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Jesus Cea7e9065c2010-10-25 13:02:04 +00001+++++++++++
Georg Brandlab6f2f62009-03-31 04:16:10 +00002Python News
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00003+++++++++++
4
Benjamin Petersonc77eccd2011-07-03 13:31:34 -05005What's New in Python 3.2.2?
6===========================
7
Georg Brandl00ebeb52011-07-09 10:58:37 +02008*Release date: XX-XXX-2011*
Benjamin Petersonc77eccd2011-07-03 13:31:34 -05009
10Core and Builtins
11-----------------
12
Eric V. Smith12ebefc2011-07-18 14:03:41 -040013- Issue #12579: str.format_map() now raises a ValueError if used on a
14 format string that contains positional fields. Initial patch by
15 Julian Berman.
16
Barry Warsawd460a762011-07-19 18:28:30 -040017- Issue #11627: Fix segfault when __new__ on a exception returns a
18 non-exception class.
Benjamin Peterson5afa03a2011-07-15 14:09:26 -050019
Antoine Pitrou84f1b172011-07-12 21:57:15 +020020- Issue #12149: Update the method cache after a type's dictionnary gets
21 cleared by the garbage collector. This fixes a segfault when an instance
22 and its type get caught in a reference cycle, and the instance's
23 deallocator calls one of the methods on the type (e.g. when subclassing
24 IOBase). Diagnosis and patch by Davide Rizzo.
25
Victor Stinnerc655a722011-07-05 11:31:49 +020026- Issue #9611, #9015: FileIO.read() clamps the length to INT_MAX on Windows.
27
Benjamin Petersonac913412011-07-03 16:25:11 -050028- When a generator yields, do not retain the caller's exception state on the
29 generator.
30
Benjamin Peterson83195c32011-07-03 13:44:00 -050031- Issue #12475: Prevent generators from leaking their exception state into the
Benjamin Peterson9cf960c2011-07-03 13:49:59 -050032 caller's frame as they return for the last time.
Benjamin Peterson83195c32011-07-03 13:44:00 -050033
Benjamin Petersonc77eccd2011-07-03 13:31:34 -050034Library
35-------
36
R David Murray46346762011-07-18 21:38:54 -040037- Issue #7484: smtplib no longer puts <> around addresses in VRFY and EXPN
38 commands; they aren't required and in fact postfix doesn't support that form.
39
Antoine Pitrou0b447952011-07-16 23:52:02 +020040- Close the call queue in concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor when
41 shutdown() is called, without waiting for the garbage collector to kick in.
42
Antoine Pitrou8cdc40e2011-07-15 21:15:07 +020043- Issue #11603: Fix a crash when __str__ is rebound as __repr__. Patch by
44 Andreas Stührk.
45
Antoine Pitrou8391cf42011-07-15 21:01:21 +020046- Issue #11321: Fix a crash with multiple imports of the _pickle module when
47 embedding Python. Patch by Andreas Stührk.
48
Charles-François Natali1f0ccfa2011-07-14 19:57:35 +020049- Issue #12502: asyncore: fix polling loop with AF_UNIX sockets.
50
Victor Stinner66361212011-07-13 21:43:18 +020051- Issue #4376: ctypes now supports nested structures in a endian different than
52 the parent structure. Patch by Vlad Riscutia.
53
Antoine Pitroucb4ae812011-07-13 21:07:49 +020054- Raise ValueError when attempting to set the _CHUNK_SIZE attribute of a
55 TextIOWrapper to a huge value, not TypeError.
56
Victor Stinner2cfb6f32011-07-05 14:00:56 +020057- Issue #12493: subprocess: Popen.communicate() now also handles EINTR errors
58 if the process has only one pipe.
59
Victor Stinner91e08772011-07-05 14:30:41 +020060- Issue #12451: pydoc: html_getfile() now uses tokenize.open() to support
61 Python scripts using a encoding different than UTF-8 (read the coding cookie
62 of the script).
63
Victor Stinnere975af62011-07-04 02:08:50 +020064- Issue #12451: pydoc: importfile() now opens the Python script in binary mode,
65 instead of text mode using the locale encoding, to avoid encoding issues.
66
Victor Stinner6c471022011-07-04 01:45:39 +020067- Issue #12451: runpy: run_path() now opens the Python script in binary mode,
68 instead of text mode using the locale encoding, to support other encodings
69 than UTF-8 (scripts using the coding cookie).
70
Victor Stinnerbbdc08e2011-07-04 01:25:55 +020071- Issue #12451: xml.dom.pulldom: parse() now opens files in binary mode instead
72 of the text mode (using the locale encoding) to avoid encoding issues.
73
Barry Warsawd460a762011-07-19 18:28:30 -040074Extension Modules
75-----------------
76
77- Issue #10309: Define _GNU_SOURCE so that mremap() gets the proper
78 signature. Without this, architectures where sizeof void* != sizeof int are
79 broken. Patch given by Hallvard B Furuseth.
80
Benjamin Petersonc77eccd2011-07-03 13:31:34 -050081C-API
82-----
83
Ned Deily41435352011-07-03 21:56:48 -070084Tests
85-----
86
Antoine Pitrou707f2282011-07-15 22:29:44 +020087- Try harder to reap dangling threads in test.support.reap_threads().
88
Antoine Pitrouc081c0c2011-07-15 22:12:24 +020089- Issue #12573: Add resource checks for dangling Thread and Process objects.
90
Ned Deily58e33502011-07-13 15:07:04 -070091- Issue #12549: Correct test_platform to not fail when OS X returns 'x86_64'
92 as the processor type on some Mac systems.
93
Antoine Pitrou95531ea2011-07-08 19:43:51 +020094- Avoid failing in test_robotparser when mueblesmoraleda.com is flaky and
95 an overzealous DNS service (e.g. OpenDNS) redirects to a placeholder
96 Web site.
97
Antoine Pitroub9ac25d2011-07-08 18:47:06 +020098- Issue #12440: When testing whether some bits in SSLContext.options can be
99 reset, check the version of the OpenSSL headers Python was compiled against,
100 rather than the runtime version of the OpenSSL library.
101
Ned Deilye2d51902011-07-04 19:06:20 -0700102- Issue #12497: Install test/data to prevent failures of the various codecmaps
103 tests.
104
105- Issue #12496: Install test/capath directory to prevent test_connect_capath
Ned Deily8215f5d2011-07-04 17:48:01 -0700106 testcase failure in test_ssl.
107
Victor Stinnere40b3aa2011-07-04 17:35:10 +0200108- Issue #12469: Run "wakeup" signal tests in subprocess to run the test in a
109 fresh process with only one thread and to not change signal handling of the
110 parent process.
111
Ned Deily41435352011-07-03 21:56:48 -0700112- Issue #8716: Avoid crashes caused by Aqua Tk on OSX when attempting to run
113 test_tk or test_ttk_guionly under a username that is not currently logged
114 in to the console windowserver (as may be the case under buildbot or ssh).
115
116
Georg Brandl7d10a2d2011-07-04 08:20:48 +0200117What's New in Python 3.2.1?
118===========================
Antoine Pitroub4410db2011-05-18 18:51:06 +0200119
Georg Brandlcd0dc162011-07-09 08:56:21 +0200120*Release date: 10-Jul-2011*
Antoine Pitroub4410db2011-05-18 18:51:06 +0200121
Georg Brandl7d10a2d2011-07-04 08:20:48 +0200122Library
123-------
124
Victor Stinnerb1b25f02011-07-04 02:43:09 +0200125- Issue #12467: warnings: fix a race condition if a warning is emitted at
126 shutdown, if globals()['__file__'] is None.
127
Antoine Pitrou3aba4982011-07-08 19:19:57 +0200128Tests
129-----
130
Antoine Pitrou9163c472011-07-09 02:31:24 +0200131- Skip network tests when getaddrinfo() returns EAI_AGAIN, meaning a temporary
132 failure in name resolution.
133
Antoine Pitrou3aba4982011-07-08 19:19:57 +0200134- Avoid failing in test_urllibnet.test_bad_address when some overzealous
135 DNS service (e.g. OpenDNS) resolves a non-existent domain name. The test
136 is now skipped instead.
137
Georg Brandl7d10a2d2011-07-04 08:20:48 +0200138
Antoine Pitroub4410db2011-05-18 18:51:06 +0200139What's New in Python 3.2.1 release candidate 2?
140===============================================
141
Georg Brandld4fa7ed2011-07-03 09:41:27 +0200142*Release date: 03-Jul-2011*
Antoine Pitroub4410db2011-05-18 18:51:06 +0200143
144Core and Builtins
145-----------------
146
Georg Brandl06ddddf2011-07-03 09:42:43 +0200147- Issue #12291: You can now load multiple marshalled objects from a stream, with
148 other data interleaved between marshalled objects.
Vinay Sajip5bdae3b2011-07-02 16:42:47 +0100149
Brian Curtind25aef52011-06-13 15:16:04 -0500150- Issue #12084: os.stat on Windows now works properly with relative symbolic
151 links when called from any directory.
152
Victor Stinner19c52332011-05-30 23:50:04 +0200153- Issue #1195: my_fgets() now always clears errors before calling fgets(). Fix
Victor Stinner4f711012011-05-30 23:46:00 +0200154 the following case: sys.stdin.read() stopped with CTRL+d (end of file),
155 raw_input() interrupted by CTRL+c.
156
Georg Brandl06ddddf2011-07-03 09:42:43 +0200157- Issue #9670: Increase the default stack size for secondary threads on Mac OS X
158 and FreeBSD to reduce the chances of a crash instead of a "maximum recursion
159 depth" RuntimeError exception (patch by Ronald Oussoren).
Ned Deily9a7c5242011-05-28 00:19:56 -0700160
Antoine Pitroub4410db2011-05-18 18:51:06 +0200161Library
162-------
163
R David Murrayac4e5ab2011-07-02 21:03:19 -0400164- Issue #12147: Adjust the new-in-3.2 smtplib.send_message method for better
Georg Brandl06ddddf2011-07-03 09:42:43 +0200165 conformance to the RFCs: correctly handle Sender and Resent headers.
R David Murrayac4e5ab2011-07-02 21:03:19 -0400166
Charles-François Natali778db492011-07-02 14:35:49 +0200167- Issue #12352: Fix a deadlock in multiprocessing.Heap when a block is freed by
168 the garbage collector while the Heap lock is held.
169
Victor Stinnereaf399e2011-06-30 18:10:14 +0200170- Issue #12451: The XInclude default loader of xml.etree now decodes files from
171 UTF-8 instead of the locale encoding if the encoding is not specified. It now
Georg Brandl06ddddf2011-07-03 09:42:43 +0200172 also opens XML files for the parser in binary mode instead of the text mode to
173 avoid encoding issues.
174
175- Issue #12451: doctest.debug_script() doesn't create a temporary file anymore
Victor Stinnereaf399e2011-06-30 18:10:14 +0200176 to avoid encoding issues.
177
Georg Brandl06ddddf2011-07-03 09:42:43 +0200178- Issue #12451: pydoc.synopsis() now reads the encoding cookie if available, to
179 read the Python script from the right encoding.
Victor Stinnere6c910e2011-06-30 15:55:43 +0200180
Victor Stinnerdc9b1ea2011-06-30 15:40:22 +0200181- Issue #12451: distutils now opens the setup script in binary mode to read the
182 encoding cookie, instead of opening it in UTF-8.
183
Ned Deily657b2de2011-06-28 19:51:30 -0700184- Issue #9516: On Mac OS X, change Distutils to no longer globally attempt to
185 check or set the MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET environment variable for the
186 interpreter process. This could cause failures in non-Distutils subprocesses
187 and was unreliable since tests or user programs could modify the interpreter
188 environment after Distutils set it. Instead, have Distutils set the the
189 deployment target only in the environment of each build subprocess. It is
190 still possible to globally override the default by setting
191 MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET before launching the interpreter; its value must be
192 greater or equal to the default value, the value with which the interpreter
193 was built.
194
Ross Lagerwalldbfb9b82011-06-25 10:02:37 +0200195- Issue #12404: Remove C89 incompatible code from mmap module. Patch by Akira
196 Kitada.
197
Victor Stinnerf1512a22011-06-21 17:18:38 +0200198- Issue #12383: Fix subprocess module with env={}: don't copy the environment
199 variables, start with an empty environment.
200
Georg Brandl06ddddf2011-07-03 09:42:43 +0200201- Issue #11584: email.header.decode_header no longer fails if the header passed
202 to it is a Header object, and Header/make_header no longer fail if given
203 binary unknown-8bit input.
R David Murray6bdb1762011-06-18 12:30:55 -0400204
R David Murrayc88bce12011-06-17 22:24:05 -0400205- Issue #11700: mailbox proxy object close methods can now be called multiple
206 times without error.
207
R David Murray05ff9902011-06-17 12:54:56 -0400208- Issue #11767: Correct file descriptor leak in mailbox's __getitem__ method.
209
Victor Stinnera4c45d72011-06-17 14:01:18 +0200210- Issue #12133: AbstractHTTPHandler.do_open() of urllib.request closes the HTTP
211 connection if its getresponse() method fails with a socket error. Patch
212 written by Ezio Melotti.
213
Benjamin Peterson9620cc02011-06-11 15:53:11 -0500214- Issue #9284: Allow inspect.findsource() to find the source of doctest
215 functions.
216
Benjamin Peterson9aa68e42011-06-10 12:29:40 -0500217- Issue #12009: Fixed regression in netrc file comment handling.
218
R David Murray4fbb9db2011-06-09 15:50:51 -0400219- Issue #10694: zipfile now ignores garbage at the end of a zipfile.
220
R David Murray0f663d02011-06-09 15:05:57 -0400221- Issue #12283: Fixed regression in smtplib quoting of leading dots in DATA.
222
Vinay Sajip8168d102011-06-09 16:50:49 +0100223- Issue #12168: SysLogHandler now allows NUL termination to be controlled using
224 a new 'append_nul' attribute on the handler.
225
Brian Curtin9c669cc2011-06-08 18:17:18 -0500226- Issue #11583: Speed up os.path.isdir on Windows by using GetFileAttributes
227 instead of os.stat.
228
Raymond Hettinger3d890572011-06-02 23:40:24 -0700229- Named tuples now work correctly with vars().
230
Victor Stinner87b9bc32011-06-01 00:57:47 +0200231- Issue #12085: Fix an attribute error in subprocess.Popen destructor if the
232 constructor has failed, e.g. because of an undeclared keyword argument. Patch
233 written by Oleg Oshmyan.
234
Georg Brandl06ddddf2011-07-03 09:42:43 +0200235- Issue #985064: Make plistlib more resilient to faulty input plists. Patch by
236 Mher Movsisyan.
Ned Deilyb8e59f72011-05-28 02:19:19 -0700237
Victor Stinnera80987f2011-05-25 22:47:16 +0200238- Issue #12175: RawIOBase.readall() now returns None if read() returns None.
239
Victor Stinnerb79f28c2011-05-25 22:09:03 +0200240- Issue #12175: FileIO.readall() now raises a ValueError instead of an IOError
241 if the file is closed.
242
Victor Stinner1273b7c2011-05-24 23:37:07 +0200243- Issue #12070: Fix the Makefile parser of the sysconfig module to handle
244 correctly references to "bogus variable" (e.g. "prefix=$/opt/python").
245
Victor Stinner6bcbef72011-05-24 22:17:55 +0200246- Issue #12100: Don't reset incremental encoders of CJK codecs at each call to
247 their encode() method anymore, but continue to call the reset() method if the
248 final argument is True.
249
Charles-François Natali7b54e752011-05-24 18:23:15 +0200250- Issue #5715: In socketserver, close the server socket in the child process.
251
Benjamin Petersonf5fcd332011-05-23 16:22:42 -0500252- Correct lookup of __dir__ on objects. Among other things, this causes errors
253 besides AttributeError found on lookup to be propagated.
254
Victor Stinner4925cde2011-05-20 00:16:09 +0200255- Issue #12124: zipimport doesn't keep a reference to zlib.decompress() anymore
256 to be able to unload the module.
257
Antoine Pitroub4410db2011-05-18 18:51:06 +0200258- Issue #12065: connect_ex() on an SSL socket now returns the original errno
259 when the socket's timeout expires (it used to return None).
260
Benjamin Peterson0aa71f72011-05-31 19:06:17 -0500261Extension Modules
262-----------------
Ronald Oussoren02a67ac2011-05-17 12:44:54 +0200263
Benjamin Peterson0aa71f72011-05-31 19:06:17 -0500264- Issue #12221: Replace pyexpat.__version__ with the Python version.
265
Ned Deily6e5fd042011-05-28 05:59:55 -0700266Build
267-----
268
Ned Deily3eb67d52011-06-28 00:00:28 -0700269- Issue #8746: Correct faulty configure checks so that os.chflags() and
Georg Brandl06ddddf2011-07-03 09:42:43 +0200270 os.lchflags() are once again built on systems that support these functions
271 (*BSD and OS X). Also add new stat file flags for OS X (UF_HIDDEN and
272 UF_COMPRESSED).
Ned Deily3eb67d52011-06-28 00:00:28 -0700273
Georg Brandl06ddddf2011-07-03 09:42:43 +0200274- Issue #11217: For 64-bit/32-bit Mac OS X universal framework builds, ensure
275 "make install" creates symlinks in --prefix bin for the "-32" files in the
276 framework bin directory like the installer does.
Antoine Pitroub4410db2011-05-18 18:51:06 +0200277
Victor Stinneree497972011-05-31 00:01:24 +0200278Tests
279-----
280
Antoine Pitrou71cbafb2011-06-30 20:02:54 +0200281- Issue #12407: Explicitly skip test_capi.EmbeddingTest under Windows.
282
Victor Stinnera7c33e52011-06-29 13:00:54 +0200283- Issue #12400: regrtest -W doesn't rerun the tests twice anymore, but captures
284 the output and displays it on failure instead. regrtest -v doesn't print the
285 error twice anymore if there is only one error.
286
Georg Brandl06ddddf2011-07-03 09:42:43 +0200287- Issue #12141: Install a copy of template C module file so that test_build_ext
288 of test_distutils is no longer silently skipped when run outside of a build
289 directory.
Ned Deily58f27b22011-06-28 00:42:50 -0700290
Georg Brandl06ddddf2011-07-03 09:42:43 +0200291- Issue #8746: Add additional tests for os.chflags() and os.lchflags(). Patch
292 by Garrett Cooper.
Ned Deily3eb67d52011-06-28 00:00:28 -0700293
Georg Brandl06ddddf2011-07-03 09:42:43 +0200294- Issue #10736: Fix test_ttk test_widgets failures with Cocoa Tk 8.5.9 on Mac
295 OS X. (Patch by Ronald Oussoren)
Ned Deily11f00f32011-06-27 23:12:20 -0700296
Victor Stinneree497972011-05-31 00:01:24 +0200297- Issue #12057: Add tests for ISO 2022 codecs (iso2022_jp, iso2022_jp_2,
298 iso2022_kr).
299
Victor Stinner4445ec82011-05-20 00:18:58 +0200300
Georg Brandl758b85e2011-05-15 09:49:19 +0200301What's New in Python 3.2.1 release candidate 1?
302===============================================
Martin v. Löwis7be5b782011-02-21 16:26:47 +0000303
Georg Brandl5673e272011-05-15 17:52:42 +0200304*Release date: 15-May-2011*
Martin v. Löwis7be5b782011-02-21 16:26:47 +0000305
306Core and Builtins
307-----------------
308
Victor Stinner2ec6b172011-05-15 10:21:59 +0200309- Issue #12060: Use sig_atomic_t type and volatile keyword in the signal
310 module. Patch written by Charles-François Natali.
311
Gregory P. Smithc9557af2011-05-11 22:18:23 -0700312- Issue #12044: Fixed subprocess.Popen when used as a context manager to
313 wait for the process to end when exiting the context to avoid unintentionally
314 leaving zombie processes around.
315
Victor Stinner4755ab02011-05-10 00:19:53 +0200316- Issue #1195: Fix input() if it is interrupted by CTRL+d and then CTRL+c,
317 clear the end-of-file indicator after CTRL+d.
318
Georg Brandl758b85e2011-05-15 09:49:19 +0200319Library
320-------
321
Ronald Oussoren5ee05672011-05-17 14:48:40 +0200322- Issue #11088: don't crash when using F5 to run a script in IDLE on MacOSX
323 with Tk 8.5.
324
Victor Stinner9cd66262011-05-16 16:32:33 +0200325- Issue #9516: Issue #9516: avoid errors in sysconfig when MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET
Ronald Oussoren447fcfb2011-05-15 16:50:28 +0200326 is set in shell.
327
Georg Brandl758b85e2011-05-15 09:49:19 +0200328- Issue #12012: ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv2 becomes optional.
329
330- Issue #8650: Make zlib module 64-bit clean. compress(), decompress() and
331 their incremental counterparts now raise OverflowError if given an input
332 larger than 4GB, instead of silently truncating the input and returning
333 an incorrect result.
334
335- Issue #12050: zlib.decompressobj().decompress() now clears the unconsumed_tail
336 attribute when called without a max_length argument.
337
338- Issue #12062: Fix a flushing bug when doing a certain type of I/O sequence
339 on a file opened in read+write mode (namely: reading, seeking a bit forward,
340 writing, then seeking before the previous write but still within buffered
341 data, and writing again).
342
343- Issue #1028: Tk returns invalid Unicode null in %A: UnicodeDecodeError.
344 With Tk < 8.5 _tkinter.c:PythonCmd() raised UnicodeDecodeError, caused
345 IDLE to exit. Converted to valid Unicode null in PythonCmd().
346
347- Issue #11169: compileall module uses repr() to format filenames and paths to
348 escape surrogate characters and show spaces.
349
350- Issue #10419, #6011: build_scripts command of distutils handles correctly
351 non-ASCII path (path to the Python executable). Open and write the script in
352 binary mode, but ensure that the shebang is decodable from UTF-8 and from the
353 encoding of the script.
354
355- Issue #8498: In socket.accept(), allow to specify 0 as a backlog value in
356 order to accept exactly one connection. Patch by Daniel Evers.
357
358- Issue #11164: Stop trying to use _xmlplus in the xml module.
359
360Build
361-----
362
363- Issue #11347: Use --no-as-needed when linking libpython3.so.
364
365Tools/Demos
366-----------
367
368- Issue #11996: libpython (gdb), replace "py-bt" command by "py-bt-full" and
369 add a smarter "py-bt" command printing a classic Python traceback.
370
371Tests
372-----
373
Victor Stinner3349bca2011-05-18 00:16:14 +0200374- Issue #12096: Fix a race condition in test_threading.test_waitfor(). Patch
375 written by Charles-François Natali.
376
Victor Stinner9cd66262011-05-16 16:32:33 +0200377- Issue #11614: import __hello__ prints "Hello World!". Patch written by
378 Andreas Stührk.
379
Georg Brandl758b85e2011-05-15 09:49:19 +0200380- Issue #5723: Improve json tests to be executed with and without accelerations.
381
382- Issue #11910: Fix test_heapq to skip the C tests when _heapq is missing.
383
384
385What's New in Python 3.2.1 beta 1?
386==================================
387
388*Release date: 08-May-2011*
389
390Core and Builtins
391-----------------
392
Antoine Pitrou0d5e52d2011-05-04 20:02:30 +0200393- Issue #1856: Avoid crashes and lockups when daemon threads run while the
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +0200394 interpreter is shutting down; instead, these threads are now killed when they
395 try to take the GIL.
Antoine Pitrou0d5e52d2011-05-04 20:02:30 +0200396
Victor Stinner3249dec2011-05-01 23:19:15 +0200397- Issue #9756: When calling a method descriptor or a slot wrapper descriptor,
398 the check of the object type doesn't read the __class__ attribute anymore.
399 Fix a crash if a class override its __class__ attribute (e.g. a proxy of the
Victor Stinner13aaef52011-05-01 23:46:48 +0200400 str type). Patch written by Andreas Stührk.
Victor Stinner3249dec2011-05-01 23:19:15 +0200401
Victor Stinner3cbf14b2011-04-27 00:24:21 +0200402- Issue #10914: Initialize correctly the filesystem codec when creating a new
403 subinterpreter to fix a bootstrap issue with codecs implemented in Python, as
404 the ISO-8859-15 codec.
405
Antoine Pitrou0c759fe2011-04-27 19:28:05 +0200406- Issue #10517: After fork(), reinitialize the TLS used by the PyGILState_*
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +0200407 APIs, to avoid a crash with the pthread implementation in RHEL 5. Patch by
408 Charles-François Natali.
Antoine Pitrou0c759fe2011-04-27 19:28:05 +0200409
Ezio Melottiba42fd52011-04-26 06:09:45 +0300410- Issue #6780: fix starts/endswith error message to mention that tuples are
411 accepted too.
412
Ezio Melotti2df6a932011-04-15 16:38:34 +0300413- Issue #5057: fix a bug in the peepholer that led to non-portable pyc files
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +0200414 between narrow and wide builds while optimizing BINARY_SUBSCR on non-BMP chars
415 (e.g. "\U00012345"[0]).
Ezio Melotti2df6a932011-04-15 16:38:34 +0300416
Ezio Melotti982ef4e2011-04-15 08:15:40 +0300417- Issue #11845: Fix typo in rangeobject.c that caused a crash in
418 compute_slice_indices. Patch by Daniel Urban.
419
Victor Stinner52c950f2011-04-09 15:55:44 +0200420- Issue #11650: PyOS_StdioReadline() retries fgets() if it was interrupted
421 (EINTR), for example if the program is stopped with CTRL+z on Mac OS X. Patch
422 written by Charles-Francois Natali.
423
Victor Stinnere0daff12011-03-20 23:36:35 +0100424- Issue #11395: io.FileIO().write() clamps the data length to 32,767 bytes on
425 Windows if the file is a TTY to workaround a Windows bug. The Windows console
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +0200426 returns an error (12: not enough space error) on writing into stdout if stdout
427 mode is binary and the length is greater than 66,000 bytes (or less, depending
428 on heap usage).
Victor Stinnere0daff12011-03-20 23:36:35 +0100429
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +0200430- Issue #11320: fix bogus memory management in Modules/getpath.c, leading to a
431 possible crash when calling Py_SetPath().
Antoine Pitrou819be342011-03-17 23:36:13 +0100432
Raymond Hettinger29dcaad2011-03-15 14:50:16 -0700433- Issue #11510: Fixed optimizer bug which turned "a,b={1,1}" into "a,b=(1,1)".
434
Gregory P. Smith28edfee2011-03-15 16:02:10 -0400435- Issue #11432: A bug was introduced in subprocess.Popen on posix systems with
436 3.2.0 where the stdout or stderr file descriptor being the same as the stdin
437 file descriptor would raise an exception. webbrowser.open would fail. fixed.
438
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +0200439- Issue #11450: Don't truncate hg version info in Py_GetBuildInfo() when there
440 are many tags (e.g. when using mq). Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
Antoine Pitrou7983d332011-03-09 12:34:41 +0100441
Victor Stinner2b574a22011-03-01 22:48:49 +0000442- Issue #11246: Fix PyUnicode_FromFormat("%V") to decode the byte string from
443 UTF-8 (with replace error handler) instead of ISO-8859-1 (in strict mode).
444 Patch written by Ray Allen.
445
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +0200446- Issue #11286: Raise a ValueError from calling PyMemoryView_FromBuffer with a
447 buffer struct having a NULL data pointer.
Antoine Pitrou915605c2011-02-24 20:53:48 +0000448
Victor Stinner02bfdb32011-02-23 12:10:23 +0000449- Issue #11272: On Windows, input() strips '\r' (and not only '\n'), and
450 sys.stdin uses universal newline (replace '\r\n' by '\n').
451
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +0200452- issue #11828: startswith and endswith don't accept None as slice index. Patch
453 by Torsten Becker.
Jesus Ceaac451502011-04-20 17:09:23 +0200454
Victor Stinner659eb842011-02-23 12:14:22 +0000455- Issue #10830: Fix PyUnicode_FromFormatV("%c") for non-BMP characters on
456 narrow build.
457
Martin v. Löwis7be5b782011-02-21 16:26:47 +0000458- Check for NULL result in PyType_FromSpec.
459
Eli Benderskye0c8635d82011-03-04 05:10:57 +0000460- Issue #11386: bytearray.pop() now throws IndexError when the bytearray is
461 empty, instead of OverflowError.
462
Antoine Pitrouf3d22752011-02-21 18:09:00 +0000463Library
464-------
Antoine Pitroubc7f20c2010-12-17 17:44:45 +0000465
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +0200466- Issue #11927: SMTP_SSL now uses port 465 by default as documented. Patch by
467 Kasun Herath.
Antoine Pitrouc1d52062011-05-07 19:39:37 +0200468
Giampaolo Rodola'24befa82011-05-07 19:09:34 +0200469- Issue #12002: ftplib's abort() method raises TypeError.
470
Ezio Melotti1c3fd582011-05-08 19:58:08 +0300471- Issue #11999: fixed sporadic sync failure mailbox.Maildir due to its trying to
R David Murraycaed7fe2011-05-06 22:07:19 -0400472 detect mtime changes by comparing to the system clock instead of to the
473 previous value of the mtime.
474
Ronald Oussoren6355c162011-05-06 17:11:07 +0200475- ntpath.samefile failed to notice that "a.txt" and "A.TXT" refer to the same
476 file on Windows XP. As noticed in issue #10684.
477
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +0200478- Issue #12000: When a SSL certificate has a subjectAltName without any dNSName
479 entry, ssl.match_hostname() should use the subject's commonName. Patch by
480 Nicolas Bareil.
Antoine Pitrou1c86b442011-05-06 15:19:49 +0200481
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +0200482- Issue #11647: objects created using contextlib.contextmanager now support more
483 than one call to the function when used as a decorator. Initial patch by Ysj
484 Ray.
Nick Coghlan0ded3e32011-05-05 23:49:25 +1000485
Victor Stinnercafa2ef2011-05-02 16:11:28 +0200486- logging: don't define QueueListener if Python has no thread support.
487
Raymond Hettinger003be522011-05-03 11:01:32 -0700488- functools.cmp_to_key() now works with collections.Hashable().
489
Victor Stinnera6cd0cf2011-05-02 01:05:37 +0200490- Issue #11277: mmap.mmap() calls fcntl(fd, F_FULLFSYNC) on Mac OS X to get
491 around a mmap bug with sparse files. Patch written by Steffen Daode Nurpmeso.
492
Łukasz Langa90759a22011-04-30 09:36:35 +0200493- Issue #11858: configparser.ExtendedInterpolation expected lower-case section
494 names.
495
496- Issue #11324: ConfigParser(interpolation=None) now works correctly.
497
Ezio Melotti935a5882011-04-27 10:17:34 +0300498- Issue #11763: don't use difflib in TestCase.assertMultiLineEqual if the
499 strings are too long.
500
Senthil Kumaran72387f92011-04-26 21:09:49 +0800501- Issue #11236: getpass.getpass responds to ctrl-c or ctrl-z on terminal.
502
Victor Stinner6c9b35b2011-04-18 16:25:56 +0200503- Issue #11768: The signal handler of the signal module only calls
504 Py_AddPendingCall() for the first signal to fix a deadlock on reentrant or
505 parallel calls. PyErr_SetInterrupt() writes also into the wake up file.
506
R David Murray01581ee2011-04-18 10:04:34 -0400507- Issue #11492: fix several issues with header folding in the email package.
508
Vinay Sajipe723e962011-04-15 22:27:17 +0100509- Issue #11852: Add missing imports and update tests.
510
Raymond Hettinger019a97c2011-04-19 10:21:27 -0700511- Issue #11875: collections.OrderedDict's __reduce__ was temporarily
512 mutating the object instead of just working on a copy.
513
Ezio Melotti2df6a932011-04-15 16:38:34 +0300514- Issue #11467: Fix urlparse behavior when handling urls which contains scheme
Senthil Kumaran397eb442011-04-15 18:20:24 +0800515 specific part only digits. Patch by Santoso Wijaya.
516
Raymond Hettinger1c746c22011-04-15 13:16:46 -0700517- collections.Counter().copy() now works correctly for subclasses.
518
Senthil Kumaran2d2ea1b2011-04-14 13:16:30 +0800519- Issue #11474: Fix the bug with url2pathname() handling of '/C|/' on Windows.
520 Patch by Santoso Wijaya.
521
Ezio Melotti04c64232011-04-13 07:18:24 +0300522- Issue #9233: Fix json.loads('{}') to return a dict (instead of a list), when
523 _json is not available.
Alexander Belopolsky1a20c122011-04-12 23:03:39 -0400524
Ezio Melotti04c64232011-04-13 07:18:24 +0300525- Issue #11830: Remove unnecessary introspection code in the decimal module.
Ezio Melottic7533052011-04-13 07:04:18 +0300526
527- Issue #11703: urllib2.geturl() does not return correct url when the original
Senthil Kumaran60f02a62011-04-13 09:21:01 +0800528 url contains #fragment.
Ezio Melottic7533052011-04-13 07:04:18 +0300529
R David Murray3dd02d62011-04-12 21:02:45 -0400530- Issue #10019: Fixed regression in json module where an indent of 0 stopped
531 adding newlines and acted instead like 'None'.
Senthil Kumaran60f02a62011-04-13 09:21:01 +0800532
brian.curtinf7eac1f2011-04-11 18:18:20 -0500533- Issue #5162: Treat services like frozen executables to allow child spawning
534 from multiprocessing.forking on Windows.
535
Antoine Pitroubed9a5b2011-04-11 00:20:23 +0200536- Issue #11814: Fix likely typo in multiprocessing.Pool._terminate().
537
Raymond Hettinger49353d02011-04-11 12:40:58 -0700538- Issue #11747: Fix range formatting in difflib.context_diff() and
539 difflib.unified_diff().
540
Antoine Pitrou81dee6b2011-04-11 00:18:59 +0200541- Issue #8428: Fix a race condition in multiprocessing.Pool when terminating
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +0200542 worker processes: new processes would be spawned while the pool is being shut
543 down. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
Antoine Pitrou81dee6b2011-04-11 00:18:59 +0200544
Ezio Melotti2e3607c2011-04-07 22:03:31 +0300545- Issue #7311: fix html.parser to accept non-ASCII attribute values.
546
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +0200547- Issue #11605: email.parser.BytesFeedParser was incorrectly converting
Éric Araujof0ab5d62011-05-29 03:43:59 +0200548 multipart subparts with an 8-bit CTE into unicode instead of preserving the
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +0200549 bytes.
R David Murrayc5c14722011-04-06 08:13:02 -0400550
Ross Lagerwall4f61b022011-04-05 15:34:00 +0200551- Issue #10963: Ensure that subprocess.communicate() never raises EPIPE.
552
Antoine Pitrou9c254862011-04-03 18:15:34 +0200553- Issue #11746: Fix SSLContext.load_cert_chain() to accept elliptic curve
554 private keys.
555
Victor Stinner27181ac2011-03-31 13:39:03 +0200556- sys.getfilesystemencoding() raises a RuntimeError if initfsencoding() was not
557 called yet: detect bootstrap (startup) issues earlier.
558
Antoine Pitrou7899acf2011-03-31 01:00:32 +0200559- Issue #11618: Fix the timeout logic in threading.Lock.acquire() under Windows.
560
Benjamin Peterson6a2638b2011-03-28 17:32:31 -0500561- Issue #11256: Fix inspect.getcallargs on functions that take only keyword
562 arguments.
563
Martin v. Löwisf8d887e2011-03-27 21:05:51 +0200564- Issue #11696: Fix ID generation in msilib.
565
Mark Dickinson92b60d52011-03-27 16:25:40 +0100566- Issue #9696: Fix exception incorrectly raised by xdrlib.Packer.pack_int when
567 trying to pack a negative (in-range) integer.
568
Mark Dickinsonccd22832011-03-27 15:46:32 +0100569- Issue #11675: multiprocessing.[Raw]Array objects created from an integer size
570 are now zeroed on creation. This matches the behaviour specified by the
571 documentation.
572
Martin v. Löwisa6e0b4f2011-03-27 10:14:57 +0200573- Issue #7639: Fix short file name generation in bdist_msi
Martin v. Löwis9bad3a92011-03-27 10:12:07 +0200574
Ross Lagerwallb8a57692011-03-26 21:19:57 +0200575- Issue #11659: Fix ResourceWarning in test_subprocess introduced by #11459.
576 Patch by Ben Hayden.
577
Antoine Pitrouc13d4542011-03-26 19:29:44 +0100578- Issue #11635: Don't use polling in worker threads and processes launched by
579 concurrent.futures.
580
Raymond Hettingera0d1d962011-03-21 17:50:28 -0700581- Issue #11628: cmp_to_key generated class should use __slots__
582
Raymond Hettinger1103d052011-03-25 14:15:24 -0700583- Issue #11666: let help() display named tuple attributes and methods
584 that start with a leading underscore.
585
Guido van Rossum20d2ab42011-03-29 12:58:29 -0700586- Issue #11662: Make urllib and urllib2 ignore redirections if the
587 scheme is not HTTP, HTTPS or FTP (CVE-2011-1521).
588
Victor Stinner628225c2011-03-21 02:38:51 +0100589- Issue #5537: Fix time2isoz() and time2netscape() functions of
590 httplib.cookiejar for expiration year greater than 2038 on 32-bit systems.
591
Senthil Kumaran799c6692011-03-20 09:26:57 +0800592- Issue #11563: Connection:close header is sent by requests using URLOpener
593 class which helps in closing of sockets after connection is over. Patch
594 contributions by Jeff McNeil and Nadeem Vawda.
595
Antoine Pitrou877766d2011-03-19 17:00:37 +0100596- Issue #11459: A ``bufsize`` value of 0 in subprocess.Popen() really creates
597 unbuffered pipes, such that select() works properly on them.
598
Antoine Pitrou5e981412011-03-17 22:38:37 +0100599- Issue #5421: Fix misleading error message when one of socket.sendto()'s
600 arguments has the wrong type. Patch by Nikita Vetoshkin.
Michael Foordf40834f2011-03-17 13:47:12 -0400601
602- Issue #10979: unittest stdout buffering now works with class and module
603 setup and teardown.
604
Nick Coghlanb3c728f2011-03-16 21:26:40 -0400605- Issue #11577: fix ResourceWarning triggered by improved binhex test coverage
606
R David Murraya2150232011-03-16 21:11:23 -0400607- Issue #11243: fix the parameter querying methods of Message to work if
608 the headers contain un-encoded non-ASCII data.
609
R David Murrayde912762011-03-16 18:26:23 -0400610- Issue #11401: fix handling of headers with no value; this fixes a regression
611 relative to Python2 and the result is now the same as it was in Python2.
