 +00001492
R. David Murrayedcfeba2010-04-21 01:51:57 +00001493- Issue #3864: Skip three test_signal tests on freebsd6 because they fail
1494 if any thread was previously started, most likely due to a platform bug.
1495
Antoine Pitrou90ee4df2010-04-06 17:23:13 +00001496- Issue #8193: Fix test_zlib failure with zlib 1.2.4.
1497
Antoine Pitrou503ab332010-03-30 18:56:19 +00001498- Issue #8248: Add some tests for the bool type. Patch by Gregory Nofi.
1499
Florent Xiclunad6995eb2010-03-30 19:43:09 +00001500- Issue #8263: Now regrtest.py will report a failure if it receives a
1501 KeyboardInterrupt (SIGINT).
1502
Florent Xiclunafd1b0932010-03-28 00:25:02 +00001503- Issue #8180 and #8207: Fix test_pep277 on OS X and add more tests for special
1504 Unicode normalization cases.
Florent Xiclunaeb136182010-03-21 18:49:50 +00001505
Florent Xicluna3f88c0e2010-03-19 14:40:31 +00001506- Issue #7783: test.support.open_urlresource invalidates the outdated files
1507 from the local cache.
Florent Xiclunaf089fd62010-03-19 14:25:03 +00001508
Florent Xiclunab14930c2010-03-13 15:26:44 +00001509- Issue #7849: Now the utility ``check_warnings`` verifies if the warnings are
1510 effectively raised.
1511
Florent Xiclunac9c79782010-03-08 12:24:53 +00001512- The four path modules (genericpath, macpath, ntpath, posixpath) share a
1513 common TestCase for some tests: test_genericpath.CommonTest.
1514
Florent Xicluna0e62a142010-03-06 17:34:48 +00001515- Print platform information when running the whole test suite, or using
1516 the --verbose flag.
1517
Florent Xicluna683a7e72010-03-03 00:06:37 +00001518- Issue #767675: enable test_pep277 on POSIX platforms with Unicode-friendly
1519 filesystem encoding.
1520
R. David Murray378c0cf2010-02-24 01:46:21 +00001521- Issue #6292: for the moment at least, the test suite runs cleanly if python
1522 is run with the -OO flag. Tests requiring docstrings are skipped.
1523
Ezio Melotti184bdfb2010-02-18 09:37:05 +00001524- Issue #7712: test.support gained a new `temp_cwd` context manager which is
1525 now also used by regrtest to run all the tests in a temporary directory.
1526 The original CWD is saved in `support.SAVEDCWD`.
1527 Thanks to Florent Xicluna who helped with the patch.
1528
Mark Dickinsonedff7af2010-02-13 18:34:53 +00001529- Issue #7924: Fix an intermittent 'XXX undetected error' failure in
1530 test_capi (only seen so far on platforms where the curses module
1531 wasn't built), due to an uncleared exception.
1532
Florent Xicluna3f88c0e2010-03-19 14:40:31 +00001533- Issue #7728: test_timeout was changed to use support.bind_port instead of a
1534 hard coded port.
R. David Murraye9e95932010-02-06 05:00:15 +00001535
R. David Murray445448c2009-12-20 17:28:31 +00001536- Issue #7376: instead of running a self-test (which was failing) when called
1537 with no arguments, doctest.py now gives a usage message.
1538
R. David Murrayef1992b2009-12-16 15:19:27 +00001539- Issue #7396: fix regrtest -s, which was broken by the -j enhancement.
1540
R. David Murray596da442009-12-14 23:06:11 +00001541- Issue #7498: test_multiprocessing now uses test.support.find_unused_port
R. David Murray83396232009-12-14 22:45:15 +00001542 instead of a hardcoded port number in test_rapid_restart.
1543
Victor Stinnere125f132010-05-15 21:04:43 +00001544- Issue #7431: use TESTFN in test_linecache instead of trying to create a
R. David Murrayba311052009-12-04 00:09:14 +00001545 file in the Lib/test directory, which might be read-only for the
1546 user running the tests.
1547
R. David Murray35768ad2009-11-15 00:23:21 +00001548- Issue #7324: add a sanity check to regrtest argument parsing to
1549 catch the case of an option with no handler.
1550
R. David Murray7dc72cc2009-11-14 16:13:02 +00001551- Issue #7312: Add a -F flag to run the selected tests in a loop until
1552 a test fails. Can be combined with -j.
1553
Antoine Pitrou060cee22009-11-13 16:29:04 +00001554- Issue #6551: test_zipimport could import and then destroy some modules of
1555 the encodings package, which would make other tests fail further down
1556 the road because the internally cached encoders and decoders would point
1557 to empty global variables.
1558
Antoine Pitrou941ee882009-11-11 20:59:38 +00001559- Issue #7295: Do not use a hardcoded file name in test_tarfile.
1560
Antoine Pitrou557934f2009-11-06 22:41:14 +00001561- Issue #7270: Add some dedicated unit tests for multi-thread synchronization
1562 primitives such as Lock, RLock, Condition, Event and Semaphore.
1563
Brett Cannoncfed0292009-11-05 01:26:57 +00001564- Issue #7248 (part 2): Use a unique temporary directory for importlib source
1565 tests instead of tempfile.tempdir. This prevents the tests from sharing state
1566 between concurrent executions on the same system.
1567
Brett Cannon0ae45112009-11-05 01:17:22 +00001568- Issue #7248: In importlib.test.source.util a try/finally block did not make
1569 sure that some referenced objects actually were created in the block before
1570 calling methods on the object.
1571
Antoine Pitrou65c9c642009-10-30 17:25:12 +00001572- Issue #7222: Make thread "reaping" more reliable so that reference
1573 leak-chasing test runs give sensible results. The previous method of
1574 reaping threads could return successfully while some Thread objects were
1575 still referenced. This also introduces a new private function:
1576 :func:`_thread._count()`.
1577
R. David Murray27144602009-10-19 15:26:16 +00001578- Issue #7151: fixed regrtest -j so that output to stderr from a test no
1579 longer runs the risk of causing the worker thread to fail.
1580
Antoine Pitrou4de39cd2009-10-10 21:08:31 +00001581- Issue #7055: test___all__ now greedily detects all modules which have an
1582 __all__ attribute, rather than using a hardcoded and incomplete list.
1583
R. David Murray0bc11ae2009-10-18 22:18:17 +00001584- Issue #7058: Added save/restore for things like sys.argv and cwd to
1585 runtest_inner in regrtest, with warnings if the called test modifies them,
1586 and a new section in the summary report at the end.
R. David Murray097e51f2009-10-07 23:38:55 +00001587
Mark Dickinson2e304402009-10-04 18:43:54 +00001588- Issue #7042: Fix test_signal (test_itimer_virtual) failure on OS X 10.6.
1589
Brett Cannon3c273842009-07-20 00:14:29 +00001590- Fixed tests in importlib.test.source.test_abc_loader that were masking
1591 the proper exceptions that should be raised for missing or improper code
1592 object bytecode.
1593
Brett Cannonb49c70c2009-07-15 04:08:33 +00001594- Removed importlib's custom test discovery code and switched to
1595 unittest.TestLoader.discover().
1596
Antoine Pitroua69ba652010-01-18 21:20:53 +00001597Tools/Demos
1598-----------
1599
Martin v. Löwiscb081b82010-06-04 18:14:42 +00001600- Issue #5464: Implement plural forms in msgfmt.py.
1601
Antoine Pitroua69ba652010-01-18 21:20:53 +00001602- iobench (a file I/O benchmark) and ccbench (a concurrency benchmark) were
1603 added to the `Tools/` directory. They were previously living in the
1604 sandbox.
1605
Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +00001606
Benjamin Peterson01bf2362009-06-13 14:50:22 +00001607What's New in Python 3.1?
1608=========================
1609
1610*Release date: 27-June-2009*
1611
1612Core and Builtins
1613-----------------
1614
Mark Dickinsonad195562009-06-24 19:01:32 +00001615- Issue #6334: Fix bug in range length calculation for ranges with
1616 large arguments.
1617
Raymond Hettinger159eac92009-06-23 20:38:54 +00001618- Issue #6329: Fixed iteration for memoryview objects (it was being blocked
1619 because it wasn't recognized as a sequence).
1620
Benjamin Peterson01bf2362009-06-13 14:50:22 +00001621Library
1622-------
1623
Georg Brandld07ac642009-08-13 07:50:57 +00001624- Issue #6126: Fixed pdb command-line usage.
1625
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00001626- Issue #6314: logging: performs extra checks on the "level" argument.
Vinay Sajip0f6eac22009-06-21 17:46:49 +00001627
Facundo Batista10706e22009-06-19 20:34:30 +00001628- Issue #6274: Fixed possible file descriptors leak in subprocess.py
1629
Benjamin Peterson6a38ced2009-06-14 18:32:19 +00001630- Accessing io.StringIO.buffer now raises an AttributeError instead of
1631 io.UnsupportedOperation.
1632
Vinay Sajip0f6eac22009-06-21 17:46:49 +00001633- Issue #6271: mmap tried to close invalid file handle (-1) when anonymous.
Hirokazu Yamamoto3d8827d2009-06-14 04:58:16 +00001634 (On Unix)
1635
Gregory P. Smithe88749b2009-06-26 08:05:13 +00001636- Issue #1202: zipfile module would cause a struct.error when attempting to
1637 store files with a CRC32 > 2**31-1.
1638
Matthias Kloseab2b7552009-06-22 13:05:52 +00001639Extension Modules
1640-----------------
1641
1642- Issue #5590: Remove unused global variable in pyexpat extension.
1643
Benjamin Peterson01bf2362009-06-13 14:50:22 +00001644
Antoine Pitrou3b1b8072009-05-30 21:01:23 +00001645What's New in Python 3.1 Release Candidate 2?
1646=============================================
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00001647
Benjamin Petersonc7c12282009-06-13 13:15:04 +00001648*Release date: 13-June-2009*
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00001649
1650Core and Builtins
1651-----------------
1652
Raymond Hettinger94f55832009-06-12 18:40:16 +00001653- Fixed SystemError triggered by "range([], 1, -1)".
1654
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc66f8c432009-06-09 21:30:01 +00001655- Issue #5924: On Windows, a large PYTHONPATH environment variable
1656 (more than 255 characters) would be completely ignored.
1657
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc24e581f2009-06-01 21:28:37 +00001658- Issue #4547: When debugging a very large function, it was not always
1659 possible to update the lineno attribute of the current frame.
1660
Antoine Pitrou8e124f32009-05-30 21:41:10 +00001661- Issue #5330: C functions called with keyword arguments were not reported by
Alexandre Vassalottiea3714e2009-07-17 09:34:31 +00001662 the various profiling modules (profile, cProfile). Patch by Hagen Fürstenau.
Antoine Pitrou8e124f32009-05-30 21:41:10 +00001663
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00001664Library
1665-------
1666
Tarek Ziadéc9e6cec2009-07-12 08:27:26 +00001667- Issue #6438: Fixed distutils.cygwinccompiler.get_versions : the regular
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00001668 expression string pattern was trying to match against a bytes returned by
Tarek Ziadéc9e6cec2009-07-12 08:27:26 +00001669 Popen. Tested under win32 to build the py-postgresql project.
1670
Martin v. Löwis83eacca2009-06-12 17:31:41 +00001671- Issue #6258: Support AMD64 in bdist_msi.
1672
R. David Murray58641de2009-06-12 15:33:19 +00001673- Issue #6195: fixed doctest to no longer try to read 'source' data from
1674 binary files.
1675
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00001676- Issue #5262: Fixed bug in next rollover time computation in
1677 TimedRotatingFileHandler.
1678
Benjamin Peterson0926ad12009-06-06 18:02:12 +00001679- Issue #6217: The C implementation of io.TextIOWrapper didn't include the
1680 errors property. Additionally, the errors and encoding properties of StringIO
1681 are always None now.