612
R David Murray6d94bd42011-03-16 15:52:22 -0400613- Issue #9298: base64 bodies weren't being folded to line lengths less than 78,
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +0200614 which was a regression relative to Python2. Unlike Python2, the last line of
615 the folded body now ends with a carriage return.
R David Murray6d94bd42011-03-16 15:52:22 -0400616
Nick Coghlan454e11d2011-03-16 14:19:22 -0400617- Issue #11560: shutil.unpack_archive now correctly handles the format
Nick Coghlan296d9a62011-03-16 14:14:18 -0400618 parameter. Patch by Evan Dandrea.
619
Michael Foorddcebe0f2011-03-15 19:20:44 -0400620- Issue #11133: fix two cases where inspect.getattr_static can trigger code
Benjamin Petersona78e4e62011-03-16 10:29:19 -0500621 execution. Patch by Andreas Stührk.
Michael Foorddcebe0f2011-03-15 19:20:44 -0400622
Ronald Oussoren0b8753d2011-03-16 09:41:32 -0400623- Issue #11569: use absolute path to the sysctl command in multiprocessing to
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +0200624 ensure that it will be found regardless of the shell PATH. This ensures that
625 multiprocessing.cpu_count works on default installs of MacOSX.
Ronald Oussoren0b8753d2011-03-16 09:41:32 -0400626
Antoine Pitrou2c50a092011-03-15 21:02:59 +0100627- Issue #11501: disutils.archive_utils.make_zipfile no longer fails if zlib is
628 not installed. Instead, the zipfile.ZIP_STORED compression is used to create
629 the ZipFile. Patch by Natalia B. Bidart.
630
R David Murray56a9d7e2011-03-15 12:20:02 -0400631- Issue #11554: Fixed support for Japanese codecs; previously the body output
632 encoding was not done if euc-jp or shift-jis was specified as the charset.
633
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +0200634- Issue #11500: Fixed a bug in the os x proxy bypass code for fully qualified IP
635 addresses in the proxy exception list.
Ronald Oussorenf2db4de2011-03-14 18:46:50 -0400636
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +0200637- Issue #11491: dbm.error is no longer raised when dbm.open is called with the
638 "n" as the flag argument and the file exists. The behavior matches the
639 documentation and general logic.
briancurtin525c25d2011-03-14 16:03:54 -0400640
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +0200641- Issue #11131: Fix sign of zero in decimal.Decimal plus and minus operations
642 when the rounding mode is ROUND_FLOOR.
Mark Dickinson37a79fb2011-03-12 11:12:52 +0000643
Ned Deilyd2853182011-03-09 02:36:51 -0800644- Issue #5622: Fix curses.wrapper to raise correct exception if curses
645 initialization fails.
646
Antoine Pitrou16a0a0b2011-03-06 01:11:03 +0100647- Issue #11391: Writing to a mmap object created with
648 ``mmap.PROT_READ|mmap.PROT_EXEC`` would segfault instead of raising a
649 TypeError. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
650
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +0200651- Issue #11306: mailbox in certain cases adapts to an inability to open certain
652 files in read-write mode. Previously it detected this by checking for EACCES,
653 now it also checks for EROFS.
R. David Murray752b9502011-03-03 18:12:34 +0000654
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +0200655- Issue #11265: asyncore now correctly handles EPIPE, EBADF and EAGAIN errors on
656 accept(), send() and recv().
Giampaolo Rodolà9c9105d2011-03-03 13:59:28 +0000657
Antoine Pitrou86cbfec2011-02-26 23:25:34 +0000658- Issue #11326: Add the missing connect_ex() implementation for SSL sockets,
659 and make it work for non-blocking connects.
660
Antoine Pitrou5d5381e2011-02-25 23:14:08 +0000661- Issue #7322: Trying to read from a socket's file-like object after a timeout
662 occurred now raises an error instead of silently losing data.
663
Antoine Pitroud843c2d2011-02-25 21:34:39 +0000664- Issue #10956: Buffered I/O classes retry reading or writing after a signal
665 has arrived and the handler returned successfully.
666
Lars Gustäbel9f6cbe02011-02-23 11:52:31 +0000667- Issue #11224: Fixed a regression in tarfile that affected the file-like
668 objects returned by TarFile.extractfile() regarding performance, memory
669 consumption and failures with the stream interface.
670
Brett Cannon45b96d32011-02-22 03:35:18 +0000671- Issue #11074: Make 'tokenize' so it can be reloaded.
672
Antoine Pitrou97696cb2011-02-21 23:46:27 +0000673- Issue #4681: Allow mmap() to work on file sizes and offsets larger than
674 4GB, even on 32-bit builds. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall, adapted for
675 32-bit Windows.
676
Raymond Hettingere6603602011-02-21 19:38:53 +0000677- Issue #11089: Fix performance issue limiting the use of ConfigParser()
Victor Stinner02bfdb32011-02-23 12:10:23 +0000678 with large config files.
Raymond Hettingere6603602011-02-21 19:38:53 +0000679
Antoine Pitrouf3d22752011-02-21 18:09:00 +0000680- Issue #10276: Fix the results of zlib.crc32() and zlib.adler32() on buffers
681 larger than 4GB. Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
682
Steven Bethard006ba5c2011-03-26 18:29:48 +0100683- Issue #9348: Raise an early error if argparse nargs and metavar don't match.
684
Steven Bethardd8f2d502011-03-26 19:50:06 +0100685- Issue #8982: Improve the documentation for the argparse Namespace object.
686
Steven Bethardd186f992011-03-26 21:49:00 +0100687- Issue #9343: Document that argparse parent parsers must be configured before
688 their children.
689
Steven Bethard8a6a1982011-03-27 13:53:53 +0200690- Issue #9026: Fix order of argparse sub-commands in help messages.
691
Steven Bethard7cb20a82011-04-04 01:53:02 +0200692- Issue #9347: Fix formatting for tuples in argparse type= error messages.
693
Ned Deilya16b05b2011-02-21 20:52:58 +0000694Build
695-----
696
Thomas Wouters6b103432011-03-06 11:51:24 -0800697- Issue #11411: Fix 'make DESTDIR=' with a relative destination.
698
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +0200699- Issue #11268: Prevent Mac OS X Installer failure if Documentation package had
700 previously been installed.
Ned Deilya16b05b2011-02-21 20:52:58 +0000701
Raymond Hettingerf6445e82011-04-12 18:30:14 -0700702IDLE
703----
704
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +0200705- Issue #11718: IDLE's open module dialog couldn't find the __init__.py file in
706 a package.
Raymond Hettingerf6445e82011-04-12 18:30:14 -0700707
Antoine Pitrou375ff582011-03-11 20:57:11 +0100708Tools/Demos
709-----------
710
711- Issue #11179: Make ccbench work under Python 3.1 and 2.7 again.
712
Ezio Melotti06383ee2011-05-07 18:15:34 +0300713Extension Modules
714-----------------
715
Ezio Melotti13672652011-05-11 01:02:56 +0300716- Issue #12051: Fix segfault in json.dumps() while encoding highly-nested
717 objects using the C accelerations.
718
Ezio Melotti06383ee2011-05-07 18:15:34 +0300719- Issue #12017: Fix segfault in json.loads() while decoding highly-nested
720 objects using the C accelerations.
Benjamin Peterson1a07f072011-03-26 18:17:05 -0500721
722- Issue #1838: Prevent segfault in ctypes, when _as_parameter_ on a class is set
723 to an instance of the class.
724
Antoine Pitroua47c25d2011-02-21 21:58:42 +0000725Tests
726-----
727
R David Murray66a18fd2011-05-05 11:52:44 -0400728- Issue #11873: Change regex in test_compileall to fix occasional failures when
729 when the randomly generated temporary path happened to match the regex.
730
Antoine Pitrou72562d02011-04-25 21:22:04 +0200731- Issue #10914: Add a minimal embedding test to test_capi.
732
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +0200733- Issue #11790: Fix sporadic failures in
734 test_multiprocessing.WithProcessesTestCondition.
Antoine Pitrouf25a8de2011-04-16 21:02:01 +0200735
Antoine Pitrouee429342011-04-16 18:53:59 +0200736- Fix possible "file already exists" error when running the tests in parallel.
737
Ross Lagerwall226580e2011-04-09 20:05:04 +0200738- Issue #11719: Fix message about unexpected test_msilib skip on non-Windows
739 platforms. Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
740
Antoine Pitroue44b1252011-03-23 23:02:31 +0100741- Issue #11653: fix -W with -j in regrtest.
742
Nick Coghlanb3c728f2011-03-16 21:26:40 -0400743- Issue #11577: improve test coverage of binhex.py. Patch by Arkady Koplyarov.
744
Éric Araujof0ab5d62011-05-29 03:43:59 +0200745- Issue #11578: added test for the timeit module. Patch by Michael Henry.
R David Murraya88da672011-03-16 17:32:27 -0400746
Michael Foord07926f02011-03-16 17:19:16 -0400747- Issue #11503: improve test coverage of posixpath.py. Patch by Evan Dandrea.
748
Nick Coghlan7462fa62011-03-16 14:30:45 -0400749- Issue #11505: improves test coverage of string.py. Patch by Alicia
750 Arlen.
751
Nick Coghlan296d9a62011-03-16 14:14:18 -0400752- Issue #11548: Improve test coverage of the shutil module. Patch by
753 Evan Dandrea.
754
R David Murray56a9d7e2011-03-15 12:20:02 -0400755- Issue #11554: Reactivated test_email_codecs.
756
R David Murray384069c2011-03-13 22:26:53 -0400757- Issue #11490: test_subprocess:test_leaking_fds_on_error no longer gives a
758 false positive if the last directory in the path is inaccessible.
759
Antoine Pitroud3cccd22011-03-13 19:14:21 +0100760- Issue #11223: Fix test_threadsignals to fail, not hang, when the
761 non-semaphore implementation of locks is used under POSIX.
762
Victor Stinnerf0e293c2011-03-01 23:09:57 +0000763- Issue #10911: Add tests on CGI with non-ASCII characters. Patch written by
764 Pierre Quentel.
765
Antoine Pitrou4914f9e2011-02-26 16:49:08 +0000766- Issue #9931: Fix hangs in GUI tests under Windows in certain conditions.
767 Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
768
Antoine Pitroua47c25d2011-02-21 21:58:42 +0000769- Issue #10826: Prevent sporadic failure in test_subprocess on Solaris due
770 to open door files.
771
Ross Lagerwall810b94a2011-04-10 09:30:04 +0200772Documentation
773-------------
774
775- Issue #11818: Fix tempfile examples for Python 3.
776
Martin v. Löwis7be5b782011-02-21 16:26:47 +0000777
Georg Brandld5852182011-02-14 06:35:00 +0000778What's New in Python 3.2?
779=========================
780
781*Release date: 20-Feb-2011*
782
783Core and Builtins
784-----------------
785
Georg Brandl032400b2011-02-19 21:47:02 +0000786- Issue #11249: Fix potential crashes when using the limited API.
787
Georg Brandl9a829be2011-02-15 15:44:51 +0000788Build
789-----
790
Georg Brandl6e8d17c2011-02-19 08:47:14 +0000791- Issue #11222: Fix non-framework shared library build on Mac OS X.
792
Georg Brandl216e4042011-02-19 08:58:23 +0000793- Issue #11184: Fix large-file support on AIX.
794
Georg Brandl9a829be2011-02-15 15:44:51 +0000795- Issue #941346: Fix broken shared library build on AIX.
796
Georg Brandl6c9ba242011-02-19 08:44:47 +0000797Documentation
798-------------
799
800- Issue #10709: Add updated AIX notes in Misc/README.AIX.
801
Georg Brandld5852182011-02-14 06:35:00 +0000802
Georg Brandla6d12ef2011-02-13 10:00:57 +0000803What's New in Python 3.2 Release Candidate 3?
804=============================================
Georg Brandl6b449ba2011-01-31 10:39:57 +0000805
Georg Brandla6d12ef2011-02-13 10:00:57 +0000806*Release date: 13-Feb-2011*
Georg Brandl6b449ba2011-01-31 10:39:57 +0000807
808Core and Builtins
809-----------------
810
Martin v. Löwiscc7e23a2011-02-11 20:50:24 +0000811- Issue #11134: Add missing fields to typeslots.h.
812
Martin v. Löwis69168062011-02-11 20:47:49 +0000813- Issue #11135: Remove redundant doc field from PyType_Spec.
814
Georg Brandl260a7882011-02-20 10:29:04 +0000815- Issue #11067: Add PyType_GetFlags, to support PyUnicode_Check in the limited
816 ABI.
Martin v. Löwis738236d2011-02-05 20:35:29 +0000817
Martin v. Löwisd77520a2011-02-04 19:09:02 +0000818- Issue #11118: Fix bogus export of None in python3.dll.
819
Georg Brandl6b449ba2011-01-31 10:39:57 +0000820Library
821-------
822
Georg Brandl260a7882011-02-20 10:29:04 +0000823- Issue #11116: any error during addition of a message to a mailbox now causes a
824 rollback, instead of leaving the mailbox partially modified.
R. David Murrayfc141142011-02-11 22:47:17 +0000825
Georg Brandl260a7882011-02-20 10:29:04 +0000826- Issue #11132: Fix passing of "optimize" parameter when recursing in
827 compileall.compile_dir().
Georg Brandl45438462011-02-07 12:36:54 +0000828
Brett Cannone1445072011-02-04 20:24:02 +0000829- Issue #11110: Fix a potential decref of a NULL in sqlite3.
830
Georg Brandl260a7882011-02-20 10:29:04 +0000831- Issue #8275: Fix passing of callback arguments with ctypes under Win64. Patch
832 by Stan Mihai.
Antoine Pitrou0ea622a2011-01-31 21:08:57 +0000833
Martin v. Löwis9b142aa2011-02-05 20:26:52 +0000834Build
835-----
836
Georg Brandl260a7882011-02-20 10:29:04 +0000837- Issue #11079: The /Applications/Python x.x folder created by the Mac OS X
838 installers now includes a link to the installed documentation and no longer
839 includes an Extras directory. The Tools directory is now installed in the
840 framework under share/doc.
Ned Deilyeb698da2011-02-07 16:44:19 +0000841
Martin v. Löwis9b142aa2011-02-05 20:26:52 +0000842- Issue #11121: Fix building with --enable-shared.
843
Nick Coghlanef316572011-02-07 13:43:07 +0000844Tests
845-----
846
Georg Brandl260a7882011-02-20 10:29:04 +0000847- Issue #10971: test_zipimport_support is once again compatible with the refleak
848 hunter feature of test.regrtest.
Nick Coghlanef316572011-02-07 13:43:07 +0000849
Georg Brandl6b449ba2011-01-31 10:39:57 +0000850
Georg Brandl0c5036f2011-01-16 08:44:50 +0000851What's New in Python 3.2 Release Candidate 2?
852=============================================
853
Georg Brandld6e19c32011-01-30 14:03:33 +0000854*Release date: 30-Jan-2011*
Georg Brandl0c5036f2011-01-16 08:44:50 +0000855
856Core and Builtins
857-----------------
858
Antoine Pitrouad62b032011-01-18 18:57:52 +0000859- Issue #10451: memoryview objects could allow to mutate a readable buffer.
860 Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
861
Georg Brandl0c5036f2011-01-16 08:44:50 +0000862Library
863-------
864
R. David Murrayb7deff12011-01-30 06:21:28 +0000865- Issue #9124: mailbox now accepts binary input and reads and writes mailbox
866 files in binary mode, using the email package's binary support to parse
867 arbitrary email messages. StringIO and text file input is deprecated,
868 and string input fails early if non-ASCII characters are used, where
869 previously it would fail when the email was processed in a later step.
870
Nick Coghlan793ee1f2011-01-30 01:24:08 +0000871- Issue #10845: Mitigate the incompatibility between the multiprocessing
872 module on Windows and the use of package, zipfile or directory execution
873 by special casing main modules that actually *are* called __main__.py.
874
Éric Araujoac4e58e2011-01-29 20:32:11 +0000875- Issue #11045: Protect logging call against None argument.
876
Ned Deily5c2d3302011-01-29 19:10:26 +0000877- Issue #11052: Correct IDLE menu accelerators on Mac OS X for Save
878 commands.
879
Ned Deily806c9442011-01-29 18:43:56 +0000880- Issue #11053: Fix IDLE "Syntax Error" windows to behave as in 2.x,
881 preventing a confusing hung appearance on OS X with the windows
882 obscured.
883
Ned Deily70063932011-01-29 18:29:01 +0000884- Issue #10940: Workaround an IDLE hang on Mac OS X 10.6 when using the
885 menu accelerators for Open Module, Go to Line, and New Indent Width.
886 The accelerators still work but no longer appear in the menu items.
887
Victor Stinner80f75e62011-01-29 11:31:20 +0000888- Issue #10989: Fix a crash on SSLContext.load_verify_locations(None, True).
889
Raymond Hettinger8b5eb2f2011-01-27 00:06:54 +0000890- Issue #11020: Command-line pyclbr was broken because of missing 2-to-3
891 conversion.
892
R. David Murray7372a072011-01-26 21:21:32 +0000893- Issue #11019: Fixed BytesGenerator so that it correctly handles a Message
894 with a None body.
895
Raymond Hettingera63a3122011-01-26 20:34:14 +0000896- Issue #11014: Make 'filter' argument in tarfile.Tarfile.add() into a
897 keyword-only argument. The preceding positional argument was deprecated,
898 so it made no sense to add filter as a positional argument.
899
Raymond Hettinger512d2cc2011-01-25 21:32:39 +0000900- Issue #11004: Repaired edge case in deque.count().
901
Ned Deily122539e2011-01-24 21:46:44 +0000902- Issue #10974: IDLE no longer crashes if its recent files list includes files
903 with non-ASCII characters in their path names.
904
Raymond Hettingerbf1d2bc2011-01-24 04:52:27 +0000905- Have hashlib.algorithms_available and hashlib.algorithms_guaranteed both
906 return sets instead of one returning a tuple and the other a frozenset.
907
Antoine Pitroue6d4c5b2011-01-23 17:12:25 +0000908- Issue #10987: Fix the recursion limit handling in the _pickle module.
909
Georg Brandlc7c199f2011-01-22 22:06:24 +0000910- Issue #10983: Fix several bugs making tunnel requests in http.client.
911
Victor Stinnerf2e439f2011-01-23 00:11:58 +0000912- Issue #10955: zipimport uses ASCII encoding instead of cp437 to decode
Victor Stinner4ee65a92011-01-22 10:30:29 +0000913 filenames, at bootstrap, if the codec registry is not ready yet. It is still
914 possible to have non-ASCII filenames using the Unicode flag (UTF-8 encoding)
Victor Stinner137e0f02011-01-22 10:33:01 +0000915 for all file entries in the ZIP file.
Victor Stinner4ee65a92011-01-22 10:30:29 +0000916
Vinay Sajip01241d62011-01-21 23:35:57 +0000917- Issue #10949: Improved robustness of rotating file handlers.
918
Antoine Pitrou305bc9e2011-01-20 21:07:24 +0000919- Issue #10955: Fix a potential crash when trying to mmap() a file past its
920 length. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
921
Antoine Pitroue47e0932011-01-19 15:21:35 +0000922- Issue #10898: Allow compiling the posix module when the C library defines
923 a symbol named FSTAT.
924
Armin Ronacher8d96d772011-01-22 13:13:05 +0000925- Issue #10980: the HTTP server now encodes headers with iso-8859-1 (latin1)
926 encoding. This is the preferred encoding of PEP 3333 and the base encoding
927 of HTTP 1.1.
928
Armin Ronacher59531282011-01-22 13:44:22 +0000929- To match the behaviour of HTTP server, the HTTP client library now also
930 encodes headers with iso-8859-1 (latin1) encoding. It was already doing
931 that for incoming headers which makes this behaviour now consistent in
932 both incoming and outgoing direction.
933
Steven Bethardb0270112011-01-24 21:02:50 +0000934- Issue #9509: argparse now properly handles IOErrors raised by
935 argparse.FileType.
Georg Brandl0c5036f2011-01-16 08:44:50 +0000936
Georg Brandld2f38572011-01-30 08:37:19 +0000937- Issue #10961: The new pydoc server now better handles exceptions raised
938 during request handling.
939
Georg Brandl0f6b47a2011-01-30 12:19:35 +0000940- Issue #10680: Fix mutually exclusive arguments for argument groups in
941 argparse.
942
Ned Deilye59e4c52011-01-29 18:56:28 +0000943Build
944-----
945
946- Issue #11054: Allow Mac OS X installer builds to again work on 10.5 with
947 the system-provided Python.
948
949
Raymond Hettinger8ebe27f2010-12-21 19:24:26 +0000950What's New in Python 3.2 Release Candidate 1
951============================================
952
Georg Brandl3988ed82011-01-15 17:08:53 +0000953*Release date: 16-Jan-2011*
954
Raymond Hettinger8ebe27f2010-12-21 19:24:26 +0000955Core and Builtins
956-----------------
957
Nick Coghlaneea594b2011-01-16 13:08:48 +0000958- Issue #10889: range indexing and slicing now works correctly on ranges with
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +0000959 a length that exceeds sys.maxsize.
Nick Coghlaneea594b2011-01-16 13:08:48 +0000960
Benjamin Peterson477ba912011-01-12 15:34:01 +0000961- Issue #10892: Don't segfault when trying to delete __abstractmethods__ from a
962 class.
963
Antoine Pitrou3be412d2011-01-07 21:47:02 +0000964- Issue #8020: Avoid a crash where the small objects allocator would read
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +0000965 non-Python managed memory while it is being modified by another thread. Patch
966 by Matt Bandy.
Antoine Pitrou3be412d2011-01-07 21:47:02 +0000967
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +0000968- Issue #10841: On Windows, set the binary mode on stdin, stdout, stderr and all
969 io.FileIO objects (to not translate newlines, \r\n <=> \n). The Python parser
970 translates newlines (\r\n => \n).
Victor Stinner89e34362011-01-07 18:47:22 +0000971
Martin v. Löwisc83bc3c2011-01-06 19:15:47 +0000972- Remove buffer API from stable ABI for now, see #10181.
973
Victor Stinnerb3c9e072011-01-04 02:07:34 +0000974- Issue #8651: PyArg_Parse*() functions raise an OverflowError if the file
975 doesn't have PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN define and the size doesn't fit in an int
976 (length bigger than 2^31-1 bytes).
977
Victor Stinnerdc555402011-01-04 13:15:39 +0000978- Issue #9015, #9611: FileIO.readinto(), FileIO.write(), os.write() and
Victor Stinnerc655a722011-07-05 11:31:49 +0200979 stdprinter.write() clamp the length to INT_MAX on Windows.
Victor Stinnere6edec22011-01-04 00:29:35 +0000980
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca251a852011-01-03 00:19:11 +0000981- Issue #8278: On Windows and with a NTFS filesystem, os.stat() and os.utime()
982 can now handle dates after 2038.
983
Victor Stinner92be9392010-12-28 00:28:21 +0000984- Issue #10780: PyErr_SetFromWindowsErrWithFilename() and
985 PyErr_SetExcFromWindowsErrWithFilename() decode the filename from the
986 filesystem encoding instead of UTF-8.
987
Victor Stinnercb428f02010-12-27 20:10:36 +0000988- Issue #10779: PyErr_WarnExplicit() decodes the filename from the filesystem
989 encoding instead of UTF-8.
990
Georg Brandl8aa7e992010-12-28 18:30:18 +0000991- Add sys.flags attribute for the new -q command-line option.
992
Benjamin Peterson62f8bcb2011-04-12 18:34:30 -0500993- Issue #11506: Trying to assign to a bytes literal should result in a
994 SyntaxError.
995
Raymond Hettinger8ebe27f2010-12-21 19:24:26 +0000996Library
997-------
998
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +0000999- Issue #10916: mmap should not segfault when a file is mapped using 0 as length
1000 and a non-zero offset, and an attempt to read past the end of file is made
1001 (IndexError is raised instead). Patch by Ross Lagerwall.
Antoine Pitrou85f46152011-01-15 16:17:07 +00001002
Ronald Oussoren6edd8c12011-05-17 13:03:54 +02001003- Issue #10154, #10090: change the normalization of UTF-8 to "UTF-8" instead
1004 of "UTF8" in the locale module as the latter is not supported MacOSX and OpenBSD.
1005
Ronald Oussoren78349b02011-05-06 10:57:22 +02001006- Issue #10684: shutil.move used to delete a folder on case insensitive
1007 filesystems when the source and destination name where the same except
1008 for the case.
1009
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001010- Issue #10907: Warn OS X 10.6 IDLE users to use ActiveState Tcl/Tk 8.5, rather
1011 than the currently problematic Apple-supplied one, when running with the
1012 64-/32-bit installer variant.
Ned Deily4ce92b22011-01-15 04:37:12 +00001013
Victor Stinner5c23b8e2011-01-14 13:05:21 +00001014- Issue #4953: cgi.FieldStorage and cgi.parse() parse the request as bytes, not
1015 as unicode, and accept binary files. Add encoding and errors attributes to
Victor Stinnerc5982962011-01-14 14:11:45 +00001016 cgi.FieldStorage. Patch written by Pierre Quentel (with many inputs by Glenn
1017 Linderman).
Victor Stinner5c23b8e2011-01-14 13:05:21 +00001018
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001019- Add encoding and errors arguments to urllib.parse_qs() and urllib.parse_qsl().
Victor Stinnerac71c542011-01-14 12:52:12 +00001020
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001021- Issue #10899: No function type annotations in the standard library. Removed
1022 function type annotations from _pyio.py.
Raymond Hettinger3c940242011-01-12 23:39:31 +00001023
Terry Reedyaacfd4a2011-01-10 21:27:49 +00001024- Issue #10875: Update Regular Expression HOWTO; patch by 'SilentGhost'.
1025
Antoine Pitroua4815ca2011-01-09 20:38:15 +00001026- Issue #10872: The repr() of TextIOWrapper objects now includes the mode
1027 if available.
1028
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001029- Issue #10869: Fixed bug where ast.increment_lineno modified the root node
1030 twice.
Georg Brandl619e7ba2011-01-09 07:38:51 +00001031
R. David Murray5b2d9dd2011-01-09 02:35:24 +00001032- Issue #5871: email.header.Header.encode now raises an error if any
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001033 continuation line in the formatted value has no leading white space and looks
1034 like a header. Since Generator uses Header to format all headers, this check
1035 is made for all headers in any serialized message at serialization time. This
1036 provides protection against header injection attacks.
R. David Murray5b2d9dd2011-01-09 02:35:24 +00001037
Antoine Pitrou67b212e2011-01-08 09:55:31 +00001038- Issue #10859: Make ``contextlib.GeneratorContextManager`` officially
1039 private by renaming it to ``_GeneratorContextManager``.
1040
Raymond Hettinger23f9fc32011-01-08 07:01:56 +00001041- Issue #10042: Fixed the total_ordering decorator to handle cross-type
1042 comparisons that could lead to infinite recursion.
1043
R. David Murray92532142011-01-07 23:25:30 +00001044- Issue #10686: the email package now :rfc:`2047`\ -encodes headers with
Éric Araujof0ab5d62011-05-29 03:43:59 +02001045 non-ASCII bytes (parsed by a BytesParser) when doing conversion to 7bit-clean
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001046 presentation, instead of replacing them with ?s.
R. David Murray92532142011-01-07 23:25:30 +00001047
Éric Araujof0ab5d62011-05-29 03:43:59 +02001048- email.header.Header was incorrectly encoding folding whitespace when
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001049 rfc2047-encoding header values with embedded newlines, leaving them without
1050 folding whitespace. It now uses the continuation_ws, as it does for
1051 continuation lines that it creates itself.
R. David Murray6f0022d2011-01-07 21:57:25 +00001052
Victor Stinner3ec899f2011-01-08 16:37:47 +00001053- Issue #1777412, #10827: Changed the rules for 2-digit years. The
1054 time.asctime(), time.ctime() and time.strftime() functions will now format
1055 any year when ``time.accept2dyear`` is False and will accept years >= 1000
1056 otherwise. ``time.mktime`` and ``time.strftime`` now accept full range
1057 supported by the OS. With Visual Studio or on Solaris, the year is limited to
1058 the range [1; 9999]. Conversion of 2-digit years to 4-digit is deprecated.
Alexander Belopolskyc64708a2011-01-07 19:59:19 +00001059
Antoine Pitroue85da7a2011-01-06 18:25:55 +00001060- Issue #7858: Raise an error properly when os.utime() fails under Windows
1061 on an existing file.
1062
Antoine Pitroub715fac2011-01-06 17:17:04 +00001063- Issue #3839: wsgiref should not override a Content-Length header set by
1064 the application. Initial patch by Clovis Fabricio.
1065
Victor Stinner4bd81722011-01-06 00:49:38 +00001066- Issue #10492: bdb.Bdb.run() only traces the execution of the code, not the
1067 compilation (if the input is a string).
1068
Antoine Pitrou600232b2011-01-05 21:03:42 +00001069- Issue #7995: When calling accept() on a socket with a timeout, the returned
Antoine Pitroudc51a3c2011-01-05 22:43:26 +00001070 socket is now always blocking, regardless of the operating system.
Antoine Pitrou600232b2011-01-05 21:03:42 +00001071
Victor Stinner8786d3d2011-01-05 03:56:22 +00001072- Issue #10756: atexit normalizes the exception before displaying it. Patch by
1073 Andreas Stührk.
Victor Stinner358e11d2011-01-05 03:54:25 +00001074
R. David Murray477efb32011-01-05 01:39:32 +00001075- Issue #10790: email.header.Header.append's charset logic now works correctly
1076 for charsets whose output codec is different from its input codec.
1077
Victor Stinnerc3a51ec2011-01-04 11:00:45 +00001078- Issue #10819: SocketIO.name property returns -1 when its closed, instead of
1079 raising a ValueError, to fix repr().
1080
Victor Stinner8848c7a2011-01-04 02:07:36 +00001081- Issue #8650: zlib.compress() and zlib.decompress() raise an OverflowError if
1082 the input buffer length doesn't fit into an unsigned int (length bigger than
1083 2^32-1 bytes).
1084
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001085- Issue #6643: Reinitialize locks held within the threading module after fork to
1086 avoid a potential rare deadlock or crash on some platforms.
Gregory P. Smith4d419682011-01-03 21:09:23 +00001087
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001088- Issue #10806, issue #9905: Fix subprocess pipes when some of the standard file
1089 descriptors (0, 1, 2) are closed in the parent process. Initial patch by Ross
1090 Lagerwall.
Antoine Pitrouc9c83ba2011-01-03 18:23:55 +00001091
Michael Foord32e1d832011-01-03 17:00:11 +00001092- `unittest.TestCase` can be instantiated without a method name; for simpler
1093 exploration from the interactive interpreter.
1094
Martin v. Löwis9f6d48b2011-01-03 00:07:01 +00001095- Issue #10798: Reject supporting concurrent.futures if the system has too
1096 few POSIX semaphores.
1097
Victor Stinnerb6f42402011-01-02 19:50:36 +00001098- Issue #10807: Remove base64, bz2, hex, quopri, rot13, uu and zlib codecs from
1099 the codec aliases. They are still accessible via codecs.lookup().
1100
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001101- Issue #10801: In zipfile, support different encodings for the header and the
1102 filenames.
Georg Brandl5ba11de2011-01-01 10:09:32 +00001103
Georg Brandld30a0dd2011-01-01 10:07:30 +00001104- Issue #6285: IDLE no longer crashes on missing help file; patch by Scott
1105 David Daniels.
Terry Reedy554e6fa2011-01-01 02:54:11 +00001106
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001107- Fix collections.OrderedDict.setdefault() so that it works in subclasses that
1108 define __missing__().
Raymond Hettingera673b1f2010-12-31 23:16:17 +00001109
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001110- Issue #10786: unittest.TextTestRunner default stream no longer bound at import
1111 time. `sys.stderr` now looked up at instantiation time. Fix contributed by
1112 Mark Roddy.
Michael Foord6f17e2d2010-12-30 19:36:29 +00001113
Éric Araujod8c73c62011-03-21 03:15:22 +01001114- Issue #10753: Characters ';', '=' and ',' in the PATH_INFO environment variable
1115 won't be quoted when the URI is constructed by the wsgiref.util's request_uri
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001116 method. According to RFC 3986, these characters can be a part of params in
1117 PATH component of URI and need not be quoted.
Senthil Kumaran299fa4c2010-12-29 06:25:42 +00001118
Georg Brandld30a0dd2011-01-01 10:07:30 +00001119- Issue #10738: Fix webbrowser.Opera.raise_opts.
Terry Reedydad532f2010-12-28 19:30:19 +00001120
Georg Brandld30a0dd2011-01-01 10:07:30 +00001121- Issue #9824: SimpleCookie now encodes , and ; in values to cater to how
R. David Murraye05ca2a2010-12-28 18:54:13 +00001122 browsers actually parse cookies.
1123
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001124- Issue #9333: os.symlink now available regardless of user privileges. The
1125 function now raises OSError on Windows >=6.0 when the user is unable to create
1126 symbolic links. XP and 2003 still raise NotImplementedError.
Brian Curtin3b4499c2010-12-28 14:31:47 +00001127
Victor Stinnerde3aa7f2010-12-29 02:44:42 +00001128- Issue #10783: struct.pack() no longer implicitly encodes unicode to UTF-8.
Victor Stinnerda9ec992010-12-28 13:26:42 +00001129
Georg Brandl68eb4642010-12-28 11:02:12 +00001130- Issue #10730: Add SVG mime types to mimetypes module.
1131
Georg Brandl780d5e02010-12-28 10:56:20 +00001132- Issue #10768: Make the Tkinter ScrolledText widget work again.
1133
Georg Brandl90b20672010-12-28 10:38:33 +00001134- Issue #10777: Fix "dictionary changed size during iteration" bug in
1135 ElementTree register_namespace().
1136
Vinay Sajip67981ec2010-12-27 18:34:25 +00001137- Issue #10626: test_logging now preserves logger disabled states.
1138
1139- Issue #10774: test_logging now removes temp files created during tests.
1140
R. David Murrayb4ca59b2010-12-26 19:54:29 +00001141- Issue #5258/#10642: if site.py encounters a .pth file that generates an error,
1142 it now prints the filename, line number, and traceback to stderr and skips
1143 the rest of that individual file, instead of stopping processing entirely.
1144
Victor Stinner667d4b52010-12-25 22:40:32 +00001145- Issue #10763: subprocess.communicate() closes stdout and stderr if both are
1146 pipes (bug specific to Windows).
1147
R. David Murraydfd7eb02010-12-24 22:36:49 +00001148- Issue #1693546: fix email.message RFC 2231 parameter encoding to be in better
1149 compliance (no "s around encoded values).
1150
Raymond Hettinger1e7efdf2010-12-24 10:04:00 +00001151- Improved the diff message in the unittest module's assertCountEqual().
1152
R. David Murray4a62e892010-12-23 20:35:46 +00001153- Issue #1155362: email.utils.parsedate_tz now handles a missing space before
1154 the '-' of a timezone field as well as before a '+'.
1155
R. David Murray8d855d82010-12-21 21:53:37 +00001156- Issue #4871: The zipfile module now gives a more useful error message if
1157 an attempt is made to use a string to specify the archive password.
1158
Antoine Pitrou7f8f4182010-12-21 21:20:59 +00001159- Issue #10750: The ``raw`` attribute of buffered IO objects is now read-only.
1160
Raymond Hettinger8dff4ba2010-12-31 23:23:06 +00001161- Deprecated assertDictContainsSubset() in the unittest module.
Raymond Hettinger8ebe27f2010-12-21 19:24:26 +00001162
Antoine Pitrou23683ef2011-01-04 00:00:31 +00001163C-API
1164-----
1165
Antoine Pitrou5ace8e92011-01-15 13:11:48 +00001166- Issue #10913: Deprecate misleading functions PyEval_AcquireLock() and
1167 PyEval_ReleaseLock(). The thread-state aware APIs should be used instead.
1168
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001169- Issue #10333: Remove ancient GC API, which has been deprecated since Python
1170 2.2.
Antoine Pitrou23683ef2011-01-04 00:00:31 +00001171
Georg Brandlff52f762010-12-28 09:51:43 +00001172Build
1173-----
1174
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001175- Issue #10843: Update third-party library versions used in OS X 32-bit
1176 installer builds: bzip2 1.0.6, readline 6.1.2, SQLite 3.7.4 (with FTS3/FTS4
1177 and RTREE enabled), and ncursesw 5.5 (wide-char support enabled).
Ned Deily4f7ff782011-01-15 05:29:12 +00001178
Ned Deily9a1383e2011-01-10 22:14:25 +00001179- Issue #10820: Fix OS X framework installs to support version-specific
1180 scripts (#10679).
1181
Antoine Pitrouf3fcd9f2011-01-03 18:53:50 +00001182- Issue #7716: Under Solaris, don't assume existence of /usr/xpg4/bin/grep in
1183 the configure script but use $GREP instead. Patch by Fabian Groffen.
1184
Antoine Pitrouc2244582011-01-02 19:34:03 +00001185- Issue #10475: Don't hardcode compilers for LDSHARED/LDCXXSHARED on NetBSD
1186 and DragonFly BSD. Patch by Nicolas Joly.
1187
Georg Brandlff52f762010-12-28 09:51:43 +00001188- Issue #10679: The "idle", "pydoc" and "2to3" scripts are now installed with
1189 a version-specific suffix on "make altinstall".
1190
David Malcolmf1397ad2011-01-06 17:01:36 +00001191- Issue #10655: Fix the build on PowerPC on Linux with GCC when building with
1192 timestamp profiling (--with-tsc): the preprocessor test for the PowerPC
1193 support now looks for "__powerpc__" as well as "__ppc__": the latter seems to
1194 only be present on OS X; the former is the correct one for Linux with GCC.
1195
Ronald Oussoren25032492011-03-14 10:11:59 -04001196- Issue #1099: Fix the build on MacOSX when building a framework with pydebug
1197 using GCC 4.0.
1198
Georg Brandl59b44722010-12-30 22:12:40 +00001199Tools/Demos
1200-----------
1201
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001202- Issue #10843: Install the Tools directory on OS X in the applications Extras
1203 (/Applications/Python 3.n/Extras/) where the Demo directory had previous been
1204 installed.
Ned Deily916f2a82011-01-15 05:05:53 +00001205
Georg Brandl59b44722010-12-30 22:12:40 +00001206- Issue #7962: The Demo directory is gone. Most of the old and unmaintained
1207 demos have been removed, others integrated in documentation or a new
1208 Tools/demo subdirectory.
1209
Michael Foord90efac72011-01-03 15:39:49 +00001210- Issue #10502: Addition of the unittestgui tool. Originally by Steve Purcell.
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001211 Updated for test discovery by Mark Roddy and Python 3 compatibility by Brian
1212 Curtin.
Michael Foord90efac72011-01-03 15:39:49 +00001213
Antoine Pitrou3c4402f2011-01-03 20:38:52 +00001214Tests
1215-----
1216
Nadeem Vawda58de6ee2011-04-19 01:38:47 +02001217- Fix test_startfile to wait for child process to terminate before finishing.
1218
Antoine Pitrou318b8f32011-01-12 18:45:27 +00001219- Issue #10822: Fix test_posix:test_getgroups failure under Solaris. Patch
1220 by Ross Lagerwall.
1221
Brett Cannon63eef1e2011-01-06 22:32:41 +00001222- Make the --coverage flag work for test.regrtest.
1223
Antoine Pitrouca023ca2011-01-06 09:05:22 +00001224- Issue #1677694: Refactor and improve test_timeout. Original patch by
1225 Björn Lindqvist.
1226
Antoine Pitrou452196f2011-01-05 18:44:14 +00001227- Issue #5485: Add tests for the UseForeignDTD method of expat parser objects.
1228 Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone and Sandro Tosi.
1229
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001230- Issue #6293: Have regrtest.py echo back sys.flags. This is done by default in
1231 whole runs and enabled selectively using ``--header`` when running an explicit
1232 list of tests. Original patch by Collin Winter.
Antoine Pitrou3c4402f2011-01-03 20:38:52 +00001233
Raymond Hettinger8ebe27f2010-12-21 19:24:26 +00001234
Ronald Oussoren10e05e12010-12-07 15:28:10 +00001235What's New in Python 3.2 Beta 2?
1236================================
1237
Georg Brandl8a60e942010-12-19 10:30:28 +00001238*Release date: 19-Dec-2010*
Ronald Oussoren10e05e12010-12-07 15:28:10 +00001239
R. David Murrayce4b1702010-12-14 23:06:25 +00001240Core and Builtins
1241-----------------
1242
Antoine Pitrou810023d2010-12-15 22:59:16 +00001243- Issue #8844: Regular and recursive lock acquisitions can now be interrupted
1244 by signals on platforms using pthreads. Patch by Reid Kleckner.
1245
R. David Murrayce4b1702010-12-14 23:06:25 +00001246- Issue #4236: PyModule_Create2 now checks the import machinery directly
1247 rather than the Py_IsInitialized flag, avoiding a Fatal Python
1248 error in certain circumstances when an import is done in __del__.
Ronald Oussoren10e05e12010-12-07 15:28:10 +00001249
Ezio Melottiac53ab62010-12-18 14:59:43 +00001250- Issue #5587: add a repr to dict_proxy objects. Patch by David Stanek and
1251 Daniel Urban.
1252
Ronald Oussoren10e05e12010-12-07 15:28:10 +00001253Library
1254-------
Antoine Pitrou988dbd72010-12-17 17:35:56 +00001255
Senthil Kumaran7bc0d872010-12-19 10:49:52 +00001256- Issue #3243: Support iterable bodies in httplib. Patch Contributions by
1257 Xuanji Li and Chris AtLee.
1258
Michael Foordb3468f72010-12-19 03:19:47 +00001259- Issue #10611: SystemExit exception will no longer kill a unittest run.
1260
1261- Issue #9857: It is now possible to skip a test in a setUp, tearDown or clean
1262 up function.
1263
Ezio Melottiaddc6f52010-12-18 20:00:04 +00001264- Issue #10573: use actual/expected consistently in unittest methods.
1265 The order of the args of assertCountEqual is also changed.
1266
R. David Murray63563cd2010-12-18 18:25:38 +00001267- Issue #9286: email.utils.parseaddr no longer concatenates blank-separated
1268 words in the local part of email addresses, thereby preserving the input.
1269
Antoine Pitrou2b37ce72010-12-18 17:59:18 +00001270- Issue #6791: Limit header line length (to 65535 bytes) in http.client
1271 and http.server, to avoid denial of services from the other party.
1272
R. David Murrayb68a7bc2010-12-18 17:19:10 +00001273- Issue #10404: Use ctl-button-1 on OSX for the context menu in Idle.
1274
1275- Issue #9907: Fix tab handling on OSX when using editline by calling
R. David Murray52d1b4e2010-12-18 03:48:32 +00001276 rl_initialize first, then setting our custom defaults, then reading .editrc.
1277
Antoine Pitrou401edd62010-12-17 17:42:16 +00001278- Issue #4188: Avoid creating dummy thread objects when logging operations
1279 from the threading module (with the internal verbose flag activated).
1280
Antoine Pitrou988dbd72010-12-17 17:35:56 +00001281- Issue #10711: Remove HTTP 0.9 support from http.client. The ``strict``
1282 parameter to HTTPConnection and friends is deprecated.
1283
Senthil Kumarandca5b862010-12-17 04:48:45 +00001284- Issue #9721: Fix the behavior of urljoin when the relative url starts with a
1285 ';' character. Patch by Wes Chow.
Ronald Oussoren10e05e12010-12-07 15:28:10 +00001286
Antoine Pitrouc4924372010-12-16 16:48:36 +00001287- Issue #10714: Limit length of incoming request in http.server to 65536 bytes
1288 for security reasons. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1289
Éric Araujo60532bd2010-12-15 21:07:22 +00001290- Issue #9558: Fix distutils.command.build_ext with VS 8.0.
1291
Raymond Hettinger96f34102010-12-15 16:30:37 +00001292- Issue #10667: Fast path for collections.Counter().
1293
R. David Murray32ef70c2010-12-14 14:16:20 +00001294- Issue #10695: passing the port as a string value to telnetlib no longer
1295 causes debug mode to fail.
1296
R. David Murray7ec754b2010-12-13 23:51:19 +00001297- Issue #1078919: add_header now automatically RFC2231 encodes parameters
1298 that contain non-ascii values.
1299
Gregory P. Smithf86aa7c2010-12-13 08:07:14 +00001300- Issue #10188 (partial resolution): tempfile.TemporaryDirectory emits
Nick Coghlan6b22f3f2010-12-12 15:24:21 +00001301 a warning on sys.stderr rather than throwing a misleading exception
1302 if cleanup fails due to nulling out of modules during shutdown.
1303 Also avoids an AttributeError when mkdtemp call fails and issues
1304 a ResourceWarning on implicit cleanup via __del__.
1305
Gregory P. Smithf86aa7c2010-12-13 08:07:14 +00001306- Issue #10107: Warn about unsaved files in IDLE on OSX.
1307
1308- Issue #7213: subprocess.Popen's default for close_fds has been changed.
Gregory P. Smith8edd99d2010-12-14 13:43:30 +00001309 It is now True in most cases other than on Windows when input, output or
1310 error handles are provided.
1311
1312- Issue #6559: subprocess.Popen has a new pass_fds parameter (actually
1313 added in 3.2beta1) to allow specifying a specific list of file descriptors
1314 to keep open in the child process.
Ronald Oussoren10e05e12010-12-07 15:28:10 +00001315
Gregory P. Smithe85db2b2010-12-14 14:38:00 +00001316- Issue #1731717: Fixed the problem where subprocess.wait() could cause an
1317 OSError exception when The OS had been told to ignore SIGCLD in our process
1318 or otherwise not wait for exiting child processes.
1319
R. David Murrayec073312010-12-14 16:20:53 +00001320Tests
1321-----
1322
1323- Issue #775964: test_grp now skips YP/NIS entries instead of failing when
1324 encountering them.
1325
Antoine Pitrou00c6b622010-12-15 15:33:18 +00001326Tools/Demos
1327-----------
1328
Georg Brandlaedd2892010-12-19 10:10:32 +00001329- Issue #6075: IDLE on Mac OS X now works with both Carbon AquaTk and
1330 Cocoa AquaTk.
1331
Antoine Pitrou20f0fb62010-12-16 18:25:24 +00001332- Issue #10710: ``Misc/setuid-prog.c`` is removed from the source tree.
1333
Antoine Pitrou00c6b622010-12-15 15:33:18 +00001334- Issue #10706: Remove outdated script runtests.sh. Either ``make test``
1335 or ``python -m test`` should be used instead.
1336
Martin v. Löwis910a4ed2010-12-17 20:43:27 +00001337Build
1338-----
1339
Martin v. Löwis0e74cac2010-12-17 21:04:09 +00001340- The Windows build now uses Tcl/Tk 8.5.9 and sqlite3 3.7.4.
Martin v. Löwis910a4ed2010-12-17 20:43:27 +00001341
Steven Bethardfd311a72010-12-18 11:19:23 +00001342- Issue #9234: argparse supports alias names for subparsers.
1343
R. David Murrayec073312010-12-14 16:20:53 +00001344
Georg Brandl9b0034d2010-11-16 15:15:56 +00001345What's New in Python 3.2 Beta 1?
1346================================
1347
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00001348*Release date: 05-Dec-2010*
Georg Brandl9b0034d2010-11-16 15:15:56 +00001349
1350Core and Builtins
1351-----------------
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001352
Benjamin Peterson9b4e27e2010-12-07 03:47:37 +00001353- Issue #10630: Return dict views from the dict proxy keys()/values()/items()
1354 methods.
1355
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00001356- Issue #10596: Fix float.__mod__ to have the same behaviour as float.__divmod__
1357 with respect to signed zeros. -4.0 % 4.0 should be 0.0, not -0.0.
Mark Dickinsond2a9b202010-12-04 12:25:30 +00001358
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00001359- Issue #1772833: Add the -q command-line option to suppress copyright and
1360 version output in interactive mode.
Georg Brandl9d871192010-12-04 10:47:18 +00001361
Georg Brandl8334fd92010-12-04 10:26:46 +00001362- Provide an *optimize* parameter in the built-in compile() function.
1363
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00001364- Fixed several corner case issues on Windows in os.stat/os.lstat related to
1365 reparse points.
Hirokazu Yamamoto427d3142010-12-04 10:16:05 +00001366
Martin v. Löwis4d0d4712010-12-03 20:14:31 +00001367- PEP 384 (Defining a Stable ABI) is implemented.
1368
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00001369- Issue #2690: Range objects support negative indices and slicing.
Nick Coghlan37ee8502010-12-03 14:26:13 +00001370
Daniel Stutzbach98338222010-12-02 21:55:33 +00001371- Issue #9915: Speed up sorting with a key.
1372
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001373- Issue #8685: Speed up set difference ``a - b`` when source set ``a`` is much
1374 larger than operand ``b``. Patch by Andrew Bennetts.
Antoine Pitrou715f3cd2010-11-30 22:23:20 +00001375
Antoine Pitroue71362d2010-11-27 22:00:11 +00001376- Issue #10518: Bring back the callable() builtin.
1377
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001378- Issue #7094: Added alternate formatting (specified by '#') to ``__format__``
1379 method of float, complex, and Decimal. This allows more precise control over
1380 when decimal points are displayed.
Eric Smith984bb582010-11-25 16:08:06 +00001381
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001382- Issue #10474: range.count() should return integers.
Benjamin Peterson0b458d52010-11-20 22:35:41 +00001383
R. David Murray6bb99892010-11-20 16:33:30 +00001384- Issue #1574217: isinstance now catches only AttributeError, rather than
1385 masking all errors.
1386
Georg Brandl9b0034d2010-11-16 15:15:56 +00001387Library
1388-------
1389
Vinay Sajip5a27d402010-12-10 11:42:57 +00001390- logging: added "handler of last resort". See http://bit.ly/last-resort-handler
1391
Vinay Sajip129fd042010-12-10 08:19:38 +00001392- test.support: Added TestHandler and Matcher classes for better support of
1393 assertions about logging.
1394
Éric Araujo12159152010-12-04 17:31:49 +00001395- Issue #4391: Use proper plural forms in argparse.
1396
Victor Stinner13d49ee2010-12-04 17:24:33 +00001397- Issue #10601: sys.displayhook uses 'backslashreplace' error handler on
1398 UnicodeEncodeError.
1399
Georg Brandlcbc79c72010-12-04 16:21:42 +00001400- Add the "display" and "undisplay" pdb commands.
1401
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00001402- Issue #7245: Add a SIGINT handler in pdb that allows to break a program again
1403 after a "continue" command.
Georg Brandl44f2b642010-12-04 16:00:47 +00001404
Georg Brandl1acb7462010-12-04 11:20:26 +00001405- Add the "interact" pdb command.
1406
Georg Brandl732324a2010-12-04 11:12:43 +00001407- Issue #7905: Actually respect the keyencoding parameter to shelve.Shelf.
1408
Georg Brandlc29cc6a2010-12-04 11:02:04 +00001409- Issue #1569291: Speed up array.repeat().
1410
Georg Brandl8334fd92010-12-04 10:26:46 +00001411- Provide an interface to set the optimization level of compilation in
1412 py_compile, compileall and zipfile.PyZipFile.
1413
Senthil Kumaran10064e92010-12-04 09:44:30 +00001414- Issue #7904: Changes to urllib.parse.urlsplit to handle schemes as defined by
1415 RFC3986. Anything before :// is considered a scheme and is followed by an
1416 authority (or netloc) and by '/' led path, which is optional.
1417
Georg Brandld9e833c2010-12-04 09:14:36 +00001418- Issue #6045: dbm.gnu databases now support get() and setdefault() methods.
1419
1420- Issue #10620: `python -m unittest` can accept file paths instead of module
Michael Foord37d120a2010-12-04 01:11:21 +00001421 names for running specific tests.
1422
1423- Issue #9424: Deprecate the `unittest.TestCase` methods `assertEquals`,
1424 `assertNotEquals`, `assertAlmostEquals`, `assertNotAlmostEquals` and `assert_`
1425 and replace them with the correct methods in the Python test suite.
1426
Antoine Pitrouc4df7842010-12-03 19:59:41 +00001427- Issue #10272: The ssl module now raises socket.timeout instead of a generic
1428 SSLError on socket timeouts.
1429
Éric Araujobb48a8b2010-12-03 19:41:00 +00001430- Issue #10528: Allow translators to reorder placeholders in localizable
1431 messages from argparse.
1432
Éric Araujoa9c7a8f2010-12-03 19:19:17 +00001433- Issue #10497: Fix incorrect use of gettext in argparse.
1434
Antoine Pitrouf3b68b32010-12-03 18:41:39 +00001435- Issue #10478: Reentrant calls inside buffered IO objects (for example by
1436 way of a signal handler) now raise a RuntimeError instead of freezing the
1437 current process.
1438
Vinay Sajip61561522010-12-03 11:50:38 +00001439- logging: Added getLogRecordFactory/setLogRecordFactory with docs and tests.
1440
Georg Brandl9bd45f992010-12-03 09:58:38 +00001441- Issue #10549: Fix pydoc traceback when text-documenting certain classes.
1442
Nick Coghlan7bb30b72010-12-03 09:29:11 +00001443- Issue #2001: New HTML server with enhanced Web page features. Patch by Ron
1444 Adam.
1445
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001446- Issue #10360: In WeakSet, do not raise TypeErrors when testing for membership
1447 of non-weakrefable objects.
Georg Brandlf8de3fe2010-12-03 07:55:44 +00001448
Georg Brandld80d5f42010-12-03 07:47:22 +00001449- Issue #940286: pydoc.Helper.help() ignores input/output init parameters.
1450
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001451- Issue #1745035: Add a command size and data size limit to smtpd.py, to prevent
1452 DoS attacks. Patch by Savio Sena.
Georg Brandl1e5c5f82010-12-03 07:38:22 +00001453
Georg Brandl106a54d2010-12-03 07:37:16 +00001454- Issue #4925: Add filename to error message when executable can't be found in
1455 subprocess.
1456
1457- Issue #10391: Don't dereference invalid memory in error messages in the ast
1458 module.
1459
1460- Issue #10027: st_nlink was not being set on Windows calls to os.stat or
1461 os.lstat. Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
1462
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001463- Issue #9333: Expose os.symlink only when the SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege is
1464 held by the user's account, i.e., when the function can actually be used.
Georg Brandl106a54d2010-12-03 07:37:16 +00001465
1466- Issue #8879: Add os.link support for Windows.
1467
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001468- Issue #7911: ``unittest.TestCase.longMessage`` defaults to True for improved
Georg Brandl106a54d2010-12-03 07:37:16 +00001469 failure messages by default. Patch by Mark Roddy.
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001470
1471- Issue #1486713: HTMLParser now has an optional tolerant mode where it tries to
1472 guess at the correct parsing of invalid html.
R. David Murrayb579dba2010-12-03 04:06:39 +00001473
Brian Curtin79cdb662010-12-03 02:46:02 +00001474- Issue #10554: Add context manager support to subprocess.Popen objects.
1475
R. David Murraya0b44b52010-12-02 21:47:19 +00001476- Issue #8989: email.utils.make_msgid now has a domain parameter that can
1477 override the domain name used in the generated msgid.
1478
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001479- Issue #9299: Add exist_ok parameter to os.makedirs to suppress the 'File
1480 exists' exception when a target directory already exists with the specified
1481 mode. Patch by Ray Allen.
Terry Reedy5a22b652010-12-02 07:05:56 +00001482
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001483- Issue #9573: os.fork() now works correctly when triggered as a side effect of
1484 a module import.
Nick Coghlanb2ddf792010-12-02 04:11:46 +00001485
R. David Murrayd2bb8302010-12-02 02:58:07 +00001486- Issue #10464: netrc now correctly handles lines with embedded '#' characters.
1487
Raymond Hettinger482ba772010-12-01 22:48:00 +00001488- Added itertools.accumulate().
1489
Alexander Belopolsky41e422a2010-12-01 20:05:49 +00001490- Issue #4113: Added custom ``__repr__`` method to ``functools.partial``.
1491 Original patch by Daniel Urban.
1492
Ezio Melottied3a7d22010-12-01 02:32:32 +00001493- Issue #10273: Rename `assertRegexpMatches` and `assertRaisesRegexp` to
1494 `assertRegex` and `assertRaisesRegex`.
1495
Ezio Melottif10c4002010-12-01 01:45:53 +00001496- Issue #10535: Enable silenced warnings in unittest by default.
1497
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001498- Issue #9873: The URL parsing functions in urllib.parse now accept ASCII byte
1499 sequences as input in addition to character strings.
Nick Coghlan9fc443c2010-11-30 15:48:08 +00001500
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001501- Issue #10586: The statistics API for the new functools.lru_cache has been
1502 changed to a single cache_info() method returning a named tuple.
Nick Coghlan234515a2010-11-30 06:19:46 +00001503
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001504- Issue #10323: itertools.islice() now consumes the minimum number of inputs
1505 before stopping. Formerly, the final state of the underlying iterator was
1506 undefined.
Raymond Hettinger69b34bf2010-11-30 02:49:29 +00001507
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001508- Issue #10565: The collections.Iterator ABC now checks for both __iter__ and
1509 __next__.
Raymond Hettingeread22222010-11-29 03:56:12 +00001510
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001511- Issue #10242: Fixed implementation of unittest.ItemsEqual and gave it a new
1512 more informative name, unittest.CountEqual.
Raymond Hettinger6e165b32010-11-27 09:31:37 +00001513
Senthil Kumaran6f107042010-11-29 11:54:17 +00001514- Issue #10561: In pdb, clear the breakpoints by the breakpoint number.
1515
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001516- Issue #2986: difflib.SequenceMatcher gets a new parameter, autojunk, which can
1517 be set to False to turn off the previously undocumented 'popularity'
Terry Reedy99f96372010-11-25 06:12:34 +00001518 heuristic. Patch by Terry Reedy and Eli Bendersky.
1519
Georg Brandl68eb4642010-12-28 11:02:12 +00001520- Issue #10534: in difflib, expose bjunk and bpopular sets; deprecate
1521 undocumented and now redundant isbjunk and isbpopular methods.
Terry Reedy4b9b1972010-12-03 22:50:06 +00001522
Łukasz Langae61602f2010-11-23 00:19:53 +00001523- Issue #9846: zipfile is now correctly closing underlying file objects.
1524
Martin v. Löwis5cbc71e2010-11-22 09:00:02 +00001525- Issue #10459: Update CJK character names to Unicode 6.0.
1526
Senthil Kumaran249d7e32010-11-22 05:08:13 +00001527- Issue #4493: urllib.request adds '/' in front of path components which does not
Senthil Kumaranc2958622010-11-22 04:48:26 +00001528 start with '/. Common behavior exhibited by browsers and other clients.
1529
Brian Curtinf9916422010-11-21 23:45:10 +00001530- Issue #6378: idle.bat now runs with the appropriate Python version rather than
1531 the system default. Patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
1532
Michael Foord086f3082010-11-21 21:28:01 +00001533- Issue #10470: 'python -m unittest' will now run test discovery by default,
1534 when no extra arguments have been provided.
1535
Senthil Kumarane4dad4f2010-11-21 14:36:14 +00001536- Issue #3709: BaseHTTPRequestHandler will buffer the headers and write to
1537 output stream only when end_headers is invoked. This is a speedup and an
1538 internal optimization. Patch by endian.
1539
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001540- Issue #10220: Added inspect.getgeneratorstate. Initial patch by Rodolpho
1541 Eckhardt.
Nick Coghlane0f04652010-11-21 03:44:04 +00001542
R. David Murray650f1472010-11-20 21:18:51 +00001543- Issue #10453: compileall now uses argparse instead of getopt, and thus
1544 provides clean output when called with '-h'.
1545
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001546- Issue #8078: Add constants for higher baud rates in the termios module. Patch
1547 by Rodolpho Eckhardt.
Antoine Pitroua78f74c2010-11-20 20:03:08 +00001548
Éric Araujoe7606642010-11-20 19:37:28 +00001549- Issue #10407: Fix two NameErrors in distutils.
1550
Ezio Melottib3aedd42010-11-20 19:04:17 +00001551- Issue #10371: Deprecated undocumented functions in the trace module.
Alexander Belopolsky44454af2010-11-20 18:21:07 +00001552
Benjamin Petersonfa735552010-11-20 17:24:04 +00001553- Issue #10467: Fix BytesIO.readinto() after seeking into a position after the
1554 end of the file.
1555
Łukasz Langa71b37a52010-12-17 21:56:32 +00001556- configparser: 100% test coverage.
1557
Łukasz Langa1ac0d7a2010-12-16 01:42:36 +00001558- Issue #10499: configparser supports pluggable interpolation handlers. The
1559 default classic interpolation handler is called BasicInterpolation. Another
Łukasz Langab6a6f5f2010-12-03 16:28:00 +00001560 interpolation handler added (ExtendedInterpolation) which supports the syntax
1561 used by zc.buildout (e.g. interpolation between sections).
1562
Łukasz Langa1ac0d7a2010-12-16 01:42:36 +00001563- configparser: the SafeConfigParser class has been renamed to ConfigParser.
1564 The legacy ConfigParser class has been removed but its interpolation mechanism
1565 is still available as LegacyInterpolation.
Michael Foordb3468f72010-12-19 03:19:47 +00001566
Łukasz Langa1ac0d7a2010-12-16 01:42:36 +00001567- configparser: Usage of RawConfigParser is now discouraged for new projects
1568 in favor of ConfigParser(interpolation=None).
1569
Łukasz Langa45ec4262010-11-20 16:16:24 +00001570- Issue #1682942: configparser supports alternative option/value delimiters.
1571
1572- Issue #5412: configparser supports mapping protocol access.
1573
1574- Issue #9411: configparser supports specifying encoding for read operations.
1575
1576- Issue #9421: configparser's getint(), getfloat() and getboolean() methods
1577 accept vars and default arguments just like get() does.
1578
Łukasz Langa71b37a52010-12-17 21:56:32 +00001579- Issue #9452: configparser supports reading from strings and dictionaries
1580 (thanks to the mapping protocol API, the latter can be used to copy data
1581 between parsers).
Łukasz Langa45ec4262010-11-20 16:16:24 +00001582
1583- configparser: accepted INI file structure is now customizable, including
1584 comment prefixes, name of the DEFAULT section, empty lines in multiline
1585 values, and indentation.
1586
Éric Araujod8c73c62011-03-21 03:15:22 +01001587- Issue #10326: unittest.TestCase instances can be pickled.
Michael Foord8ca6d982010-11-20 15:34:26 +00001588
Éric Araujod8c73c62011-03-21 03:15:22 +01001589- Issue #9926: Wrapped TestSuite subclass does not get __call__ executed.
Michael Foordc610e3e2010-11-20 17:50:34 +00001590
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001591- Issue #9920: Skip tests for cmath.atan and cmath.atanh applied to complex
1592 zeros on systems where the log1p function fails to respect the sign of zero.
1593 This fixes a test failure on AIX.
Mark Dickinson4ccc1372010-11-20 11:08:27 +00001594
Michael Foord95fc51d2010-11-20 15:07:30 +00001595- Issue #9732: Addition of getattr_static to the inspect module.
1596
Alexander Belopolsky9a4030e2010-11-18 03:50:18 +00001597- Issue #10446: Module documentation generated by pydoc now links to a
1598 version-specific online reference manual.
1599
Brett Cannon0ffe6a92010-11-18 03:03:04 +00001600- Make the 'No module named' exception message from importlib consistent.
1601
Antoine Pitrou664c2d12010-11-17 20:29:42 +00001602- Issue #10443: Add the SSLContext.set_default_verify_paths() method.
1603
Antoine Pitroub6d4ee52010-11-17 16:19:35 +00001604- Issue #10440: Support RUSAGE_THREAD as a constant in the resource module.
1605 Patch by Robert Collins.
1606
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001607- Issue #10429: IMAP.starttls() stored the capabilities as bytes objects, rather
1608 than strings.
Antoine Pitroudbe75192010-11-16 17:55:26 +00001609
Benjamin Petersonf6096542010-11-17 22:33:12 +00001610C-API
1611-----
1612
Alexander Belopolsky942af5a2010-12-04 03:38:46 +00001613- Issue #10557: Added a new API function, PyUnicode_TransformDecimalToASCII(),
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00001614 which transforms non-ASCII decimal digits in a Unicode string to their ASCII
1615 equivalents.
Alexander Belopolsky942af5a2010-12-04 03:38:46 +00001616
Georg Brandl106a54d2010-12-03 07:37:16 +00001617- Issue #9518: Extend the PyModuleDef_HEAD_INIT macro to explicitly
1618 zero-initialize all fields, fixing compiler warnings seen when building
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001619 extension modules with gcc with "-Wmissing-field-initializers" (implied by
1620 "-W").
Georg Brandl106a54d2010-12-03 07:37:16 +00001621
1622- Issue #10255: Fix reference leak in Py_InitializeEx(). Patch by Neil
1623 Schemenauer.
1624
Georg Brandl71c23d42010-11-30 09:30:54 +00001625- structseq.h is now included in Python.h.
1626
Benjamin Petersonf6096542010-11-17 22:33:12 +00001627- Loosen PyArg_ValidateKeywordArguments to allow dict subclasses.
1628
Brian Curtin8fb9b862010-11-18 02:15:28 +00001629Tests
1630-----
1631
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001632- regrtest.py once again ensures the test directory is removed from sys.path
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00001633 when it is invoked directly as the __main__ module.
Nick Coghlan4c4c0f22010-12-03 07:44:33 +00001634
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00001635- `python -m test` can be used to run the test suite as well as `python -m
1636 test.regrtest`.
Michael Foord3ab34cc2010-12-03 12:27:40 +00001637
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001638- Do not fail test_socket when the IP address of the local hostname cannot be
1639 looked up.
Georg Brandl89197fe2010-11-20 14:16:17 +00001640
Łukasz Langa45ec4262010-11-20 16:16:24 +00001641- Issue #8886: Use context managers throughout test_zipfile. Patch by Eric
1642 Carstensen.
Brian Curtin8fb9b862010-11-18 02:15:28 +00001643
Mark Dickinson6646cd42010-11-20 10:43:10 +00001644Build
1645-----
1646
1647- Issue #10325: Fix two issues in the fallback definitions for PY_ULLONG_MAX and
1648 PY_LLONG_MAX that made them unsuitable for use in preprocessor conditionals.
1649
Ezio Melotti17f9b3d2010-11-24 22:02:18 +00001650Documentation
1651-------------
1652
1653- Issue #10299: List the built-in functions in a table in functions.rst.
1654
Georg Brandl9b0034d2010-11-16 15:15:56 +00001655
Georg Brandlb8bbffd2010-11-08 16:57:52 +00001656What's New in Python 3.2 Alpha 4?
1657=================================
Martin v. Löwise8930222010-10-11 22:38:01 +00001658
Georg Brandl24854ca2010-11-13 06:39:58 +00001659*Release date: 13-Nov-2010*
Martin v. Löwise8930222010-10-11 22:38:01 +00001660
1661Core and Builtins
1662-----------------
1663
Antoine Pitroucf9f9802010-11-10 13:55:25 +00001664- Issue #10372: Import the warnings module only after the IO library is
1665 initialized, so as to avoid bootstrap issues with the '-W' option.
1666
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001667- Issue #10293: Remove obsolete field in the PyMemoryView structure, unused
1668 undocumented value PyBUF_SHADOW, and strangely-looking code in
Antoine Pitrouaeb6cee2010-11-04 20:30:33 +00001669 PyMemoryView_GetContiguous.
1670
Georg Brandl54445ad2010-11-20 10:24:34 +00001671- Issue #6081: Add str.format_map(), similar to ``str.format(**mapping)``.
Eric Smith27bbca62010-11-04 17:06:58 +00001672
Benjamin Petersonbbb04122010-10-30 23:16:28 +00001673- If FileIO.__init__ fails, close the file descriptor.
1674
Raymond Hettingerdd421542010-10-30 08:10:29 +00001675- Issue #10221: dict.pop(k) now has a key error message that includes the
1676 missing key (same message d[k] returns for missing keys).
1677
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001678- Issue #5437: A preallocated MemoryError instance should not keep traceback
Antoine Pitrou07e20ef2010-10-28 22:56:58 +00001679 data (including local variables caught in the stack trace) alive infinitely.
1680
Benjamin Peterson503d6c52010-10-24 02:52:05 +00001681- Issue #10186: Fix the SyntaxError caret when the offset is equal to the length
1682 of the offending line.
1683
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001684- Issue #10089: Add support for arbitrary -X options on the command line. They
1685 can be retrieved through a new attribute ``sys._xoptions``.
Antoine Pitrou9583cac2010-10-21 13:42:28 +00001686
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001687- Issue #4388: On Mac OS X, decode command line arguments from UTF-8, instead of
1688 the locale encoding. If the LANG (and LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE) environment
Victor Stinnerf933e1a2010-10-20 22:58:25 +00001689 variable is not set, the locale encoding is ISO-8859-1, whereas most programs
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001690 (including Python) expect UTF-8. Python already uses UTF-8 for the filesystem
Victor Stinnerf933e1a2010-10-20 22:58:25 +00001691 encoding and to encode command line arguments on this OS.
1692
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001693- Issue #9713, #10114: Parser functions (e.g. PyParser_ASTFromFile) expect
1694 filenames encoded to the filesystem encoding with the surrogateescape error
Victor Stinner4c7c8c32010-10-16 13:14:10 +00001695 handler (to support undecodable bytes), instead of UTF-8 in strict mode.
1696
Benjamin Peterson230b2062010-10-16 03:45:45 +00001697- Issue #9997: Don't let the name "top" have special significance in scope
1698 resolution.
1699
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001700- Issue #9862: Compensate for broken PIPE_BUF in AIX by hard coding its value as
1701 the default 512 when compiling on AIX.
R. David Murraye16cda92010-10-15 23:12:57 +00001702
Victor Stinnerf3170cc2010-10-15 12:04:23 +00001703- Use locale encoding instead of UTF-8 to encode and decode filenames if
1704 Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding is not set.
1705
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001706- Issue #10095: fp_setreadl() doesn't reopen the file, instead reuse the file
Victor Stinner22a351a2010-10-14 12:04:34 +00001707 descriptor.
1708
Georg Brandl66c221e2010-10-14 07:04:07 +00001709- Issue #9418: Moved private string methods ``_formatter_parser`` and
1710 ``_formatter_field_name_split`` into a new ``_string`` module.
1711
Victor Stinner8f6b6b02010-10-13 22:02:27 +00001712- Issue #9992: Remove PYTHONFSENCODING environment variable.
1713
Martin v. Löwise8930222010-10-11 22:38:01 +00001714Library
1715-------
1716
Georg Brandl9f1c1dc2010-11-20 11:25:01 +00001717- Issue #10465: fix broken delegating of attributes by gzip._PaddedFile.
1718
Stefan Krahdc817b22010-11-17 11:16:34 +00001719- Issue #10356: Decimal.__hash__(-1) should return -2.
1720
Vinay Sajip8593ae62010-11-14 21:33:04 +00001721- Issue #1553375: logging: Added stack_info kwarg to display stack information.
1722
Senthil Kumaran74ebd9e2010-11-13 12:27:49 +00001723- Issue #5111: IPv6 Host in the Header is wrapped inside [ ]. Patch by Chandru.
1724
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001725- Fix Fraction.__hash__ so that Fraction.__hash__(-1) is -2. (See also issue
1726 #10356.)
Mark Dickinsonfec66202010-11-13 10:27:38 +00001727
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001728- Issue #4471: Add the IMAP.starttls() method to enable encryption on standard
1729 IMAP4 connections. Original patch by Lorenzo M. Catucci.
Antoine Pitrouf3b001f2010-11-12 18:49:16 +00001730
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001731- Issue #1466065: Add 'validate' option to base64.b64decode to raise an error if
1732 there are non-base64 alphabet characters in the input.
R. David Murray64951362010-11-11 20:09:20 +00001733
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001734- Issue #10386: Add __all__ to token module; this simplifies importing in
Georg Brandl54445ad2010-11-20 10:24:34 +00001735 tokenize module and prevents leaking of private names through ``import *``.
Alexander Belopolskyb9d10d02010-11-11 14:07:41 +00001736
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001737- Issue #4471: Properly shutdown socket in IMAP.shutdown(). Patch by Lorenzo
1738 M. Catucci.
Antoine Pitroud79f3c82010-11-09 23:10:33 +00001739
Antoine Pitroub1436f12010-11-09 22:55:55 +00001740- Fix IMAP.login() to work properly.
1741
Ask Soleme912f5a2010-11-09 21:14:53 +00001742- Issue #9244: multiprocessing pool worker processes could terminate
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001743 unexpectedly if the return value of a task could not be pickled. Only the
1744 ``repr`` of such errors are now sent back, wrapped in an
Ask Soleme912f5a2010-11-09 21:14:53 +00001745 ``MaybeEncodingError`` exception.
1746
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001747- Issue #9244: The ``apply_async()`` and ``map_async()`` methods of
1748 ``multiprocessing.Pool`` now accepts a ``error_callback`` argument. This can
1749 be a callback with the signature ``callback(exc)``, which will be called if
1750 the target raises an exception.
Ask Soleme912f5a2010-11-09 21:14:53 +00001751
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001752- Issue #10022: The dictionary returned by the ``getpeercert()`` method of SSL
1753 sockets now has additional items such as ``issuer`` and ``notBefore``.
Antoine Pitroufb046912010-11-09 20:21:19 +00001754
Antoine Pitrou859c4ef2010-11-09 18:58:42 +00001755- ``usenetrc`` is now false by default for NNTP objects.
1756
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001757- Issue #1926: Add support for NNTP over SSL on port 563, as well as STARTTLS.
1758 Patch by Andrew Vant.
Antoine Pitrou1cb121e2010-11-09 18:54:37 +00001759
Victor Stinner58c07522010-11-09 01:08:59 +00001760- Issue #10335: Add tokenize.open(), detect the file encoding using
1761 tokenize.detect_encoding() and open it in read only mode.
1762
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001763- Issue #10321: Add support for binary data to smtplib.SMTP.sendmail, and a new
1764 method send_message to send an email.message.Message object.
R. David Murray7dff9e02010-11-08 17:15:13 +00001765
Éric Araujoa5633922010-11-08 17:13:03 +00001766- Issue #6011: sysconfig and distutils.sysconfig use the surrogateescape error
1767 handler to parse the Makefile file. Avoid a UnicodeDecodeError if the source
1768 code directory name contains a non-ASCII character and the locale encoding is
1769 ASCII.
1770
Victor Stinner64bc3b22010-11-07 15:47:36 +00001771- Issue #10329: The trace module writes reports using the input Python script
Éric Araujoa5633922010-11-08 17:13:03 +00001772 encoding, instead of the locale encoding. Patch written by Alexander
Victor Stinner64bc3b22010-11-07 15:47:36 +00001773 Belopolsky.
1774
Éric Araujoe7cf9542010-11-06 15:01:07 +00001775- Issue #10126: Fix distutils' test_build when Python was built with
1776 --enable-shared.
1777
Éric Araujoba7209f2010-11-06 04:48:05 +00001778- Issue #9281: Prevent race condition with mkdir in distutils. Patch by
1779 Arfrever.
1780
Éric Araujo909ddbd2010-11-06 04:24:00 +00001781- Issue #10229: Fix caching error in gettext.
1782
Éric Araujo89c04782010-11-05 23:58:34 +00001783- Issue #10252: Close file objects in a timely manner in distutils code and
1784 tests. Patch by Brian Brazil, completed by Éric Araujo.
1785
Antoine Pitrou243757e2010-11-05 21:15:39 +00001786- Issue #10180: Pickling file objects is now explicitly forbidden, since
1787 unpickling them produced nonsensical results.
1788
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001789- Issue #10311: The signal module now restores errno before returning from its
1790 low-level signal handler. Patch by Hallvard B Furuseth.
Antoine Pitrou39a65912010-11-05 19:47:27 +00001791
Antoine Pitroua0781152010-11-05 19:16:37 +00001792- Issue #10282: Add a ``nntp_implementation`` attribute to NNTP objects.
1793
Antoine Pitrou08eeada2010-11-04 21:36:15 +00001794- Issue #10283: Add a ``group_pattern`` argument to NNTP.list().
1795
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001796- Issue #10155: Add IISCGIHandler to wsgiref.handlers to support IIS CGI
1797 environment better, and to correct unicode environment values for WSGI 1.0.1.
Phillip J. Ebyb6d4a8e2010-11-03 22:39:01 +00001798
Antoine Pitrou4103bc02010-11-03 18:18:43 +00001799- Issue #10281: nntplib now returns None for absent fields in the OVER/XOVER
1800 response, instead of raising an exception.