1682
Antoine Pitroud9dfaa92009-06-04 20:32:06 +00001683- Issue #6137: The pickle module now translates module names when loading
1684 or dumping pickles with a 2.x-compatible protocol, in order to make data
1685 sharing and migration easier. This behaviour can be disabled using the
1686 new `fix_imports` optional argument.
1687
Raymond Hettinger40925d22009-06-04 18:32:39 +00001688- Removed the ipaddr module.
1689
Georg Brandlb54d8012009-06-04 09:11:51 +00001690- Issue #3613: base64.{encode,decode}string are now called
1691 base64.{encode,decode}bytes which reflects what type they accept and return.
1692 The old names are still there as deprecated aliases.
1693
Georg Brandl317185a2009-06-04 09:00:56 +00001694- Issue #5767: Remove sgmlop support from xmlrpc.client.
1695
Martin v. Löwis74b7e442009-06-01 04:23:07 +00001696- Issue #6150: Fix test_unicode on wide-unicode builds.
1697
Antoine Pitrouc06de472009-05-30 21:04:26 +00001698- Issue #6149: Fix initialization of WeakValueDictionary objects from non-empty
1699 parameters.
1700
Martin v. Löwis79b13872009-06-01 04:13:14 +00001701Windows
1702-------
1703
Martin v. Löwisb7a51562009-06-07 17:55:17 +00001704- Issue #6221: Delete test registry key before running the test.
1705
Martin v. Löwis79b13872009-06-01 04:13:14 +00001706- Issue #6158: Package Sine-1000Hz-300ms.aif in MSI file.
1707
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc11729992009-06-01 21:16:17 +00001708C-API
1709-----
1710
1711- Issue #5735: Python compiled with --with-pydebug should throw an
1712 ImportError when trying to import modules compiled without
1713 --with-pydebug, and vice-versa.
1714
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00001715
Brett Cannonc6d936e2009-06-07 20:09:53 +00001716Build
1717-----
1718
1719- Issue #6154: Make sure the intl library is added to LIBS if needed. Also
1720 added LIBS to OS X framework builds.
1721
Ronald Oussoren99aab652009-06-08 21:22:57 +00001722- Issue #5809: Specifying both --enable-framework and --enable-shared is
1723 an error. Configure now explicity tells you about this.
1724
1725
Brett Cannonc6d936e2009-06-07 20:09:53 +00001726
Mark Dickinson4eb88b32009-05-11 16:41:34 +00001727What's New in Python 3.1 release candidate 1?
1728=============================================
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00001729
Benjamin Petersone6ad3872009-05-30 15:30:16 +00001730*Release date: 2009-05-30*
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00001731
1732Core and Builtins
1733-----------------
1734
Martin v. Löwis8ed91b22009-05-29 16:22:26 +00001735- Issue #6097: Escape UTF-8 surrogates resulting from mbstocs conversion
1736 of the command line.
1737
Martin v. Löwisc15bdef2009-05-29 14:47:46 +00001738- Issue #6012: Add cleanup support to O& argument parsing.
1739
Eric Smith41669ca2009-05-23 14:23:22 +00001740- Issue #6089: Fixed str.format with certain invalid field specifiers
1741 that would raise SystemError.
1742
Raymond Hettinger2bcde142009-05-29 04:52:27 +00001743- Issue #5982: staticmethod and classmethod now expose the wrapped
1744 function with __func__.
1745
Raymond Hettinger91e3b9d2009-05-28 22:20:03 +00001746- Added support for multiple context managers in the same with-statement.
1747 Deprecated contextlib.nested() which is no longer needed.
Georg Brandl0c315622009-05-25 21:10:36 +00001748
Mark Dickinson6b1e43b2009-05-20 18:41:04 +00001749- Issue #5829: complex("1e500") no longer raises OverflowError. This
1750 makes it consistent with float("1e500") and interpretation of real
1751 and imaginary literals.
1752
Hirokazu Yamamoto8223c242009-05-17 04:21:53 +00001753- Issue #3527: Removed Py_WIN_WIDE_FILENAMES which is not used any more.
1754
R. David Murraydd226ea2009-05-13 12:27:21 +00001755- Issue #5994: the marshal module now has docstrings.
1756
Mark Dickinsond1ec8b22009-05-11 15:45:15 +00001757- Issue #5981: Fix three minor inf/nan issues in float.fromhex:
1758 (1) inf and nan strings with trailing whitespace were incorrectly
1759 rejected; (2) parsing of strings representing infinities and nans
1760 was locale aware; and (3) the interpretation of fromhex('-nan')
1761 didn't match that of float('-nan').
1762
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00001763Library
1764-------
1765
Martin v. Löwisb6a748b2009-05-29 15:23:17 +00001766- Issue #4859: Implement PEP 383 for pwd, spwd, and grp.
1767
R. David Murrayfb123912009-05-28 18:19:00 +00001768- smtplib 'login' and 'cram-md5' login are also fixed (see Issue #5259).
1769
R. David Murray1f1b9d32009-05-27 20:56:59 +00001770- Issue #6121: pydoc now ignores leading and trailing spaces in the
1771 argument to the 'help' function.
1772
Georg Brandlfaf41492009-05-26 18:31:11 +00001773- Issue #6118: urllib.parse.quote_plus ignored the encoding and errors
1774 arguments for strings with a space in them.
1775
Raymond Hettinger089ba7f2009-05-27 00:38:24 +00001776- collections.namedtuple() was not working with the following field
1777 names: cls, self, tuple, itemgetter, and property.
1778
Benjamin Peterson14a3dd72009-05-25 00:51:58 +00001779- In unittest, using a skipping decorator on a class is now equivalent to
1780 skipping every test on the class. The ClassTestSuite class has been removed.
1781
Martin v. Löwis70ccd162009-05-24 19:47:22 +00001782- Issue #6050: Don't fail extracting a directory from a zipfile if
1783 the directory already exists.
1784
Antoine Pitrou61f77b52009-05-24 15:46:13 +00001785- Issue #1309352: fcntl now converts its third arguments to a C `long` rather
1786 than an int, which makes some operations possible under 64-bit Linux (e.g.
1787 DN_MULTISHOT with F_NOTIFY).
1788
Antoine Pitrou716c4442009-05-23 19:04:03 +00001789- Issue #5761: Add the name of the underlying file to the repr() of various
1790 IO objects.
1791
R. David Murraycaa27b72009-05-23 18:49:56 +00001792- Issue #5259: smtplib plain auth login no longer gives a traceback. Fix
1793 by Musashi Tamura, tests by Marcin Bachry.
1794
Antoine Pitrouc3ee1662009-05-23 16:02:33 +00001795- Issue #1983: Fix functions taking or returning a process identifier to use
1796 the dedicated C type ``pid_t`` instead of a C ``int``. Some platforms have
1797 a process identifier type wider than the standard C integer type.
1798
R. David Murray87e20742009-05-23 01:30:26 +00001799- Issue #4066: smtplib.SMTP_SSL._get_socket now correctly returns the socket.
1800 Patch by Farhan Ahmad, test by Marcin Bachry.
1801
Antoine Pitrou6e610062009-05-15 17:04:50 +00001802- Issue #2116: Weak references and weak dictionaries now support copy()ing and
1803 deepcopy()ing.
1804
Antoine Pitrouc1d09362009-05-15 12:15:51 +00001805- Issue #1655: Make imaplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
1806
Antoine Pitrou37d1c182009-05-14 21:54:00 +00001807- Issue #5918: Fix a crash in the parser module.
1808
Antoine Pitrou2ca24f02009-05-14 21:30:46 +00001809- Issue #1664: Make nntplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
1810
Antoine Pitroue4501852009-05-14 18:55:55 +00001811- Issue #5006: Better handling of unicode byte-order marks (BOM) in the io
1812 library. This means, for example, that opening an UTF-16 text file in
1813 append mode doesn't add a BOM at the end of the file if the file isn't
1814 empty.
1815
R. David Murray74b89242009-05-13 17:33:03 +00001816- Issue #4050: inspect.findsource/getsource now raise an IOError if the 'source'
1817 file is a binary. Patch by Brodie Rao, tests by Daniel Diniz. This fix
1818 corrects a pydoc regression.
1819
R. David Murray99352742009-05-07 18:24:38 +00001820- Issue 5955: aifc's close method did not close the file it wrapped,
1821 now it does. This also means getfp method now returns the real fp.
1822
Benjamin Peterson932073a2009-05-23 16:14:33 +00001823Installation
1824------------
1825
1826- Issue #6047: fullinstall has been removed because Python 3's executable will
1827 now be known as python3.
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00001828
Ronald Oussorenbe7149e2009-05-26 21:39:08 +00001829- Lib/smtpd.py is no longer installed as a script.
1830
Martin v. Löwisdb1c3992009-05-23 10:38:26 +00001831Extension Modules
1832-----------------
1833
Martin v. Löwisa6a9c4d2009-05-30 06:15:30 +00001834- Issue #3061: Use wcsftime for time.strftime where available.
Martin v. Löwis1b01ccd2009-05-30 06:13:40 +00001835
Martin v. Löwise23c8682009-05-29 16:01:34 +00001836- Issue #4873: Fix resource leaks in error cases of pwd and grp.
1837
Martin v. Löwisdb1c3992009-05-23 10:38:26 +00001838- Issue #6093: Fix off-by-one error in locale.strxfrm.
1839
Benjamin Peterson744af442009-05-23 18:51:49 +00001840- The _functools and _locale modules are now built into the libpython shared
1841 library instead of as extension modules.
Benjamin Peterson3dc22e82009-05-23 17:09:43 +00001842
Antoine Pitrou20327222009-05-24 20:39:11 +00001843Build
1844-----
1845
1846- Issue #3585: Add pkg-config support. It creates a python-2.7.pc file
1847 and a python3.pc symlink in the $(LIBDIR)/pkgconfig directory. Patch by
1848 Clinton Roy.
1849
Brett Cannon1262e7c2009-05-11 01:47:11 +00001850Tests
1851-----
1852
1853- Issue 5442: Tests for importlib were not properly skipping case-sensitivity
1854 tests on darwin even when the OS was installed on a case-sensitive
1855 filesystem. Also fixed tests that should not be run when
1856 sys.dont_write_bytecode is true.
1857
1858
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00001859What's New in Python 3.1 beta 1?
1860================================
1861
Benjamin Peterson5c5f3de2009-05-06 20:43:28 +00001862*Release date: 2009-05-06*
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00001863
1864Core and Builtins
1865-----------------
1866
Mark Dickinson865e01a2009-05-07 16:37:01 +00001867- Issue #5914: Add new C API function PyOS_string_to_double, and
1868 deprecate PyOS_ascii_strtod and PyOS_ascii_atof.
1869
Eric Smith741191f2009-05-06 13:08:15 +00001870- Issue #3382: float.__format__, complex.__format__, and %-formatting
1871 no longer map 'F' to 'f'. Because of issue #5859 (below), this only
1872 affects nan -> NAN and inf -> INF.
1873
Mark Hammond5a607a32009-05-06 08:04:54 +00001874- Issue #5799: ntpath (ie, os.path on Windows) fully supports UNC pathnames
1875 in all operations, including splitdrive, split, etc. splitunc() now issues
1876 a PendingDeprecation warning.
1877
Eric Smith63376222009-05-05 14:04:18 +00001878- Issue #5920: For float.__format__, change the behavior with the
1879 empty presentation type (that is, not one of 'e', 'f', 'g', or 'n')
1880 to be like 'g' but with at least one decimal point and with a
1881 default precision of 12. Previously, the behavior the same but with
1882 a default precision of 6. This more closely matches str(), and
1883 reduces surprises when adding alignment flags to the empty
1884 presentation type. This also affects the new complex.__format__ in
1885 the same way.
1886
Martin v. Löwis011e8422009-05-05 04:43:17 +00001887- Implement PEP 383, Non-decodable Bytes in System Character Interfaces.