1801
Phillip J. Ebya01799f2010-11-03 00:46:45 +00001802- wsgiref now implements and validates PEP 3333, rather than an experimental
1803 extension of PEP 333. (Note: earlier versions of Python 3.x may have
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001804 incorrectly validated some non-compliant applications as WSGI compliant; if
1805 your app validates with Python <3.2b1+, but not on this version, it is likely
1806 the case that your app was not compliant.)
Phillip J. Ebya01799f2010-11-03 00:46:45 +00001807
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001808- Issue #10280: NNTP.nntp_version should reflect the highest version advertised
1809 by the server.
Antoine Pitrouf80b3f72010-11-02 22:31:52 +00001810
Martin v. Löwis16f344d2010-11-01 21:39:13 +00001811- Issue #10184: Touch directories only once when extracting a tarfile.
1812
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001813- Issue #10199: New package, ``turtledemo`` now contains selected demo scripts
1814 that were formerly found under Demo/turtle.
Alexander Belopolskyea13d9d2010-11-01 17:39:37 +00001815
Antoine Pitrou4d984892010-10-31 21:27:04 +00001816- Issue #10265: Close file objects explicitly in sunau. Patch by Brian Brazil.
1817
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001818- Issue #10266: uu.decode didn't close in_file explicitly when it was given as a
1819 filename. Patch by Brian Brazil.
Antoine Pitrouf5698262010-10-31 16:04:14 +00001820
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001821- Issue #10110: Queue objects didn't recognize full queues when the maxsize
1822 parameter had been reduced.
Raymond Hettinger189316a2010-10-31 17:57:52 +00001823
Antoine Pitroue9745712010-10-31 15:26:04 +00001824- Issue #10160: Speed up operator.attrgetter. Patch by Christos Georgiou.
1825
Vinay Sajip65b4af32010-10-31 15:11:43 +00001826- logging: Added style option to basicConfig() to allow %, {} or $-formatting.
1827
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001828- Issue #5729: json.dumps() now supports using a string such as '\t' for
1829 pretty-printing multilevel objects.
Raymond Hettingerb643ef82010-10-31 08:00:16 +00001830
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001831- Issue #10253: FileIO leaks a file descriptor when trying to open a file for
1832 append that isn't seekable. Patch by Brian Brazil.
Antoine Pitrou8d2b51b2010-10-30 16:19:14 +00001833
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001834- Support context manager protocol for file-like objects returned by mailbox
1835 ``get_file()`` methods.
Georg Brandl6ce29fa2010-10-30 14:33:28 +00001836
Antoine Pitroubfa34702010-10-30 13:03:56 +00001837- Issue #10246: uu.encode didn't close file objects explicitly when filenames
1838 were given to it. Patch by Brian Brazil.
1839
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001840- Issue #10198: fix duplicate header written to wave files when writeframes() is
1841 called without data.
Georg Brandlcc2adbc2010-10-30 08:29:28 +00001842
Brett Cannon028011f2010-10-30 00:26:48 +00001843- Close file objects in modulefinder in a timely manner.
1844
Brett Cannon01105782010-10-30 00:18:54 +00001845- Close a io.TextIOWrapper object in email.parser in a timely manner.
1846
1847- Close a file object in distutils.sysconfig in a timely manner.
1848
1849- Close a file object in pkgutil in a timely manner.
1850
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001851- Issue #10233: Close file objects in a timely manner in the tarfile module and
1852 its test suite.
Antoine Pitroue1eca4e2010-10-29 23:49:49 +00001853
Antoine Pitroue033e062010-10-29 10:38:18 +00001854- Issue #10093: ResourceWarnings are now issued when files and sockets are
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001855 deallocated without explicit closing. These warnings are silenced by default,
1856 except in pydebug mode.
Antoine Pitroue033e062010-10-29 10:38:18 +00001857
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001858- tarfile.py: Add support for all missing variants of the GNU sparse extensions
1859 and create files with holes when extracting sparse members.
Lars Gustäbel9cbdd752010-10-29 09:08:19 +00001860
Georg Brandlb9a43912010-10-28 09:03:20 +00001861- Issue #10218: Return timeout status from ``Condition.wait`` in threading.
1862
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001863- Issue #7351: Add ``zipfile.BadZipFile`` spelling of the exception name and
1864 deprecate the old name ``zipfile.BadZipfile``.
Georg Brandl4d540882010-10-28 06:42:33 +00001865
Antoine Pitrou6b03ee62010-10-27 18:33:30 +00001866- Issue #5027: The standard ``xml`` namespace is now understood by
1867 xml.sax.saxutils.XMLGenerator as being bound to
1868 http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace. Patch by Troy J. Farrell.
1869
Georg Brandl7424dd32010-10-27 07:27:06 +00001870- Issue #5975: Add csv.unix_dialect class.
1871
1872- Issue #7761: telnetlib.interact failures on Windows fixed.
R. David Murrayba488d12010-10-26 12:42:24 +00001873
Vinay Sajipa39c5712010-10-25 13:57:39 +00001874- logging: Added style option to Formatter to allow %, {} or $-formatting.
1875
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001876- Issue #5178: Added tempfile.TemporaryDirectory class that can be used as a
1877 context manager.
Nick Coghlan543af752010-10-24 11:23:25 +00001878
R. David Murray8451c4b2010-10-23 22:19:56 +00001879- Issue #1349106: Generator (and BytesGenerator) flatten method and Header
1880 encode method now support a 'linesep' argument.
1881
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001882- Issue #5639: Add a *server_hostname* argument to ``SSLContext.wrap_socket`` in
1883 order to support the TLS SNI extension. ``HTTPSConnection`` and ``urlopen()``
1884 also use this argument, so that HTTPS virtual hosts are now supported.
Antoine Pitroud5323212010-10-22 18:19:07 +00001885
Georg Brandl83938432010-10-22 06:28:01 +00001886- Issue #10166: Avoid recursion in pstats Stats.add() for many stats items.
1887
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001888- Issue #10163: Skip unreadable registry keys during mimetypes initialization.
Brian Curtin000f9742010-10-21 14:11:48 +00001889
Vinay Sajip2a20dfc2010-10-20 20:05:38 +00001890- logging: Made StreamHandler terminator configurable.
1891
Vinay Sajip6dbed2e2010-10-19 20:53:01 +00001892- logging: Allowed filters to be just callables.
1893
Vinay Sajip6fac8172010-10-19 20:44:14 +00001894- logging: Added tests for _logRecordClass changes.
1895
Georg Brandl7004bd12010-10-19 18:54:25 +00001896- Issue #10092: Properly reset locale in calendar.Locale*Calendar classes.
1897
Vinay Sajip062d56b2010-10-19 15:26:24 +00001898- logging: Added _logRecordClass, getLogRecordClass, setLogRecordClass to
1899 increase flexibility of LogRecord creation.
1900
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001901- Issue #5117: Case normalization was needed on ntpath.relpath(). Also fixed
1902 root directory issue on posixpath.relpath(). (Ported working fixes from
1903 ntpath.)
Hirokazu Yamamotob08820a2010-10-18 12:13:18 +00001904
R. David Murraya90032a2010-10-17 22:46:45 +00001905- Issue #1343: xml.sax.saxutils.XMLGenerator now has an option
1906 short_empty_elements to direct it to use self-closing tags when appropriate.
1907
Barry Warsawf6219a52010-10-16 01:20:45 +00001908- Issue #9807 (part 1): Expose the ABI flags in sys.abiflags. Add --abiflags
1909 switch to python-config for command line access.
1910
Georg Brandl3844f0d2010-10-15 18:00:35 +00001911- Issue #6098: Don't claim DOM level 3 conformance in minidom.
1912
Georg Brandlb9cd72a2010-10-15 17:58:45 +00001913- Issue #5762: Fix AttributeError raised by ``xml.dom.minidom`` when an empty
1914 XML namespace attribute is encountered.
1915
Georg Brandl1f7fffb2010-10-15 15:57:45 +00001916- Issue #2830: Add the ``html.escape()`` function, which quotes all problematic
Victor Stinner4c7c8c32010-10-16 13:14:10 +00001917 characters by default. Deprecate ``cgi.escape()``.
Georg Brandl1f7fffb2010-10-15 15:57:45 +00001918
Georg Brandld2413422010-10-15 16:42:14 +00001919- Issue #9409: Fix the regex to match all kind of filenames, for interactive
Florent Xiclunad9f57632010-10-14 20:56:20 +00001920 debugging in doctests.
1921
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001922- Issue #9183: ``datetime.timezone(datetime.timedelta(0))`` will now return the
1923 same instance as ``datetime.timezone.utc``.
Alexander Belopolsky1bcbaab2010-10-14 17:03:51 +00001924
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001925- Issue #7523: Add SOCK_CLOEXEC and SOCK_NONBLOCK to the socket module, where
1926 supported by the system. Patch by Nikita Vetoshkin.
Antoine Pitroub1c54962010-10-14 15:05:38 +00001927
1928- Issue #10063: file:// scheme will stop accessing remote hosts via ftp
Senthil Kumaran383c32d2010-10-14 11:57:35 +00001929 protocol. file:// urls had fallback to access remote hosts via ftp. This was
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001930 not correct, change is made to raise a URLError when a remote host is tried to
1931 access via file:// scheme.
Senthil Kumaran383c32d2010-10-14 11:57:35 +00001932
Georg Brandl268e4d42010-10-14 06:59:45 +00001933- Issue #1710703: Write structures for an empty ZIP archive when a ZipFile is
1934 created in modes 'a' or 'w' and then closed without adding any files. Raise
1935 BadZipfile (rather than IOError) when opening small non-ZIP files.
1936
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001937- Issue #10041: The signature of optional arguments in socket.makefile() didn't
1938 match that of io.open(), and they also didn't get forwarded properly to
1939 TextIOWrapper in text mode. Patch by Kai Zhu.
Antoine Pitrou834bd812010-10-13 16:17:14 +00001940
Antoine Pitrou803e6d62010-10-13 10:36:15 +00001941- Issue #9003: http.client.HTTPSConnection, urllib.request.HTTPSHandler and
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001942 urllib.request.urlopen now take optional arguments to allow for server
1943 certificate checking, as recommended in public uses of HTTPS.
Antoine Pitrou803e6d62010-10-13 10:36:15 +00001944
Victor Stinner11b1f3d2010-10-12 22:42:37 +00001945- Issue #6612: Fix site and sysconfig to catch os.getcwd() error, eg. if the
1946 current directory was deleted. Patch written by W. Trevor King.
1947
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001948- Issue #3873: Speed up unpickling from file objects that have a peek() method.
Antoine Pitrou04248a82010-10-12 20:51:21 +00001949
Antoine Pitroub0182c82010-10-12 20:09:02 +00001950- Issue #10075: Add a session_stats() method to SSLContext objects.
1951
Martin v. Löwise8930222010-10-11 22:38:01 +00001952- Issue #9948: Fixed problem of losing filename case information.
1953
Hirokazu Yamamoto35adf5d2010-11-07 11:32:01 +00001954Extension Modules
1955-----------------
Martin v. Löwise8930222010-10-11 22:38:01 +00001956
Alexander Belopolskyef4a03f2011-01-11 21:44:00 +00001957- Issue #5109: array.array constructor will now use fast code when
1958 initial data is provided in an array object with correct type.
1959
Hirokazu Yamamoto4ae5f132010-11-07 14:29:26 +00001960- Issue #6317: Now winsound.PlaySound only accepts unicode.
1961
Hirokazu Yamamotoc08c9bc2010-11-07 09:23:15 +00001962- Issue #6317: Now winsound.PlaySound can accept non ascii filename.
1963
Martin v. Löwis72f48422010-10-29 18:20:08 +00001964- Issue #9377: Use Unicode API for gethostname on Windows.
1965
Jesus Cea7e9065c2010-10-25 13:02:04 +00001966- Issue #10143: Update "os.pathconf" values.
1967
Georg Brandl1e908af2010-10-23 17:31:52 +00001968- Issue #6518: Support context manager protcol for ossaudiodev types.
1969
R. David Murraye194dd62010-10-18 01:14:06 +00001970- Issue #678250: Make mmap flush a noop on ACCESS_READ and ACCESS_COPY.
1971
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001972- Issue #9054: Fix a crash occurring when using the pyexpat module with expat
1973 version 2.0.1.
Georg Brandlc01537f2010-10-15 16:26:08 +00001974
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001975- Issue #5355: Provide mappings from Expat error numbers to string descriptions
1976 and backwards, in order to actually make it possible to analyze error codes
1977 provided by ExpatError.
Georg Brandlb4dac712010-10-15 14:46:48 +00001978
Martin v. Löwis44270f12010-10-11 22:50:33 +00001979- The Unicode database was updated to 6.0.0.
1980
Benjamin Peterson8f67d082010-10-17 20:54:53 +00001981C-API
1982-----
1983
David Malcolm96960882010-11-05 17:23:41 +00001984- Issue #10288: The deprecated family of "char"-handling macros
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001985 (ISLOWER()/ISUPPER()/etc) have now been removed: use Py_ISLOWER() etc instead.
David Malcolm96960882010-11-05 17:23:41 +00001986
Benjamin Peterson8f67d082010-10-17 20:54:53 +00001987- Issue #9778: Hash values are now always the size of pointers. A new Py_hash_t
1988 type has been introduced.
1989
Benjamin Petersonaa965922010-10-13 21:59:36 +00001990Tools/Demos
1991-----------
1992
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001993- Issue #10117: Tools/scripts/reindent.py now accepts source files that use
1994 encoding other than ASCII or UTF-8. Source encoding is preserved when
1995 reindented code is written to a file.
Alexander Belopolsky4a98e3b2010-10-18 14:43:38 +00001996
Benjamin Petersonaa965922010-10-13 21:59:36 +00001997- Issue #7287: Demo/imputil/knee.py was removed.
1998
Victor Stinner9d396392010-10-16 21:54:59 +00001999Tests
2000-----
2001
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002002- Issue #3699: Fix test_bigaddrspace and extend it to test bytestrings as well
2003 as unicode strings. Initial patch by Sandro Tosi.
Antoine Pitrou99c48302010-11-04 20:48:37 +00002004
Brett Cannoned82ca12010-11-02 19:27:59 +00002005- Issue #10294: Remove dead code form test_unicode_file.
2006
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002007- Issue #10123: Don't use non-ascii filenames in test_doctest tests. Add a new
2008 test specific to unicode (non-ascii name and filename).
Victor Stinner9d396392010-10-16 21:54:59 +00002009
Matthias Klose3fbfea12010-10-14 15:24:22 +00002010Build
2011-----
2012
Benjamin Peterson076ed002010-10-31 17:11:02 +00002013- Issue #10268: Add a --enable-loadable-sqlite-extensions option to configure.
2014
Antoine Pitroub156a462010-10-27 20:13:57 +00002015- Issue #8852: Allow the socket module to build on OpenSolaris.
2016
Martin v. Löwisc980ffd2010-10-17 19:36:54 +00002017- Drop -OPT:Olimit compiler option.
2018
Matthias Klose3fbfea12010-10-14 15:24:22 +00002019- Issue #10094: Use versioned .so files on GNU/kfreeBSD and the GNU Hurd.
2020
Matthias Klose8690ae52010-10-17 13:22:33 +00002021- Accept Oracle Berkeley DB 5.0 and 5.1 as backend for the dbm extension.
2022
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002023- Issue #7473: avoid link errors when building a framework with a different set
2024 of architectures than the one that is currently installed.
Ronald Oussorenf3500e12010-10-20 13:10:12 +00002025
Martin v. Löwise8930222010-10-11 22:38:01 +00002026
Georg Brandlbad09252010-09-05 21:29:17 +00002027What's New in Python 3.2 Alpha 3?
2028=================================
2029
Georg Brandl002fa2d2010-10-10 09:40:34 +00002030*Release date: 09-Oct-2010*
Georg Brandlbad09252010-09-05 21:29:17 +00002031
2032Core and Builtins
2033-----------------
2034
Benjamin Peterson5c4bfc42010-10-12 22:57:59 +00002035- Issue #10068: Global objects which have reference cycles with their module's
2036 dict are now cleared again. This causes issue #7140 to appear again.
2037
Victor Stinner257d38f2010-10-09 10:12:11 +00002038- Issue #9738: Document PyErr_SetString() and PyErr_SetFromErrnoWithFilename()
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002039 encodings.
Victor Stinner257d38f2010-10-09 10:12:11 +00002040
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002041- ast.literal_eval() can now handle negative numbers. It is also a little more
2042 liberal in what it accepts without compromising the safety of the evaluation.
2043 For example, 3j+4 and 3+4+5 are both accepted.
Raymond Hettingerbc959732010-10-08 00:47:45 +00002044
Benjamin Peterson970d1882010-10-02 17:55:47 +00002045- Issue #10006: type.__abstractmethods__ now raises an AttributeError. As a
2046 result metaclasses can now be ABCs (see #9533).
2047
Victor Stinneraef57e32010-10-02 11:50:49 +00002048- Issue #8670: ctypes.c_wchar supports non-BMP characters with 32 bits wchar_t.
2049
Victor Stinner5593d8a2010-10-02 11:11:27 +00002050- Issue #8670: PyUnicode_AsWideChar() and PyUnicode_AsWideCharString() replace
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002051 UTF-16 surrogate pairs by single non-BMP characters for 16 bits Py_UNICODE and
2052 32 bits wchar_t (eg. Linux in narrow build).
Victor Stinner5593d8a2010-10-02 11:11:27 +00002053
Brian Curtin9e88b5a2010-10-01 14:49:24 +00002054- Issue #10003: Allow handling of SIGBREAK on Windows. Fixes a regression
Victor Stinner5593d8a2010-10-02 11:11:27 +00002055 introduced by issue #9324.
Brian Curtin9e88b5a2010-10-01 14:49:24 +00002056
Victor Stinner137c34c2010-09-29 10:25:54 +00002057- Issue #9979: Create function PyUnicode_AsWideCharString().
2058
Brett Cannon5305a992010-09-27 21:08:38 +00002059- Issue #7397: Mention that importlib.import_module() is probably what someone
2060 really wants to be using in __import__'s docstring.
2061
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002062- Issue #8521: Allow CreateKeyEx, OpenKeyEx, and DeleteKeyEx functions of winreg
2063 to use named arguments.
Brian Curtin1771b542010-09-27 17:56:36 +00002064
Mark Dickinsonb09a3d62010-09-23 20:11:19 +00002065- Issue #9930: Remove bogus subtype check that was causing (e.g.)
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002066 float.__rdiv__(2.0, 3) to return NotImplemented instead of the expected 1.5.
Mark Dickinsonb09a3d62010-09-23 20:11:19 +00002067
Brian Curtine8e4b3b2010-09-23 20:04:14 +00002068- Issue #9808: Implement os.getlogin for Windows. Patch by Jon Anglin.
2069
Benjamin Peterson0dc97ed2010-09-21 21:28:47 +00002070- Issue #9901: Destroying the GIL in Py_Finalize() can fail if some other
2071 threads are still running. Instead, reinitialize the GIL on a second call to
2072 Py_Initialize().
2073
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002074- All SyntaxErrors now have a column offset and therefore a caret when the error
2075 is printed.
Antoine Pitroub0b384b2010-09-20 20:13:48 +00002076
Brett Cannonbc2eff32010-09-19 21:39:02 +00002077- Issue #9252: PyImport_Import no longer uses a fromlist hack to return the
2078 module that was imported, but instead gets the module from sys.modules.
2079
Nick Coghlan37ee8502010-12-03 14:26:13 +00002080- Issue #9213: The range type_items now provides index() and count() methods, to
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002081 conform to the Sequence ABC. Patch by Daniel Urban and Daniel Stutzbach.
Daniel Stutzbach9f0cbf12010-09-13 21:16:29 +00002082
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002083- Issue #7994: Issue a PendingDeprecationWarning if object.__format__ is called
2084 with a non-empty format string. This is an effort to future-proof user
2085 code. If a derived class does not currently implement __format__ but later
2086 adds its own __format__, it would most likely break user code that had
2087 supplied a format string. This will be changed to a DeprecationWaring in
2088 Python 3.3 and it will be an error in Python 3.4.
Eric Smithe4d63172010-09-13 20:48:43 +00002089
Antoine Pitrou1df15362010-09-13 14:16:46 +00002090- Issue #9828: Destroy the GIL in Py_Finalize(), so that it gets properly
2091 re-created on a subsequent call to Py_Initialize(). The problem (a crash)
2092 wouldn't appear in 3.1 or 2.7 where the GIL's structure is more trivial.
2093
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb73072010-09-12 22:42:57 +00002094- Issue #9210: Configure option --with-wctype-functions was removed. Using the
2095 functions from the libc caused the methods .upper() and lower() to become
2096 locale aware and created subtly wrong results.
2097
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002098- Issue #9738: PyUnicode_FromFormat() and PyErr_Format() raise an error on a
2099 non-ASCII byte in the format string.
Victor Stinner1205f272010-09-11 00:54:47 +00002100
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcba117ef2010-09-10 21:39:53 +00002101- Issue #4617: Previously it was illegal to delete a name from the local
2102 namespace if it occurs as a free variable in a nested block. This limitation
2103 of the compiler has been lifted, and a new opcode introduced (DELETE_DEREF).
2104
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002105- Issue #9804: ascii() now always represents unicode surrogate pairs as a single
2106 ``\UXXXXXXXX``, regardless of whether the character is printable or not.
2107 Also, the "backslashreplace" error handler now joins surrogate pairs into a
2108 single character on UCS-2 builds.
Antoine Pitroue4a18922010-09-09 20:30:23 +00002109
Antoine Pitrou6e6cc832010-09-09 12:59:39 +00002110- Issue #9757: memoryview objects get a release() method to release the
2111 underlying buffer (previously this was only done when deallocating the
2112 memoryview), and gain support for the context management protocol.
2113
Antoine Pitrou079ce542010-09-08 12:37:10 +00002114- Issue #9797: pystate.c wrongly assumed that zero couldn't be a valid
2115 thread-local storage key.
2116
Georg Brandlbad09252010-09-05 21:29:17 +00002117Library
2118-------
2119
Éric Araujo0cfba092010-11-08 21:48:23 +00002120- Issue #2236: distutils' mkpath ignored the mode parameter.
2121
Éric Araujoe7cf9542010-11-06 15:01:07 +00002122- Fix typo in one sdist option (medata-check).
2123
2124- Issue #9199: Fix incorrect use of distutils.cmd.Command.announce.
2125
2126- Issue #1718574: Fix options that were supposed to accept arguments but did
2127 not in build_clib.
2128
Antoine Pitroudbec7802010-10-10 09:37:12 +00002129- Issue #9437: Fix building C extensions with non-default LDFLAGS.
2130
R. David Murray96fd54e2010-10-08 15:55:28 +00002131- Issue #4661: email can now parse bytes input and generate either converted
2132 7bit output or bytes output. Email version bumped to 5.1.0.
2133
Antoine Pitrou59fdd672010-10-08 10:37:08 +00002134- Issue #1589: Add ssl.match_hostname(), to help implement server identity
2135 verification for higher-level protocols.
2136
Antoine Pitrou7980eaa2010-10-06 21:21:18 +00002137- Issue #9759: GzipFile now raises ValueError when an operation is attempted
2138 after the file is closed. Patch by Jeffrey Finkelstein.
2139
Éric Araujo6108bf52010-10-04 23:52:37 +00002140- Issue #9042: Fix interaction of custom translation classes and caching in
2141 gettext.
2142
Éric Araujoef777bd2010-10-05 00:04:20 +00002143- Issue #6706: asyncore.dispatcher now provides a handle_accepted() method
Giampaolo Rodolà977c7072010-10-04 21:08:36 +00002144 returning a (sock, addr) pair which is called when a connection has been
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002145 established with a new remote endpoint. This is supposed to be used as a
Giampaolo Rodolà977c7072010-10-04 21:08:36 +00002146 replacement for old handle_accept() and avoids the user to call accept()
2147 directly.
2148
Lars Gustäbel331b8002010-10-04 15:18:47 +00002149- Issue #9065: tarfile no longer uses "root" as the default for the uname and
2150 gname field.
2151
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002152- Issue #8980: Fixed a failure in distutils.command check that was shadowed by
2153 an environment that does not have docutils. Patch by Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadé4bcceef2010-10-03 14:18:09 +00002154
R. David Murray5397e862010-10-02 15:58:26 +00002155- Issue #1050268: parseaddr now correctly quotes double quote and backslash
2156 characters that appear inside quoted strings in email addresses.
2157
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002158- Issue #10004: quoprimime no longer generates a traceback when confronted with
2159 invalid characters after '=' in a Q-encoded word.
R. David Murray31e984c2010-10-01 15:40:20 +00002160
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002161- Issue #1491: BaseHTTPServer nows send a ``100 Continue`` response before
2162 sending a 200 OK for the Expect: 100-continue request header.
Senthil Kumaran0f476d42010-09-30 06:09:18 +00002163
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002164- Issue #9360: Cleanup and improvements to the nntplib module. The API now
2165 conforms to the philosophy of bytes and unicode separation in Python 3. A
2166 test suite has also been added.
Antoine Pitrou69ab9512010-09-29 15:03:40 +00002167
Antoine Pitrouc3ed2e72010-09-29 10:49:46 +00002168- Issue #9962: GzipFile now has the peek() method.
2169
Antoine Pitrou3e1fd272010-09-28 21:23:11 +00002170- Issue #9090: When a socket with a timeout fails with EWOULDBLOCK or EAGAIN,
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002171 retry the select() loop instead of bailing out. This is because select() can
2172 incorrectly report a socket as ready for reading (for example, if it received
2173 some data with an invalid checksum).
Antoine Pitrou3e1fd272010-09-28 21:23:11 +00002174
Hirokazu Yamamotocc868d42010-09-28 21:08:38 +00002175- Issue #3612: Added new types to ctypes.wintypes. (CHAR and pointers)
2176
Antoine Pitrou6d7df632010-09-27 17:52:25 +00002177- Issue #9950: Fix socket.sendall() crash or misbehaviour when a signal is
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002178 received. Now sendall() properly calls signal handlers if necessary, and
2179 retries sending if these returned successfully, including on sockets with a
2180 timeout.
Antoine Pitrou6d7df632010-09-27 17:52:25 +00002181
Vinay Sajip9fdd11b2010-09-25 17:48:25 +00002182- Issue #9947: logging: Fixed locking bug in stopListening.
2183
Vinay Sajip32fb6a82010-09-25 17:42:36 +00002184- Issue #9945: logging: Fixed locking bugs in addHandler/removeHandler.
2185
Alexander Belopolskyff09ce22010-09-24 18:03:12 +00002186- Issue #9936: Fixed executable lines' search in the trace module.
2187
Brian Curtin0dac8082010-09-23 20:38:14 +00002188- Issue #9790: Rework imports necessary for samefile and sameopenfile
2189 in ntpath.
2190
Antoine Pitrou70c60442010-09-23 19:51:39 +00002191- Issue #9928: Properly initialize the types exported by the bz2 module.
2192
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002193- Issue #1675951: Allow GzipFile to work with unseekable file objects. Patch by
2194 Florian Festi.
Antoine Pitrou7b969842010-09-23 16:22:51 +00002195
Vinay Sajip0637d492010-09-23 08:15:54 +00002196- Logging: Added QueueListener class to facilitate logging usage for
2197 performance-critical threads.
2198
Barry Warsaw31c604d2010-09-22 20:58:04 +00002199- Issue #9916: Add some missing errno symbols.
2200
Benjamin Peterson0dc97ed2010-09-21 21:28:47 +00002201- Issue #9877: Expose sysconfig.get_makefile_filename()
2202
2203- logging: Added hasHandlers() method to Logger and LoggerAdapter.
2204
Antoine Pitrou38425292010-09-21 18:19:07 +00002205- Issue #9908: Fix os.stat() on bytes paths under Windows 7.
2206
Antoine Pitrou52d42502010-09-21 16:08:27 +00002207- Issue #2643: msync() is not called anymore when deallocating an open mmap
2208 object, only munmap().
2209
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002210- logging: Changed LoggerAdapter implementation internally, to make it easier to
2211 subclass in a useful way.
Vinay Sajip212b5902010-09-21 11:31:32 +00002212
Vinay Sajipc84f0162010-09-21 11:25:39 +00002213- logging: hasHandlers method was added to Logger, and isEnabledFor,
2214 getEffectiveLevel, hasHandlers and setLevel were added to LoggerAdapter.
2215 LoggerAdapter was introduced into the unit tests for logging.
2216
Florent Xiclunaeb19dce2010-09-18 23:34:07 +00002217- Issue #1686: Fix string.Template when overriding the pattern attribute.
2218
Antoine Pitrou98b46702010-09-18 22:59:00 +00002219- Issue #9854: SocketIO objects now observe the RawIOBase interface in
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002220 non-blocking mode: they return None when an operation would block (instead of
2221 raising an exception).
Antoine Pitrou98b46702010-09-18 22:59:00 +00002222
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd61d0772010-09-17 23:27:09 +00002223- Issue #1730136: Fix the comparison between a tk.font.Font and an object of
2224 another kind.
2225
Vinay Sajip19ec67a2010-09-17 18:57:36 +00002226- Issue #9441: logging has better coverage for rotating file handlers.
2227
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002228- Issue #9865: collections.OrderedDict now has a __sizeof__ method.
Raymond Hettinger35c87f22010-09-16 19:10:17 +00002229
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002230- Issue #9854: The default read() implementation in io.RawIOBase now handles
2231 non-blocking readinto() returning None correctly.
Antoine Pitrou328ec742010-09-14 18:37:24 +00002232
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002233- Issue #1552: socket.socketpair() now returns regular socket.socket objects
2234 supporting the whole socket API (rather than the "raw" _socket.socket
2235 objects).
Antoine Pitrou9e0b8642010-09-14 18:00:02 +00002236
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002237- Issue #9853: Fix the signature of SSLSocket.recvfrom() and SSLSocket.sendto()
2238 to match the corresponding socket methods.
Antoine Pitroua468adc2010-09-14 14:43:44 +00002239
Éric Araujod8c73c62011-03-21 03:15:22 +01002240- Issue #9840: Added a decorator to reprlib for wrapping __repr__ methods to make
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002241 them handle recursive calls within the same thread.
Raymond Hettinger98a5f3f2010-09-13 21:36:00 +00002242
Vinay Sajipaf9d10a2010-09-13 20:40:30 +00002243- logging: Enhanced HTTPHandler with secure and credentials initializers.
2244
Victor Stinnere797c162010-09-17 23:34:26 +00002245- Issue #767645: Set os.path.supports_unicode_filenames to True on Mac OS X.
Victor Stinnerccb706c2010-09-13 19:41:36 +00002246
Antoine Pitrou6464d5f2010-09-12 14:51:20 +00002247- Issue #9837: The read() method of ZipExtFile objects (as returned by
2248 ZipFile.open()) could return more bytes than requested.
2249
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002250- Issue #9826: OrderedDict.__repr__ can now handle self-referential values:
2251 d['x'] = d.
Raymond Hettingerdc08a142010-09-12 05:15:22 +00002252
Raymond Hettingerfa11db02010-09-12 04:12:42 +00002253- Issue #9825: Using __del__ in the definition of collections.OrderedDict made
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002254 it possible for the user to create self-referencing ordered dictionaries which
2255 become permanently uncollectable GC garbage. Reinstated the Python 3.1
Raymond Hettingerfa11db02010-09-12 04:12:42 +00002256 approach of using weakref proxies so that reference cycles never get created
2257 in the first place.
2258
Victor Stinnercb043522010-09-10 23:49:04 +00002259- Issue #9579, #9580: Fix os.confstr() for value longer than 255 bytes and
2260 encode the value with filesystem encoding and surrogateescape (instead of
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002261 utf-8 in strict mode) . Patch written by David Watson.
Victor Stinnercb043522010-09-10 23:49:04 +00002262
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002263- Issue #9632: Remove sys.setfilesystemencoding() function: use PYTHONFSENCODING
2264 environment variable to set the filesystem encoding at Python startup.
2265 sys.setfilesystemencoding() creates inconsistencies because it is unable to
2266 reencode all filenames in all objects.
Victor Stinner5b519e02010-09-10 21:57:59 +00002267
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002268- Issue #9410: Various optimizations to the pickle module, leading to speedups
2269 up to 4x (depending on the benchmark). Mostly ported from Unladen Swallow;
2270 initial patch by Alexandre Vassalotti.
Antoine Pitrouea99c5c2010-09-09 18:33:21 +00002271
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002272- The pprint module now supports printing OrderedDicts in their given order
2273 (formerly, it would sort the keys).
Raymond Hettingerbad3c882010-09-09 12:31:00 +00002274
Vinay Sajip121a1c42010-09-08 10:46:15 +00002275- Logging: Added QueueHandler class to facilitate logging usage with
2276 multiprocessing.
2277
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002278- Issue #9707: Rewritten reference implementation of threading.local which is
2279 friendlier towards reference cycles. This change is not normally visible
2280 since an optimized C implementation (_thread._local) is used instead.
Antoine Pitrou783eea72010-09-07 22:06:17 +00002281
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc4b6fdf32010-09-07 21:31:17 +00002282- Issue #6394: os.getppid() is now supported on Windows. Note that it will
2283 still return the id of the parent process after it has exited. This process
2284 id may even have been reused by another unrelated process.
2285
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002286- Issue #9792: In case of connection failure, socket.create_connection() would
2287 swallow the exception and raise a new one, making it impossible to fetch the
2288 original errno, or to filter timeout errors. Now the original error is
2289 re-raised.
Antoine Pitrou4b92b5f2010-09-07 21:05:49 +00002290
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002291- Issue #9758: When fcntl.ioctl() was called with mutable_flag set to True, and
2292 the passed buffer was exactly 1024 bytes long, the buffer wouldn't be updated
2293 back after the system call. Original patch by Brian Brazil.
Antoine Pitrou5e38aae2010-09-07 16:30:09 +00002294
Raymond Hettinger435cb0f2010-09-06 23:36:31 +00002295- Updates to the random module:
2296
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002297 * Document which parts of the module are guaranteed to stay the same across
2298 versions and which parts are subject to change.
Raymond Hettinger435cb0f2010-09-06 23:36:31 +00002299
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002300 * Update the seed() method to use all of the bits in a string instead of just
2301 the hash value. This makes better use of the seed value and assures the
2302 seeding is platform independent. Issue #7889.
Raymond Hettinger05156612010-09-07 04:44:52 +00002303
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002304 * Improved the random()-->integer algorithm used in choice(), shuffle(),
2305 sample(), randrange(), and randint(). Formerly, it used int(n*random())
2306 which has a slight bias whenever n is not a power of two. Issue #9025.
Raymond Hettinger05156612010-09-07 04:44:52 +00002307
2308 * Improved documentation of arguments to randrange(). Issue #9379.
Raymond Hettingerf763a722010-09-07 00:38:15 +00002309
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002310- collections.OrderedDict now supports a new method for repositioning keys to
2311 either end.
Raymond Hettingerf45abc92010-09-06 21:26:09 +00002312
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002313- Issue #9754: Similarly to assertRaises and assertRaisesRegexp, unittest test
2314 cases now also have assertWarns and assertWarnsRegexp methods to check that a
2315 given warning type was triggered by the code under test.
Antoine Pitrou4bc12ef2010-09-06 19:25:46 +00002316
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002317- Issue #5506: BytesIO objects now have a getbuffer() method exporting a view of
2318 their contents without duplicating them. The view is both readable and
2319 writable.
Antoine Pitrou972ee132010-09-06 18:48:21 +00002320
Brian Curtin62857742010-09-06 17:07:27 +00002321- Issue #7566: Implement os.path.sameopenfile for Windows.
2322
Antoine Pitrou0d739d72010-09-05 23:01:12 +00002323- Issue #9293: I/O streams now raise ``io.UnsupportedOperation`` when an
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002324 unsupported operation is attempted (for example, writing to a file open only
2325 for reading).
Antoine Pitrou0d739d72010-09-05 23:01:12 +00002326
Gregory P. Smith13b55292010-09-06 08:30:23 +00002327- hashlib has two new constant attributes: algorithms_guaranteed and
2328 algorithms_avaiable that respectively list the names of hash algorithms
2329 guaranteed to exist in all Python implementations and the names of hash
2330 algorithms available in the current process.
2331
Brian Quinlanaf38dc52010-09-21 12:28:43 +00002332- A new package ``concurrent.futures`` as defined by PEP 3148.
2333
Benjamin Peterson568867a2010-09-11 16:02:03 +00002334C-API
2335-----
2336
Benjamin Peterson2bc5c0b2010-09-20 23:01:33 +00002337- Add PyErr_SyntaxLocationEx, which supports passing a column offset.
2338
Benjamin Peterson568867a2010-09-11 16:02:03 +00002339- Issue #9834: Don't segfault in PySequence_GetSlice, PySequence_SetSlice, or
2340 PySequence_DelSlice when the object doesn't have any mapping operations
2341 defined.
2342
Antoine Pitroub41e1282010-09-08 20:57:48 +00002343Tools/Demos
2344-----------
2345
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002346- Issue #9188: The gdb extension now handles correctly narrow (UCS2) as well as
2347 wide (UCS4) unicode builds for both the host interpreter (embedded inside gdb)
2348 and the interpreter under test.
Antoine Pitroub41e1282010-09-08 20:57:48 +00002349
Florent Xiclunadc69e722010-09-13 16:35:02 +00002350Tests
2351-----
2352
Alexander Belopolskye8f58322010-10-15 16:28:20 +00002353- Issue #9308: Added tests for importing encoded modules that do not
2354 depend on specific stdlib modules being encoded in a certain way.
2355
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002356- Issue #1051: Add a script (Lib/test/make_ssl_certs.py) to generate the custom
2357 certificate and private key files used by SSL-related certs.
Antoine Pitrou81564092010-10-08 23:06:24 +00002358
Hirokazu Yamamoto54c950f2010-10-08 08:38:15 +00002359- Issue #9978: Wait until subprocess completes initialization. (Win32KillTests
2360 in test_os)
2361
R. David Murray11cabcf2010-09-29 01:08:05 +00002362- Issue #7110: regrtest now sends test failure reports and single-failure
2363 tracebacks to stderr rather than stdout.
2364
R. David Murrayb78b4892010-09-28 22:25:18 +00002365- Issue #9628: fix runtests.sh -x option so more than one test can be excluded.
2366
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002367- Issue #9899: Fix test_tkinter.test_font on various platforms. Patch by Ned
2368 Deily.
Antoine Pitroub3bfc3d2010-09-21 16:26:09 +00002369
Antoine Pitrou679e0f22010-09-18 17:56:02 +00002370- Issue #9894: Do not hardcode ENOENT in test_subprocess.
2371
Alexander Belopolsky4d770172010-09-13 18:14:34 +00002372- Issue #9315: Added tests for the trace module. Patch by Eli Bendersky.
2373
Florent Xiclunadc69e722010-09-13 16:35:02 +00002374- Issue #9323: Make test.regrtest.__file__ absolute, this was not always the
2375 case when running profile or trace, for example.
2376
Ronald Oussoren01c42892010-09-28 14:38:31 +00002377- Issue #9568: Fix test_urllib2_localnet on OS X 10.3.
2378
Antoine Pitroua3000072010-09-07 14:52:42 +00002379Build
2380-----
2381
Antoine Pitrou19f8edc2010-10-10 08:37:22 +00002382- Issue #10062: Allow building on platforms which do not have sem_timedwait.
2383
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002384- Issue #10054: Some platforms provide uintptr_t in inttypes.h. Patch by Akira
2385 Kitada.
Antoine Pitrou1bf29b72010-10-10 08:10:16 +00002386
Antoine Pitrou5b0e9e82010-10-09 15:24:28 +00002387- Issue #10055: Make json C89-compliant in UCS4 mode.
2388
Hirokazu Yamamoto2f816e62010-09-21 18:23:05 +00002389- Issue #9552: Avoid unnecessary rebuild of OpenSSL. (Windows)
2390
Antoine Pitrouf6350d22010-09-21 15:19:14 +00002391- Issue #1633863: Don't ignore $CC under AIX.
2392
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002393- Issue #9810: Compile bzip2 source files in Python's project file directly. It
2394 used to be built with bzip2's makefile.
Hirokazu Yamamoto234f88d2010-09-16 17:50:57 +00002395
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002396- Issue #9848: Stopping trying to build _weakref in setup.py as it is a built-in
2397 module.
Brett Cannonb82489d2010-09-14 19:41:23 +00002398
Georg Brandlb084b482010-09-12 17:14:26 +00002399- Issue #9806: python-config now has an ``--extension-suffix`` option that
2400 outputs the suffix for dynamic libraries including the ABI version name
2401 defined by PEP 3149.
2402
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002403- Issue #941346: Improve the build process under AIX and allow Python to be
2404 built as a shared library. Patch by Sébastien Sablé.
Antoine Pitrou8e6b4072010-09-10 19:44:44 +00002405
Antoine Pitroua3000072010-09-07 14:52:42 +00002406- Issue #4026: Make the fcntl extension build under AIX. Patch by Sébastien
2407 Sablé.
2408
Ronald Oussoren9af73802010-09-28 13:57:58 +00002409- Issue #9701: The MacOSX installer can patch the shell profile to ensure that
2410 the "bin" directory inside the framework is on the shell's search path. This
2411 feature now also supports the ZSH shell.
2412
Georg Brandlbad09252010-09-05 21:29:17 +00002413
Georg Brandlee449c42010-07-31 18:05:35 +00002414What's New in Python 3.2 Alpha 2?
2415=================================
2416
Georg Brandl58a7b462010-09-05 08:30:40 +00002417*Release date: 05-Sep-2010*
Georg Brandlee449c42010-07-31 18:05:35 +00002418
2419Core and Builtins
2420-----------------
2421
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002422- Issue #9225: Remove the ROT_FOUR and DUP_TOPX opcode, the latter replaced by
2423 the new (and simpler) DUP_TOP_TWO. Performance isn't changed, but our
2424 bytecode is a bit simplified. Patch by Demur Rumed.
Antoine Pitrou74a69fa2010-09-04 18:43:52 +00002425
Brett Cannonef0e6c32010-09-04 18:24:04 +00002426- Issue #9766: Rename poorly named variables exposed by _warnings to prevent
2427 confusion with the proper variables names from 'warnings' itself.
2428
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002429- Issue #9212: dict_keys and dict_items now provide the isdisjoint() method, to
2430 conform to the Set ABC. Patch by Daniel Urban.
Daniel Stutzbach045b3ba2010-09-02 15:06:06 +00002431
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002432- Issue #9737: Fix a crash when trying to delete a slice or an item from a
2433 memoryview object.
Antoine Pitroue0793ba2010-09-01 21:14:16 +00002434
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002435- Issue #9549: sys.setdefaultencoding() and PyUnicode_SetDefaultEncoding() are
2436 now removed, since their effect was inexistent in 3.x (the default encoding is
2437 hardcoded to utf-8 and cannot be changed).
Antoine Pitroufce7fd62010-09-01 18:54:56 +00002438
Antoine Pitroub0fa8312010-09-01 15:10:12 +00002439- Issue #7415: PyUnicode_FromEncodedObject() now uses the new buffer API
2440 properly. Patch by Stefan Behnel.
2441
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002442- Issue #5553: The Py_LOCAL_INLINE macro now results in inlining on most
2443 platforms. Previously, it inlined only when using Microsoft Visual C.
Daniel Stutzbacha606faa2010-08-31 19:51:07 +00002444
Benjamin Peterson33856de2010-08-30 14:41:20 +00002445- Issue #9712: Fix tokenize on identifiers that start with non-ascii names.
2446
Benjamin Peterson0e102062010-08-25 23:13:17 +00002447- Issue #9688: __basicsize__ and __itemsize__ must be accessed as Py_ssize_t.
2448
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002449- Issue #9684: Added a definition for SIZEOF_WCHAR_T to PC/pyconfig.h, to match
2450 the pyconfig.h generated by configure on other systems.
Daniel Stutzbach864078a2010-08-25 19:18:59 +00002451
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002452- Issue #9666: Only catch AttributeError in hasattr(). All other exceptions that
2453 occur during attribute lookup are now propagated to the caller.
Benjamin Peterson17689992010-08-24 03:26:23 +00002454
Victor Stinner94908bb2010-08-18 21:23:25 +00002455- Issue #8622: Add PYTHONFSENCODING environment variable to override the
2456 filesystem encoding.
2457
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc324ac652010-08-18 20:44:58 +00002458- Issue #5127: The C functions that access the Unicode Database now accept and
2459 return characters from the full Unicode range, even on narrow unicode builds
2460 (Py_UNICODE_TOLOWER, Py_UNICODE_ISDECIMAL, and others). A visible difference
2461 in Python is that unicodedata.numeric() now returns the correct value for
2462 large code points, and repr() may consider more characters as printable.
2463
Victor Stinner6c00c142010-08-17 23:37:11 +00002464- Issue #9425: Create PyModule_GetFilenameObject() function to get the filename
2465 as a unicode object, instead of a byte string. Function needed to support
2466 unencodable filenames. Deprecate PyModule_GetFilename() in favor on the new
2467 function.
2468
Victor Stinner6961bd62010-08-17 22:26:51 +00002469- Issue #8063: Call _PyGILState_Init() earlier in Py_InitializeEx().
2470
Antoine Pitrou671b4d92010-08-17 17:55:07 +00002471- Issue #9612: The set object is now 64-bit clean under Windows.
2472
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002473- Issue #8202: sys.argv[0] is now set to '-m' instead of '-c' when searching for
2474 the module file to be executed with the -m command line option.
Nick Coghland26c18a2010-08-17 13:06:11 +00002475
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002476- Issue #9599: Create PySys_FormatStdout() and PySys_FormatStderr() functions to
2477 write a message formatted by PyUnicode_FromFormatV() to sys.stdout and
Victor Stinner79766632010-08-16 17:36:42 +00002478 sys.stderr.
2479
Victor Stinner47fcb5b2010-08-13 23:59:58 +00002480- Issue #9542: Create PyUnicode_FSDecoder() function, a ParseTuple converter:
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002481 decode bytes objects to unicode using PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefaultAndSize(); str
2482 objects are output as-is.
Victor Stinner47fcb5b2010-08-13 23:59:58 +00002483
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002484- Issue #9203: Computed gotos are now enabled by default on supported compilers
2485 (which are detected by the configure script). They can still be disable
2486 selectively by specifying --without-computed-gotos.
Antoine Pitrou042b1282010-08-13 21:15:58 +00002487
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002488- Issue #9425: Create PyErr_WarnFormat() function, similar to PyErr_WarnEx() but
2489 use PyUnicode_FromFormatV() to format the warning message.
Victor Stinner4a2b7a12010-08-13 14:03:48 +00002490
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002491- Issue #8530: Prevent stringlib fastsearch from reading beyond the front of an
2492 array.
Florent Xiclunaeb6f3ea2010-08-08 22:07:16 +00002493
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002494- Issue #5319: Print an error if flushing stdout fails at interpreter shutdown.
Antoine Pitroubddc9fe2010-08-08 20:46:42 +00002495
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002496- Issue #9337: The str() of a float or complex number is now identical to its
2497 repr().
Mark Dickinson388122d2010-08-04 20:56:28 +00002498
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002499- Issue #9416: Fix some issues with complex formatting where the output with no
2500 type specifier failed to match the str output:
Mark Dickinson5b65df72010-08-01 10:41:49 +00002501
2502 - format(complex(-0.0, 2.0), '-') omitted the real part from the output,
2503 - format(complex(0.0, 2.0), '-') included a sign and parentheses.
2504
Hirokazu Yamamoto35adf5d2010-11-07 11:32:01 +00002505Extension Modules
2506-----------------
Georg Brandl0bccc182010-08-01 14:50:00 +00002507
Alexander Belopolskyb9588b52011-01-04 16:34:30 +00002508- Issue #8013: time.asctime and time.ctime no longer call system
2509 asctime and ctime functions. The year range for time.asctime is now
2510 1900 through maxint. The range for time.ctime is the same as for
2511 time.localtime. The string produced by these functions is longer
2512 than 24 characters when year is greater than 9999.
2513
Alexander Belopolsky38e29962010-10-01 14:18:49 +00002514- Issue #6608: time.asctime is now checking struct tm fields its input
2515 before passing it to the system asctime. Patch by MunSic Jeong.
2516
Antoine Pitrou00492492010-09-04 20:53:29 +00002517- Issue #8734: Avoid crash in msvcrt.get_osfhandle() when an invalid file
2518 descriptor is provided. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
2519
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002520- Issue #7736: Release the GIL around calls to opendir() and closedir() in the
2521 posix module. Patch by Marcin Bachry.
Antoine Pitroud3ccde82010-09-04 17:21:57 +00002522
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002523- Issue #4835: make PyLong_FromSocket_t() and PyLong_AsSocket_t() private to the
2524 socket module, and fix the width of socket descriptors to be correctly
2525 detected under 64-bit Windows.
Antoine Pitrou67c7ce42010-08-28 20:42:55 +00002526
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002527- Issue #1027206: Support IDNA in gethostbyname, gethostbyname_ex, getaddrinfo
2528 and gethostbyaddr. getnameinfo is now restricted to numeric addresses as
2529 input.
Martin v. Löwisfc0275a2010-08-22 19:33:47 +00002530
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002531- Issue #9214: Set operations on a KeysView or ItemsView in collections now
2532 correctly return a set. Patch by Eli Bendersky.
Raymond Hettinger9117c752010-08-22 07:44:24 +00002533
Antoine Pitroub85e1652010-08-18 21:05:19 +00002534- Issue #5737: Add Solaris-specific mnemonics in the errno module. Patch by
2535 Matthew Ahrens.
2536
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002537- Restore GIL in nis_cat in case of error. Decode NIS data to fs encoding, using
2538 the surrogate error handler.
Martin v. Löwisdfaf9ec2010-08-18 16:12:23 +00002539
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002540- Issue #665761: ``functools.reduce()`` will no longer mask exceptions other
2541 than ``TypeError`` raised by the iterator argument.
Alexander Belopolskye29e6bf2010-08-16 18:55:46 +00002542
Benjamin Petersond4efbf92010-08-11 19:20:42 +00002543- Issue #9570: Use PEP 383 decoding in os.mknod and os.mkfifo.
2544
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002545- Issue #6915: Under Windows, os.listdir() didn't release the Global Interpreter
2546 Lock around all system calls. Original patch by Ryan Kelly.
Antoine Pitroub73caab2010-08-09 23:39:31 +00002547
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002548- Issue #8524: Add a detach() method to socket objects, so as to put the socket
2549 into the closed state without closing the underlying file descriptor.
Antoine Pitroue43f9d02010-08-08 23:24:50 +00002550
Georg Brandl08be72d2010-10-24 15:11:22 +00002551- Issue #477863: Emit a ResourceWarning at shutdown if gc.garbage is not empty.
Antoine Pitrou696e0352010-08-08 22:18:46 +00002552
Thomas Hellerbf4cc5d2010-08-08 18:16:20 +00002553- Issue #6869: Fix a refcount problem in the _ctypes extension.
2554
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002555- Issue #5504: ctypes should now work with systems where mmap can't be
2556 PROT_WRITE and PROT_EXEC.
Thomas Heller864cc672010-08-08 17:58:53 +00002557
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002558- Issue #9507: Named tuple repr will now automatically display the right name in
2559 a tuple subclass.
Raymond Hettingerd331ce92010-08-08 01:13:42 +00002560
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002561- Issue #9324: Add parameter validation to signal.signal on Windows in order to
2562 prevent crashes.
Brian Curtinef9efbd2010-08-06 19:27:32 +00002563
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002564- Issue #9526: Remove some outdated (int) casts that were preventing the array
2565 module from working correctly with arrays of more than 2**31 elements.
Mark Dickinson4f3086f2010-08-06 09:38:58 +00002566
Mark Dickinsondf7f2fd2010-08-03 18:44:16 +00002567- Fix memory leak in ssl._ssl._test_decode_cert.
2568
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002569- Issue #8065: Fix memory leak in readline module (from failure to free the
2570 result of history_get_history_state()).
Mark Dickinson6b54e1f2010-08-03 16:49:49 +00002571
Mark Dickinson29b238e2010-08-03 16:08:16 +00002572- Issue #9450: Fix memory leak in readline.replace_history_item and
2573 readline.remove_history_item for readline version >= 5.0.
2574
Brian Curtinea47eaa2010-08-01 15:26:26 +00002575- Issue #8105: Validate file descriptor passed to mmap.mmap on Windows.
2576
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002577- Issue #8046: Add context manager protocol support and .closed property to mmap
2578 objects.
Georg Brandl0bccc182010-08-01 14:50:00 +00002579
Georg Brandlee449c42010-07-31 18:05:35 +00002580Library
2581-------
2582
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002583- Issue #7451: Improve decoding performance of JSON objects, and reduce the
2584 memory consumption of said decoded objects when they use the same strings as
2585 keys.
Antoine Pitrou7d6e0762010-09-04 20:16:53 +00002586
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002587- Issue #1100562: Fix deep-copying of objects derived from the list and dict
2588 types. Patch by Michele Orrù and Björn Lindqvist.
Antoine Pitrou3941a8f2010-09-04 17:40:21 +00002589
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002590- Issue #9753: Fixed socket.dup, which did not always work correctly on Windows.
Daniel Stutzbach6c765282010-09-03 12:38:33 +00002591
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002592- Issue #9421: Made the get<type> methods consistently accept the vars and
2593 default arguments on all parser classes.
Fred Drakecc645b92010-09-04 04:35:34 +00002594
Fred Drake88444412010-09-03 04:22:36 +00002595- Issue #7005: Fixed output of None values for RawConfigParser.write and
2596 ConfigParser.write.
2597
Antoine Pitrou1ce3eb52010-09-01 20:29:34 +00002598- Issue #8990: array.fromstring() and array.tostring() get renamed to
2599 frombytes() and tobytes(), respectively, to avoid confusion. Furthermore,
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002600 array.frombytes(), array.extend() as well as the array.array() constructor now
2601 accept bytearray objects. Patch by Thomas Jollans.
Antoine Pitrou1ce3eb52010-09-01 20:29:34 +00002602
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002603- Issue #808164: Fixed socket.close to avoid references to globals, to avoid
2604 issues when socket.close is called from a __del__ method.
Daniel Stutzbach19d6a4f2010-08-31 20:08:07 +00002605
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002606- Issue #9706: ssl module provides a better error handling in various
Giampaolo Rodolà51078b12010-08-29 19:31:49 +00002607 circumstances.
2608
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002609- Issue #1868: Eliminate subtle timing issues in thread-local objects by getting
2610 rid of the cached copy of thread-local attribute dictionary.
Antoine Pitrou1a9a9d52010-08-28 18:17:03 +00002611
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002612- Issue #1512791: In setframerate() in the wave module, non-integral frame rates
2613 are rounded to the nearest integer.
Mark Dickinson64a38c02010-08-28 17:22:16 +00002614
Senthil Kumaran4bb5c272010-08-26 06:16:22 +00002615- Issue #8797: urllib2 does a retry for Basic Authentication failure instead of
2616 falling into recursion.
2617
R. David Murray219d1c82010-08-25 00:45:55 +00002618- Issue #1194222: email.utils.parsedate now returns RFC2822 compliant four
2619 character years even if the message contains RFC822 two character years.
2620
Benjamin Petersonf52c2c62010-08-24 21:03:37 +00002621- Issue #8750: Fixed MutableSet's methods to correctly handle reflexive
2622 operations on its self, namely x -= x and x ^= x.
Daniel Stutzbach31da5b22010-08-24 20:49:57 +00002623
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002624- Issue #9129: smtpd.py is vulnerable to DoS attacks deriving from missing error
2625 handling when accepting a new connection.
Giampaolo Rodolà9cf5ef42010-08-23 22:28:13 +00002626
Barry Warsawaa44b2b2010-09-03 18:36:11 +00002627- Issue #9601: ftplib now provides a workaround for non-compliant
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002628 implementations such as IIS shipped with Windows server 2003 returning invalid
2629 response codes for MKD and PWD commands.
Giampaolo Rodolàbbc47822010-08-23 22:10:32 +00002630
Giampaolo Rodolà76fc8c72010-08-23 21:53:41 +00002631- Issue #658749: asyncore's connect() method now correctly interprets winsock
Giampaolo Rodolàbbc47822010-08-23 22:10:32 +00002632 errors.
Giampaolo Rodolà76fc8c72010-08-23 21:53:41 +00002633
Vinay Sajipde6e9d62010-08-23 17:50:30 +00002634- Issue #9501: Fixed logging regressions in cleanup code.
2635
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002636- Fix functools.total_ordering() to skip methods inherited from object.
Benjamin Peterson06b8b102010-08-23 17:47:43 +00002637
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002638- Issue #9572: Importlib should not raise an exception if a directory it thought
2639 it needed to create was done concurrently by another process.
Brett Cannonee6d6472010-08-22 22:19:11 +00002640
Antoine Pitroub46b9d52010-08-21 19:09:32 +00002641- Issue #9617: Signals received during a low-level write operation aren't
2642 ignored by the buffered IO layer anymore.
2643
Benjamin Peterson23110e72010-08-21 02:54:44 +00002644- Issue #843590: Make "macintosh" an alias to the "mac_roman" encoding.
2645
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002646- Create os.fsdecode(): decode from the filesystem encoding with surrogateescape
2647 error handler, or strict error handler on Windows.
Victor Stinnere8d51452010-08-19 01:05:19 +00002648
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002649- Issue #3488: Provide convenient shorthand functions ``gzip.compress`` and
2650 ``gzip.decompress``. Original patch by Anand B. Pillai.
Antoine Pitrou79c5ef12010-08-17 21:10:05 +00002651
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002652- Issue #8807: poplib.POP3_SSL class now accepts a context parameter, which is a
2653 ssl.SSLContext object allowing bundling SSL configuration options,
Giampaolo Rodolà42382fe2010-08-17 16:09:53 +00002654 certificates and private keys into a single (potentially long-lived)
2655 structure.
2656
Giampaolo Rodolàccfb91c2010-08-17 15:30:23 +00002657- Issue #8866: parameters passed to socket.getaddrinfo can now be specified as
2658 single keyword arguments.
2659
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002660- Address XXX comment in dis.py by having inspect.py prefer to reuse the dis.py
2661 compiler flag values over defining its own.
Nick Coghlan09c81232010-08-17 10:18:16 +00002662
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002663- Issue #9147: Added dis.code_info() which is similar to show_code() but returns
2664 formatted code information in a string rather than displaying on screen.
Nick Coghlaneae2da12010-08-17 08:03:36 +00002665
Nick Coghlan98876832010-08-17 06:17:18 +00002666- Issue #9567: functools.update_wrapper now adds a __wrapped__ attribute
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002667 pointing to the original callable.
Nick Coghlan98876832010-08-17 06:17:18 +00002668
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002669- Issue #3445: functools.update_wrapper now tolerates missing attributes on
2670 wrapped callables.
Nick Coghlan98876832010-08-17 06:17:18 +00002671
Benjamin Peterson45c257f2010-08-17 00:52:52 +00002672- Issue #5867: Add abc.abstractclassmethod and abc.abstractstaticmethod.
2673
Victor Stinnere039ffe2010-08-15 09:33:08 +00002674- Issue #9605: posix.getlogin() decodes the username with file filesystem
2675 encoding and surrogateescape error handler. Patch written by David Watson.
2676
Victor Stinner61ec5dc2010-08-15 09:22:44 +00002677- Issue #9604: posix.initgroups() encodes the username using the fileystem
2678 encoding and surrogateescape error handler. Patch written by David Watson.
2679
Victor Stinner5fe6de82010-08-15 09:12:51 +00002680- Issue #9603: posix.ttyname() and posix.ctermid() decode the terminal name
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002681 using the filesystem encoding and surrogateescape error handler. Patch written
2682 by David Watson.
Victor Stinner5fe6de82010-08-15 09:12:51 +00002683
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002684- Issue #7647: The posix module now has the ST_RDONLY and ST_NOSUID constants,
2685 for use with the statvfs() function. Patch by Adam Jackson.
Andrew M. Kuchling4ea04a32010-08-18 22:30:34 +00002686
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002687- Issue #8688: MANIFEST files created by distutils now include a magic comment
2688 indicating they are generated. Manually maintained MANIFESTs without this
2689 marker will not be overwritten or removed.
Éric Araujoda668ff2010-08-14 02:30:34 +00002690
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002691- Issue #7467: when reading a file from a ZIP archive, its CRC is checked and a
2692 BadZipfile error is raised if it doesn't match (as used to be the case in
2693 Python 2.5 and earlier).
Antoine Pitrou7c8bcb62010-08-12 15:11:50 +00002694
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002695- Issue #9550: a BufferedReader could issue an additional read when the original
2696 read request had been satisfied, which could block indefinitely when the
2697 underlying raw IO channel was e.g. a socket. Report and original patch by
2698 Jason V. Miller.
Antoine Pitrou32cfede2010-08-11 13:31:33 +00002699
Antoine Pitrou5af4f4b2010-08-09 22:38:19 +00002700- Issue #3757: thread-local objects now support cyclic garbage collection.
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002701 Thread-local objects involved in reference cycles will be deallocated timely
2702 by the cyclic GC, even if the underlying thread is still running.
Antoine Pitrou5af4f4b2010-08-09 22:38:19 +00002703
Victor Stinner4a2b7a12010-08-13 14:03:48 +00002704- Issue #9452: Add read_file, read_string, and read_dict to the configparser
Fred Drakea4923622010-08-09 12:52:45 +00002705 API; new source attribute to exceptions.
2706
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002707- Issue #6231: Fix xml.etree.ElementInclude to include the tail of the current
2708 node.
Florent Xiclunaba8a9862010-08-08 23:08:41 +00002709
Florent Xiclunac17f1722010-08-08 19:48:29 +00002710- Issue #8047: Fix the xml.etree serializer to return bytes by default. Use
2711 ``encoding="unicode"`` to generate a Unicode string.
2712
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002713- Issue #8280: urllib2's Request method will remove fragments in the url. This
2714 is how it is supposed to work, wget and curl do the same. Previous behavior
2715 was wrong.
Senthil Kumaranc41e1fa2010-08-08 11:50:22 +00002716
Gerhard Häring1c5471f2010-08-05 14:08:44 +00002717- Issue #6683: For SMTP logins we now try all authentication methods advertised
Florent Xicluna09245d82010-08-14 16:56:27 +00002718 by the server. Many servers are buggy and advertise authentication methods
2719 they do not support in reality.
Gerhard Häring1c5471f2010-08-05 14:08:44 +00002720
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002721- Issue #8814: function annotations (the ``__annotations__`` attribute) are now
2722 included in the set of attributes copied by default by functools.wraps and
2723 functools.update_wrapper. Patch by Terrence Cole.
Antoine Pitrou560f7642010-08-04 18:28:02 +00002724
Giampaolo Rodolà934abdd2010-08-04 09:02:27 +00002725- Issue #2944: asyncore doesn't handle connection refused correctly.
2726
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002727- Issue #4184: Private attributes on smtpd.SMTPChannel made public and deprecate
2728 the private attributes. Add tests for smtpd module.
Richard Jonesdd24cf62010-08-04 01:19:22 +00002729
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002730- Issue #3196: email header decoding is now forgiving if an RFC2047 encoded word
2731 encoded in base64 is lacking padding.
R. David Murrayc4e69cc2010-08-03 22:14:10 +00002732
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002733- Issue #9444: Argparse now uses the first element of prefix_chars as the option
2734 character for the added 'h/help' option if prefix_chars does not contain a
2735 '-', instead of raising an error.
R. David Murray88c49fe2010-08-03 17:56:09 +00002736
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002737- Issue #7372: Fix pstats regression when stripping paths from profile data
2738 generated with the profile module.
Georg Brandl2d3c4e72010-08-02 17:24:49 +00002739
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002740- Issue #9428: Fix running scripts with the profile/cProfile modules from the
2741 command line.
Georg Brandl8e43fbf2010-08-02 12:20:23 +00002742
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002743- Issue #7781: Fix restricting stats by entry counts in the pstats interactive
2744 browser.
Georg Brandlb1a97af2010-08-02 12:06:18 +00002745
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002746- Issue #9209: Do not crash in the pstats interactive browser on invalid regular
2747 expressions.
Georg Brandlb1a97af2010-08-02 12:06:18 +00002748
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002749- Update collections.OrderedDict to match the implementation in Py2.7 (based on
2750 lists instead of weakly referenced Link objects).
Raymond Hettinger5be21b72010-08-01 22:10:57 +00002751
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002752- Issue #8397: Raise an error when attempting to mix iteration and regular reads
2753 on a BZ2File object, rather than returning incorrect results.
Antoine Pitrou7ffa1962010-08-01 20:08:46 +00002754
Antoine Pitrouc881f152010-08-01 16:53:42 +00002755- Issue #9448: Fix a leak of OS resources (mutexes or semaphores) when
2756 re-initializing a buffered IO object by calling its ``__init__`` method.
2757
Georg Brandle6c59502010-08-01 15:30:56 +00002758- Issue #1713: Fix os.path.ismount(), which returned true for symbolic links
2759 across devices.
2760
Georg Brandlb16e38b2010-08-01 09:06:34 +00002761- Issue #8826: Properly load old-style "expires" attribute in http.cookies.
2762
Georg Brandl8f9f4662010-08-01 08:35:29 +00002763- Issue #1690103: Fix initial namespace for code run with trace.main().
2764
Georg Brandl920bc0f2010-08-01 08:10:08 +00002765- Issue #7395: Fix tracebacks in pstats interactive browser.
2766
Georg Brandlf325e032010-08-01 08:07:49 +00002767- Issue #8230: Fix Lib/test/sortperf.py.
2768
Terry Reedy74901002010-12-29 19:02:07 +00002769- Issue #8620: when a cmd.Cmd() is fed input that reaches EOF without a final
2770 newline, it no longer truncates the last character of the last command line.
R. David Murray7905d612010-08-01 03:31:09 +00002771
Georg Brandl05245f72010-07-31 22:32:52 +00002772- Issue #5146: Handle UID THREAD command correctly in imaplib.
2773
Georg Brandl87a15642010-07-31 22:11:11 +00002774- Issue #5147: Fix the header generated for cookie files written by
2775 http.cookiejar.MozillaCookieJar.
2776
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002777- Issue #8198: In pydoc, output all help text to the correct stream when
2778 sys.stdout is reassigned.
Georg Brandl78aa3962010-07-31 21:51:48 +00002779
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002780- Issue #7909: Do not touch paths with the special prefixes ``\\.\`` or ``\\?\``
2781 in ntpath.normpath().
Georg Brandlcfb68212010-07-31 21:40:15 +00002782
Georg Brandl6cb7b652010-07-31 20:08:15 +00002783- Issue #1286: Allow using fileinput.FileInput as a context manager.
2784
Nick Coghlan632a0c12010-08-17 05:22:50 +00002785- Add lru_cache() decorator to the functools module.
Georg Brandlebb280c2010-07-31 18:09:46 +00002786
Antoine Pitrouf767f082010-08-03 17:09:36 +00002787Tools/Demos
2788-----------
2789
Florent Xiclunac7eaede2010-08-09 12:26:44 +00002790- Fix ``Tools/scripts/checkpyc.py`` after PEP 3147.
2791
Antoine Pitrouf767f082010-08-03 17:09:36 +00002792- Issue #8867: Fix ``Tools/scripts/serve.py`` to work with files containing
2793 non-ASCII content.
2794
Giampaolo Rodolàb5c23762010-08-04 09:28:05 +00002795Tests
2796-----
2797
Giampaolo Rodolàbbc47822010-08-23 22:10:32 +00002798- Issue #9601: Provide a test case for ftplib.parse257.
2799
Giampaolo Rodolà419f7042010-08-14 16:45:41 +00002800- Issue #8857: Provide a test case for socket.getaddrinfo.
2801
Florent Xicluna39d795d2010-08-08 18:06:13 +00002802- Issue #7564: Skip test_ioctl if another process is attached to /dev/tty.
2803
Mark Dickinsonaf43e9a2010-08-07 12:33:36 +00002804- Issue #8433: Fix test_curses failure with newer versions of ncurses.
2805
Antoine Pitrou482e66a2010-08-04 15:43:16 +00002806- Issue #9496: Provide a test suite for the rlcompleter module. Patch by
2807 Michele Orrù.
2808
Giampaolo Rodolàb5c23762010-08-04 09:28:05 +00002809- Issue #8687: provide a test suite for sched.py module.
2810
Martin v. Löwis907229a2010-08-15 15:47:25 +00002811Build
2812-----
2813
Martin v. Löwisa5e31092010-09-04 14:38:09 +00002814- Issue #1303434: Generate ZIP file containing all PDBs.
2815
Barry Warsawaa44b2b2010-09-03 18:36:11 +00002816- Issue #9193: PEP 3149 is accepted.
2817
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002818- Issue #3101: Helper functions _add_one_to_index_C() and _add_one_to_index_F()
2819 become _Py_add_one_to_index_C() and _Py_add_one_to_index_F(), respectively.
Antoine Pitrouf68c2a72010-09-01 12:58:21 +00002820
Antoine Pitrou33a29942010-08-30 14:52:00 +00002821- Issue #9700: define HAVE_BROKEN_POSIX_SEMAPHORES under AIX 6.x. Patch by
2822 Sébastien Sablé.
2823
Martin v. Löwis907229a2010-08-15 15:47:25 +00002824- Don't run pgen twice when using make -j.
2825
Georg Brandlee449c42010-07-31 18:05:35 +00002826
Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +00002827What's New in Python 3.2 Alpha 1?
2828=================================
2829
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002830*Release date: 01-Aug-2010*
Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +00002831
2832Core and Builtins
2833-----------------
2834
Victor Stinner8182b712010-07-28 00:40:58 +00002835- Issue #8991: convertbuffer() rejects discontigious buffers.
2836
Antoine Pitrou1ac745b2010-07-11 12:12:00 +00002837- Issue #7616: Fix copying of overlapping memoryview slices with the Intel
2838 compiler.
2839
Benjamin Petersonccabcd42010-07-07 20:54:01 +00002840- Issue #8413: structsequence now subclasses tuple.
2841
Ezio Melotti57221d02010-07-01 07:32:02 +00002842- Issue #8271: during the decoding of an invalid UTF-8 byte sequence, only the
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002843 start byte and the continuation byte(s) are now considered invalid, instead of
2844 the number of bytes specified by the start byte. E.g.:
2845 '\xf1\x80AB'.decode('utf-8', 'replace') now returns u'\ufffdAB' and replaces
2846 with U+FFFD only the start byte ('\xf1') and the continuation byte ('\x80')
2847 even if '\xf1' is the start byte of a 4-bytes sequence. Previous versions
2848 returned a single u'\ufffd'.
Ezio Melotti57221d02010-07-01 07:32:02 +00002849
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002850- Issue #9011: A negated imaginary literal (e.g., "-7j") now has real part -0.0
2851 rather than 0.0. So "-7j" is now exactly equivalent to "-(7j)".
Mark Dickinson50b79a82010-06-30 11:13:36 +00002852
Benjamin Peterson88968ad2010-06-25 19:30:21 +00002853- Be more specific in error messages about positional arguments.
2854
Victor Stinner4aae1eb2010-06-24 22:08:25 +00002855- Issue #8949: "z" format of PyArg_Parse*() functions doesn't accept bytes
2856 objects, as described in the documentation.
2857
Victor Stinner0fe25a42010-06-17 23:08:50 +00002858- Issue #6543: Write the traceback in the terminal encoding instead of utf-8.
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002859 Fix the encoding of the modules filename. Patch written by Amaury Forgeot
Victor Stinner2cd12522010-06-17 23:17:37 +00002860 d'Arc.
Victor Stinner0fe25a42010-06-17 23:08:50 +00002861
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002862- Issue #9011: Remove buggy and unnecessary (in 3.x) ST->AST compilation code
2863 dealing with unary minus applied to a constant. The removed code was mutating
2864 the ST, causing a second compilation to fail.
Mark Dickinsond35a32e2010-06-17 12:33:22 +00002865
Victor Stinner554f3f02010-06-16 23:33:54 +00002866- Issue #850997: mbcs encoding (Windows only) handles errors argument: strict
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002867 mode raises unicode errors. The encoder only supports "strict" and "replace"
Victor Stinner554f3f02010-06-16 23:33:54 +00002868 error handlers, the decoder only supports "strict" and "ignore" error
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002869 handlers. Patch written by Mark Hammond.
Victor Stinner554f3f02010-06-16 23:33:54 +00002870
Victor Stinner25e8ec42010-06-25 00:02:38 +00002871- Issue #8850: Remove "w" and "w#" formats from PyArg_Parse*() functions, use
2872 "w*" format instead. Add tests for "w*" format.
2873
Victor Stinner06e49dd2010-06-13 18:21:50 +00002874- Issue #8592: PyArg_Parse*() functions raise a TypeError for "y", "u" and "Z"
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002875 formats if the string contains a null byte/character. Write unit tests for
Victor Stinner06e49dd2010-06-13 18:21:50 +00002876 string formats.
2877
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002878- Issue #7490: To facilitate sharing of doctests between 2.x and 3.x test
Nick Coghlan5e76e942010-06-12 13:42:46 +00002879 suites, the IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL directive now also ignores the module
2880 location of the raised exception.
2881
Victor Stinner313a1202010-06-11 23:56:51 +00002882- Issue #8969: On Windows, use mbcs codec in strict mode to encode and decode
2883 filenames and enable os.fsencode().
2884
Benjamin Peterson285a6892010-06-22 19:21:52 +00002885- Issue #9058: Remove assertions about INT_MAX in UnicodeDecodeError.
2886
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002887- Issue #8941: Decoding big endian UTF-32 data in UCS-2 builds could crash the
2888 interpreter with characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane (higher than
2889 0x10000).
Antoine Pitroucc0cfd32010-06-11 21:46:32 +00002890
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002891- Issue #8950: (See also issue #5080). Py_ArgParse*() functions now raise
2892 TypeError instead of giving a DeprecationWarning when a float is parsed using
2893 the 'L' code (for long long). (All other integer codes already raise
2894 TypeError in this case.)
Mark Dickinsonc7301312010-06-10 16:05:10 +00002895
Victor Stinner600d3be2010-06-10 12:00:55 +00002896- Issue #8922: Normalize the encoding name in PyUnicode_AsEncodedString() to
2897 enable shortcuts for upper case encoding name. Add also a shortcut for
2898 "iso-8859-1" in PyUnicode_AsEncodedString() and PyUnicode_Decode().
2899
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002900- Issue #8838: Remove codecs.charbuffer_encode() function. The buffer protocol
2901 doesn't support "char buffer" anymore in Python 3.
Victor Stinner3dcb5ac2010-06-08 22:54:19 +00002902
2903- Issue #8339: Remove "t#" format of PyArg_Parse*() functions, use "s#" or "s*"
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002904 instead. codecs.charbuffer_encode() now accepts modifiable buffer objects
Victor Stinner3dcb5ac2010-06-08 22:54:19 +00002905 like bytearray.
2906
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002907- Issue #8837: Remove "O?" format of PyArg_Parse*() functions. The format is no
Victor Stinner33109a12010-05-28 21:55:10 +00002908 used anymore and it was never documented.
2909
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002910- In str.format(), raise a ValueError when indexes to arguments are too large.
Benjamin Peterson59a1b2f2010-06-07 22:31:26 +00002911
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002912- Issue #2844: Make int('42', n) consistently raise ValueError for invalid
2913 integers n (including n = -909).
Mark Dickinsonf9a5a8e2010-05-26 20:07:58 +00002914
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002915- Issue #8188: Introduce a new scheme for computing hashes of numbers (instances
2916 of int, float, complex, decimal.Decimal and fractions.Fraction) that makes it
2917 easy to maintain the invariant that hash(x) == hash(y) whenever x and y have
2918 equal value.
Mark Dickinsondc787d22010-05-23 13:33:13 +00002919
Mark Dickinsoncc6a9822010-05-21 14:55:26 +00002920- Issue #8748: Fix two issues with comparisons between complex and integer
2921 objects. (1) The comparison could incorrectly return True in some cases
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002922 (2**53+1 == complex(2**53) == 2**53), breaking transitivity of equality.
2923 (2) The comparison raised an OverflowError for large integers, leading to
2924 unpredictable exceptions when combining integers and complex objects in sets
2925 or dicts.
Mark Dickinsoncc6a9822010-05-21 14:55:26 +00002926
Victor Stinner7d79b8b2010-05-19 20:40:50 +00002927- Issue #8766: Initialize _warnings module before importing the first module.
2928 Fix a crash if an empty directory called "encodings" exists in sys.path.
2929
Victor Stinner9ca9c252010-05-19 16:53:30 +00002930- Issue #8589: Decode PYTHONWARNINGS environment variable with the file system
Victor Stinnere039ffe2010-08-15 09:33:08 +00002931 encoding and surrogateescape error handler instead of the locale encoding to
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002932 be consistent with os.environ. Add PySys_AddWarnOptionUnicode() function.