1888
R. David Murrayb18500d2009-05-04 22:59:07 +00001889- Issue #5890: in subclasses of 'property' the __doc__ attribute was
1890 shadowed by classtype's, even if it was None. property now
1891 inserts the __doc__ into the subclass instance __dict__.
1892
Antoine Pitrou244651a2009-05-04 18:56:13 +00001893- Issue #4426: The UTF-7 decoder was too strict and didn't accept some legal
1894 sequences. Patch by Nick Barnes and Victor Stinner.
1895
Martin v. Löwise0a2b722009-05-10 08:08:56 +00001896- Issue #3672: Reject surrogates in utf-8 codec; add surrogatepass error handler.
Martin v. Löwisdb12d452009-05-02 18:52:14 +00001897
Benjamin Petersond2e0c792009-05-01 20:40:59 +00001898- Issue #5883: In the io module, the BufferedIOBase and TextIOBase ABCs have
1899 received a new method, detach(). detach() disconnects the underlying stream
1900 from the buffer or text IO and returns it.
1901
Mark Dickinson33841c32009-05-01 15:37:04 +00001902- Issue #5859: Remove switch from '%f' to '%g'-style formatting for
1903 floats with absolute value over 1e50. Also remove length
1904 restrictions for float formatting: '%.67f' % 12.34 and '%.120e' %
1905 12.34 no longer raise an exception.
Mark Dickinsonf489caf2009-05-01 11:42:00 +00001906
Eric Smith741191f2009-05-06 13:08:15 +00001907- Issue #1588: Add complex.__format__. For example,
Eric Smith58a42242009-04-30 01:00:33 +00001908 format(complex(1, 2./3), '.5') now produces a sensible result.
1909
Mark Dickinsond3ca5572009-04-29 18:47:07 +00001910- Issue #5864: Fix empty format code formatting for floats so that it
1911 never gives more than the requested number of significant digits.
1912
Eric Smith6dc46f52009-04-27 20:39:49 +00001913- Issue #5793: Rationalize isdigit / isalpha / tolower, etc. Includes
1914 new Py_ISDIGIT / Py_ISALPHA / Py_TOLOWER, etc. in pctypes.h.
1915
Eric Smithcc32a112009-04-26 21:35:14 +00001916- Issue #5835: Deprecate PyOS_ascii_formatd.
1917
Martin v. Löwis71efeb72009-04-26 01:02:07 +00001918- Issue #4971: Fix titlecase for characters that are their own
1919 titlecase, but not their own uppercase.
1920
Benjamin Peterson193152c2009-04-25 01:08:45 +00001921- Issue #5283: Setting __class__ in __del__ caused a segfault.
1922
Mark Dickinsonad476da2009-04-23 19:14:16 +00001923- Issue #5816: complex(repr(z)) now recovers z exactly, even when
1924 z involves nans, infs or negative zeros.
1925
Mark Dickinson4a16e3a2009-04-23 19:15:48 +00001926- Issue #3166: Make int -> float conversions correctly rounded.
Mark Dickinsonc6300392009-04-20 21:38:00 +00001927
Mark Dickinsone6a076d2009-04-18 11:48:33 +00001928- Issue #1869 (and many duplicates): make round(x, n) correctly
1929 rounded for a float x, by using the decimal <-> binary conversions
1930 from Python/dtoa.c. As a consequence, (e.g.) round(x, 2) now
1931 consistently agrees with format(x, '.2f').
1932
Benjamin Petersonae937c02009-04-18 20:54:08 +00001933- Issue #5787: object.__getattribute__(some_type, "__bases__") segfaulted on
1934 some builtin types.
1935
Eric Smith0923d1d2009-04-16 20:16:10 +00001936- Issue #5772: format(1e100, '<') produces '1e+100', not '1.0e+100'.
1937
Eric Smith35e84722009-04-16 20:21:28 +00001938- Issue #5515: str.format() type 'n' combined with commas and leading
1939 zeros no longer gives odd results with ints and floats.
Eric Smith0923d1d2009-04-16 20:16:10 +00001940
1941- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for
1942 floats.
1943
Mark Dickinson3370cce2009-04-17 22:40:53 +00001944- The str function switches to exponential notation at
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00001945 1e11, not 1e12. This avoids printing 13 significant digits in
1946 situations where only 12 of them are correct. Example problem
1947 value: str(1e11 + 0.5). (This minor issue has existed in 2.x for a
1948 long time.)
1949
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00001950- Issue #1580: On most platforms, use a 'short' float repr: for a
1951 finite float x, repr(x) now outputs a string based on the shortest
1952 sequence of decimal digits that rounds to x. Previous behaviour was
1953 to output 17 significant digits and then strip trailing zeros.
Mark Dickinson3370cce2009-04-17 22:40:53 +00001954 Another minor difference is that the new repr switches to
1955 exponential notation at 1e16 instead of the previous 1e17; this
1956 avoids misleading output in some cases.
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00001957
1958 There's a new sys attribute sys.float_repr_style, which takes
1959 the value 'short' to indicate that we're using short float repr,
1960 and 'legacy' if the short float repr isn't available for one
1961 reason or another.
1962
1963 The float repr change involves incorporating David Gay's 'perfect
1964 rounding' code into the Python core (it's in Python/dtoa.c). As a
1965 secondary consequence, all string-to-float and float-to-string
1966 conversions (including all float formatting operations) will be
1967 correctly rounded on these platforms.
1968
1969 See issue 1580 discussions for details of platforms for which
1970 this change does not apply.
1971
Benjamin Peterson2808d3c2009-04-15 21:34:27 +00001972- Issue #5759: float() didn't call __float__ on str subclasses.
1973
Georg Brandlabc38772009-04-12 15:51:51 +00001974- The string.maketrans() function is deprecated; there is a new static method
1975 maketrans() on the bytes and bytearray classes. This removes confusion about
1976 the types string.maketrans() is supposed to work with, and mirrors the
1977 methods available on the str class.
1978
R. David Murraydc6da8a2009-04-09 22:16:43 +00001979- Issue #2170: refactored xml.dom.minidom.normalize, increasing both
1980 its clarity and its speed.
1981
Matthias Klose091c7b12009-04-07 13:24:27 +00001982- Issue #1113244: Py_XINCREF, Py_DECREF, Py_XDECREF: Add `do { ... } while (0)'
1983 to avoid compiler warnings.
1984
Walter Dörwald8dc33d52009-05-06 14:41:26 +00001985- Issue #3739: The unicode-internal encoder now reports the number of characters
1986 consumed like any other encoder (instead of the number of bytes).
1987
Benjamin Peterson0b4915e2009-04-25 21:11:45 +00001988Installation
1989------------
1990
1991- Issue #5756: Install idle and pydoc with a 3 suffix.
1992
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00001993Library
1994-------
1995
Martin v. Löwis403117a2009-05-24 19:19:17 +00001996- Issue #5311: bdist_msi can now build packages that do not depend on a
1997 specific Python version.
1998
Raymond Hettingereb816952009-05-29 01:22:18 +00001999- Issue #5150: IDLE's format menu now has an option to strip trailing
2000 whitespace.
2001
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00002002- Issue #5940: distutils.command.build_clib.check_library_list was not doing
Tarek Ziadédd9f65f2009-05-06 07:26:24 +00002003 the right type checkings anymore.
2004
Thomas Heller00cfc372009-05-05 19:04:40 +00002005- Issue #4875: On win32, ctypes.util.find_library does no longer
2006 return directories.
2007
Georg Brandl243ad662009-05-05 09:00:19 +00002008- Issue #5142: Add the ability to skip modules while stepping to pdb.
2009
Georg Brandl991f9202009-05-05 08:31:54 +00002010- Issue #1309567: Fix linecache behavior of stripping subdirectories when
2011 looking for files given by a relative filename.
2012
Georg Brandleaa84ef2009-05-05 08:14:33 +00002013- Issue #5923: Update the ``turtle`` module to version 1.1, add two new
2014 turtle demos in Demo/turtle.
2015
Antoine Pitrou3c33e082009-05-04 21:21:36 +00002016- Issue #5692: In :class:`zipfile.Zipfile`, fix wrong path calculation when
2017 extracting a file to the root directory.
2018
Hirokazu Yamamotobbb9be72009-05-04 05:56:46 +00002019- Issue #5913: os.listdir() should fail for empty path on windows.
2020
Antoine Pitroua9f48a02009-05-02 21:41:14 +00002021- Issue #5084: unpickling now interns the attribute names of pickled objects,
2022 saving memory and avoiding growth in size of subsequent pickles. Proposal
2023 and original patch by Jake McGuire.
2024
Benjamin Petersonc6b607d2009-05-02 12:36:44 +00002025- The json module now works exclusively with str and not bytes.
2026
Gregory P. Smithe54dff52009-05-01 22:13:48 +00002027- Issue #3959: The ipaddr module has been added to the standard library.
2028 Contributed by Google.
2029
Antoine Pitrou7fff0962009-05-01 21:09:44 +00002030- Issue #3002: ``shutil.copyfile()`` and ``shutil.copytree()`` now raise an
2031 error when a named pipe is encountered, rather than blocking infinitely.
2032
Raymond Hettinger1f0db402009-04-29 00:38:08 +00002033- Issue #5857: tokenize.tokenize() now returns named tuples.
2034
Thomas Hellerc1edc2d2009-04-28 19:55:58 +00002035- Issue #4305: ctypes should now build again on mipsel-linux-gnu
2036
Antoine Pitrou7a0fedf2009-04-27 22:31:40 +00002037- Issue #1734234: Massively speedup ``unicodedata.normalize()`` when the
2038 string is already in normalized form, by performing a quick check beforehand.
2039 Original patch by Rauli Ruohonen.
2040
Antoine Pitrou57f3d932009-04-27 21:04:19 +00002041- Issue #5853: calling a function of the mimetypes module from several threads
2042 at once could hit the recursion limit if the mimetypes database hadn't been
2043 initialized before.
2044
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00002045- Issue #5854: Updated __all__ to include some missing names and remove some
2046 names which should not be exported.
2047
Thomas Heller34596a92009-04-24 20:50:00 +00002048- Issue #3102: All global symbols that the _ctypes extension defines
2049 are now prefixed with 'Py' or '_ctypes'.
2050
2051- Issue #5041: ctypes does now allow pickling wide character.
2052
Mark Dickinsond4d95f82009-04-24 14:06:19 +00002053- Issue #5812: For the two-argument form of the Fraction constructor,
2054 Fraction(m, n), m and n are permitted to be arbitrary Rational
2055 instances.
2056
Mark Dickinsoncf63f2f2009-04-22 17:50:21 +00002057- Issue #5812: Fraction('1e6') is valid: more generally, any string
2058 that's valid for float() is now valid for Fraction(), with the
2059 exception of strings representing NaNs and infinities.
2060
Antoine Pitroucf4c7492009-04-19 00:09:36 +00002061- Issue #5734: BufferedRWPair was poorly tested and had several glaring
2062 bugs. Patch by Brian Quinlan.
2063
R. David Murray9e94ddf2009-04-13 17:06:33 +00002064- Issue #1161031: fix readwrite select flag handling: POLLPRI now
2065 results in a handle_expt_event call, not handle_read_event, and POLLERR
2066 and POLLNVAL now call handle_close, not handle_expt_event. Also,
2067 dispatcher now has an 'ignore_log_types' attribute for suppressing
2068 log messages, which is set to 'warning' by default.
2069
Matthias Klosea3d29e82009-04-07 13:13:10 +00002070- Issue #2703: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher.__init__: Provide default values for
2071 new arguments introduced in 2.5.
2072
Walter Dörwald1b08b302009-04-25 14:13:56 +00002073- Issue #5828 (Invalid behavior of unicode.lower): Fixed bogus logic in
2074 makeunicodedata.py and regenerated the Unicode database (This fixes
2075 u'\u1d79'.lower() == '\x00').