Victor Stinner9ca9c252010-05-19 16:53:30 +00002933
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002934- PyObject_Dump() encodes unicode objects to utf8 with backslashreplace (instead
2935 of strict) error handler to escape surrogates.
Victor Stinner372ac5e2010-05-17 01:26:01 +00002936
Victor Stinnerae6265f2010-05-15 16:27:27 +00002937- Issue #8715: Create PyUnicode_EncodeFSDefault() function: Encode a Unicode
2938 object to Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding with the "surrogateescape" error
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002939 handler, and return bytes. If Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding is not set, fall
Benjamin Peterson0c3d21d2010-05-15 17:43:57 +00002940 back to UTF-8.
Victor Stinnerae6265f2010-05-15 16:27:27 +00002941
Victor Stinner59e62db2010-05-15 13:14:32 +00002942- Enable shortcuts for common encodings in PyUnicode_AsEncodedString() for any
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002943 error handler, not only the default error handler (strict).
Victor Stinner59e62db2010-05-15 13:14:32 +00002944
Victor Stinnerb744ba12010-05-15 12:27:16 +00002945- Issue #8610: Load file system codec at startup, and display a fatal error on
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002946 failure. Set the file system encoding to utf-8 (instead of None) if getting
Victor Stinnerb744ba12010-05-15 12:27:16 +00002947 the locale encoding failed, or if nl_langinfo(CODESET) function is missing.
2948
Victor Stinner0964ee12010-04-30 16:48:45 +00002949- PyFile_FromFd() uses PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefault() instead of
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002950 PyUnicode_FromString() to support surrogates in the filename and use the right
2951 encoding.
Victor Stinner0964ee12010-04-30 16:48:45 +00002952
Georg Brandl8569e582010-05-19 20:57:08 +00002953- Issue #7507: Quote "!" in pipes.quote(); it is special to some shells.
2954
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002955- PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefaultAndSize() uses surrogateescape error handler.
Victor Stinnerb9a20ad2010-04-30 16:37:52 +00002956
Benjamin Petersonfb886362010-04-24 18:21:17 +00002957- Issue #8419: Prevent the dict constructor from accepting non-string keyword
2958 arguments.
2959
Victor Stinner14284c22010-04-23 12:02:30 +00002960- Issue #8124: PySys_WriteStdout() and PySys_WriteStderr() don't execute
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002961 indirectly Python signal handlers anymore because mywrite() ignores exceptions
2962 (KeyboardInterrupt).
Victor Stinner14284c22010-04-23 12:02:30 +00002963
Victor Stinner31be90b2010-04-22 19:38:16 +00002964- Issue #8092: Fix PyUnicode_EncodeUTF8() to support error handler producing
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002965 unicode string (eg. backslashreplace).
Victor Stinner31be90b2010-04-22 19:38:16 +00002966
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002967- Issue #8485: PyUnicode_FSConverter() doesn't accept byteearray objects
2968 anymore, you have to convert your bytearray filenames to bytes.
Victor Stinnerdcb24032010-04-22 12:08:36 +00002969
Antoine Pitrou5bc7ec92010-04-21 22:56:22 +00002970- Issue #7332: Remove the 16KB stack-based buffer in
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002971 PyMarshal_ReadLastObjectFromFile, which doesn't bring any noticeable benefit
2972 compared to the dynamic memory allocation fallback. Patch by Charles-François
2973 Natali.
Antoine Pitrou5bc7ec92010-04-21 22:56:22 +00002974
Benjamin Peterson8380dd52010-04-16 22:51:37 +00002975- Issue #8417: Raise an OverflowError when an integer larger than sys.maxsize is
2976 passed to bytes or bytearray.
2977
Philip Jenvey0805ca32010-04-07 04:04:10 +00002978- Issue #7301: Add environment variable $PYTHONWARNINGS.
2979
Benjamin Petersond856ab62010-04-06 21:55:16 +00002980- Issue #8329: Don't return the same lists from select.select when no fds are
2981 changed.
2982
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002983- Issue #8259: 1L << (2**31) no longer produces an 'outrageous shift error' on
2984 64-bit machines. The shift count for either left or right shift is permitted
2985 to be up to sys.maxsize.
Mark Dickinson3318d292010-04-06 16:53:17 +00002986
Benjamin Peterson8daa49e2010-04-03 22:55:48 +00002987- Ensure that tokenization of identifiers is not affected by locale.
2988
Tarek Ziadé03d788d2010-04-03 08:46:49 +00002989- Issue #1222585: Added LDCXXSHARED for C++ support. Patch by Arfrever.
2990
Benjamin Peterson80d8fd82010-04-03 01:40:24 +00002991- Raise a TypeError when trying to delete a T_STRING_INPLACE struct member.
2992
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002993- Issue #8211: Save/restore CFLAGS around AC_PROG_CC in configure.in, in case it
2994 is set.
Victor Stinner00d6a1d2010-03-25 01:02:29 +00002995
Victor Stinner120c2122010-03-25 00:30:28 +00002996- Issue #8226: sys.setfilesystemencoding() raises a LookupError if the encoding
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002997 is unknown.
Victor Stinner120c2122010-03-25 00:30:28 +00002998
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002999- Issue #1583863: A str subclass can now override the __str__ method.
Victor Stinner808fc0a2010-03-22 12:50:40 +00003000
Mark Dickinsond59b4162010-03-13 11:34:40 +00003001- Issue #8014: Setting a T_UINT or T_PYSSIZET attribute of an object with
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003002 PyMemberDefs could produce an internal error; raise TypeError instead.
Mark Dickinsond59b4162010-03-13 11:34:40 +00003003
Mark Dickinsonf673f0c2010-03-13 09:48:39 +00003004- Issue #7845: Rich comparison methods on the complex type now return
3005 NotImplemented rather than raising a TypeError when comparing with an
3006 incompatible type; this allows user-defined classes to implement their own
3007 comparisons with complex.
3008
Victor Stinner52f6dd72010-03-12 14:45:56 +00003009- Issue #3137: Don't ignore errors at startup, especially a keyboard interrupt
3010 (SIGINT). If an error occurs while importing the site module, the error is
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003011 printed and Python exits. Initialize the GIL before importing the site module.
Victor Stinner52f6dd72010-03-12 14:45:56 +00003012
Benjamin Petersonae5f2f42010-03-07 17:10:51 +00003013- Issue #7173: Generator finalization could invalidate sys.exc_info().
3014
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003015- Issue #7544: Preallocate thread memory before creating the thread to avoid a
3016 fatal error in low memory condition.
Victor Stinner45b9be52010-03-03 23:28:07 +00003017
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003018- Issue #7820: The parser tokenizer restores all bytes in the right if the BOM
3019 check fails.
Victor Stinner6aa278e2010-03-03 00:18:49 +00003020
Benjamin Peterson23e018a2010-02-27 17:40:01 +00003021- Handle errors from looking up __prepare__ correctly.
3022
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003023- Issue #5939: Add additional runtime checking to ensure a valid capsule in
3024 Modules/_ctypes/callproc.c.
Larry Hastings1373a072010-02-24 22:49:58 +00003025
Eric Smith0facd772010-02-24 15:42:29 +00003026- Issue #7309: Fix unchecked attribute access when converting
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003027 UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError, and UnicodeTranslateError to strings.
Eric Smith0facd772010-02-24 15:42:29 +00003028
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003029- Issue #6902: Fix problem with built-in types format incorrectly with 0
3030 padding.
Eric Smithabb28c62010-02-23 00:22:24 +00003031
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003032- Issue #7988: Fix default alignment to be right aligned for complex.__format__.
3033 Now it matches other numeric types.
Eric Smith4e260c52010-02-22 18:54:44 +00003034
Eric Smith68af50b2010-02-22 14:58:30 +00003035- Issue #5988: Remove deprecated functions PyOS_ascii_formatd,
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003036 PyOS_ascii_strtod, and PyOS_ascii_atof. Use PyOS_double_to_string and
3037 PyOS_string_to_double instead. See issue #5835 for the original deprecations.
Eric Smith68af50b2010-02-22 14:58:30 +00003038
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003039- Issue #7385: Fix a crash in `MemoryView_FromObject` when `PyObject_GetBuffer`
3040 fails. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou05b7c562010-02-02 22:47:00 +00003041
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003042- Issue #7788: Fix an interpreter crash produced by deleting a list slice with
3043 very large step value.
Mark Dickinsonbc099642010-01-29 17:27:24 +00003044
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003045- Issue #7766: Change sys.getwindowsversion() return value to a named tuple and
3046 add the additional members returned in an OSVERSIONINFOEX structure. The new
3047 members are service_pack_major, service_pack_minor, suite_mask, and
3048 product_type.
Eric Smithf7bb5782010-01-27 00:44:57 +00003049
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003050- Issue #7561: Operations on empty bytearrays (such as `int(bytearray())`) could
3051 crash in many places because of the PyByteArray_AS_STRING() macro returning
3052 NULL. The macro now returns a statically allocated empty string instead.
Antoine Pitroufc8d6f42010-01-17 12:38:54 +00003053
Antoine Pitroub7fbcd32010-01-16 18:37:38 +00003054- Issue #6690: Optimize the bytecode for expressions such as `x in {1, 2, 3}`,
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003055 where the right hand operand is a set of constants, by turning the set into a
3056 frozenset and pre-building it as a constant. The comparison operation is made
3057 against the constant instead of building a new set each time it is executed (a
3058 similar optimization already existed which turned a list of constants into a
3059 pre-built tuple). Patch and additional tests by Dave Malcolm.
Antoine Pitroub7fbcd32010-01-16 18:37:38 +00003060
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003061- Issue #7622: Improve the split(), rsplit(), splitlines() and replace() methods
3062 of bytes, bytearray and unicode objects by using a common implementation based
3063 on stringlib's fast search. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrouf2c54842010-01-13 08:07:53 +00003064
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003065- Issue #7632: Fix various str -> float conversion bugs present in 2.7 alpha 2,
3066 including: (1) a serious 'wrong output' bug that could occur for long (> 40
3067 digit) input strings, (2) a crash in dtoa.c that occurred in debug builds when
3068 parsing certain long numeric strings corresponding to subnormal values, (3) a
3069 memory leak for some values large enough to cause overflow, and (4) a number
3070 of flaws that could lead to incorrectly rounded results.
Mark Dickinson81612e82010-01-12 23:04:19 +00003071
Benjamin Petersonaea44282010-01-04 01:10:28 +00003072- The __complex__ method is now looked up on the class of instances to make it
3073 consistent with other special methods.
3074
Antoine Pitrouda2ecaf2010-01-02 21:40:36 +00003075- Issue #7462: Implement the stringlib fast search algorithm for the `rfind`,
3076 `rindex`, `rsplit` and `rpartition` methods. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
3077
Benjamin Petersond12362a2009-12-30 19:44:54 +00003078- Issue #7604: Deleting an unset slotted attribute did not raise an
3079 AttributeError.
3080
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003081- Issue #7534: Fix handling of IEEE specials (infinities, nans, negative zero)
3082 in ** operator. The behaviour now conforms to that described in C99 Annex F.
Mark Dickinson9ab44b52009-12-30 16:22:49 +00003083
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003084- Issue #1811: improve accuracy and cross-platform consistency for true division
3085 of integers: the result of a/b is now correctly rounded for ints a and b (at
3086 least on IEEE 754 platforms), and in particular does not depend on the
3087 internal representation of an int.
Mark Dickinsoncbb62742009-12-27 15:09:50 +00003088
Ronald Oussoren6f6c5622009-12-24 14:03:19 +00003089- Issue #6834: replace the implementation for the 'python' and 'pythonw'
3090 executables on OSX.
3091
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003092 These executables now work properly with the arch(1) command: ``arch -ppc
3093 python`` will start a universal binary version of python in PPC mode (unlike
3094 previous releases).
Ronald Oussoren6f6c5622009-12-24 14:03:19 +00003095
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003096- Issue #7466: Segmentation fault when the garbage collector is called in the
3097 middle of populating a tuple. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou6b7dfc92009-12-12 19:18:27 +00003098
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc64f3ca42009-12-01 21:59:18 +00003099- Issue #7419: setlocale() could crash the interpreter on Windows when called
3100 with invalid values.
3101
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7d0bddd2009-11-30 00:08:56 +00003102- Issue #6077: On Windows, files opened with tempfile.TemporaryFile in "wt+"
3103 mode would appear truncated on the first '0x1a' byte (aka. Ctrl+Z).
3104
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003105- Issue #7085: Fix crash when importing some extensions in a thread on MacOSX
3106 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren3c1928a2009-11-19 17:15:31 +00003107
Philip Jenvey1309adb2009-11-17 03:43:14 +00003108- Issue #1757126: Fix the cyrillic-asian alias for the ptcp154 encoding.
3109
Mark Dickinson6f1d0492009-11-15 13:58:49 +00003110- Issue #6970: Remove redundant calls when comparing objects that don't
3111 implement the relevant rich comparison methods.
3112
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003113- Issue #7298: Fixes for range and reversed(range(...)). Iteration over
3114 range(a, b, c) incorrectly gave an empty iterator when a, b and c fit in C
3115 long but the length of the range did not. Also fix several cases where
3116 reversed(range(a, b, c)) gave wrong results, and fix a refleak for
3117 reversed(range(a, b, c)) with large arguments.
Mark Dickinsond550c9a2009-11-15 09:57:26 +00003118
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003119- Issue #7244: itertools.izip_longest() no longer ignores exceptions raised
3120 during the formation of an output tuple.
Raymond Hettingerfc438512009-11-01 20:55:33 +00003121
Benjamin Petersonb2e796a2009-10-28 21:59:39 +00003122- Issue #3297: On wide unicode builds, do not split unicode characters into
3123 surrogates.
3124
Mark Dickinsonf9724882009-10-26 21:51:18 +00003125- Remove length limitation when constructing a complex number from a string.
3126
Mark Dickinson27a87a22009-10-25 20:43:34 +00003127- Issue #1087418: Boost performance of bitwise operations for longs.
3128
Antoine Pitroub6ef9632009-10-24 20:47:05 +00003129- Support for AtheOS has been completely removed from the code base. It was
3130 disabled since Python 3.0.
3131
3132- Support for several legacy threading libraries has been disabled. These
3133 libraries are: Mach C threads, SunOS LWP, GNU pth, Irix threads. Support code
3134 will be entirely removed in 3.3.
3135
Jesus Cea6a792292010-05-03 21:18:48 +00003136- Support for OSF* has been disabled. If nobody stands up, support will be
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003137 removed in 3.3. See <http://bugs.python.org/issue8606>.
Jesus Cea6a792292010-05-03 21:18:48 +00003138
Raymond Hettingeraf7adad2009-10-22 11:22:50 +00003139- Peephole constant folding had missed UNARY_POSITIVE.
3140
Antoine Pitrou011bd622009-10-20 21:52:47 +00003141- Issue #1722344: threading._shutdown() is now called in Py_Finalize(), which
3142 fixes the problem of some exceptions being thrown at shutdown when the
3143 interpreter is killed. Patch by Adam Olsen.
3144
Antoine Pitrou671141d2009-10-19 19:37:25 +00003145- Issue #7147: Remove support for compiling Python without complex number
Skip Montanaroba1e0f42009-10-18 14:25:35 +00003146 support.
3147
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003148- Issue #7120: logging: Removed import of multiprocessing which is causing crash
3149 in GAE.
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +00003150
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003151- Issue #1754094: Improve the stack depth calculation in the compiler. There
3152 should be no other effect than a small decrease in memory use. Patch by
3153 Christopher Tur Lesniewski-Laas.
Neil Schemenauere441cb72009-10-14 19:14:38 +00003154
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003155- Issue #7065: Fix a crash in bytes.maketrans and bytearray.maketrans when using
3156 byte values greater than 127. Patch by Derk Drukker.
Antoine Pitrou403ce782009-10-14 17:14:16 +00003157
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7d520792009-10-06 21:03:20 +00003158- Issue #1571184: The Unicode database contains properties for more characters.
3159 The tables for code points representing numeric values, white spaces or line
3160 breaks are now generated from the official Unicode Character Database files,
3161 and include information from the Unihan.txt file.
3162
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003163- Issue #7019: Raise ValueError when unmarshalling bad long data, instead of
3164 producing internally inconsistent Python longs.
Mark Dickinson2683ab02009-09-29 19:21:35 +00003165
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003166- Issue #6990: Fix threading.local subclasses leaving old state around after a
3167 reference cycle GC which could be recycled by new locals.
Philip Jenvey26713ca2009-09-29 04:57:18 +00003168
Benjamin Peterson4905e802009-09-27 02:43:28 +00003169- Issue #5460: Fix an ambiguity in the grammar.
3170
Mark Dickinson3e124ae2009-09-22 21:47:24 +00003171- Issue #1766304: Improve performance of membership tests on range objects.
3172
Mark Dickinson0a1efd02009-09-16 21:23:34 +00003173- Issue #6713: Improve performance of integer -> string conversions.
3174
Mark Dickinson54a3db92009-09-06 10:19:23 +00003175- Issue #6846: Fix bug where bytearray.pop() returns negative integers.
3176
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003177- Issue #6750: A text file opened with io.open() could duplicate its output when
3178 writing from multiple threads at the same time.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcccd686a2009-08-29 23:00:38 +00003179
Benjamin Peterson14327712009-08-15 13:23:05 +00003180- Issue #6707: dir() on an uninitialized module caused a crash.
3181
Georg Brandl953152f2009-07-22 12:03:59 +00003182- Issue #6540: Fixed crash for bytearray.translate() with invalid parameters.
3183
Raymond Hettingere805ecc2009-07-27 20:16:37 +00003184- Issue #6573: set.union() stopped processing inputs if an instance of self
3185 occurred in the argument chain.
3186
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003187- Issue #6070: On posix platforms import no longer copies the execute bit from
3188 the .py file to the .pyc file if it is set.
R. David Murray046f7232009-07-19 02:22:05 +00003189
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc8b84ea02009-07-13 20:38:21 +00003190- Issue #1616979: Added the cp720 (Arabic DOS) encoding.
3191
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003192- Issue #6428: Since Python 3.0, the __bool__ method must return a bool object,
3193 and not an int. Fix the corresponding error message, and the documentation.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc097cd072009-07-07 00:43:08 +00003194
Benjamin Petersonf1664ae2009-07-01 01:28:55 +00003195- The deprecated PyCObject has been removed.
3196
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003197- Issue #6347: Include inttypes.h as well as stdint.h in pyport.h. This fixes a
3198 build failure on HP-UX: int32_t and uint32_t are defined in inttypes.h instead
3199 of stdint.h on that platform.
Mark Dickinson835a6c82009-06-30 15:45:17 +00003200
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003201- Issue #6373: Fixed a SystemError when encoding with the latin-1 codec and the
3202 'surrogateescape' error handler, a string which contains unpaired surrogates.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc84ec8d92009-06-29 22:36:49 +00003203
Hirokazu Yamamoto892a37a2009-06-28 11:07:03 +00003204- Issue #4856: Remove checks for win NT.
3205
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003206- Issue #6687: PyBytes_FromObject() no longer accepts an integer as its argument
3207 to construct a null-initialized bytes object.
Alexandre Vassalottieb6f8de2009-12-31 03:56:09 +00003208
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003209- Issue #1023290: Add from_bytes() and to_bytes() methods to integers. These
3210 methods allow the conversion of integers to bytes, and vice-versa.
Alexandre Vassalottic36c3782010-01-09 20:35:09 +00003211
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003212- Issue #7382: Fix bug in bytes.__getnewargs__ that prevented bytes instances
3213 from being copied with copy.copy(), and bytes subclasses from being pickled
3214 properly.
Alexandre Vassalotti41f58a72010-01-12 01:23:09 +00003215
Collin Winter4222e9c2010-03-18 22:46:40 +00003216- Code objects now support weak references.
3217
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003218- Issue #7072: isspace(0xa0) is true on Mac OS X.
Ronald Oussoren501aeff2010-04-18 15:02:38 +00003219
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003220- Issue #8084: PEP 370 now conforms to system conventions for framework builds
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00003221 on MacOS X. That is, "python setup.py install --user" will install into
3222 "~/Library/Python/2.7" instead of "~/.local".
Ronald Oussoren501aeff2010-04-18 15:02:38 +00003223
Benjamin Peterson466a7822009-07-02 21:44:01 +00003224C-API
3225-----
3226
Alexander Belopolskyf0f45142010-08-11 17:31:17 +00003227- Issue #2443: A new macro, `Py_VA_COPY`, copies the state of the
3228 variable argument list. `Py_VA_COPY` is equivalent to C99
3229 `va_copy`, but available on all python platforms.
3230
Mark Dickinsone6fc7402010-08-06 18:55:26 +00003231- PySlice_GetIndicesEx now clips the step to [-PY_SSIZE_T_MAX, PY_SSIZE_T_MAX]
3232 instead of [-PY_SSIZE_T_MAX-1, PY_SSIZE_T_MAX]. This makes it safe to do
3233 "step = -step" when reversing a slice.
3234
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003235- Issue #5753: A new C API function, `PySys_SetArgvEx`, allows embedders of the
3236 interpreter to set sys.argv without also modifying sys.path. This helps fix
3237 `CVE-2008-5983
Antoine Pitrouf978fac2010-05-21 17:25:34 +00003238 <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5983>`_.
3239
Benjamin Petersonfb886362010-04-24 18:21:17 +00003240- Add PyArg_ValidateKeywordArguments, which checks if all keyword arguments are
3241 strings in an efficient manner.
3242
Antoine Pitrou8689a102010-04-01 16:53:15 +00003243- Issue #8276: PyEval_CallObject() is now only available in macro form. The
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003244 function declaration, which was kept for backwards compatibility reasons, is
3245 now removed (the macro was introduced in 1997!).
Antoine Pitrou8689a102010-04-01 16:53:15 +00003246
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003247- Issue #7767: New function PyLong_AsLongLongAndOverflow added, analogous to
3248 PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow.
Mark Dickinson93f562c2010-01-30 10:30:15 +00003249
Benjamin Peterson8667a9b2010-01-09 21:45:28 +00003250- Make PyUnicode_CompareWithASCIIString return not equal if the Python string
3251 has '\0' at the end.
3252
Mark Dickinsonde604012010-01-01 19:27:32 +00003253- Issue #5080: The argument parsing functions PyArg_ParseTuple,
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003254 PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords, PyArg_VaParse, PyArg_VaParseTupleAndKeywords and
3255 PyArg_Parse now raise a DeprecationWarning for float arguments passed with the
3256 'L' format code. This will become a TypeError in a future version of Python,
Mark Dickinsonde604012010-01-01 19:27:32 +00003257 to match the behaviour of the other integer format codes.
3258
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003259- Issue #7033: Function ``PyErr_NewExceptionWithDoc()`` added.
Georg Brandl1e28a272009-12-28 08:41:01 +00003260
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003261- Issue #7414: 'C' code wasn't being skipped properly (for keyword arguments) in
3262 PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords.
Mark Dickinsonf08173b2009-12-03 10:59:46 +00003263
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003264- Issue #7228: Add '%lld' and '%llu' support to PyString_FromFormat(V) and
3265 PyErr_Format, on machines with HAVE_LONG_LONG defined.
Mark Dickinson6ce4a9a2009-11-16 17:00:11 +00003266
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003267- Issue #6151: Made PyDescr_COMMON conform to standard C (like PyObject_HEAD in
3268 PEP 3123). The PyDescr_TYPE and PyDescr_NAME macros should be should used for
3269 accessing the d_type and d_name members of structures using PyDescr_COMMON.
Alexandre Vassalotti2db046d2009-07-22 03:56:36 +00003270
3271- Issue #6405: Remove duplicate type declarations in descrobject.h.
Benjamin Peterson89b89172009-07-03 13:30:25 +00003272
Benjamin Peterson466a7822009-07-02 21:44:01 +00003273- The code flags for old __future__ features are now available again.
3274
Alexandre Vassalotti7b82b402009-07-21 04:30:03 +00003275- Issue #5954: Add a PyFrame_GetLineNumber() function to replace most uses of
3276 PyCode_Addr2Line().
3277
3278- Issue #5959: Add a PyCode_NewEmpty() function to create a new empty code
3279 object at a specified file, function, and line number.
3280
3281- Issue #1419652: Change the first argument to PyImport_AppendInittab() to
3282 ``const char *`` as the string is stored beyond the call.
3283
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003284- Issue #2422: When compiled with the ``--with-valgrind`` option, the pymalloc
3285 allocator will be automatically disabled when running under Valgrind. This
3286 gives improved memory leak detection when running under Valgrind, while taking
3287 advantage of pymalloc at other times.
Benjamin Peterson05159c42009-12-03 03:01:27 +00003288
Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +00003289Library
3290-------
3291
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003292- In pdb, when Ctrl-C is entered while defining commands for a breakpoint, the
3293 old commands are restored.
Georg Brandlb90ffd82010-07-30 22:20:16 +00003294
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003295- For traceback debugging, the pdb listing now also shows the locations where
3296 the exception was originally (re)raised, if it differs from the last line
3297 executed (e.g. in case of finally clauses).
Georg Brandl0a9c3e92010-07-30 18:46:38 +00003298
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003299- The pdb command "source" has been added. It displays the source code for a
3300 given object, if possible.
Georg Brandle59ca2a2010-07-30 17:04:28 +00003301
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003302- The pdb command "longlist" has been added. It displays the whole source code
3303 for the current function.
Georg Brandle59ca2a2010-07-30 17:04:28 +00003304
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003305- Issue #1503502: Make pdb.Pdb easier to subclass by putting message and error
3306 output into methods.
Georg Brandle59ca2a2010-07-30 17:04:28 +00003307
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003308- Issue #809887: Make the output of pdb's breakpoint deletions more consistent;
3309 emit a message when a breakpoint is enabled or disabled.
Georg Brandl7410dd12010-07-30 12:01:20 +00003310
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003311- Issue #5294: Fix the behavior of pdb's "continue" command when called in the
3312 top-level debugged frame.
Georg Brandl3f940892010-07-30 10:29:19 +00003313
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003314- Issue #5727: Restore the ability to use readline when calling into pdb in
3315 doctests.
Georg Brandld72e0432010-07-30 09:59:28 +00003316
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003317- Issue #6719: In pdb, do not stop somewhere in the encodings machinery if the
3318 source file to be debugged is in a non-builtin encoding.
Georg Brandl34cc0f52010-07-30 09:43:00 +00003319
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003320- Issue #8048: Prevent doctests from failing when sys.displayhook has been
3321 reassigned.
Georg Brandl25fbb892010-07-30 09:23:23 +00003322
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003323- Issue #8015: In pdb, do not crash when an empty line is entered as a
3324 breakpoint command.
Georg Brandl44f8bf92010-07-30 08:54:49 +00003325
Georg Brandl2dfec552010-07-30 08:43:32 +00003326- In pdb, allow giving a line number to the "until" command.
3327
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003328- Issue #1437051: For pdb, allow "continue" and related commands in .pdbrc
3329 files. Also, add a command-line option "-c" that runs a command as if given
3330 in .pdbrc.
Georg Brandle0230912010-07-30 08:29:39 +00003331
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003332- Issue #4179: In pdb, allow "list ." as a command to return to the currently
3333 debugged line.
Georg Brandla91a94b2010-07-30 07:14:01 +00003334
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00003335- Issue #4108: In urllib.robotparser, if there are multiple ``User-agent: *``
Georg Brandl0a0fc072010-07-29 17:55:01 +00003336 entries, consider the first one.
3337
Georg Brandl056cb932010-07-29 17:16:10 +00003338- Issue #6630: Allow customizing regex flags when subclassing the
3339 string.Template class.
3340
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003341- Issue #9411: Allow specifying an encoding for config files in the configparser
3342 module.
Georg Brandl8dcaa732010-07-29 12:17:40 +00003343
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003344- Issue #1682942: Improvements to configparser: support alternate delimiters,
3345 alternate comment prefixes and empty lines in values.
Georg Brandl96a60ae2010-07-28 13:13:46 +00003346
Georg Brandlcbb0ae42010-07-28 08:19:35 +00003347- Issue #9354: Provide getsockopt() in asyncore's file_wrapper.
3348
Victor Stinnercf448832010-07-28 00:15:03 +00003349- Issue #8966: ctypes: Remove implicit bytes-unicode conversion.
3350
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003351- Issue #9378: python -m pickle <pickle file> will now load and display the
3352 first object in the pickle file.
Alexander Belopolsky455f7bd2010-07-27 23:02:38 +00003353
Florent Xiclunaf1046ca2010-07-27 21:20:15 +00003354- Issue #4770: Restrict binascii module to accept only bytes (as specified).
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003355 And fix the email package to encode to ASCII instead of ``raw-unicode-escape``
3356 before ASCII-to-binary decoding.
Florent Xiclunaf1046ca2010-07-27 21:20:15 +00003357
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003358- Issue #9384: ``python -m tkinter`` will now display a simple demo applet.
Alexander Belopolskyc02cc272010-07-27 14:16:32 +00003359
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003360- The default size of the re module's compiled regular expression cache has been
3361 increased from 100 to 500 and the cache replacement policy has changed from
Antoine Pitrou3060c452010-08-13 16:27:38 +00003362 simply clearing the entire cache on overflow to forgetting the least recently
3363 used cached compiled regular expressions. This is a performance win for
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003364 applications that use a lot of regular expressions and limits the impact of
3365 the performance hit anytime the cache is exceeded.
Gregory P. Smith5a631832010-07-27 05:31:29 +00003366
Brian Curtin0f0c3322010-07-26 02:36:32 +00003367- Issue #7113: Speed up loading in configparser. Patch by Łukasz Langa.
3368
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003369- Issue #9032: XML-RPC client retries the request on EPIPE error. The EPIPE
Victor Stinner756f5472010-07-24 02:24:55 +00003370 error occurs when the server closes the socket and the client sends a big
3371 XML-RPC request.
3372
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003373- Issue #4629: getopt raises an error if an argument ends with "=", whereas
3374 getopt doesn't accept a value (eg. --help= is rejected if getopt uses
3375 ['help='] long options).
Victor Stinnereccc5fa2010-07-24 00:49:20 +00003376
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003377- Issue #7989: Added pure python implementation of the `datetime` module. The C
3378 module is renamed to `_datetime` and if available, overrides all classes
3379 defined in datetime with fast C impementation. Python implementation is based
3380 on the original python prototype for the datetime module by Tim Peters with
3381 minor modifications by the PyPy project. The test suite now tests `datetime`
3382 module with and without `_datetime` acceleration using the same test cases.
Alexander Belopolskycf86e362010-07-23 19:25:47 +00003383
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003384- Issue #7895: platform.mac_ver() no longer crashes after calling os.fork().
Ronald Oussorene186e382010-07-23 11:54:59 +00003385
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003386- Issue #9323: Fixed a bug in trace.py that resulted in loosing the name of the
3387 script being traced. Patch by Eli Bendersky.
Alexander Belopolsky3f8ecab2010-07-21 17:43:42 +00003388
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003389- Issue #9282: Fixed --listfuncs option of trace.py. Thanks Eli Bendersky for
3390 the patch.
Alexander Belopolsky533a1672010-07-20 19:55:18 +00003391
Gregory P. Smith41e6c3d2010-07-19 23:17:22 +00003392- Issue #3704: http.cookiejar was not properly handling URLs with a / in the
3393 parameters.
3394
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003395- Issue #9268: ``pickletools.dis()`` now has an optional *annotate* argument
3396 which controls printing of opcode descriptions in ``dis()`` output.
Alexander Belopolsky929d3842010-07-17 15:51:21 +00003397
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003398- Issue #1555570: email no longer inserts extra blank lines when a \r\n combo
3399 crosses an 8192 byte boundary.
R. David Murray45bf773f2010-07-17 01:19:57 +00003400
Victor Stinnere9ebde42010-07-13 23:04:56 +00003401- Issue #9243: Fix sndhdr module and add unit tests, contributed by James Lee.
3402
Benjamin Peterson5ef96e52010-07-11 23:06:06 +00003403- ``ast.literal_eval()`` now allows byte literals.
3404
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003405- Issue #9137: Fix issue in MutableMapping.update, which incorrectly treated
3406 keyword arguments called 'self' or 'other' specially.
Mark Dickinsonb214e902010-07-11 18:53:06 +00003407
Georg Brandl492f3fc2010-07-11 09:41:21 +00003408- ``ast.literal_eval()`` now allows set literals.
3409
3410- Issue #9164: Ensure that sysconfig handles duplicate -arch flags in CFLAGS.
Ronald Oussorend3950522010-07-11 09:05:07 +00003411
R. David Murrayea340a32010-07-09 12:23:21 +00003412- Issue #7646: The fnmatch pattern cache no longer grows without bound.
3413
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003414- Issue #9136: Fix 'dictionary changed size during iteration' RuntimeError
3415 produced when profiling the decimal module. This was due to a dangerous
3416 iteration over 'locals()' in Context.__init__.
Mark Dickinson0dd8f782010-07-08 21:15:36 +00003417
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003418- Fix extreme speed issue in Decimal.pow when the base is an exact power of 10
3419 and the exponent is tiny (for example, ``Decimal(10) **
3420 Decimal('1e-999999999')``).
Mark Dickinsona1236312010-07-08 19:03:34 +00003421
Mark Dickinsonbe64d952010-07-07 16:21:29 +00003422- Issue #9186: Fix math.log1p(-1.0) to raise ValueError, not OverflowError.
3423
Mark Dickinson2cc8a5e2010-07-04 18:11:51 +00003424- Issue #9130: Fix validation of relative imports in parser module.
3425
Mark Dickinson2bd61a92010-07-04 16:37:31 +00003426- Issue #9128: Fix validation of class decorators in parser module.
3427
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003428- Issue #9094: python -m pickletools will now disassemble pickle files listed in
3429 the command line arguments. See output of python -m pickletools -h for more
3430 details.
Alexander Belopolsky60c762b2010-07-03 20:35:53 +00003431
Senthil Kumarandf022da2010-07-03 17:48:22 +00003432- Issue #5468: urlencode to handle bytes type and other encodings in its query
3433 parameter. Patch by Dan Mahn.
3434
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003435- Issue #7673: Fix security vulnerability (CVE-2010-2089) in the audioop module,
3436 ensure that the input string length is a multiple of the frame size.
Victor Stinnerbc5c54b2010-07-03 13:44:22 +00003437
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003438- Issue #6507: Accept source strings in dis.dis(). Original patch by Daniel
3439 Urban.
Nick Coghlan5c8b54e2010-07-03 07:36:51 +00003440
Brett Cannon8315fd12010-07-02 22:03:00 +00003441- Issue #7829: Clearly document that the dis module is exposing an
3442 implementation detail that is not stable between Python VMs or releases.
3443
Victor Stinnerbc5c54b2010-07-03 13:44:22 +00003444- Issue #6589: cleanup asyncore.socket_map in case smtpd.SMTPServer constructor
Giampaolo Rodolà610aa4f2010-06-30 17:47:39 +00003445 raises an exception.
3446
Michael Foordb3a89842010-06-30 12:17:50 +00003447- Issue #9110: Addition of ContextDecorator to contextlib, for creating APIs
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003448 that act as both context managers and decorators. contextmanager changes to
3449 use ContextDecorator.
Michael Foordb3a89842010-06-30 12:17:50 +00003450
Brett Cannonf23e3742010-06-27 23:57:46 +00003451- Implement importlib.abc.SourceLoader and deprecate PyLoader and PyPycLoader
3452 for removal in Python 3.4.
3453
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003454- Issue #9064: pdb's "up" and "down" commands now accept an optional argument
3455 giving the number of frames to go.
Georg Brandleb1f4aa2010-06-27 10:37:48 +00003456
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003457- Issue #9018: os.path.normcase() now raises a TypeError if the argument is not
3458 ``str`` or ``bytes``.
Ezio Melotti5a3ef5b2010-06-25 10:56:11 +00003459
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003460- Issue #9075: In the ssl module, remove the setting of a ``debug`` flag on an
3461 OpenSSL structure.
Antoine Pitrou6186bfb2010-06-25 00:07:34 +00003462
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003463- Issue #8682: The ssl module now temporary increments the reference count of a
3464 socket object got through ``PyWeakref_GetObject``, so as to avoid possible
Antoine Pitrou8bae4ec2010-06-24 22:34:04 +00003465 deallocation while the object is still being used.
3466
Senthil Kumaran80f1b052010-06-18 15:08:18 +00003467- Issue #1368368: FancyURLOpener class changed to throw an Exception on wrong
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003468 password instead of presenting an interactive prompt. Older behavior can be
Senthil Kumaran80f1b052010-06-18 15:08:18 +00003469 obtained by passing retry=True to http_error_xxx methods of FancyURLOpener.
3470
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003471- Issue #8720: Fix regression caused by fix for #4050 by making getsourcefile
R. David Murraya1b37402010-06-17 02:04:29 +00003472 smart enough to find source files in the linecache.
3473
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003474- Issue #5610: feedparser no longer eats extra characters at the end of a body
3475 part if the body part ends with a ``\r\n``.
R. David Murray45e0e142010-06-16 02:19:40 +00003476
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003477- Issue #8986: math.erfc was incorrectly raising OverflowError for values
3478 between -27.3 and -30.0 on some platforms.
Mark Dickinsonbcdf9da2010-06-13 10:52:38 +00003479
Victor Stinner0f35e2c2010-06-11 23:46:47 +00003480- Issue #8784: Set tarfile default encoding to 'utf-8' on Windows.
3481
Victor Stinnerda0eca42010-06-11 21:50:30 +00003482- Issue #8966: If a ctypes structure field is an array of c_char, convert its
3483 value to bytes instead of str (as done for c_char and c_char_p).
3484
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003485- Issue #8188: Comparisons between Decimal and Fraction objects are now
3486 permitted, returning a result based on the exact numerical values of the
3487 operands. This builds on issue #2531, which allowed Decimal-to-float
3488 comparisons; all comparisons involving numeric types (bool, int, float,
3489 complex, Decimal, Fraction) should now act as expected.
Mark Dickinson08ade6f2010-06-11 10:44:52 +00003490
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003491- Issue #8897: Fix sunau module, use bytes to write the header. Patch written by
3492 Thomas Jollans.
Victor Stinner7f3652e2010-06-07 20:14:04 +00003493
Raymond Hettinger48f3bd32010-12-16 00:30:53 +00003494- Issue #8899: time.struct_time now has class and attribute docstrings.
Alexander Belopolsky69f3fd02010-06-05 15:04:51 +00003495
Martin v. Löwis2d5157e2010-06-04 19:50:26 +00003496- Issue #6470: Drop UNC prefix in FixTk.
3497
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003498- Issue #4768: base64 encoded email body parts were incorrectly stored as binary
3499 strings. They are now correctly converted to strings.