2076
Matthias Klose535336f2009-04-07 13:49:45 +00002077Extension Modules
2078-----------------
2079
Benjamin Petersone04b6272009-05-04 22:25:21 +00002080- Issue #5881: Remove old undocumented compatibility interfaces in hashlib and
2081 pwd.
2082
Mark Dickinsonea835e72009-04-19 20:40:33 +00002083- Issue #5463: In struct module, remove deprecated float coercion
2084 for integer type codes: struct.pack('L', 0.3) should now raise
2085 an error. The _PY_STRUCT_FLOAT_COERCE constant has been removed.
2086 The version number has been bumped to 0.3.
2087
Matthias Klose535336f2009-04-07 13:49:45 +00002088- Issue #5359: Readd the Berkley-DB detection code to allow _dbm be built
2089 using Berkley-DB.
2090
Nick Coghlan47384702009-04-22 16:13:36 +00002091Tests
2092-----
2093
2094- Issue #5354: New test support function import_fresh_module() makes
2095 it easy to import both normal and optimised versions of modules.
2096 test_heapq and test_warnings have been adjusted to use it, tests for
2097 other modules with both C and Python implementations in the stdlib
2098 can be adjusted to use it over time.
2099
Walter Dörwald4ba80132009-04-25 12:48:43 +00002100- Issue #5837: Certain sequences of calls to set() and unset() for
2101 support.EnvironmentVarGuard objects restored the environment variables
2102 incorrectly on __exit__.
2103
Benjamin Petersonb173f782009-05-05 22:31:58 +00002104C-API
2105-----
2106
2107- Issue #5630: A replacement PyCObject API, PyCapsule, has been added.
2108
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00002109
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00002110What's New in Python 3.1 alpha 2?
2111=================================
2112
Benjamin Peterson88f14352009-04-04 21:06:52 +00002113*Release date: 2009-4-4*
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00002114
2115Core and Builtins
2116-----------------
Benjamin Petersone099b372009-04-04 17:09:35 +00002117
Eric Smith1e1d7d22009-04-03 22:25:33 +00002118- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for
2119 integers.
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00002120
Benjamin Peterson8f76b492009-04-03 22:22:42 +00002121- Issue #5666: Py_BuildValue's 'c' code should create byte strings.
2122
Benjamin Peterson7fe98532009-04-02 00:33:55 +00002123- Issue #5499: The 'c' code for argument parsing functions now only accepts a
2124 byte, and the 'C' code only accepts a unicode character.
2125
Georg Brandl406b3d82009-04-11 21:24:37 +00002126- Fix a problem in PyErr_NormalizeException that leads to "undetected errors"
2127 when hitting the recursion limit under certain circumstances.
2128
Brett Cannon0759dd62009-04-01 18:13:07 +00002129- Issue #1665206: Remove the last eager import in _warnings.c and make it lazy.
2130
Georg Brandlab6f2f62009-03-31 04:16:10 +00002131- Fix a segfault when running test_exceptions with coverage, caused by
2132 insufficient checks in accessors of Exception.__context__.
2133
Guido van Rossum0ad59d42009-03-30 22:01:35 +00002134- Issue #5604: non-ASCII characters in module name passed to
2135 imp.find_module() were converted to UTF-8 while the path is
2136 converted to the default filesystem encoding, causing nonsense.
2137
Benjamin Peterson09832742009-03-26 17:15:46 +00002138- Issue #5126: str.isprintable() returned False for space characters.
2139
Ronald Oussorenfa1fcd12009-03-30 23:16:10 +00002140- Issue #4865: On MacOSX /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages is added to
2141 the end sys.path, for compatibility with the system install of Python.
2142
Antoine Pitrou3a652b12009-03-23 18:52:06 +00002143- Issue #4688: Add a heuristic so that tuples and dicts containing only
2144 untrackable objects are not tracked by the garbage collector. This can
2145 reduce the size of collections and therefore the garbage collection overhead
2146 on long-running programs, depending on their particular use of datatypes.
2147
Mark Dickinson17e4fdd2009-03-23 18:44:57 +00002148- Issue #5512: Rewrite PyLong long division algorithm (x_divrem) to
2149 improve its performance. Long divisions and remainder operations
2150 are now between 50% and 150% faster.
2151
Mark Dickinsonbd792642009-03-18 20:06:12 +00002152- Issue #4258: Make it possible to use base 2**30 instead of base
2153 2**15 for the internal representation of integers, for performance
2154 reasons. Base 2**30 is enabled by default on 64-bit machines. Add
2155 --enable-big-digits option to configure, which overrides the
2156 default. Add sys.int_info structseq to provide information about
2157 the internal format.
2158
Mark Dickinson081dfee2009-03-18 14:47:41 +00002159- Issue #4474: PyUnicode_FromWideChar now converts characters outside
2160 the BMP to surrogate pairs, on systems with sizeof(wchar_t) == 4
2161 and sizeof(Py_UNICODE) == 2.
2162
Eric Smith8ec90442009-03-14 12:29:34 +00002163- Issue #5237: Allow auto-numbered fields in str.format(). For
2164 example: '{} {}'.format(1, 2) == '1 2'.
2165
Antoine Pitrou652e7072009-03-13 19:25:20 +00002166- Issue #5392: when a very low recursion limit was set, the interpreter would
2167 abort with a fatal error after the recursion limit was hit twice.
2168
Matthias Klose042f1332009-04-04 14:32:42 +00002169- Issue #3845: In PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags avoid invalid memory access with
2170 short file names.
2171
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00002172Library
2173-------
2174
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00002175- Issue #2625: added missing items() call to the for loop in
R. David Murray548ac412009-04-02 19:44:43 +00002176 mailbox.MH.get_message().
2177
Hye-Shik Chang944820b2009-04-02 10:33:16 +00002178- Issue #5640: Fix _multibytecodec so that CJK codecs don't repeat
2179 error substitutions from non-strict codec error callbacks in
2180 incrementalencoder and StreamWriter.
2181
Georg Brandl33c28812009-04-01 23:07:29 +00002182- Issue #5656: Fix the coverage reporting when running the test suite with
2183 the -T argument.
2184
Raymond Hettinger3f10a952009-04-01 19:05:50 +00002185- Issue #5647: MutableSet.__iand__() no longer mutates self during iteration.
2186
Georg Brandl4ed72ac2009-04-01 04:28:33 +00002187- Issue #5624: Fix the _winreg module name still used in several modules.
2188
Benjamin Petersona1b49012009-03-31 23:11:32 +00002189- Issue #5628: Fix io.TextIOWrapper.read() with a unreadable buffer.
2190
Jesse Nollera9314042009-03-31 22:36:44 +00002191- Issue #5619: Multiprocessing children disobey the debug flag and causes
2192 popups on windows buildbots. Patch applied to work around this issue.
2193
Jesse Noller32d68c22009-03-31 18:48:42 +00002194- Issue #5400: Added patch for multiprocessing on netbsd compilation/support
2195
Hirokazu Yamamoto16caab02009-03-31 13:44:06 +00002196- Issue #5387: Fixed mmap.move crash by integer overflow.
2197
Jesse Nollerf8d00852009-03-31 03:25:07 +00002198- Issue #5261: Patch multiprocessing's semaphore.c to support context
2199 manager use: "with multiprocessing.Lock()" works now.
2200
Brett Cannon7f6b4f82009-03-30 21:30:26 +00002201- Issue #5236: Change time.strptime() to only take strings. Didn't work with
2202 bytes already but the failure was non-obvious.
2203
Jesse Noller7af4ef82009-03-30 16:47:15 +00002204- Issue #5177: Multiprocessing's SocketListener class now uses
2205 socket.SO_REUSEADDR on all connections so that the user no longer needs
2206 to wait 120 seconds for the socket to expire.
2207
Benjamin Peterson48e24782009-03-29 13:02:52 +00002208- Issue #5595: Fix UnboundedLocalError in ntpath.ismount().
2209
Antoine Pitrou66994e12009-03-29 00:45:26 +00002210- Issue #1174606: Calling read() without arguments of an unbounded file
2211 (typically /dev/zero under Unix) could crash the interpreter.
2212
Benjamin Peterson59406a92009-03-26 17:10:29 +00002213- The max_buffer_size arguments of io.BufferedWriter, io.BufferedRWPair, and
2214 io.BufferedRandom have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.2.
2215
Lars Gustäbel42e00912009-03-22 20:34:29 +00002216- Issue #5068: Fixed the tarfile._BZ2Proxy.read() method that would loop
2217 forever on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used
2218 with mode 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or
2219 partial bzip2 compressed data.
2220
Mark Dickinson79f52032009-03-17 23:12:51 +00002221- Issue #2110: Add support for thousands separator and 'n' type
2222 specifier to Decimal.__format__
2223
Mark Dickinson9c59fe02009-03-17 18:15:08 +00002224- Fix Decimal.__format__ bug that swapped the meanings of the '<' and
2225 '>' alignment characters.
2226
Antoine Pitrou0ae29cf2009-03-13 22:33:17 +00002227- The error detection code in FileIO.close() could fail to reflect the `errno`
2228 value, and report it as -1 instead.
2229
Antoine Pitroua28fcfd2009-03-13 23:42:55 +00002230- Issue #5016: FileIO.seekable() could return False if the file position
2231 was negative when truncated to a C int. Patch by Victor Stinner.
2232
Mark Dickinsonae681df2009-03-21 10:26:31 +00002233Extension Modules
2234-----------------
2235
Benjamin Petersone099b372009-04-04 17:09:35 +00002236- Issue #5391: mmap now deals exclusively with bytes.
2237
Mark Dickinsonae681df2009-03-21 10:26:31 +00002238- Issue #5463: In struct module, remove deprecated overflow wrapping
2239 when packing an integer: struct.pack('=L', -1) now raises
Mark Dickinsonb40b9472009-03-29 16:58:21 +00002240 struct.error instead of returning b'\xff\xff\xff\xff'. The
2241 _PY_STRUCT_RANGE_CHECKING and _PY_STRUCT_OVERFLOW_MASKING constants
2242 have been removed from the struct module.
Mark Dickinsonae681df2009-03-21 10:26:31 +00002243
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00002244
Benjamin Petersona58a6262009-03-07 16:34:40 +00002245What's New in Python 3.1 alpha 1
Barry Warsaw97f005d2008-12-03 16:46:14 +00002246================================
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00002247
Benjamin Petersona58a6262009-03-07 16:34:40 +00002248*Release date: 2009-03-07*
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00002249
2250Core and Builtins
2251-----------------
2252
Benjamin Peterson4fa88fa2009-03-04 00:14:51 +00002253- The io module has been reimplemented in C for speed.
2254
Raymond Hettingerb0d56af2009-03-03 10:52:49 +00002255- Give dict views an informative __repr__.
2256
Eric Smith5e5c0db2009-02-20 14:25:03 +00002257- Issue #5247: Improve error message when unknown format codes are
2258 used when using str.format() with str, int, and float arguments.
2259
Hirokazu Yamamoto575d1332009-02-16 09:13:20 +00002260- Issue #5249: time.strftime returned malformed string when format string
2261 contained non ascii character on windows.
2262
Benjamin Petersonf5b52242009-03-02 23:31:26 +00002263- Issue #4626: compile(), exec(), and eval() ignore the coding cookie if the
2264 source has already been decoded into str.
2265
Antoine Pitrou79eee6b2009-02-13 14:01:05 +00002266- Issue #5186: Reduce hash collisions for objects with no __hash__ method by
2267 rotating the object pointer by 4 bits to the right.
2268
Mark Dickinson87ec0852009-02-09 17:15:59 +00002269- Issue #4575: Fix Py_IS_INFINITY macro to work correctly on x87 FPUs:
2270 it now forces its argument to double before testing for infinity.
2271
Benjamin Petersonee1ae7c2009-02-08 21:07:20 +00002272- Issue #5137: Make len() correctly raise a TypeError when a __len__ method
2273 returns a non-number type.
2274
Benjamin Peterson87618552009-02-08 15:00:52 +00002275- Issue #5182: Removed memoryview.__str__.
2276
Mark Dickinsonc008a172009-02-01 13:59:22 +00002277- Issue #1717: Removed builtin cmp() function, dropped tp_compare
2278 slot, the C API functions PyObject_Compare and PyUnicode_Compare and
Mark Dickinsone94c6792009-02-02 20:36:42 +00002279 the type definition cmpfunc. The tp_compare slot has been renamed
2280 to tp_reserved, and is reserved for future usage.
Mark Dickinsonf02e0aa2009-02-01 12:13:56 +00002281
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00002282- Issue #1242657: the __len__() and __length_hint__() calls in several tools
Raymond Hettingere8364232009-02-02 22:55:09 +00002283 were suppressing all exceptions. These include list() and bytearray().
2284
Mark Dickinson1124e712009-01-28 21:25:58 +00002285- Issue #4707: round(x, n) now returns an integer if x is an integer.
2286 Previously it returned a float.
2287
Antoine Pitroub52ec782009-01-25 16:34:23 +00002288- Issue #4753: By enabling a configure option named '--with-computed-gotos'
2289 on compilers that support it (notably: gcc, SunPro, icc), the bytecode
2290 evaluation loop is compiled with a new dispatch mechanism which gives
2291 speedups of up to 20%, depending on the system, on various benchmarks.
2292
Antoine Pitrou81fabdb2009-01-22 10:11:36 +00002293- Issue #4874: Most builtin decoders now reject unicode input.
2294
Mark Dickinson9ffc0202009-01-20 20:45:53 +00002295- Issue #4842: Don't allow trailing 'L' when constructing an integer
2296 from a string.
2297
Benjamin Peterson05e782f2009-01-19 15:15:02 +00002298- Issue #4991: os.fdopen now raises an OSError for invalid file descriptors.
2299
Antoine Pitroue4bc7f62009-01-17 21:06:43 +00002300- Issue #4838: When a module is deallocated, free the memory backing the
2301 optional module state data.
2302
Mark Dickinson8055afd2009-01-17 10:04:45 +00002303- Issue #4910: Rename nb_long slot to nb_reserved, and change its
2304 type to (void *).
2305
Antoine Pitrou8d4e5052009-01-13 22:59:11 +00002306- Issue #4935: The overflow checking code in the expandtabs() method common
2307 to str, bytes and bytearray could be optimized away by the compiler, letting
2308 the interpreter segfault instead of raising an error.
2309
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf343e012009-01-12 23:58:21 +00002310- Issue #3720: Fix a crash when an iterator modifies its class and removes its
2311 __next__ method.
2312
Mark Dickinsone5e298f2009-01-12 20:49:19 +00002313- Issue #4910: Builtin int() function and PyNumber_Long/PyNumber_Int API
2314 function no longer attempt to call the __long__ slot to convert an object
2315 to an integer. Only the __int__ and __trunc__ slots are examined.
2316
Martin v. Löwis7c2b66c2009-01-12 08:21:03 +00002317- Issue #4893: Use NT threading on CE.
2318
Martin v. Löwisec59d042009-01-12 07:59:10 +00002319- Issue #4915: Port sysmodule to Windows CE.
2320
Antoine Pitrouab868312009-01-10 15:40:25 +00002321- Issue #4868: utf-8, utf-16 and latin1 decoding are now 2x to 4x faster. The
2322 common cases are optimized thanks to a dedicated fast path and a moderate
2323 amount of loop unrolling.
2324
Antoine Pitrou14b78f52009-01-09 22:27:08 +00002325- Issue #4074: Change the criteria for doing a full garbage collection (i.e.
2326 collecting the oldest generation) so that allocating lots of objects without
2327 destroying them does not show quadratic performance. Based on a proposal by
2328 Martin von Löwis at
2329 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080579.html.
2330
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00002331- Issue #4604: Some objects of the I/O library could still be used after
Antoine Pitrou8043cf82009-01-09 19:54:29 +00002332 having been closed (for instance, a read() call could return some
2333 previously buffered data). Patch by Dmitry Vasiliev.
2334
Antoine Pitrou05608432009-01-09 18:53:14 +00002335- Issue #4705: Fix the -u ("unbuffered binary stdout and stderr") command-line
2336 flag to work properly. Furthermore, when specifying -u, the text stdout
2337 and stderr streams have line-by-line buffering enabled (the default being
2338 to buffer arbitrary chunks of data).
2339
Raymond Hettinger35631532009-01-09 03:58:09 +00002340- The internal table, _PyLong_DigitValue, is now an array of unsigned chars
2341 instead of ints (reducing its size from 4 to 8 times thereby reducing
2342 Python's overall memory).
2343
Antoine Pitroud35cbf62009-01-06 19:02:24 +00002344- Issue #1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with
2345 an existing .py counterpart, override the co_filename attributes of all
2346 code objects if the original filename is obsolete (which can happen if the
2347 file has been renamed, moved, or if it is accessed through different paths).
2348 Patch by Ziga Seilnacht and Jean-Paul Calderone.
2349
Antoine Pitrouc3b39242009-01-03 16:59:18 +00002350- Issue #4580: Fix slicing of memoryviews when the item size is greater than
2351 one byte. Also fixes the meaning of len() so that it returns the number of
2352 items, rather than the size in bytes.
2353
Martin v. Löwis5c88d812009-01-02 20:47:48 +00002354- Issue #4075: Use OutputDebugStringW in Py_FatalError.
2355
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc374e2202009-01-01 23:05:36 +00002356- Issue #4747: When the terminal does not use utf-8, executing a script with
2357 non-ascii characters in its name could fail with a "SyntaxError: None" error.
2358
Hirokazu Yamamoto0f22d692009-01-01 16:03:45 +00002359- Issue #4797: IOError.filename was not set when _fileio.FileIO failed to open
Hirokazu Yamamoto8ed9a802009-01-01 16:09:52 +00002360 file with `bytes' filename on Windows.
Hirokazu Yamamoto0f22d692009-01-01 16:03:45 +00002361
Antoine Pitrou7ddda782009-01-01 15:35:33 +00002362- Issue #3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator
2363 did not get collected.
2364
Nick Coghlanf1f2f682008-12-30 07:29:12 +00002365- Issue #4701: PyObject_Hash now implicitly calls PyType_Ready on types
2366 where the tp_hash and tp_dict slots are both NULL.
2367
Georg Brandlccc47b62008-12-28 11:44:14 +00002368- Issue #4759: None is now allowed as the first argument of
2369 bytearray.translate(). It was always allowed for bytes.translate().
2370
Skip Montanaro80072cb2008-12-23 03:51:14 +00002371- Added test case to ensure attempts to read from a file opened for writing
2372 fail.
2373
Antoine Pitrou51f3ef92008-12-20 13:14:23 +00002374- Issue #3106: Speedup some comparisons (str/str and int/int).
2375
Antoine Pitrouf289ae62008-12-18 11:06:25 +00002376- Issue #2183: Simplify and optimize bytecode for list, dict and set
2377 comprehensions. Original patch for list comprehensions by Neal Norwitz.
2378
Antoine Pitrou621601a2008-12-17 23:18:19 +00002379- Issue #2467: gc.DEBUG_STATS reported invalid elapsed times. Also, always
2380 print elapsed times, not only when some objects are uncollectable /
2381 unreachable. Original patch by Neil Schemenauer.
2382
Mark Dickinson54bc1ec2008-12-17 16:19:07 +00002383- Issue #3439: Add a bit_length method to int.
2384
Mark Dickinsonda2706b2008-12-11 18:03:03 +00002385- Issue #2173: When getting device encoding, check that return value of
2386 nl_langinfo is not the empty string. This was causing silent build
2387 failures on OS X.
2388
Jeffrey Yasskinb9083f32008-12-11 06:18:33 +00002389- Issue #4597: Fixed several opcodes that weren't always propagating
2390 exceptions.
2391
2392- Issue #4589: Fixed exception handling when the __exit__ function of a
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc10b24e82008-12-10 23:49:33 +00002393 context manager returns a value that cannot be converted to a bool.
2394
Mark Dickinsonfd24b322008-12-06 15:33:31 +00002395- Issue #4445: Replace "sizeof(PyBytesObject)" with
2396 "offsetof(PyBytesObject, ob_sval) + 1" when allocating memory for
2397 bytes instances. On a typical machine this saves 3 bytes of memory
2398 (on average) per allocation of a bytes instance.
2399
Christian Heimesa872de52008-12-05 08:26:55 +00002400- Issue #4533: File read operation was dreadfully slow due to a slowly
2401 growing read buffer. Fixed by using the same growth rate algorithm as
2402 Python 2.x.
2403
Antoine Pitrou5504e892008-12-06 21:27:53 +00002404- Issue #4509: Various issues surrounding resize of bytearray objects to
2405 which there are buffer exports (e.g. memoryview instances).
2406
Georg Brandlf9734072008-12-07 15:30:06 +00002407- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()``
2408 method on file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still
2409 kept open but the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO``
2410 object also got a new readonly attribute ``closefd``.
Matthias Klose7e1b8fa2008-11-26 17:22:04 +00002411
Antoine Pitroubc420402008-12-07 20:14:49 +00002412- Issue #4569: Interpreter crash when mutating a memoryview with an item size
2413 larger than 1.
2414
Benjamin Peterson371ccfb2008-12-27 19:03:36 +00002415- Issue #4748: Lambda generators no longer return a value.
2416
Gregory P. Smithccc5ae72009-03-02 05:21:55 +00002417- The re.sub(), re.subn() and re.split() functions now accept a flags parameter.
2418
Walter Dörwaldc1651a02009-05-03 22:55:55 +00002419- Issue #5108: Handle %s like %S, %R and %A in PyUnicode_FromFormatV(): Call
2420 PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8() once, remember the result and output it in a second
2421 step. This avoids problems with counting UTF-8 bytes that ignores the effect
2422 of using the replace error handler in PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8().
2423
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00002424Library
2425-------
Tarek Ziadé38e3d512009-02-27 12:58:56 +00002426
Tarek Ziadé04fe7c02009-10-25 23:08:47 +00002427- Issue #7071: byte-compilation in Distutils is now done with respect to
2428 sys.dont_write_bytecode.
2429
Victor Stinnere125f132010-05-15 21:04:43 +00002430- Issue #7066: archive_util.make_archive now restores the cwd if an error is
Tarek Ziadé978cca62009-10-24 13:38:27 +00002431 raised. Initial patch by Ezio Melotti.
2432
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +00002433- Issue #6516: Added owner/group support when creating tar archives in
Tarek Ziadé05b30342009-10-02 23:56:02 +00002434 Distutils.
2435
Tarek Ziadé31d46072009-09-21 13:55:19 +00002436- Issue #6954: Fixed crash when using DISTUTILS_DEBUG flag in Distutils.
2437
Tarek Ziadé165581c2009-09-09 08:48:07 +00002438- Issue #6163: Fixed HP-UX runtime library dir options in
2439 distutils.unixcompiler. Initial patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar and
2440 Michael Haubenwallner.
2441
Tarek Ziadé4a608c02009-08-20 21:28:05 +00002442- Issue #6693: New functions in site.py to get user/global site packages paths.
2443
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbc347802009-07-28 22:18:57 +00002444- Issue #6511: ZipFile now raises BadZipfile (instead of an IOError) when
2445 opening an empty or very small file.
2446
2447- Issue #6545: Removed assert statements in distutils.Extension, so the
Tarek Ziadé2f19bb12009-07-22 08:57:28 +00002448 behavior is similar when used with -O.
2449
Benjamin Petersonbed7d042009-07-19 21:01:52 +00002450- unittest has been split up into a package. All old names should still work.