R. David Murray7da8f062010-06-04 16:11:08 +00003500
Lars Gustäbel2470ff12010-06-03 10:11:52 +00003501- Issue #8833: tarfile created hard link entries with a size field != 0 by
3502 mistake.
3503
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003504- Charset.body_encode now correctly handles base64 encoding by encoding with the
3505 output_charset before calling base64mime.encode. Passes the tests from 2.x
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00003506 issue #1368247.
R. David Murray850fc852010-06-03 01:58:28 +00003507
R. David Murrayd35251d2010-06-01 01:32:12 +00003508- Issue #8845: sqlite3 Connection objects now have a read-only in_transaction
3509 attribute that is True iff there are uncommitted changes.
3510
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003511- Issue #1289118: datetime.timedelta objects can now be multiplied by float and
3512 divided by float and int objects. Results are rounded to the nearest multiple
3513 of timedelta.resolution with ties resolved using round-half-to-even method.
Alexander Belopolsky1790bc42010-05-31 17:33:47 +00003514
Alexander Belopolskyf03a6162010-05-27 21:42:58 +00003515- Issue #7150: Raise OverflowError if the result of adding or subtracting
3516 timedelta from date or datetime falls outside of the MINYEAR:MAXYEAR range.
3517
Giampaolo Rodolàa67299e2010-05-26 18:06:04 +00003518- Issue #8806: add SSL contexts support to ftplib.
3519
Victor Stinner479736b2010-05-25 21:12:34 +00003520- Issue #4769: Fix main() function of the base64 module, use sys.stdin.buffer
3521 and sys.stdout.buffer (instead of sys.stdin and sys.stdout) to use the bytes
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003522 API.
Victor Stinner479736b2010-05-25 21:12:34 +00003523
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003524- Issue #8770: Now sysconfig displays information when it's called as a script.
3525 Initial idea by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
Tarek Ziadéa7514992010-05-25 09:44:36 +00003526
Victor Stinnere021f4b2010-05-24 21:46:25 +00003527- Issue #6662: Fix parsing of malformatted charref (&#bad;), patch written by
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003528 Fredrik Håård.
Victor Stinnere021f4b2010-05-24 21:46:25 +00003529
Mark Dickinsonb1d8e322010-05-22 18:35:36 +00003530- Issue #8540: Decimal module: rename the Context._clamp attribute to
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003531 Context.clamp and make it public. This is useful in creating contexts that
3532 correspond to the decimal interchange formats specified in IEEE 754.
Mark Dickinsonb1d8e322010-05-22 18:35:36 +00003533
Victor Stinnera92ad7e2010-05-22 16:59:09 +00003534- Issue #6268: Fix seek() method of codecs.open(), don't read or write the BOM
3535 twice after seek(0). Fix also reset() method of codecs, UTF-16, UTF-32 and
3536 StreamWriter classes.
Victor Stinner3fed0872010-05-22 02:16:27 +00003537
Victor Stinner7126dbc2010-05-21 23:45:42 +00003538- Issue #3798: sys.exit(message) writes the message to sys.stderr file, instead
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003539 of the C file stderr, to use stderr encoding and error handler.
Victor Stinner7126dbc2010-05-21 23:45:42 +00003540
Benjamin Petersonaada7b82010-05-21 21:45:06 +00003541- Issue #8782: Add a trailing newline in linecache.updatecache to the last line
3542 of files without one.
3543
Benjamin Peterson4ad6bd52010-05-21 20:55:22 +00003544- Issue #8729: Return NotImplemented from collections.Mapping.__eq__ when
3545 comparing to a non-mapping.
3546
Victor Stinnerf0feec22010-05-21 10:52:08 +00003547- Issue #8774: tabnanny uses the encoding cookie (#coding:...) to use the
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003548 correct encoding.
Victor Stinnerf0feec22010-05-21 10:52:08 +00003549
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003550- Issue #4870: Add an `options` attribute to SSL contexts, as well as several
3551 ``OP_*`` constants to the `ssl` module. This allows to selectively disable
3552 protocol versions, when used in combination with `PROTOCOL_SSLv23`.
Antoine Pitroub5218772010-05-21 09:56:06 +00003553
Tarek Ziadé06710a82010-05-19 22:25:00 +00003554- Issue #8759: Fixed user paths in sysconfig for posix and os2 schemes.
3555
Victor Stinner2ca03c12010-05-19 17:00:07 +00003556- Issue #8663: distutils.log emulates backslashreplace error handler. Fix
3557 compilation in a non-ASCII directory if stdout encoding is ASCII (eg. if
3558 stdout is not a TTY).
3559
Victor Stinnerb745a742010-05-18 17:17:23 +00003560- Issue #8513: os.get_exec_path() supports b'PATH' key and bytes value.
3561 subprocess.Popen() and os._execvpe() support bytes program name. Add
3562 os.supports_bytes_environ flag: True if the native OS type of the environment
3563 is bytes (eg. False on Windows).
3564
Lars Gustäbel1465cc22010-05-17 18:02:50 +00003565- Issue #8633: tarfile is now able to read and write archives with "raw" binary
3566 pax headers as described in POSIX.1-2008.
3567
Florent Xiclunac7b8e862010-05-17 17:33:07 +00003568- Issue #1285086: Speed up urllib.parse functions: quote, quote_from_bytes,
3569 unquote, unquote_to_bytes.
3570
Tarek Ziadéc16a85c2010-05-17 10:38:53 +00003571- Issue #8688: Distutils now recalculates MANIFEST everytime.
3572
Victor Stinnerf9faaad2010-05-16 21:36:37 +00003573- Issue #8477: ssl.RAND_egd() and ssl._test_decode_cert() support str with
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003574 surrogates and bytes for the filename.
Victor Stinner3800e1e2010-05-16 21:23:48 +00003575
Antoine Pitrou152efa22010-05-16 18:19:27 +00003576- Issue #8550: Add first class ``SSLContext`` objects to the ssl module.
3577
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003578- Issue #8681: Make the zlib module's error messages more informative when the
3579 zlib itself doesn't give any detailed explanation.
Antoine Pitrou53b21662010-05-11 23:46:02 +00003580
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003581- The audioop module now supports sound fragments of length greater than 2**31
3582 bytes on 64-bit machines, and is PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN.
Mark Dickinson81fece22010-05-11 13:34:35 +00003583
Giampaolo Rodolàbd576b72010-05-10 14:53:29 +00003584- Issue #4972: Add support for the context manager protocol to the ftplib.FTP
3585 class.
3586
Benjamin Petersone87c0fc2010-05-08 19:52:49 +00003587- Issue #8664: In py_compile, create __pycache__ when the compiled path is
3588 given.
3589
Victor Stinner449c4662010-05-08 11:10:09 +00003590- Issue #8514: Add os.fsencode() function (Unix only): encode a string to bytes
3591 for use in the file system, environment variables or the command line.
3592
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003593- Issue #8571: Fix an internal error when compressing or decompressing a chunk
3594 larger than 1GB with the zlib module's compressor and decompressor objects.
Antoine Pitrou89562712010-05-07 17:04:02 +00003595
Benjamin Peterson225168e2010-05-06 22:29:53 +00003596- Issue #8603: Support bytes environmental variables on Unix: Add os.environb
3597 mapping and os.getenvb() function. os.unsetenv() encodes str argument to the
3598 file system encoding with the surrogateescape error handler (instead of
3599 utf8/strict) and accepts bytes. posix.environ keys and values are now bytes.
Victor Stinner84ae1182010-05-06 22:05:07 +00003600
Giampaolo Rodolà8d2dc852010-05-06 18:06:30 +00003601- Issue #8573: asyncore _strerror() function might throw ValueError.
3602
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003603- Issue #8483: asyncore.dispatcher's __getattr__ method produced confusing error
3604 messages when accessing undefined class attributes because of the cheap
3605 inheritance with the underlying socket object. The cheap inheritance has been
3606 deprecated.
Giampaolo Rodolà8d2dc852010-05-06 18:06:30 +00003607
Tarek Ziadéae4d5c62010-05-05 22:27:31 +00003608- Issue #4265: shutil.copyfile() was leaking file descriptors when disk fills.
3609 Patch by Tres Seaver.
3610
Victor Stinnerd17f2192010-08-15 09:56:07 +00003611- Issue #8390: tarfile uses surrogateescape as the default error handler
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003612 (instead of replace in read mode or strict in write mode).
Victor Stinnerde629d42010-05-05 21:43:57 +00003613
Barry Warsaw83d89982010-05-05 16:18:31 +00003614- Issue #7755: Use an unencumbered audio file for tests.
3615
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003616- Issue #8621: uuid.uuid4() returned the same sequence of values in the parent
3617 and any children created using ``os.fork`` on MacOS X 10.6.
Ronald Oussorenac764d32010-05-05 15:32:33 +00003618
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003619- Issue #8567: Fix precedence of signals in Decimal module: when a Decimal
3620 operation raises multiple signals and more than one of those signals is
3621 trapped, the specification determines the order in which the signals should be
3622 handled. In many cases this order wasn't being followed, leading to the wrong
3623 Python exception being raised.
Mark Dickinsonc69160e2010-05-04 14:35:33 +00003624
Antoine Pitrou6be88762010-05-03 16:48:20 +00003625- Issue #7865: The close() method of :mod:`io` objects should not swallow
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003626 exceptions raised by the implicit flush(). Also qensure that calling close()
3627 several times is supported. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
Antoine Pitrou6be88762010-05-03 16:48:20 +00003628
Antoine Pitrou6e20a1b2010-05-02 19:59:47 +00003629- Issue #4687: Fix accuracy of garbage collection runtimes displayed with
3630 gc.DEBUG_STATS.
3631
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003632- Issue #8354: The siginterrupt setting is now preserved for all signals, not
3633 just SIGCHLD.
Jean-Paul Calderone6f137ca2010-05-09 03:18:57 +00003634
Georg Brandl25106ce2010-05-21 21:49:47 +00003635- Issue #7192: webbrowser.get("firefox") now works on Mac OS X, as does
Ronald Oussoren4d39f6e2010-05-02 09:54:35 +00003636 webbrowser.get("safari").
3637
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003638- Issue #8464: tarfile no longer creates files with execute permissions set when
3639 mode="w|" is used.
Lars Gustäbeld6eb70b2010-04-29 15:37:02 +00003640
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003641- Issue #7834: Fix connect() of Bluetooth L2CAP sockets with recent versions of
3642 the Linux kernel. Patch by Yaniv Aknin.
Antoine Pitroubf043492010-04-29 10:11:46 +00003643
Tarek Ziadé6ac91722010-04-28 17:51:36 +00003644- Issue #8295: Added shutil.unpack_archive.
3645
Senthil Kumaran71fb6c82010-04-28 17:39:48 +00003646- Issue #6312: Fixed http HEAD request when the transfer encoding is chunked.
3647 It should correctly return an empty response now.
3648
Benjamin Peterson95e392c2010-04-27 21:07:21 +00003649- Issue #8546: Reject None given as the buffering argument to _pyio.open.
3650
Antoine Pitrou06e34a92010-04-27 19:14:15 +00003651- Issue #8549: Fix compiling the _ssl extension under AIX. Patch by
3652 Sridhar Ratnakumar.
3653
R. David Murrayad78d152010-04-27 02:45:53 +00003654- Issue #6656: fix locale.format_string to handle escaped percents
3655 and mappings.
3656
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003657- Issue #2302: Fix a race condition in SocketServer.BaseServer.shutdown, where
3658 the method could block indefinitely if called just before the event loop
3659 started running. This also fixes the occasional freezes witnessed in
3660 test_httpservers.
Antoine Pitrou3bcba8e2010-04-25 22:01:43 +00003661
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003662- Issue #8524: When creating an SSL socket, the timeout value of the original
3663 socket wasn't retained (instead, a socket with a positive timeout would be
3664 turned into a non-blocking SSL socket).
Antoine Pitrou40f08742010-04-24 22:04:40 +00003665
Antoine Pitroud3f8ab82010-04-24 21:26:44 +00003666- Issue #5103: SSL handshake would ignore the socket timeout and block
3667 indefinitely if the other end didn't respond.
3668
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003669- The do_handshake() method of SSL objects now adjusts the blocking mode of the
3670 SSL structure if necessary (as other methods already do).
Antoine Pitroud3f8ab82010-04-24 21:26:44 +00003671
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003672- Issue #8391: os.execvpe() and os.getenv() supports unicode with surrogates and
3673 bytes strings for environment keys and values.
Victor Stinner13bb71c2010-04-23 21:41:56 +00003674
Victor Stinner4d078042010-04-23 19:28:32 +00003675- Issue #8467: Pure Python implementation of subprocess encodes the error
3676 message using surrogatepass error handler to support surrogates in the
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003677 message.
Victor Stinner4d078042010-04-23 19:28:32 +00003678
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003679- Issue #8468: bz2.BZ2File() accepts str with surrogates and bytes filenames.
Victor Stinner349fd522010-04-23 10:56:17 +00003680
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003681- Issue #8451: Syslog module now uses basename(sys.argv[0]) instead of the
3682 string "python" as the *ident*. openlog() arguments are all optional and
3683 keywords.
Sean Reifscheider13daf122010-04-23 09:29:52 +00003684
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003685- Issue #8108: Fix the unwrap() method of SSL objects when the socket has a
3686 non-infinite timeout. Also make that method friendlier with applications
Antoine Pitrou2c4f98b2010-04-23 00:16:21 +00003687 wanting to continue using the socket in clear-text mode, by disabling
3688 OpenSSL's internal readahead. Thanks to Darryl Miles for guidance.
3689
Antoine Pitrou7062db82010-04-22 13:30:10 +00003690- Issue #8496: make mailcap.lookup() always return a list, rather than an
3691 iterator. Patch by Gregory Nofi.
3692
Victor Stinner35466c52010-04-22 11:23:23 +00003693- Issue #8195: Fix a crash in sqlite Connection.create_collation() if the
3694 collation name contains a surrogate character.
3695
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003696- Issue #8484: Load all ciphers and digest algorithms when initializing the _ssl
3697 extension, such that verification of some SSL certificates doesn't fail
3698 because of an "unknown algorithm".
Antoine Pitroufec12ff2010-04-21 19:46:23 +00003699
Tarek Ziadéfb437512010-04-20 08:57:33 +00003700- Issue #6547: Added the ignore_dangling_symlinks option to shutil.copytree.
3701
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003702- Issue #1540112: Now allowing the choice of a copy function in shutil.copytree.
Tarek Ziadé5340db32010-04-19 22:30:51 +00003703
Giampaolo Rodolà5fb313b2010-04-19 22:05:54 +00003704- Issue #4814: timeout parameter is now applied also for connections resulting
3705 from PORT/EPRT commands.
3706
Tarek Ziadé10a51af2010-04-19 21:31:42 +00003707- Issue #8463: added missing reference to bztar in shutil's documentation.
3708
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003709- Issue #7154: urllib.request can now detect the proxy settings on OSX 10.6 (as
3710 long as the user didn't specify 'automatic proxy configuration').
Ronald Oussoren84151202010-04-18 20:46:11 +00003711
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003712- Issue #3817: ftplib.FTP.abort() method now considers 225 a valid response code
3713 as stated in RFC-959 at chapter 5.4.
Giampaolo Rodolàceb513a2010-04-18 13:36:35 +00003714
Victor Stinner738446f02010-04-18 00:00:44 +00003715- Issue #8394: _ctypes.dlopen() accepts bytes, bytearray and str with
3716 surrogates.
3717
Antoine Pitrou0454af92010-04-17 23:51:58 +00003718- Issue #850728: Add a *timeout* parameter to the `acquire()` method of
Antoine Pitroua7ecfe72010-04-17 23:52:21 +00003719 `threading.Semaphore` objects. Original patch by Torsten Landschoff.
Antoine Pitrou0454af92010-04-17 23:51:58 +00003720
Antoine Pitrou2d9cb9c2010-04-17 17:40:45 +00003721- Issue #8322: Add a *ciphers* argument to SSL sockets, so as to change the
3722 available cipher list. Helps fix test_ssl with OpenSSL 1.0.0.
3723
Victor Stinner0e59cc32010-04-16 23:49:32 +00003724- Issue #8393: subprocess accepts bytes, bytearray and str with surrogates for
3725 the current working directory.
3726
Victor Stinner5bfe1462010-04-16 13:28:05 +00003727- Issue #7606: XML-RPC traceback stored in X-traceback is now encoded to ASCII
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003728 using backslashreplace error handler.
Victor Stinner5bfe1462010-04-16 13:28:05 +00003729
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003730- Issue #8412: os.system() now accepts bytes, bytearray and str with surrogates.
Victor Stinnercfa72782010-04-16 11:45:13 +00003731
Senthil Kumaranad02d232010-04-16 03:02:13 +00003732- Issue #2987: RFC2732 support for urlparse (IPv6 addresses). Patch by Tony
3733 Locke and Hans Ulrich Niedermann.
3734
R. David Murrayd48739f2010-04-14 18:59:18 +00003735- Issue #5277: Fix quote counting when parsing RFC 2231 encoded parameters.
3736
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003737- Issue #7316: The acquire() method of lock objects in the :mod:`threading`
Antoine Pitrou7c3e5772010-04-14 15:44:10 +00003738 module now takes an optional timeout argument in seconds. Timeout support
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003739 relies on the system threading library, so as to avoid a semi-busy wait loop.
Antoine Pitrou7c3e5772010-04-14 15:44:10 +00003740
Victor Stinner485fb562010-04-13 11:07:24 +00003741- Issue #8383: pickle and pickletools use surrogatepass error handler when
3742 encoding unicode as utf8 to support lone surrogates and stay compatible with
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003743 Python 2.x and 3.x.
Victor Stinner485fb562010-04-13 11:07:24 +00003744
R. David Murrayb2416e52010-04-12 16:58:02 +00003745- Issue #7585: difflib context and unified diffs now place a tab between
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003746 filename and date, conforming to the 'standards' they were originally designed
3747 to follow. This improves compatibility with patch tools.
R. David Murrayb2416e52010-04-12 16:58:02 +00003748
R. David Murrayef3d6bd2010-04-12 14:48:58 +00003749- Issue #7472: Fixed typo in email.encoders module; messages using ISO-2022
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003750 character sets will now consistently use a Content-Transfer-Encoding of 7bit
3751 rather than sometimes being marked as 8bit.
R. David Murrayef3d6bd2010-04-12 14:48:58 +00003752
Tarek Ziadé46cd93a2010-04-12 08:23:49 +00003753- Issue #8375: test_distutils now checks if the temporary directory are still
3754 present before it cleans them.
3755
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003756- Issue #8374: Update the internal alias table in the :mod:`locale` module to
3757 cover recent locale changes and additions.
Antoine Pitrou0c70d2d2010-04-11 22:35:34 +00003758
Antoine Pitrou04f6a322010-04-05 21:40:07 +00003759- Issue #8321: Give access to OpenSSL version numbers from the `ssl` module,
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003760 using the new attributes `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION`, `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_INFO` and
3761 `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER`.
Antoine Pitrou04f6a322010-04-05 21:40:07 +00003762
Raymond Hettingerc50846a2010-04-05 18:56:31 +00003763- Add functools.total_ordering() and functools.cmp_to_key().
3764
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003765- Issue #8257: The Decimal construct now accepts a float instance directly,
3766 converting that float to a Decimal of equal value:
Mark Dickinson089b00c2010-04-03 15:51:03 +00003767
3768 >>> Decimal(1.1)
3769 Decimal('1.100000000000000088817841970012523233890533447265625')
3770
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003771- Issue #8294: The Fraction constructor now accepts Decimal and float instances
3772 directly.
Mark Dickinson98127c32010-04-03 11:18:52 +00003773
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003774- Issue #7279: Comparisons involving a Decimal signaling NaN now signal
3775 InvalidOperation instead of returning False. (Comparisons involving a quiet
3776 NaN are unchanged.) Also, Decimal quiet NaNs are now hashable; Decimal
3777 signaling NaNs remain unhashable.
Mark Dickinsonac256ab2010-04-03 11:08:14 +00003778
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003779- Issue #2531: Comparison operations between floats and Decimal instances now
3780 return a result based on the numeric values of the operands; previously they
3781 returned an arbitrary result based on the relative ordering of id(float) and
3782 id(Decimal). See also issue #8188, which adds Decimal-to-Fraction
3783 comparisons.
Mark Dickinsonac256ab2010-04-03 11:08:14 +00003784
Raymond Hettinger9c01e442010-04-03 10:32:58 +00003785- Added a subtract() method to collections.Counter().
3786
Barry Warsawd5f9bf52010-03-31 21:36:22 +00003787- Issue #8233: When run as a script, py_compile.py optionally takes a single
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003788 argument `-` which tells it to read files to compile from stdin. Each line is
3789 read on demand and the named file is compiled immediately. (Original patch by
3790 Piotr Ożarowski).
Barry Warsawd5f9bf52010-03-31 21:36:22 +00003791
Florent Xicluna806d8cf2010-03-30 19:34:18 +00003792- Backwards incompatible change: Unicode codepoints line tabulation (0x0B) and
3793 form feed (0x0C) are now considered linebreaks, as specified in Unicode
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003794 Standard Annex #14. See issue #7643. http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr14/
Florent Xicluna806d8cf2010-03-30 19:34:18 +00003795
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003796- Comparisons using one of <, <=, >, >= between a complex instance and a
3797 Fractions instance now raise TypeError instead of returning True/False. This
3798 makes Fraction <=> complex comparisons consistent with int <=> complex, float
3799 <=> complex, and complex <=> complex comparisons.
Mark Dickinsonab4d63b2010-03-27 11:16:00 +00003800
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003801- Issue #8139: ossaudiodev didn't initialize its types properly, therefore some
3802 methods (such as oss_mixer_device.fileno()) were not available. Initial patch
3803 by Bertrand Janin.
Antoine Pitrou39b35432010-03-23 00:25:54 +00003804
Florent Xiclunafd1b0932010-03-28 00:25:02 +00003805- Issue #8205: Remove the "Modules" directory from sys.path when Python is
3806 running from the build directory (POSIX only).
3807
Antoine Pitrou910bd512010-03-22 20:11:09 +00003808- Issue #7512: shutil.copystat() could raise an OSError when the filesystem
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003809 didn't support chflags() (for example ZFS under FreeBSD). The error is now
3810 silenced.
Antoine Pitrou910bd512010-03-22 20:11:09 +00003811
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003812- Issue #7860: platform.uname now reports the correct 'machine' type when Python
3813 is running in WOW64 mode on 64 bit Windows.
R. David Murrayca2edce2010-03-22 17:48:48 +00003814
Antoine Pitrou3c0fac22010-03-26 19:36:14 +00003815- Issue #3890, #8222: Fix recv() and recv_into() on non-blocking SSL sockets.
3816 Also, enable the SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY flag on SSL sockets, so that blocking
3817 reads and writes are always retried by OpenSSL itself.
Antoine Pitrou5733c082010-03-22 14:49:10 +00003818
Victor Stinnere3a1f6d2010-03-22 01:58:35 +00003819- Issue #4282: Fix the main function of the profile module for a non-ASCII
3820 script, open the file in binary mode and not in text mode with the default
3821 (utf8) encoding.
3822
Florent Xicluna54467e02010-03-21 12:29:50 +00003823- Issue #8179: Fix macpath.realpath() on a non-existing path.
3824
Florent Xiclunafaa663f2010-03-19 13:37:08 +00003825- Issue #8024: Update the Unicode database to 5.2.
3826
Benjamin Peterson00888932010-03-18 22:37:38 +00003827- Issue #8168: py_compile now handles files with utf-8 BOMS.
3828
Benjamin Peterson689a5582010-03-18 22:29:52 +00003829- ``tokenize.detect_encoding`` now returns ``'utf-8-sig'`` when a UTF-8 BOM is
3830 detected.
3831
Martin v. Löwis4b003072010-03-16 13:19:21 +00003832- Issue #6716/2: Backslash-replace error output in compilall.
3833
Matthias Klosea6d9abf2010-03-16 10:51:28 +00003834- Issue #4961: Inconsistent/wrong result of askyesno function in tkMessageBox
3835 with Tcl/Tk-8.5.
3836
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003837- Issue #8140: extend compileall to compile single files. Add -i option.
Matthias Klosec33b9022010-03-16 00:36:26 +00003838
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003839- Issue #7356: ctypes.util: Make parsing of ldconfig output independent of the
3840 locale.
Matthias Klose82f60912010-03-15 13:46:04 +00003841
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003842- The internals of the subprocess module on POSIX systems have been replaced by
3843 an extension module (_posixsubprocess) so that the fork()+exec() can be done
3844 safely without the possibility of deadlock in multithreaded applications.
Gregory P. Smitha31f57c2010-03-14 06:52:18 +00003845
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003846- subprocess.Popen now has restore_signals and start_new_session features. The
3847 default of restore_signals=True is a new behavior compared to earlier Python
3848 versions. This means that signals such as SIGPIPE are not ignored by default
3849 in subprocesses launched by Python (Issue #1652).
Gregory P. Smith580d60c2010-03-14 07:13:25 +00003850
Florent Xiclunaf15351d2010-03-13 23:24:31 +00003851- Issue #6472: The xml.etree package is updated to ElementTree 1.3. The
3852 cElementTree module is updated too.
3853
Victor Stinnerb33062c2010-03-12 14:27:16 +00003854- Issue #7774: Set sys.executable to an empty string if argv[0] has been set to
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003855 an non existent program name and Python is unable to retrieve the real program
3856 name.
Victor Stinnerb33062c2010-03-12 14:27:16 +00003857
Florent Xiclunaa4707382010-03-11 00:05:17 +00003858- Issue #7880: Fix sysconfig when the python executable is a symbolic link.
3859
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003860- Issue #6509: fix re.sub to work properly when the pattern, the string, and the
3861 replacement were all bytes. Patch by Antoine Pitrou.
Ezio Melottib92ed7c2010-03-06 15:24:08 +00003862
Gerhard Häringf9cee222010-03-05 15:20:03 +00003863- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.6.0. This fixes several obscure
3864 bugs and allows loading SQLite extensions from shared libraries.
3865
Ezio Melottida227042010-03-14 11:51:00 +00003866- Issue #1054943: Fix ``unicodedata.normalize('NFC', text)`` for the Public
3867 Review Issue #29 (http://unicode.org/review/pr-29.html).
Victor Stinner7ed9c4c2010-03-04 12:14:57 +00003868
Victor Stinnercee3ae82010-03-04 00:29:24 +00003869- Issue #7494: fix a crash in _lsprof (cProfile) after clearing the profiler,
3870 reset also the pointer to the current pointer context.
3871
Lars Gustäbel01385812010-03-03 12:08:54 +00003872- Issue #7232: Add support for the context manager protocol to the TarFile
3873 class.
3874
Barry Warsawb1938262010-03-01 21:53:00 +00003875- Issue #7250: Fix info leak of os.environ across multi-run uses of
3876 wsgiref.handlers.CGIHandler.
3877
Florent Xicluna59250852010-02-27 14:21:57 +00003878- Issue #1729305: Fix doctest to handle encode error with "backslashreplace".
3879
Florent Xiclunac279ebf2010-02-27 11:31:21 +00003880- Issue #691291: codecs.open() should not convert end of lines on reading and
3881 writing.
3882
Vinay Sajipdb81c4c2010-02-25 23:13:06 +00003883- Issue #7869: logging: improved diagnostic for format-time errors.
3884
3885- Issue #7868: logging: added loggerClass attribute to Manager.
3886
3887- logging: Implemented PEP 391.
3888
R. David Murraybe0698b2010-02-23 22:57:58 +00003889- Issue #1537721: Add a writeheader() method to csv.DictWriter.
3890
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003891- Issue #7959: ctypes callback functions are now registered correctly with the
3892 cycle garbage collector.
Thomas Heller5117b0b2010-02-23 20:25:02 +00003893
Tarek Ziadé8e615ae2010-02-23 06:00:04 +00003894- Issue #5801: removed spurious empty lines in wsgiref.
3895
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003896- Issue #6666: fix bug in trace.py that applied the list of directories to be
3897 ignored only to the first file. Noted by Bogdan Opanchuk.
Andrew M. Kuchlinge1f9beb2010-02-22 22:16:58 +00003898
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003899- Issue #7597: curses.use_env() can now be called before initscr(). Noted by
3900 Kan-Ru Chen.
Andrew M. Kuchlingfbacb062010-02-22 16:52:52 +00003901
Ezio Melotti19e4acf2010-02-22 15:59:01 +00003902- Issue #7310: fix the __repr__ of os.environ to show the environment variables.
3903
R. David Murray57c45ac2010-02-21 04:39:40 +00003904- Issue #7970: email.Generator.flatten now correctly flattens message/rfc822
3905 messages parsed by email.Parser.HeaderParser.
3906
Brett Cannonef7d6722010-02-19 16:04:36 +00003907- Issue #7361: Importlib was not properly checking the number of bytes in
3908 bytecode file when it was less then 8 bytes.
3909
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003910- Issue #7633: In the decimal module, Context class methods (with the exception
3911 of canonical and is_canonical) now accept instances of int and long wherever a
3912 Decimal instance is accepted, and implicitly convert that argument to Decimal.
3913 Previously only some arguments were converted.
Mark Dickinson84230a12010-02-18 14:49:50 +00003914
R. David Murray1f449142010-02-11 00:15:05 +00003915- Issue #7835: shelve should no longer produce mysterious warnings during
3916 interpreter shutdown.
3917
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003918- Issue #2746: Don't escape ampersands and angle brackets ("&", "<", ">") in XML
3919 processing instructions and comments. These raw characters are allowed by the
3920 XML specification, and are necessary when outputting e.g. PHP code in a
3921 processing instruction. Patch by Neil Muller.
Antoine Pitrou99f69ee2010-02-09 17:25:47 +00003922
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003923- Issue #6233: ElementTree failed converting unicode characters to XML entities
3924 when they could't be represented in the requested output encoding. Patch by
3925 Jerry Chen.
Antoine Pitrouc77dd322010-02-09 16:51:16 +00003926
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003927- Issue #6003: add an argument to ``zipfile.Zipfile.writestr`` to specify the
3928 compression type.
Ronald Oussorenee5c8852010-02-07 20:24:02 +00003929
Antoine Pitroub6375f12010-02-04 20:23:24 +00003930- Issue #4772: Raise a ValueError when an unknown Bluetooth protocol is
3931 specified, rather than fall through to AF_PACKET (in the `socket` module).
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003932 Also, raise ValueError rather than TypeError when an unknown TIPC address type
3933 is specified. Patch by Brian Curtin.
Antoine Pitroub6375f12010-02-04 20:23:24 +00003934
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003935- Issue #6939: Fix file I/O objects in the `io` module to keep the original file
3936 position when calling `truncate()`. It would previously change the file
3937 position to the given argument, which goes against the tradition of
Antoine Pitrou905a2ff2010-01-31 22:47:27 +00003938 ftruncate() and other truncation APIs. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
3939
Antoine Pitroua32f9a22010-01-27 21:18:57 +00003940- Issue #7610: Reworked implementation of the internal
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003941 :class:`zipfile.ZipExtFile` class used to represent files stored inside an
3942 archive. The new implementation is significantly faster and can be wrapped in
3943 a :class:`io.BufferedReader` object for more speedups. It also solves an
3944 issue where interleaved calls to `read()` and `readline()` give wrong results.
3945 Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitroua32f9a22010-01-27 21:18:57 +00003946
Jesse Noller1f0b6582010-01-27 03:36:01 +00003947- Issue #6963: Added "maxtasksperchild" argument to multiprocessing.Pool,
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003948 allowing for a maximum number of tasks within the pool to be completed by the
3949 worker before that worker is terminated, and a new one created to replace it.
Jesse Noller1f0b6582010-01-27 03:36:01 +00003950
Benjamin Petersond6326642010-01-27 02:25:58 +00003951- Issue #7792: Registering non-classes to ABCs raised an obscure error.
3952
Benjamin Peterson9a11a362010-01-27 01:51:29 +00003953- Issue #7785: Don't accept bytes in FileIO.write().
Benjamin Peterson255058f2010-01-27 01:47:14 +00003954
Ezio Melotti38f00332010-01-25 12:39:47 +00003955- Removed the functions 'verify' and 'vereq' from Lib/test/support.py.
3956
Benjamin Peterson25001472010-01-25 03:37:42 +00003957- Issue #7773: Fix an UnboundLocalError in platform.linux_distribution() when
3958 the release file is empty.
3959
Antoine Pitrou1119a642010-01-17 12:16:23 +00003960- Issue #7561: Fix crashes when using bytearray objects with the posix
3961 module.
3962
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003963- Issue #1670765: Prevent email.generator.Generator from re-wrapping headers in
3964 multipart/signed MIME parts, which fixes one of the sources of invalid
3965 modifications to such parts by Generator.
R. David Murraya8f480f2010-01-16 18:30:03 +00003966
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003967- Issue #7703: Add support for the new buffer API to `binascii.a2bhqx`. Patch
3968 by Florent Xicluna, along with some additional tests.
Antoine Pitrou747e8b32010-01-16 17:55:52 +00003969
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003970- Issue #7701: Fix crash in binascii.b2a_uu() in debug mode when given a 1-byte
3971 argument. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou2843aa82010-01-15 00:27:43 +00003972
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003973- Issue #3299: Fix possible crash in the _sre module when given bad argument
3974 values in debug mode. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou82feb1f2010-01-14 17:34:48 +00003975
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003976- Issue #2846: Add support for gzip.GzipFile reading zero-padded files. Patch
3977 by Brian Curtin.
Antoine Pitrou8e33fd72010-01-13 14:37:26 +00003978
Benjamin Peterson5efea042010-01-13 03:49:50 +00003979- Issue #7681: Use floor division in appropiate places in the wave module.
3980
Tarek Ziadéac4e6ea2010-01-11 23:15:52 +00003981- Issue #5372: Drop the reuse of .o files in Distutils' ccompiler (since
3982 Extension extra options may change the output without changing the .c
3983 file). Initial patch by Collin Winter.
3984
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003985- Issue #7617: Make sure distutils.unixccompiler.UnixCCompiler recognizes gcc
3986 when it has a fully qualified configuration prefix. Initial patch by Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadéaf77a2f2010-01-08 23:57:53 +00003987
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003988- Issue #7105: Make WeakKeyDictionary and WeakValueDictionary robust against the
3989 destruction of weakref'ed objects while iterating.
Antoine Pitrouc1baa602010-01-08 17:54:23 +00003990
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003991- Issue #7455: Fix possible crash in cPickle on invalid input. Patch by Victor
3992 Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou01a15ea2010-01-07 17:57:31 +00003993
Gregory P. Smithaafdca82010-01-04 04:50:36 +00003994- Issue #1628205: Socket file objects returned by socket.socket.makefile() now
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003995 properly handles EINTR within the read, readline, write & flush methods. The
3996 socket.sendall() method now properly handles interrupted system calls.
Gregory P. Smithaafdca82010-01-04 04:50:36 +00003997
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003998- Issue #7471: Improve the performance of GzipFile's buffering mechanism, and
3999 make it implement the `io.BufferedIOBase` ABC to allow for further speedups by
4000 wrapping it in an `io.BufferedReader`. Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitroub1f88352010-01-03 22:37:40 +00004001
4002- Issue #3972: http.client.HTTPConnection now accepts an optional source_address
Gregory P. Smithb4066372010-01-03 03:28:29 +00004003 parameter to allow specifying where your connections come from.
4004
4005- socket.create_connection now accepts an optional source_address parameter.
4006
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004007- Issue #5511: now zipfile.ZipFile can be used as a context manager. Initial
4008 patch by Brian Curtin.
Ezio Melottifaa6b7f2009-12-30 12:34:59 +00004009
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004010- Issue #7556: Make sure Distutils' msvc9compile reads and writes the MSVC XML
4011 Manifest file in text mode so string patterns can be used in regular
4012 expressions.
Tarek Ziadéc60ea322009-12-21 23:12:41 +00004013
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004014- Issue #7552: Removed line feed in the base64 Authorization header in the
4015 Distutils upload command to avoid an error when PyPI reads it. This occurs on
4016 long passwords. Initial patch by JP St. Pierre.
Tarek Ziadé8b9361a2009-12-21 00:02:20 +00004017
Senthil Kumaran47fff872009-12-20 07:10:31 +00004018- Issue #7231: urllib2 cannot handle https with proxy requiring auth. Patch by
4019 Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa.
4020
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004021- Issue #4757: `zlib.compress` and other methods in the zlib module now raise a
4022 TypeError when given an `str` object (rather than a `bytes`-like object).
4023 Patch by Victor Stinner and Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou77b338b2009-12-14 18:00:06 +00004024
Benjamin Petersonbf5ff762009-12-13 19:25:34 +00004025- Issue #7349: Make methods of file objects in the io module accept None as an
4026 argument where file-like objects (ie StringIO and BytesIO) accept them to mean
4027 the same as passing no argument.
4028
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004029- Issue #7357: tarfile no longer suppresses fatal extraction errors by default.
Lars Gustäbel365aff32009-12-13 11:42:29 +00004030
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004031- Issue #5949: added check for correct lineends in input from IMAP server in
4032 imaplib.
R. David Murraye8dc2582009-12-10 02:08:06 +00004033
Raymond Hettinger44459de2010-04-03 23:20:46 +00004034- Add count() and reverse() methods to collections.deque().
Raymond Hettingere5fdedb2009-12-10 00:47:21 +00004035
Raymond Hettinger3f9afd82009-12-10 03:03:02 +00004036- Fix variations of extending deques: d.extend(d) d.extendleft(d) d+=d
4037
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004038- Issue #6986: Fix crash in the JSON C accelerator when called with the wrong
4039 parameter types. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou781eba72009-12-08 15:57:31 +00004040
Victor Stinnere125f132010-05-15 21:04:43 +00004041- Issue #7457: added a read_pkg_file method to
Tarek Ziadéb88a4962009-12-08 09:45:25 +00004042 distutils.dist.DistributionMetadata.
4043
Vinay Sajip540f2152009-12-06 17:57:11 +00004044- logging: Added optional `secure` parameter to SMTPHandler, to enable use of
4045 TLS with authentication credentials.
4046
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004047- Issue #1923: Fixed the removal of meaningful spaces when PKG-INFO is generated
4048 in Distutils. Patch by Stephen Emslie.
Tarek Ziadédf872d42009-12-06 09:28:17 +00004049
Martin v. Löwis1679ea82009-12-03 20:57:49 +00004050- Issue #4120: Drop reference to CRT from manifest when building extensions with
4051 msvc9compiler.