2451
Tarek Ziadéf8926b22009-07-16 16:18:19 +00002452- Issue #6466: now distutils.cygwinccompiler and distutils.emxccompiler
2453 uses the same refactored function to get gcc/ld/dllwrap versions numbers.
2454 It's `distutils.util.get_compiler_versions`. Added deprecation warnings
2455 for the obsolete get_versions() functions.
2456
Alexandre Vassalottie52e3782009-07-17 09:18:18 +00002457- Issue #6433: fixed issues with multiprocessing.pool.map hanging on empty list
2458
2459- Issue #6314: logging: Extra checks on the "level" argument in more places.
2460
2461- Issue #2622: Fixed an ImportError when importing email.messsage from a
2462 standalone application built with py2exe or py2app.
2463
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00002464- Issue #6455: Fixed test_build_ext under win32.
Tarek Ziadéb7815e32009-07-10 09:14:31 +00002465
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00002466- Issue #6377: Enabled the compiler option, and deprecate its usage as an
Tarek Ziadédd07ebb2009-07-06 13:52:17 +00002467 attribute.
2468
Tarek Ziadé05bf01a2009-07-04 02:04:21 +00002469- Issue #6413: Fixed the log level in distutils.dist for announce.
2470
Tarek Ziadée10d6de2009-07-03 08:33:28 +00002471- Issue #6403: Fixed package path usage in build_ext.
2472
Alexandre Vassalottie52e3782009-07-17 09:18:18 +00002473- Issues #5155, 5313, 5331: multiprocessing.Process._bootstrap was
2474 unconditionally calling "os.close(sys.stdin.fileno())" resulting in file
2475 descriptor errors
2476
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00002477- Issue #6365: Distutils build_ext inplace mode was copying the compiled
Tarek Ziadé0156f912009-06-29 16:19:22 +00002478 extension in a subdirectory if the extension name had dots.
2479
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00002480- Issue #6164: Added an AIX specific linker argument in Distutils
Tarek Ziadé8f480e52009-06-28 21:30:52 +00002481 unixcompiler. Original patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
2482
Tarek Ziadé25bd2062009-06-28 21:26:27 +00002483- Issue #6286: Now Distutils upload command is based on urllib2 instead of
2484 httplib, allowing the usage of http_proxy.
2485
Tarek Ziadé5e06a652009-06-16 07:43:42 +00002486- Issue #6287: Added the license field in Distutils documentation.
2487
Tarek Ziadéff543362009-06-11 09:25:41 +00002488- Issue #6263: Fixed syntax error in distutils.cygwincompiler.
2489
Tarek Ziadéabcc3f42009-06-11 08:31:17 +00002490- Issue #5201: distutils.sysconfig.parse_makefile() now understands `$$`
2491 in Makefiles. This prevents compile errors when using syntax like:
2492 `LDFLAGS='-rpath=\$$LIB:/some/other/path'`. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
2493
Hirokazu Yamamoto2703fd92009-05-29 09:14:04 +00002494- Issue #6131: test_modulefinder leaked when run after test_distutils.
2495 Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
2496
Tarek Ziadé77c8b372009-05-28 13:01:13 +00002497- Issue #6048: Now Distutils uses the tarfile module in archive_util.
2498
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00002499- Issue #6062: In distutils, fixed the package option of build_ext. Feedback
Tarek Ziadé822eb842009-05-19 16:22:57 +00002500 and tests on pywin32 by Tim Golden.
2501
Tarek Ziadé93fb3aa2009-05-18 12:29:06 +00002502- Issue #6053: Fixed distutils tests on win32. patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
2503
Tarek Ziadéd18a84e2009-05-18 08:07:46 +00002504- Issue #6046: Fixed the library extension when distutils build_ext is used
2505 inplace. Initial patch by Roumen Petrov.
2506
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00002507- Issue #6041: Now distutils `sdist` and `register` commands use `check` as a
Tarek Ziadé5af55c62009-05-16 16:52:13 +00002508 subcommand.
2509
Tarek Ziadé4210c6e2009-05-14 20:20:47 +00002510- Issue #6022: a test file was created in the current working directory by
2511 test_get_outputs in Distutils.
2512
Tarek Ziadéff0e5002009-05-12 17:14:01 +00002513- Issue #5977: distutils build_ext.get_outputs was not taking into account the
2514 inplace option. Initial patch by kxroberto.
2515
Tarek Ziadé06fbee12009-05-10 10:34:01 +00002516- Issue #5984: distutils.command.build_ext.check_extensions_list checks were broken
2517 for old-style extensions.
2518
Tarek Ziadébe5b1b92009-05-09 10:09:11 +00002519- Issue #5976: Fixed Distutils test_check_environ.
2520
Tarek Ziadé5662d3e2009-05-07 21:24:43 +00002521- Issue #5941: Distutils build_clib command was not working anymore because
2522 of an incomplete costumization of the archiver command. Added ARFLAGS in the
2523 Makefile besides AR and make Distutils use it. Original patch by David
2524 Cournapeau.
2525
R. David Murrayb507d2e2009-04-29 15:34:32 +00002526- Issue #2245: aifc now skips chunk types it doesn't recognize, per spec.
2527
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00002528- Issue #5874: distutils.tests.test_config_cmd is not locale-sensitive
Tarek Ziadé81623822009-04-29 08:07:44 +00002529 anymore.
2530
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00002531- Issue #5810: Fixed Distutils test_build_scripts so it uses
Tarek Ziadé939f9c82009-04-25 12:53:56 +00002532 sysconfig.get_config_vars.
2533
Tarek Ziadé23336082009-04-25 12:39:56 +00002534- Issue #4951: Fixed failure in test_httpservers.
2535
Thomas Hellerd3cfe992009-04-24 20:10:24 +00002536- Issue #5795: Fixed test_distutils failure on Debian ppc.
2537
Tarek Ziadé822e1d42009-04-13 12:37:57 +00002538- Issue #5607: fixed Distutils test_get_platform for Mac OS X fat binaries.
2539
Georg Brandl1f9fa312009-04-27 16:42:58 +00002540- Issue #5741: don't disallow "%%" (which is an escape for "%") when setting
2541 a value in SafeConfigParser.
2542
Tarek Ziadéf396ecf2009-04-11 15:00:43 +00002543- Issue #5732: added a new command in Distutils: check.
2544
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00002545- Issue #5731: Distutils bdist_wininst no longer worked on non-Windows
Tarek Ziadéa6191802009-04-09 22:02:39 +00002546 platforms. Initial patch by Paul Moore.
2547
Tarek Ziadéf6370502009-04-05 22:57:21 +00002548- Issue #5095: Added bdist_msi to the list of bdist supported formats.
2549 Initial fix by Steven Bethard.
2550
Tarek Ziadé889b0aa2009-04-05 21:49:36 +00002551- Issue #1491431: Fixed distutils.filelist.glob_to_re for edge cases.
2552 Initial fix by Wayne Davison.
2553
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00002554- Issue #5694: removed spurious test output in Distutils (test_clean).
Tarek Ziadéea261632009-04-05 18:33:34 +00002555
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00002556- Issue #1326077: fix the formatting of SyntaxErrors by the traceback module.
Georg Brandl236f7972009-04-05 14:28:42 +00002557
Brett Cannonf47e84c2009-04-01 16:06:01 +00002558- Issue #1665206 (partially): Move imports in cgitb to the top of the module
2559 instead of performing them in functions. Helps prevent import deadlocking in
2560 threads.
2561
R. David Murraye59482e2009-04-01 03:42:00 +00002562- Issue #2522: locale.format now checks its first argument to ensure it has
2563 been passed only one pattern, avoiding mysterious errors where it appeared
2564 that it was failing to do localization.
2565
Tarek Ziadéb2e36f12009-03-31 22:37:55 +00002566- Issue #5583: Added optional Extensions in Distutils. Initial patch by Georg
2567 Brandl.
2568
Antoine Pitrou350370c2009-03-14 00:13:13 +00002569- Issue #1222: locale.format() bug when the thousands separator is a space
2570 character.
2571
Tarek Ziadé516db942009-03-11 12:52:00 +00002572- Issue #5472: Fixed distutils.test_util tear down. Original patch by
2573 Tim Golden.
2574
Raymond Hettinger5bb0f0e2009-03-10 12:56:32 +00002575- collections.deque() objects now have a read-only attribute called maxlen.
2576
Guilherme Polof45b4cc2009-03-07 02:19:14 +00002577- Issue #2638: Show a window constructed with tkSimpleDialog.Dialog only after
2578 it is has been populated and properly configured in order to prevent
2579 window flashing.
2580
Guilherme Polo56f5be52009-03-07 01:54:57 +00002581- Issue #4792: Prevent a segfault in _tkinter by using the
2582 guaranteed to be safe interp argument given to the PythonCmd in place of
2583 the Tcl interpreter taken from a PythonCmd_ClientData.
2584
2585- Issue #5193: Guarantee that tkinter.Text.search returns a string.
2586
Tarek Ziadé63b64c02009-03-07 00:51:53 +00002587- Issue #5394: removed > 2.3 syntax from distutils.msvc9compiler.
2588 Original patch by Akira Kitada.
2589
Hirokazu Yamamoto54d0df62009-03-06 03:04:07 +00002590- Issue #5334: array.fromfile() failed to insert values when EOFError was raised.
2591
Hirokazu Yamamoto8e722bc2009-03-05 14:33:01 +00002592- Issue #5385: Fixed mmap crash after resize failure on windows.
2593
Hirokazu Yamamoto0c988172009-03-03 22:41:26 +00002594- Issue #5179: Fixed subprocess handle leak on failure on windows.
2595
Raymond Hettinger2d32f632009-03-02 21:24:57 +00002596- PEP 372: Added collections.OrderedDict().
2597
Raymond Hettingera4f52b12009-03-02 22:28:31 +00002598- The _asdict() for method for namedtuples now returns an OrderedDict().
2599
Raymond Hettinger0663a1e2009-03-02 23:06:00 +00002600- configparser now defaults to using an ordered dictionary.
2601
Benjamin Petersone0124bd2009-03-09 21:04:33 +00002602- Issue #5401: Fixed a performance problem in mimetypes when ``from mimetypes
2603 import guess_extension`` was used.
2604
Hirokazu Yamamoto10c99372009-02-28 12:21:53 +00002605- Issue #1733986: Fixed mmap crash in accessing elements of second map object
2606 with same tagname but larger size than first map. (Windows)
2607
Hirokazu Yamamoto39c6dea2009-02-28 10:56:50 +00002608- Issue #5386: mmap.write_byte didn't check map size, so it could cause buffer
2609 overrun.
2610
Tarek Ziadéf0721222009-02-28 10:16:43 +00002611- Issue #1533164: Installed but not listed *.pyo was breaking Distutils
2612 bdist_rpm command.
2613
2614- Issue #5378: added --quiet option to Distutils bdist_rpm command.
2615
Tarek Ziadé38e3d512009-02-27 12:58:56 +00002616- Issue #5052: make Distutils compatible with 2.3 again.
2617
Tarek Ziadé0f31e6d2009-02-25 22:31:38 +00002618- Issue #5316: Fixed buildbot failures introduced by multiple inheritance
2619 in Distutils tests.
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00002620
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00002621- Issue #5287: Add exception handling around findCaller() call to help out
2622 IronPython.
2623
Hirokazu Yamamoto0654ccd2009-02-18 16:38:00 +00002624- Issue #5282: Fixed mmap resize on 32bit windows and unix. When offset > 0,
2625 The file was resized to wrong size.
2626
2627- Issue #5292: Fixed mmap crash on its boundary access m[len(m)].
2628
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00002629- Issue #2279: distutils.sdist.add_defaults now add files
Tarek Ziadé0d0506e2009-02-16 21:49:12 +00002630 from the package_data and the data_files metadata.
2631
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00002632- Issue #5257: refactored all tests in distutils, so they use
Tarek Ziadéc1375d52009-02-14 14:35:51 +00002633 support.TempdirManager, to avoid writing in the tests directory.
2634
Tarek Ziadé68c50952009-02-13 23:04:17 +00002635- Issue #4524: distutils build_script command failed with --with-suffix=3.
2636 Initial patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
2637
Tarek Ziadé811d6242009-02-13 22:26:15 +00002638- Issue #2461: added tests for distutils.util
2639
Mark Dickinsonc28ad272009-02-12 17:58:36 +00002640- Issue #4998: The memory saving effect of __slots__ had been lost on Fractions
2641 which inherited from numbers.py which did not have __slots__ defined. The
2642 numbers hierarchy now has its own __slots__ declarations.
2643
Antoine Pitroub353c122009-02-11 00:39:14 +00002644- Issue #4631: Fix urlopen() result when an HTTP response uses chunked
2645 encoding.
2646
Thomas Heller465c8022009-02-10 18:59:04 +00002647- Issue #5203: Fixed ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a
2648 function without argtypes (only occurs if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false).
2649
Tarek Ziadé7d5e9872009-02-10 12:36:33 +00002650- Issue #3386: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument was ignored
2651 under NT and OS2. Patch by Philip Jenvey.
2652
Brett Cannonbefb14f2009-02-10 02:10:16 +00002653- Issue #5128: Make compileall properly inspect bytecode to determine if needs
2654 to be recreated. This avoids a timing hole thanks to the old reliance on the
2655 ctime of the files involved.
2656
Guilherme Polob681df42009-02-09 22:33:59 +00002657- Issue #5122: Synchronize tk load failure check to prevent a potential
2658 deadlock.
2659
Benjamin Petersona86f2c02009-02-10 02:41:10 +00002660- Issue #1818: collections.namedtuple() now supports a keyword argument
2661 'rename' which lets invalid fieldnames be automatically converted to
2662 positional names in the form, _1, _2, ...
2663
Guilherme Poloae098992009-02-09 16:44:24 +00002664- Issue #4890: Handle empty text search pattern in Tkinter.Text.search.
2665
Nick Coghlan9a1d6e32009-02-08 03:37:27 +00002666- Issue #4512 (part 2): Promote ``ZipImporter._get_filename()`` to be a
2667 public documented method ``ZipImporter.get_filename()``.
2668
Nick Coghlan3f48ae32009-02-08 01:58:26 +00002669- Issue #4195: The ``runpy`` module (and the ``-m`` switch) now support
2670 the execution of packages by looking for and executing a ``__main__``
2671 submodule when a package name is supplied. Initial patch by Andi
2672 Vajda.
2673
Guilherme Polo491aee22009-02-06 23:16:11 +00002674- Issue #1731706: Call Tcl_ConditionFinalize for Tcl_Conditions that will
2675 not be used again (this requires Tcl/Tk 8.3.1), also fix a memory leak in
2676 Tkapp_Call when calling from a thread different than the one that created
2677 the Tcl interpreter. Patch by Robert Hancock.
2678
Eric Smith0e5b5622009-02-06 01:32:42 +00002679- Issue #4285: Change sys.version_info to be a named tuple. Patch by
2680 Ross Light.
2681
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00002682- Issue #1520877: Now distutils.sysconfig reads $AR from the
Tarek Ziadéd3409de2009-02-06 01:18:36 +00002683 environment/Makefile. Patch by Douglas Greiman.
2684
Tarek Ziadé70a74eb2009-02-06 00:38:35 +00002685- Issue #1276768: The verbose option was not used in the code of
2686 distutils.file_util and distutils.dir_util.
2687
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00002688- Issue #5132: Fixed trouble building extensions under Solaris with
Tarek Ziadé5874ef12009-02-05 22:56:14 +00002689 --enabled-shared activated. Initial patch by Dave Peterson.
2690
Guilherme Polo7f423952009-02-02 21:17:09 +00002691- Issue #1581476: Always use the Tcl global namespace when calling into Tcl.
2692
Raymond Hettinger85602262009-02-03 04:19:10 +00002693- The shelve module now defaults to pickle protocol 3.
2694
Brett Cannone61426e2009-01-30 01:31:34 +00002695- Fix a bug in the trace module where a bytes object from co_lnotab had its
2696 items being passed through ord().
2697
Antoine Pitrou0dcc3cd2009-01-29 20:26:59 +00002698- Issue #2047: shutil.move() could believe that its destination path was
2699 inside its source path if it began with the same letters (e.g. "src" vs.
2700 "src.new").
2701
Guilherme Polo5f238482009-01-28 14:41:10 +00002702- Added the ttk module. See issue #2983: Ttk support for Tkinter.
2703
Raymond Hettinger89e12962009-01-26 02:09:03 +00002704- Removed isSequenceType(), isMappingType, and isNumberType() from the
2705 operator module; use the abstract base classes instead. Also removed
2706 the repeat() function; use mul() instead.
2707
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00002708- Issue #5021: doctest.testfile() did not create __name__ and
Raymond Hettinger0f055172009-01-27 10:06:09 +00002709 collections.namedtuple() relied on __name__ being defined.
2710
2711- Backport importlib from Python 3.1. Only the import_module() function has
2712 been backported to help facilitate transitions from 2.7 to 3.1.
2713
Tarek Ziadé0302cf52009-01-26 17:23:20 +00002714- Issue #1885: distutils. When running sdist with --formats=tar,gztar
2715 the tar file was overriden by the gztar one.
2716
Tarek Ziadé4d4456f2009-01-25 18:27:45 +00002717- Issue #4863: distutils.mwerkscompiler has been removed.
2718
Raymond Hettingerd07d9392009-01-27 04:20:44 +00002719- Added a new itertools functions: combinations_with_replacement()
2720 and compress().
Raymond Hettinger6b3b0fc2009-01-26 02:56:58 +00002721
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00002722- Issue #5032: added a step argument to itertools.count() and
Raymond Hettinger30729212009-02-12 06:28:27 +00002723 allowed non-integer arguments.
2724
Jesse Noller41faa542009-01-25 03:45:53 +00002725- Fix and properly document the multiprocessing module's logging
2726 support, expose the internal levels and provide proper usage
2727 examples.
2728
Mark Dickinsoncddcf442009-01-24 21:46:33 +00002729- Issue #1672332: fix unpickling of subnormal floats, which was
2730 producing a ValueError on some platforms.
2731
Martin v. Löwisacbf4612009-01-24 16:19:45 +00002732- Issue #3881: Help Tcl to load even when started through the
2733 unreadable local symlink to "Program Files" on Vista.
2734
Martin v. Löwis59e47792009-01-24 14:10:07 +00002735- Issue #4710: Extract directories properly in the zipfile module;
2736 allow adding directories to a zipfile.
2737
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00002738- Issue #3807: _multiprocessing build fails when configure is passed
Jesse Noller6fd47e22009-01-23 14:09:08 +00002739 --without-threads argument. When this occurs, _multiprocessing will
2740 be disabled, and not compiled.
2741
Antoine Pitrou08838b62009-01-21 00:55:13 +00002742- Issue #5008: When a file is opened in append mode with the new IO library,
2743 do an explicit seek to the end of file (so that e.g. tell() returns the
2744 file size rather than 0). This is consistent with the behaviour of the
2745 traditional 2.x file object.
2746
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00002747- Issue #5013: Fixed a bug in FileHandler which occurred when the delay
2748 parameter was set.
2749
Mark Dickinson8dd05142009-01-20 20:43:58 +00002750- Issue #4842: Always append a trailing 'L' when pickling longs using
2751 pickle protocol 0. When reading, the 'L' is optional.
2752
Brett Cannonafccd632009-01-20 02:21:27 +00002753- Add the importlib package.
2754
Jesse Noller9a0fc972009-01-18 21:12:58 +00002755- Issue #4301: Patch the logging module to add processName support, remove
2756 _check_logger_class from multiprocessing.
2757
Jesse Noller1cbb17a2009-01-18 19:45:18 +00002758- Issue #3325: Remove python2.x try: except: imports for old cPickle from
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00002759 multiprocessing.
Jesse Nollerf70a5382009-01-18 19:44:02 +00002760
Benjamin Peterson9953a8d2009-01-17 04:15:01 +00002761- Issue #4959: inspect.formatargspec now works for keyword only arguments
2762 without defaults.
2763
Jesse Noller6214edd2009-01-19 16:23:53 +00002764- Issue #3321: _multiprocessing.Connection() doesn't check handle; added checks
2765 for *nix machines for negative handles and large int handles. Without this check
2766 it is possible to segfault the interpreter.
2767
Jesse Nollerb0516a62009-01-18 03:11:38 +00002768- Issue #4449: AssertionError in mp_benchmarks.py, caused by an underlying issue
2769 in sharedctypes.py.
2770
2771- Issue #1225107: inspect.isclass() returned True for instances with a custom
2772 __getattr__.
2773
Gregory P. Smithde3369f2009-01-12 04:50:11 +00002774- Issue #3826 and #4791: The socket module now closes the underlying socket
2775 appropriately when it is being used via socket.makefile() objects
2776 rather than delaying the close by waiting for garbage collection to do it.
2777
Raymond Hettingerb8baf632009-01-14 02:20:07 +00002778- Issue #1696199: Add collections.Counter() for rapid and convenient
2779 counting.
2780
Antoine Pitrou308705e2009-01-10 16:22:51 +00002781- Issue #3860: GzipFile and BZ2File now support the context manager protocol.
2782
Thomas Heller5e4e4272009-01-08 09:34:20 +00002783- Issue #4867: Fixed a crash in ctypes when passing a string to a
2784 function without defining argtypes.
2785
Antoine Pitrou42db3ef2009-01-04 21:37:59 +00002786- Issue #4272: Add an optional argument to the GzipFile constructor to override
2787 the timestamp in the gzip stream. The default value remains the current time.
2788 The information can be used by e.g. gunzip when decompressing. Patch by
2789 Jacques Frechet.
2790
Mark Dickinson315a20a2009-01-04 21:34:18 +00002791- Restore Python 2.3 compatibility for decimal.py.
2792
Guilherme Polo3f5f8222009-01-03 22:00:39 +00002793- Issue #3638: Remove functions from _tkinter module level that depend on
2794 TkappObject to work with multiple threads.
2795
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00002796- Issue #4718: Adapt the wsgiref package so that it actually works with
2797 Python 3.x, in accordance with the `official amendments of the spec
Antoine Pitrou38a66ad2009-01-03 18:41:49 +00002798 <http://www.wsgi.org/wsgi/Amendments_1.0>`_.
2799
Raymond Hettinger771ed762009-01-03 19:20:32 +00002800- Issue #4796: Added Decimal.from_float() and Context.create_decimal_from_float()
2801 to the decimal module.
2802
Georg Brandl3a9b0622009-01-03 22:07:57 +00002803- Fractions.from_float() no longer loses precision for integers too big to
2804 cast as floats.
2805
Mark Dickinsonf9236412009-01-02 23:23:21 +00002806- Issue #4812: add missing underscore prefix to some internal-use-only
2807 constants in the decimal module. (Dec_0 becomes _Dec_0, etc.)
2808
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00002809- Issue #4790: The nsmallest() and nlargest() functions in the heapq module
Georg Brandl3a9b0622009-01-03 22:07:57 +00002810 did unnecessary work in the common case where no key function was specified.
2811
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00002812- Issue #4795: inspect.isgeneratorfunction() returns False instead of None when
2813 the function is not a generator.
2814
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00002815- Issue #4702: Throwing a DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError in case
2816 no MSVC compiler is found under Windows. Original patch by Philip Jenvey.
Tarek Ziadé9df8ce32008-12-30 23:09:20 +00002817
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00002818- Issue #4646: distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup
Tarek Ziadé4450dcf2008-12-29 22:38:38 +00002819 function. Original patch by Thomas Heller.
2820
Martin v. Löwis1f1620e2008-12-29 16:27:13 +00002821- Issue #3767: Convert Tk object to string in tkColorChooser.
2822
Martin v. Löwise354d782008-12-29 16:03:04 +00002823- Issue #3248: Allow placing ScrolledText in a PanedWindow.
2824
Antoine Pitrou5acd41e2008-12-28 14:29:00 +00002825- Issue #4444: Allow assertRaises() to be used as a context handler, so that
2826 the code under test can be written inline if more practical.
2827
Georg Brandldb7b6b92009-01-01 15:53:14 +00002828- Issue #4739: Add pydoc help topics for symbols, so that e.g. help('@')
2829 works as expected in the interactive environment.
2830
Antoine Pitroudb5fe662008-12-27 15:50:40 +00002831- Issue #4756: zipfile.is_zipfile() now supports file-like objects. Patch by
2832 Gabriel Genellina.
2833
Antoine Pitrou180a3362008-12-14 16:36:46 +00002834- Issue #4574: reading an UTF16-encoded text file crashes if \r on 64-char
2835 boundary.
2836
Nick Coghlanf088e5e2008-12-14 11:50:48 +00002837- Issue #4223: inspect.getsource() will now correctly display source code
2838 for packages loaded via zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302
2839 loader). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
2840
2841- Issue #4201: pdb can now access and display source code loaded via
2842 zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302 loader). Original patch by
2843 Alexander Belopolsky.
2844
2845- Issue #4197: doctests in modules loaded via zipimport (or any other PEP
2846 302 conformant loader) will now work correctly in most cases (they
2847 are still subject to the constraints that exist for all code running
2848 from inside a module loaded via a PEP 302 loader and attempting to
2849 perform IO operations based on __file__). Original patch by
2850 Alexander Belopolsky.
2851
2852- Issues #4082 and #4512: Add runpy support to zipimport in a manner that
2853 allows backporting to maintenance branches. Original patch by
2854 Alexander Belopolsky.
2855
Antoine Pitrou7c59bc62008-12-13 23:20:54 +00002856- Issue #4163: textwrap module: allow word splitting on a hyphen preceded by
2857 a non-ASCII letter.
2858
Lars Gustäbel43fcf3a2008-12-12 14:58:38 +00002859- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
2860
Benjamin Peterson433f32c2008-12-12 01:25:05 +00002861- Issue #4021: tokenize.detect_encoding() now raises a SyntaxError when the
2862 codec cannot be found. This is for compatibility with the builtin behavior.
2863
Facundo Batista708d5812008-12-11 04:20:07 +00002864- Issue #4084: Fix max, min, max_mag and min_mag Decimal methods to
2865 give correct results in the case where one argument is a quiet NaN
2866 and the other is a finite number that requires rounding.
2867
Skip Montanaroc1ce2862008-12-06 17:25:02 +00002868- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat
2869 libs.
2870
Georg Brandlf9734072008-12-07 15:30:06 +00002871- Added the subprocess.check_call_output() convenience function to get output
2872 from a subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
2873
2874- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
2875 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
2876 Content-Disposition headers.
2877
2878- Issue #4384: Added logging integration with warnings module using
2879 captureWarnings(). This change includes a NullHandler which does nothing;
2880 it will be of use to library developers who want to avoid the "No handlers
2881 could be found for logger XXX" message which can appear if the library user
2882 doesn't configure logging.
2883
2884- Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
2885 exception.
2886
Georg Brandleee31162008-12-07 15:15:22 +00002887- Issue #4529: fix the parser module's validation of try-except-finally
2888 statements.
2889
2890- Issue #4458: getopt.gnu_getopt() now recognizes a single "-" as an argument,
2891 not a malformed option.
2892
2893- Added the subprocess.check_output() convenience function to get output
2894 from a subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
2895
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbc9d4742008-12-05 01:40:43 +00002896- Issue #4542: On Windows, binascii.crc32 still accepted str as binary input;
2897 the corresponding tests now pass.
2898
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbc2ce572008-12-05 01:02:21 +00002899- Issue #4537: webbrowser.UnixBrowser would fail to open the browser because
2900 it was calling the wrong open() function.
2901
Fred Drake9a0a65b2008-12-04 19:24:50 +00002902- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
2903 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
2904 Content-Disposition headers.
2905
Matthias Klose2c7e3ee2009-01-10 17:08:25 +00002906- Issue #4861: ctypes.util.find_library(): Robustify. Fix library detection on
2907 biarch systems. Try to rely on ldconfig only, without using objdump and gcc.
2908
Benjamin Peterson5c6d7872009-02-06 02:40:07 +00002909- Issue #5104: The socket module now raises OverflowError when 16-bit port and
2910 protocol numbers are supplied outside the allowed 0-65536 range on bind()
2911 and getservbyport().
2912
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven0a866942009-05-08 14:18:00 +00002913- Windows locale mapping updated to Vista.
2914
Antoine Pitrou2a013ea2008-12-27 20:39:28 +00002915Tools/Demos
2916-----------
2917
Antoine Pitrou8a681222009-02-07 17:13:31 +00002918- Issue #4704: remove use of cmp() in pybench, bump its version number to 2.1,
2919 and make it 2.6-compatible.
2920
Guilherme Poloa7d27972009-01-28 16:06:51 +00002921- Ttk demos added in Demo/tkinter/ttk/
2922
Antoine Pitrou2a013ea2008-12-27 20:39:28 +00002923- Issue #4677: add two list comprehension tests to pybench.
2924
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00002925
2926Build
2927-----
2928
Benjamin Petersonf53eec82009-05-23 19:36:27 +00002929- Issue #6094: Build correctly with Subversion 1.7.
2930
Martin v. Löwis8482ef92009-05-05 16:14:30 +00002931- Issue #5847: Remove -n switch on "Edit with IDLE" menu item.
2932
Antoine Pitrou8966c992009-05-01 21:18:27 +00002933- Issue #5726: Make Modules/ld_so_aix return the actual exit code of the
2934 linker, rather than always exit successfully. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
2935
Matthias Klose55708cc2009-04-30 08:06:49 +00002936- Issue #4587: Add configure option --with-dbmliborder=db1:db2:... to specify
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00002937 the order that backends for the dbm extension are checked.
Matthias Klose55708cc2009-04-30 08:06:49 +00002938
Matthias Klose906785c2009-02-22 23:18:38 +00002939- Link the shared python library with $(MODLIBS).
2940
Martin v. Löwis11f72102009-02-10 13:13:30 +00002941- Issue #5134: Silence compiler warnings when compiling sqlite with VC++.
2942
Martin v. Löwisbc186a82009-02-02 15:32:22 +00002943- Issue #4494: Fix build with Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED on Windows.
2944
Martin v. Löwise97637d2009-01-11 09:45:11 +00002945- Issue #4895: Use _strdup on Windows CE.
2946
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00002947- Issue #4472: "configure --enable-shared" now works on OSX
2948
2949- Issues #4728 and #4060: WORDS_BIGEDIAN is now correct in Universal builds.
2950
2951- Issue #4389: Add icon to the uninstall entry in "add-and-remove-programs".
2952
2953- Issue #4289: Remove Cancel button from AdvancedDlg.
2954
2955- Issue #1656675: Register a drop handler for .py* files on Windows.
2956
2957- Issue #4120: Exclude manifest from extension modules in VS2008.
2958
2959- Issue #4091: Install pythonxy.dll in system32 again.
2960
2961- Issue #4018: Disable "for me" installations on Vista.
2962
2963- Issue #3758: Add ``patchcheck`` build target to .PHONY.
2964
2965- Issue #4204: Fixed module build errors on FreeBSD 4.
2966
2967
2968C-API
2969-----
2970
Sean Reifscheider642d96a2009-08-01 23:55:06 +00002971- Issue #6624: yArg_ParseTuple with "s" format when parsing argument with
2972 NUL: Bogus TypeError detail string.
2973
Mark Dickinson21776072009-02-10 16:13:25 +00002974- Issue #5175: PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLong now raises OverflowError
2975 for negative arguments. Previously, it raised TypeError.
2976
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00002977- Issue #4720: The format for PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords can begin with '|'.
2978
2979- Issue #3632: from the gdb debugger, the 'pyo' macro can now be called when
2980 the GIL is released, or owned by another thread.
2981
2982- Issue #4122: On Windows, fix a compilation error when using the
2983 Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE macro in an extension module.
2984
2985
Mark Dickinsone675f082008-12-11 21:56:00 +00002986Extension Modules
2987-----------------
2988
Gregory P. Smith365a1862009-02-12 07:35:29 +00002989- Issue #3745: Fix hashlib to always reject unicode and non buffer-api
2990 supporting objects as input no matter how it was compiled (built in
2991 implementations or external openssl library).
2992
Mark Dickinson29500f62009-01-15 15:36:10 +00002993- Issue #4397: Fix occasional test_socket failure on OS X.
2994
Martin v. Löwisa9b54c72009-01-11 09:30:50 +00002995- Issue #4279: Fix build of parsermodule under Cygwin.
2996
Antoine Pitroubcd5cbe2009-01-08 21:17:16 +00002997- Issue #4751: hashlib now releases the GIL when hashing large buffers
2998 (with a hardwired threshold of 2048 bytes), allowing better parallelization
2999 on multi-CPU systems. Contributed by Lukas Lueg (ebfe) and Victor Stinner.
3000
Martin v. Löwis5c88d812009-01-02 20:47:48 +00003001- Issue #4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle.
3002
Antoine Pitrou31f30b12009-01-02 17:34:35 +00003003- Issue #4738: Each zlib object now has a separate lock, allowing to compress
3004 or decompress several streams at once on multi-CPU systems. Also, the GIL
3005 is now released when computing the CRC of a large buffer. Patch by ebfe.
3006
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00003007- Issue #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format.
3008
Martin v. Löwis05bfe1f2008-12-29 18:21:47 +00003009- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
3010
Mark Dickinsone675f082008-12-11 21:56:00 +00003011- Issues #3167, #3682: Fix test_math failures for log, log10 on Solaris,
3012 OpenBSD.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcefae8c42008-11-21 23:08:09 +00003013
Antoine Pitrou3ad3a0d2008-12-18 17:08:32 +00003014- Issue #4583: array.array would not always prohibit resizing when a buffer
3015 has been exported, resulting in an interpreter crash when accessing the
3016 buffer.
3017
Martin v. Löwis841edad2008-11-30 10:36:49 +00003018
Jack Diederiche0cbd692009-04-01 04:27:09 +00003019- Issue #5228: Make functools.partial objects can now be pickled.
3020
Guilherme Polo9de29af2009-01-28 20:40:48 +00003021Tests
3022-----
3023
Antoine Pitrou88909542009-06-29 13:54:42 +00003024- Issue #6152: New option '-j'/'--multiprocess' for regrtest allows running
3025 regression tests in parallel, shortening the total runtime.
3026
Guilherme Polo2a998fa2009-06-21 17:40:07 +00003027- Issue #5450: Moved tests involving loading tk from Lib/test/test_tcl to
3028 Lib/tkinter/test/test_tkinter/test_loadtk. With this, these tests demonstrate
3029 the same behaviour as test_ttkguionly (and now also test_tk) which is to
3030 skip the tests if DISPLAY is defined but can't be used.
3031
R. David Murraya21e4ca2009-03-31 23:16:50 +00003032- regrtest no longer treats ImportError as equivalent to SkipTest. Imports
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00003033 that should cause a test to be skipped are now done using import_module
R. David Murraya21e4ca2009-03-31 23:16:50 +00003034 from test support, which does the conversion.
3035
Guilherme Polo9de29af2009-01-28 20:40:48 +00003036- Issue #5083: New 'gui' resource for regrtest.
3037
3038
Brett Cannon7317c1e2008-11-25 19:19:17 +00003039Docs
3040----
3041
Georg Brandl52b92cc2008-05-25 09:43:03 +00003042
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00003043**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**