4052
Antoine Pitroub7572f02009-12-02 20:46:48 +00004053- Issue #7333: The `posix` module gains an `initgroups()` function providing
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004054 access to the initgroups(3) C library call on Unix systems which implement it.
4055 Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone.
Antoine Pitroub7572f02009-12-02 20:46:48 +00004056
Tarek Ziadéacafc2d2009-11-29 22:24:57 +00004057- Issue #7408: Fixed distutils.tests.sdist so it doesn't check for group
4058 ownership when the group is not forced, because the group may be different
4059 from the user's group and inherit from its container when the test is run.
4060
Antoine Pitrou7b0d4a22009-11-28 16:12:28 +00004061- Issue #4486: When an exception has an explicit cause, do not print its
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004062 implicit context too. This affects the `traceback` module as well as built-in
4063 exception printing.
Antoine Pitrou7b0d4a22009-11-28 16:12:28 +00004064
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004065- Issue #1515: Enable use of deepcopy() with instance methods. Patch by Robert
4066 Collins.
Antoine Pitrou1fc0d2b2009-11-28 15:58:27 +00004067
Vinay Sajip03f6c112009-11-27 14:03:36 +00004068- Issue #7403: logging: Fixed possible race condition in lock creation.
4069
Antoine Pitrou648bcd72009-11-27 13:23:26 +00004070- Issue #6845: Add restart support for binary upload in ftplib. The
4071 `storbinary()` method of FTP and FTP_TLS objects gains an optional `rest`
4072 argument. Patch by Pablo Mouzo.
4073
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004074- Issue #5788: `datetime.timedelta` objects get a new `total_seconds()` method
4075 returning the total number of seconds in the duration. Patch by Brian
4076 Quinlan.
Antoine Pitroube6859d2009-11-25 23:02:32 +00004077
Antoine Pitrou7d7aede2009-11-25 18:55:32 +00004078- Issue #7133: SSL objects now support the new buffer API.
4079
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004080- Issue #1488943: difflib.Differ() doesn't always add hints for tab characters.
Senthil Kumaran758025c2009-11-23 19:02:52 +00004081
Lars Gustäbel9520a432009-11-22 18:48:49 +00004082- Issue #6123: tarfile now opens empty archives correctly and consistently
4083 raises ReadError on empty files.
4084
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004085- Issue #7354: distutils.tests.test_msvc9compiler - dragfullwindows can be 2.
Tarek Ziadé26afd482009-11-19 05:39:00 +00004086
Benjamin Peterson3ec9b6e2009-11-19 21:22:27 +00004087- Issue #5037: Proxy the __bytes__ special method instead to __bytes__ instead
4088 of __str__.
Benjamin Peterson32019772009-11-19 03:08:32 +00004089
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004090- Issue #7341: Close the internal file object in the TarFile constructor in case
4091 of an error.
Lars Gustäbel7b465392009-11-18 20:29:25 +00004092
Tarek Ziadé11c9d252009-11-18 09:32:34 +00004093- Issue #7293: distutils.test_msvc9compiler is fixed to work on any fresh
4094 Windows box. Help provided by David Bolen.
4095
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004096- Issue #2054: ftplib now provides an FTP_TLS class to do secure FTP using TLS
4097 or SSL. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.
Antoine Pitrouf988cd02009-11-17 20:21:14 +00004098
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004099- Issue #7328: pydoc no longer corrupts sys.path when run with the '-m' switch.
Nick Coghlan106274b2009-11-15 23:04:33 +00004100
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004101- Issue #4969: The mimetypes module now reads the MIME database from the
4102 registry under Windows. Patch by Gabriel Genellina.
Antoine Pitroub8108e22009-11-15 14:25:16 +00004103
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004104- Issue #6816: runpy now provides a run_path function that allows Python code to
4105 execute file paths that refer to source or compiled Python files as well as
4106 zipfiles, directories and other valid sys.path entries that contain a
4107 __main__.py file. This allows applications that run other Python scripts to
Nick Coghlan260bd3e2009-11-16 06:49:25 +00004108 support the same flexibility as the CPython command line itself.
4109
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004110- Issue #7318: multiprocessing now uses a timeout when it fails to establish a
4111 connection with another process, rather than looping endlessly. The default
4112 timeout is 20 seconds, which should be amply sufficient for local connections.
Antoine Pitrou45d61a32009-11-13 22:35:18 +00004113
Antoine Pitrouc63ecee2009-11-10 21:34:48 +00004114- Issue #7197: Allow unittest.TextTestRunner objects to be pickled and
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004115 unpickled. This fixes crashes under Windows when trying to run
Antoine Pitrouc63ecee2009-11-10 21:34:48 +00004116 test_multiprocessing in verbose mode.
4117
Michael Foord34c94622010-02-10 15:51:42 +00004118- Issue #7893: ``unittest.TextTestResult`` is made public and a ``resultclass``
4119 argument added to the TextTestRunner constructor allowing a different result
4120 class to be used without having to subclass.
Victor Stinnere125f132010-05-15 21:04:43 +00004121
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00004122- Issue #7588: ``unittest.TextTestResult.getDescription`` now includes the test
Michael Foord34c94622010-02-10 15:51:42 +00004123 name in failure reports even if the test has a docstring.
4124
Antoine Pitrou434736a2009-11-10 18:46:01 +00004125- Issue #3001: Add a C implementation of recursive locks which is used by
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004126 default when instantiating a `threading.RLock` object. This makes recursive
4127 locks as fast as regular non-recursive locks (previously, they were slower by
4128 10x to 15x).
Antoine Pitrou434736a2009-11-10 18:46:01 +00004129
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004130- Issue #7282: Fix a memory leak when an RLock was used in a thread other than
4131 those started through `threading.Thread` (for example, using
Antoine Pitroub0872682009-11-09 16:08:16 +00004132 `_thread.start_new_thread()`).
4133
Brett Cannone52c9192009-11-07 23:55:05 +00004134- Issue #7187: Importlib would not silence the IOError raised when trying to
4135 write new bytecode when it was made read-only.
4136
Antoine Pitroubdec11f2009-11-05 13:49:14 +00004137- Issue #7264: Fix a possible deadlock when deallocating thread-local objects
4138 which are part of a reference cycle.
4139
Antoine Pitroud83f1e62009-11-04 21:10:38 +00004140- Issue #7211: Allow 64-bit values for the `ident` and `data` fields of kevent
4141 objects on 64-bit systems. Patch by Michael Broghton.
4142
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004143- Issue #6896: mailbox.Maildir now invalidates its internal cache each time a
4144 modification is done through it. This fixes inconsistencies and test failures
4145 on systems with slightly bogus mtime behaviour.
Antoine Pitrou03f13442009-11-02 11:36:51 +00004146
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004147- Issue #7246 & Issue #7208: getpass now properly flushes input before reading
4148 from stdin so that existing input does not confuse it and lead to incorrect
4149 entry or an IOError. It also properly flushes it afterwards to avoid the
4150 terminal echoing the input afterwards on OSes such as Solaris.
Gregory P. Smith50467882009-11-01 18:42:17 +00004151
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004152- Issue #7233: Fix a number of two-argument Decimal methods to make sure that
4153 they accept an int or long as the second argument. Also fix buggy handling of
4154 large arguments (those with coefficient longer than the current precision) in
4155 shift and rotate.
Mark Dickinsona2d1fe02009-10-29 12:23:02 +00004156
Lars Gustäbel1440df22009-10-29 09:39:47 +00004157- Issue #4750: Store the basename of the original filename in the gzip FNAME
4158 header as required by RFC 1952.
4159
Tarek Ziadéc7c71ff2009-10-27 23:12:01 +00004160- Issue #1180: Added a new global option to ignore ~/.pydistutils.cfg in
4161 Distutils.
4162
Tarek Ziadé8c0e2172009-10-27 21:24:21 +00004163- Issue #7218: Fix test_site for win32, the directory comparison was done with
4164 an uppercase.
4165
Antoine Pitrouc66363f2009-10-27 17:47:14 +00004166- Issue #7205: Fix a possible deadlock when using a BZ2File object from
4167 several threads at once.
4168
Vinay Sajip42ead482009-10-21 20:22:14 +00004169- Issue #7077: logging: SysLogHandler now treats Unicode as per RFC 5424.
4170
Mark Dickinson06bb6742009-10-20 13:38:04 +00004171- Issue #7099: Decimal.is_normal now returns True for numbers with exponent
4172 larger than emax.
4173
Antoine Pitrou6a448d42009-10-19 19:43:09 +00004174- Issue #7080: locale.strxfrm() raises a MemoryError on 64-bit non-Windows
4175 platforms, and assorted locale fixes by Derk Drukker.
4176
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004177- Issue #5833: Fix extra space character in readline completion with the GNU
4178 readline library version 6.0.
Antoine Pitroudc0900b2009-10-19 18:22:37 +00004179
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004180- Issue #6894: Fixed the issue urllib2 doesn't respect "no_proxy" environment.
Senthil Kumaran7bb04972009-10-11 04:58:55 +00004181
Vinay Sajipcbabd7e2009-10-10 20:32:36 +00004182- Issue #7086: Added TCP support to SysLogHandler, and tidied up some
4183 anachronisms in the code which were a relic of 1.5.2 compatibility.
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +00004184
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004185- Issue #7082: When falling back to the MIME 'name' parameter, the correct place
4186 to look for it is the Content-Type header.
R. David Murraybf2e0aa2009-10-10 00:13:32 +00004187
Benjamin Petersond3afada2009-10-09 21:43:09 +00004188- Make tokenize.detect_coding() normalize utf-8 and iso-8859-1 variants like the
4189 builtin tokenizer.
4190
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004191- Issue #7048: Force Decimal.logb to round its result when that result is too
4192 large to fit in the current precision.
Mark Dickinson56df8872009-10-07 19:23:50 +00004193
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004194- Issue #6236, #6348: Fix various failures in the I/O library under AIX and
4195 other platforms, when using a non-gcc compiler. Patch by Derk Drukker.
Antoine Pitrouca767bd2009-09-21 21:37:02 +00004196
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004197- Issue #4606: Passing 'None' if ctypes argtype is set to POINTER(...) does now
4198 always result in NULL.
Thomas Heller69b639f2009-09-18 20:08:39 +00004199
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004200- Issue #5042: Structure sub-subclass does now initialize correctly with base
4201 class positional arguments.
Thomas Hellerd7cb1b92009-09-18 19:05:13 +00004202
Eric Smith81fd8042009-09-18 13:23:13 +00004203- Issue #6882: Import uuid creates zombies processes.
4204
Matthias Klosef6b76b02009-09-13 15:18:53 +00004205- Issue #6635: Fix profiler printing usage message.
4206
Lars Gustäbel049d2aa2009-09-12 10:44:00 +00004207- Issue #6856: Add a filter keyword argument to TarFile.add().
4208
Benjamin Petersonbe74a372009-09-11 21:17:13 +00004209- Issue #6888: pdb's alias command was broken when no arguments were given.
4210
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004211- Issue #6857: Default format() alignment should be '>' for Decimal instances.
Mark Dickinson46ab5d02009-09-08 20:22:46 +00004212
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004213- Issue #6795: int(Decimal('nan')) now raises ValueError instead of returning
4214 NaN or raising InvalidContext. Also, fix infinite recursion in
4215 long(Decimal('nan')).
Mark Dickinson825fce32009-09-07 18:08:12 +00004216
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004217- Issue #6850: Fix bug in Decimal._parse_format_specifier for formats with no
4218 type specifier.
Mark Dickinson7718d2b2009-09-07 16:21:56 +00004219
Thomas Heller8b939522009-09-04 18:24:41 +00004220- Issue #6239: ctypes.c_char_p return value must return bytes.
4221
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004222- Issue #6838: Use a list to accumulate the value instead of repeatedly
4223 concatenating strings in http.client's HTTPResponse._read_chunked providing a
4224 significant speed increase when downloading large files servend with a
4225 Transfer-Encoding of 'chunked'.
Chris Withers9c33cbf2009-09-04 17:04:16 +00004226
Brett Cannon1c1dcbf2009-08-30 20:22:21 +00004227- Trying to import a submodule from a module that is not a package, ImportError
4228 should be raised, not AttributeError.
4229
Brett Cannonde4ebfe2009-08-30 19:53:48 +00004230- When the globals past to importlib.__import__() has __package__ set to None,
4231 fall back to computing what __package__ should be instead of giving up.
4232
Brett Cannon6afbaef2009-08-30 19:08:58 +00004233- Raise a TypeError when the name of a module to be imported for
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004234 importlib.__import__ is not a string (was raising an AttributeError before).
Brett Cannon6afbaef2009-08-30 19:08:58 +00004235
Brett Cannon9e0e1a62009-08-30 18:28:46 +00004236- Allow the fromlist passed into importlib.__import__ to be any iterable.
4237
Brett Cannon4d75fc12009-08-30 03:47:36 +00004238- Have importlib raise ImportError if None is found in sys.modules.
4239
Lars Gustäbelbfdfdda2009-08-28 19:59:59 +00004240- Issue #6054: Do not normalize stored pathnames in tarfile.
4241
Mark Dickinsond314e1b2009-08-28 13:39:53 +00004242- Issue #6794: Fix Decimal.compare_total and Decimal.compare_total_mag: NaN
4243 payloads are now ordered by integer value rather than lexicographically.
4244
Guilherme Polobcd03df2009-08-18 15:35:57 +00004245- Issue #1356969: Add missing info methods in tix.HList.
4246
4247- Issue #1522587: New constants and methods for the tix.Grid widget.
4248
4249- Issue #1250469: Fix the return value of tix.PanedWindow.panes.
4250
4251- Issue #1119673: Do not override tkinter.Text methods when creating a
4252 ScrolledText.
4253
Gregory P. Smith01099702009-08-16 18:58:46 +00004254- Issue #6665: Fix fnmatch to properly match filenames with newlines in them.
4255
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004256- Issue #1135: Add the XView and YView mix-ins to avoid duplicating the xview*
4257 and yview* methods.
Guilherme Poloc3b2ae42009-08-16 14:46:16 +00004258
Antoine Pitroua0ceb732009-08-06 20:29:56 +00004259- Issue #6629: Fix a data corruption issue in the new I/O library, which could
4260 occur when writing to a BufferedRandom object (e.g. a file opened in "rb+" or
4261 "wb+" mode) after having buffered a certain amount of data for reading. This
4262 bug was not present in the pure Python implementation.
4263
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004264- Issue #6622: Fix "local variable 'secret' referenced before assignment" bug in
4265 POP3.apop.
Mark Dickinsonea1158f2009-08-06 16:06:25 +00004266
Mark Dickinson45f799f2009-08-02 20:08:54 +00004267- Issue #2715: Remove remnants of Carbon.File from binhex module.
4268
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004269- Issue #6595: The Decimal constructor now allows arbitrary Unicode decimal
4270 digits in input, as recommended by the standard. Previously it was restricted
4271 to accepting [0-9].
Mark Dickinson345adc42009-08-02 10:14:23 +00004272
Jack Diederich36596a32009-07-26 22:23:04 +00004273- Issue #6106: telnetlib.Telnet.process_rawq doesn't handle default WILL/WONT
4274 DO/DONT correctly.
4275
Senthil Kumaran67305382009-07-26 04:46:00 +00004276- Issue #1424152: Fix for http.client, urllib.request to support SSL while
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004277 working through proxy. Original patch by Christopher Li, changes made by
4278 Senthil Kumaran.
Senthil Kumaran97f0c6b2009-07-25 04:24:38 +00004279
Brett Cannon69194272009-07-20 04:23:48 +00004280- Add importlib.abc.ExecutionLoader to represent the PEP 302 protocol for
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004281 loaders that allow for modules to be executed. Both importlib.abc.PyLoader and
4282 PyPycLoader inherit from this class and provide implementations in relation to
4283 other methods required by the ABCs.
Brett Cannon69194272009-07-20 04:23:48 +00004284
Brett Cannon64ef00f2009-07-20 03:19:18 +00004285- importlib.abc.PyLoader did not inherit from importlib.abc.ResourceLoader like
4286 the documentation said it did even though the code in PyLoader relied on the
4287 abstract method required by ResourceLoader.
4288
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004289- Issue #6431: Make Fraction type return NotImplemented when it doesn't know how
4290 to handle a comparison without loss of precision. Also add correct handling
4291 of infinities and nans for comparisons with float.
Mark Dickinson85424c92009-07-18 14:41:42 +00004292
Antoine Pitrouf3637322009-08-06 21:00:37 +00004293- Issue #6415: Fixed warnings.warn segfault on bad formatted string.
Hirokazu Yamamoto1c0c0032009-07-17 06:55:42 +00004294
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004295- Issue #6358: The exit status of a command started with os.popen() was reported
4296 differently than it did with python 2.x.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc97e5f282009-07-11 09:35:13 +00004297
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004298- Issue #6323: The pdb debugger did not exit when running a script with a syntax
4299 error.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc2de11152009-07-09 23:07:52 +00004300
Gregory P. Smithd06fa472009-07-04 02:46:54 +00004301- Issue #3392: The subprocess communicate() method no longer fails in select()
4302 when file descriptors are large; communicate() now uses poll() when possible.
4303
Antoine Pitrou54923952009-07-01 14:53:06 +00004304- Issue #6369: Fix an RLE decompression bug in the binhex module.
4305
Hirokazu Yamamoto7a9e1bd2009-06-29 14:54:12 +00004306- Issue #6344: Fixed a crash of mmap.read() when passed a negative argument.
4307
Benjamin Peterson5a6deb42009-06-28 21:35:31 +00004308- The deprecated function string.maketrans has been removed.
4309
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +00004310- Issue #4005: Fixed a crash of pydoc when there was a zip file present in
4311 sys.path.
4312
Alexandre Vassalotticf76e1a2009-07-22 03:24:36 +00004313- Issue #6218: io.StringIO and io.BytesIO instances are now picklable.
4314
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004315- The os.get_exec_path() function to return the list of directories that will be
4316 searched for an executable when launching a subprocess was added.
Gregory P. Smithb6e8c7e2010-02-27 07:22:22 +00004317
Gregory P. Smith3fdd9642010-02-28 18:57:46 +00004318- Issue #7481: When a threading.Thread failed to start it would leave the
4319 instance stuck in initial state and present in threading.enumerate().
4320
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004321- Issue #1068268: The subprocess module now handles EINTR in internal os.waitpid
4322 and os.read system calls where appropriate.
Gregory P. Smitha59c59f2010-03-01 00:17:40 +00004323
Gregory P. Smith1a530912010-03-01 04:59:27 +00004324- Issue #6729: Added ctypes.c_ssize_t to represent ssize_t.
4325
Steven Bethard6d265692010-03-02 09:22:57 +00004326- Issue #6247: The argparse module has been added to the standard library.
4327
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004328- Issue #8235: _socket: Add the constant ``SO_SETFIB``. SO_SETFIB is a socket
4329 option available on FreeBSD 7.1 and newer.
Larry Hastingsf0f37952010-04-02 11:47:10 +00004330
Alexander Belopolsky4d770172010-09-13 18:14:34 +00004331- Issue #9315: Fix for the trace module to record correct class name
4332 for tracing methods.
4333
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +00004334Extension Modules
4335-----------------
Mark Dickinson12c4bdb2009-09-28 19:21:11 +00004336
Mark Dickinsonfa41e602010-09-28 07:22:27 +00004337- Issue #9959: Tweak formula used for computing math.log of an integer,
4338 making it marginally more accurate for exact powers of 2.
4339
Mark Dickinsoncf28b952010-07-29 21:41:59 +00004340- Issue #9422: Fix memory leak when re-initializing a struct.Struct object.
4341
Ronald Oussorenb6ee4f52010-07-23 13:53:51 +00004342- Issue #7900: The getgroups(2) system call on MacOSX behaves rather oddly
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004343 compared to other unix systems. In particular, os.getgroups() does not reflect
4344 any changes made using os.setgroups() but basicly always returns the same
4345 information as the id command. os.getgroups() can now return more than 16
4346 groups on MacOSX.
Ronald Oussorenb6ee4f52010-07-23 13:53:51 +00004347
Martin v. Löwisc9e1c7d2010-07-23 12:16:41 +00004348- Issue #6095: Make directory argument to os.listdir optional.
4349
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004350- Issue #9277: Fix bug in struct.pack for bools in standard mode (e.g.,
4351 struct.pack('>?')): if conversion to bool raised an exception then that
4352 exception wasn't properly propagated on machines where char is unsigned.
Mark Dickinsone26660f2010-07-18 07:48:20 +00004353
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004354- Issue #5180: Fixed a bug that prevented loading 2.x pickles in 3.x python when
4355 they contain instances of old-style classes.
Alexander Belopolskyd92f0402010-07-17 22:50:45 +00004356
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004357- Issue #9165: Add new functions math.isfinite and cmath.isfinite, to accompany
4358 existing isinf and isnan functions.
Mark Dickinson8e0c9962010-07-11 17:38:24 +00004359
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004360- Issue #1578269: Implement os.symlink for Windows 6.0+. Patch by Jason
4361 R. Coombs.
Brian Curtind40e6f72010-07-08 21:39:08 +00004362
Benjamin Petersona9800a82010-07-07 19:04:48 +00004363- In struct.pack, correctly propogate exceptions from computing the truth of an
4364 object in the '?' format.
4365
Alexander Belopolskya11d8c02010-07-06 23:19:45 +00004366- Issue #9000: datetime.timezone objects now have eval-friendly repr.
4367
Benjamin Petersonf751bc92010-07-02 13:46:42 +00004368- In the math module, correctly lookup __trunc__, __ceil__, and __floor__ as
4369 special methods.
Benjamin Peterson8bb9cde2010-07-01 15:16:55 +00004370
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004371- Issue #9005: Prevent utctimetuple() from producing year 0 or year 10,000.
4372 Prior to this change, timezone adjustment in utctimetuple() could produce
4373 tm_year value of 0 or 10,000. Now an OverflowError is raised in these edge
4374 cases.
Alexander Belopolsky75f94c22010-06-21 15:21:14 +00004375
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004376- Issue #6641: The ``datetime.strptime`` method now supports the ``%z``
4377 directive. When the ``%z`` directive is present in the format string, an
4378 aware ``datetime`` object is returned with ``tzinfo`` bound to a
4379 ``datetime.timezone`` instance constructed from the parsed offset. If both
4380 ``%z`` and ``%Z`` are present, the data in ``%Z`` field is used for timezone
4381 name, but ``%Z`` data without ``%z`` is discarded.
Alexander Belopolskyca94f552010-06-17 18:30:34 +00004382
Alexander Belopolsky4e749a12010-06-14 14:15:50 +00004383- Issue #5094: The ``datetime`` module now has a simple concrete class
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004384 implementing ``datetime.tzinfo`` interface. Instances of the new class,
4385 ``datetime.timezone``, return fixed name and UTC offset from their
4386 ``tzname(dt)`` and ``utcoffset(dt)`` methods. The ``dst(dt)`` method always
4387 returns ``None``. A class attribute, ``utc`` contains an instance
4388 representing the UTC timezone. Original patch by Rafe Kaplan.
Alexander Belopolsky4e749a12010-06-14 14:15:50 +00004389
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004390- Issue #8973: Add __all__ to struct module; this ensures that help(struct)
4391 includes documentation for the struct.Struct class.
Mark Dickinson4b80ef52010-06-12 15:17:02 +00004392
Alexander Belopolskyfcdc79a2010-06-12 17:18:45 +00004393- Issue #3129: Trailing digits in struct format string are no longer ignored.
Victor Stinnerda0eca42010-06-11 21:50:30 +00004394 For example, "1" or "ilib123" are now invalid formats and cause
Alexander Belopolskyfcdc79a2010-06-12 17:18:45 +00004395 ``struct.error`` to be raised. Patch by Caleb Deveraux.
Alexander Belopolsky177e8532010-06-11 16:04:59 +00004396
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004397- Issue #7384: If the system readline library is linked against ncurses, the
4398 curses module must be linked against ncurses as well. Otherwise it is not safe
4399 to load both the readline and curses modules in an application.
Stefan Kraha3ac44e2010-06-08 14:00:52 +00004400
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004401- Issue #2810: Fix cases where the Windows registry API returns ERROR_MORE_DATA,
4402 requiring a re-try in order to get the complete result.
Brian Curtin60853212010-05-26 17:43:50 +00004403
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004404- Issue #8692: Optimize math.factorial: replace the previous naive algorithm
4405 with an improved 'binary-split' algorithm that uses fewer multiplications and
4406 allows many of the multiplications to be performed using plain C integer
4407 arithmetic instead of PyLong arithmetic. Also uses a lookup table for small
4408 arguments.
Mark Dickinson4c8a9a22010-05-15 17:02:38 +00004409
Mark Dickinson85eacea2010-05-10 16:27:45 +00004410- Issue #8674: Fixed a number of incorrect or undefined-behaviour-inducing
4411 overflow checks in the audioop module.
4412
Mark Dickinson0381e3f2010-05-08 14:35:02 +00004413- Issue #8644: The accuracy of td.total_seconds() has been improved (by
4414 calculating with integer arithmetic instead of float arithmetic internally):
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004415 the result is now always correctly rounded, and is equivalent to ``td /
4416 timedelta(seconds=1)``.
Mark Dickinson0381e3f2010-05-08 14:35:02 +00004417
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004418- Issue #2706: Allow division of a timedelta by another timedelta: timedelta /
4419 timedelta, timedelta % timedelta, timedelta // timedelta and divmod(timedelta,
4420 timedelta) are all supported.
Mark Dickinson7c186e22010-04-20 22:32:49 +00004421
Victor Stinnerfebecd82010-04-16 12:07:30 +00004422- Issue #8314: Fix unsigned long long bug in libffi on Sparc v8.
4423
Mark Dickinsonc5935772010-04-03 15:54:36 +00004424- Issue #8300: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with any
4425 integer format code, struct.pack first attempts to convert the non-integer
4426 using its __index__ method. If that method is non-existent or raises
4427 TypeError it goes on to try the __int__ method, as described below.
4428
Matthias Klosea8349752010-03-15 13:25:28 +00004429- Issue #8142: Update libffi to the 3.0.9 release.
4430
Matthias Klose9550aa12010-03-15 12:49:46 +00004431- Issue #6949: Allow the _dbm extension to be built with db 4.8.x.
4432
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004433- Issue #6544: Fix a reference leak in the kqueue implementation's error
Georg Brandlc0e22b72010-03-14 10:51:01 +00004434 handling.
4435
Martin v. Löwis3afc62e2010-02-18 16:27:43 +00004436- Stop providing crtassem.h symbols when compiling with Visual Studio 2010, as
4437 msvcr100.dll is not a platform assembly anymore.
4438
Martin v. Löwis7aed61a2009-11-27 14:09:49 +00004439- Issue #6508: Add posix.{getresuid,getresgid,setresuid,setresgid}.
4440
Mark Dickinson40714af2009-10-08 15:59:20 +00004441- Issue #7078: Set struct.__doc__ from _struct.__doc__.
4442
Mark Dickinson45f992a2009-12-19 11:20:49 +00004443- Issue #3366: Add erf, erfc, expm1, gamma, lgamma functions to math module.
Mark Dickinson12c4bdb2009-09-28 19:21:11 +00004444
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004445- Issue #6877: It is now possible to link the readline extension to the libedit
4446 readline emulation on OSX 10.5 or later.
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +00004447
Mark Dickinson5ea7d642009-09-06 21:24:55 +00004448- Issue #6848: Fix curses module build failure on OS X 10.6.
4449
Brett Cannon2f827382009-08-13 19:58:01 +00004450- Fix a segfault that could be triggered by expat with specially formed input.
4451
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004452- Issue #6561: '\d' in a regex now matches only characters with Unicode category
4453 'Nd' (Number, Decimal Digit). Previously it also matched characters with
4454 category 'No'.
Mark Dickinson1f268282009-07-28 17:22:36 +00004455
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004456- Issue #4509: Array objects are no longer modified after an operation failing
4457 due to the resize restriction in-place when the object has exported buffers.
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +00004458
Alexandre Vassalottiad077152009-07-15 17:49:23 +00004459- Issue #2389: Array objects are now pickled in a portable manner.
4460
Matthias Klosea50ffe52010-01-22 01:10:19 +00004461- Expat: Fix DoS via XML document with malformed UTF-8 sequences
4462 (CVE_2009_3560).
4463
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004464- Issue #7242: On Solaris 9 and earlier calling os.fork() from within a thread
4465 could raise an incorrect RuntimeError about not holding the import lock. The
4466 import lock is now reinitialized after fork.
Gregory P. Smith24cec9f2010-03-01 06:18:41 +00004467
Gregory P. Smithc78d79c2010-03-01 05:54:14 +00004468- Issue #7999: os.setreuid() and os.setregid() would refuse to accept a -1
4469 parameter on some platforms such as OS X.
4470
Matthias Klose4c4b0782010-04-21 22:21:03 +00004471- Build the ossaudio extension on GNU/kFreeBSD.
4472
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004473- Issue #7347: winreg: Add CreateKeyEx and DeleteKeyEx, as well as fix a bug in
4474 the return value of QueryReflectionKey.
Brian Curtinb4e8ca12010-04-22 01:52:50 +00004475
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00004476- Issue #7567: PyCurses_setupterm: Don't call ``setupterm`` twice.
Matthias Klose635edd12010-07-30 21:40:57 +00004477
Martin v. Löwis95c46012009-06-28 09:36:14 +00004478Build
4479-----
4480
Martin v. Löwise38de852010-07-30 17:30:51 +00004481- Use OpenSSL 1.0.0a on Windows.
4482
Benjamin Petersonbbda0c52010-07-17 20:39:23 +00004483- Issue #9280: Make sharedinstall depend on sharedmods.
4484
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004485- Issue #9189: Make a user-specified CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS, or LDFLAGS setting
4486 override the configure and makefile defaults, without deleting options the
4487 user didn't intend to override. Developers should no longer need to specify
4488 OPT or EXTRA_CFLAGS, although those variables are still present for
4489 backward-compatibility.
Jeffrey Yasskind4fcdb12010-07-09 16:30:58 +00004490
Benjamin Peterson31b16a52010-06-21 15:37:16 +00004491- Issue #8854: Fix finding Visual Studio 2008 on Windows x64.
4492
Martin v. Löwisec78d0a2010-06-04 17:20:56 +00004493- Issue #1759169, #8864: Drop _XOPEN_SOURCE on Solaris, define it for
4494 multiprocessing only.
Martin v. Löwis1a415762010-05-28 15:44:20 +00004495
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004496- Issue #8625: Turn off optimization in --with-pydebug builds with gcc.
4497 (Optimization was unintentionally turned on in gcc --with-pydebug builds as a
4498 result of the issue #1628484 fix, combined with autoconf's strange choice of
4499 default CFLAGS produced by AC_PROG_CC for gcc.)
Mark Dickinsonb2153e92010-05-05 22:31:36 +00004500
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004501- Issue #3646: It is now easily possible to install a Python framework into your
4502 home directory on MacOSX, see Mac/README for more information.
Ronald Oussoren86b33c82010-04-30 11:41:56 +00004503
Jesus Cea740f53a2010-04-28 11:35:30 +00004504- Issue #3928: os.mknod() now available in Solaris, also.
4505
Benjamin Petersone6c9d242010-03-30 17:34:47 +00004506- Issue #3326: Build Python without -fno-strict-aliasing when the gcc does not
4507 give false warnings.
4508
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004509- Issue #1628484: The Makefile doesn't ignore the CFLAGS environment variable
4510 anymore. It also forwards the LDFLAGS settings to the linker when building a
4511 shared library.
Antoine Pitrou7a61ba92010-03-21 19:25:26 +00004512
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004513- Issue #6716: Quote -x arguments of compileall in MSI installer. Exclude 2to3
4514 tests from compileall.
Martin v. Löwis09c86af2010-03-16 11:03:13 +00004515
Martin v. Löwis19ed3c82010-02-15 21:45:06 +00004516- Issue #3920, #7903: Define _BSD_SOURCE on OpenBSD 4.4 through 4.9.
Martin v. Löwis7671efc2010-02-15 08:35:16 +00004517
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004518- Issue #7632: When Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER is defined, disable the private
4519 memory allocation scheme in dtoa.c and use PyMem_Malloc and PyMem_Free
4520 instead. Also disable caching of powers of 5.
Mark Dickinsonde508002010-01-17 21:02:55 +00004521
Benjamin Petersond78735d2010-01-01 16:04:23 +00004522- Issue #6491: Allow --with-dbmliborder to specify that no dbms will be built.
4523
4524- Issue #6943: Use pkg-config to find the libffi headers when the
4525 --with-system-ffi flag is used.
4526
Benjamin Petersonb2d90462009-12-31 03:23:10 +00004527- Issue #7609: Add a --with-system-expat option that causes the system's expat
4528 library to be used for the pyexpat module instead of the one included with
4529 Python.
4530
Benjamin Petersone57d6762009-12-30 03:02:03 +00004531- Issue #7589: Only build the nis module when the correct header files are
4532 found.
4533
Martin v. Löwis7df3b9e2010-01-02 10:06:19 +00004534- Switch to OpenSSL 0.9.8l and sqlite 3.6.21 on Windows.
Martin v. Löwise5692cd2009-12-22 08:57:39 +00004535
Mark Dickinsonf4243f62009-11-15 13:47:27 +00004536- Issue #5792: Extend the short float repr support to x86 systems using
4537 icc or suncc.
4538
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004539- Issue #6603: Change READ_TIMESTAMP macro in ceval.c so that it compiles
4540 correctly under gcc on x86-64. This fixes a reported problem with the
4541 --with-tsc build on x86-64.
Mark Dickinsona25b1312009-10-31 10:18:44 +00004542
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004543- Issue #6802: Fix build issues on MacOSX 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren5bbab3e2009-09-06 11:01:15 +00004544
Guilherme Polo5d377bd2009-08-16 14:44:14 +00004545- Issue #6244: Allow detect_tkinter to look for Tcl/Tk 8.6.
4546
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00004547- Issue #4601: 'make install' did not set the appropriate permissions on
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc321e5332009-07-02 23:08:45 +00004548 directories.
4549
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00004550- Issue #5390: Add uninstall icon independent of whether file extensions are
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004551 installed.
Martin v. Löwis95c46012009-06-28 09:36:14 +00004552
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004553- Issue #7541: When using ``python-config`` with a framework install the
Florent Xicluna3f88c0e2010-03-19 14:40:31 +00004554 compiler might use the wrong library.
Ronald Oussoren585c1732009-12-24 14:21:55 +00004555
Collin Winterbf199072010-03-19 21:17:17 +00004556- python-config now supports multiple options on the same command line.
4557
Matthias Klosec80c93f2010-04-24 17:04:35 +00004558- Issue #8509: Fix quoting in help strings and code snippets in configure.in.
4559
Matthias Kloseb9621712010-04-24 17:59:49 +00004560- Issue #8510: Update to autoconf2.65.
4561
Mark Dickinsond3aa6462009-09-17 00:06:41 +00004562Documentation
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00004563-------------
Tarek Ziadéf3b33222009-08-21 14:22:45 +00004564
Matthias Klose62d52fd2010-09-12 16:31:58 +00004565- Issue #9817: Add expat COPYING file; add expat, libffi and expat licenses
4566 to Doc/license.rst.
4567
Brian Curtinf045d772010-08-05 18:56:00 +00004568- Issue #9524: Document that two CTRL* signals are meant for use only
4569 with os.kill.
4570
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00004571- Issue #9255: Document that the 'test' package is meant for internal Python use
Brett Cannon3a4e50c2010-07-23 11:31:31 +00004572 only.
4573
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004574- A small WSGI server was added as Tools/scripts/serve.py, and is used to
R. David Murraye821cb62010-03-08 17:48:38 +00004575 implement a local documentation server via 'make serve' in the doc directory.
4576
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004577- Updating `Using Python` documentation to include description of CPython's -J
4578 and -X options.
Barry Warsaw615368f2010-02-05 19:12:30 +00004579
Brett Cannon757df6e2009-08-30 04:00:12 +00004580- Document that importing a module that has None in sys.modules triggers an
4581 ImportError.
4582
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004583- Issue #6556: Fixed the Distutils configuration files location explanation for
4584 Windows.
Florent Xiclunaf089fd62010-03-19 14:25:03 +00004585
Matthias Klosec8b16f82010-01-31 16:14:37 +00004586- Update python manual page (options -B, -O0, -s, environment variables
4587 PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE, PYTHONNOUSERSITE).
Tarek Ziadéf3b33222009-08-21 14:22:45 +00004588
Tarek Ziadé7047eb72010-06-06 20:18:42 +00004589- Issue #8909: Added the size of the bitmap used in the installer created by
4590 distutils' bdist_wininst. Patch by Anatoly Techtonik.
4591
Brett Cannonb49c70c2009-07-15 04:08:33 +00004592Tests
4593-----
4594
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004595- Issue #9251: test_threaded_import didn't fail when run through regrtest if the
4596 import lock was disabled.
Antoine Pitrou1f9dea02010-07-14 11:52:38 +00004597
Antoine Pitrouf48ea7c2010-07-08 18:51:30 +00004598- Issue #8605: Skip test_gdb if Python is compiled with optimizations.
4599
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004600- Issue #7449: Skip test_socketserver if threading support is disabled.
Victor Stinner5f22e722010-05-26 17:33:03 +00004601
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004602- Issue #8672: Add a zlib test ensuring that an incomplete stream can be handled
4603 by a decompressor object without errors (it returns incomplete uncompressed
4604 data).
Antoine Pitrouc09c92f2010-05-11 23:36:40 +00004605
Victor Stinnerf58087b2010-05-02 17:24:51 +00004606- Issue #8533: regrtest uses backslashreplace error handler for stdout to avoid
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004607 UnicodeEncodeError (write non-ASCII character to stdout using ASCII encoding).
Victor Stinner0d80a582010-05-02 09:37:08 +00004608
Antoine Pitrou043bad02010-04-30 23:20:15 +00004609- Issue #8576: Remove use of find_unused_port() in test_smtplib and
4610 test_multiprocessing. Patch by Paul Moore.
4611
Victor Stinner45df8202010-04-28 22:31:17 +00004612- Issue #7449: Fix many tests to support Python compiled without thread
4613 support. Patches written by Jerry Seutter.
4614
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004615- Issue #8108: test_ftplib's non-blocking SSL server now has proper handling of
4616 SSL shutdowns.
Antoine Pitrou2c4f98b2010-04-23 00:16:21 +00004617
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004618- Issues #8279, #8330, #8437, #8480, #8495: Fix test_gdb failures, patch written
4619 by Dave Malcolm.
Victor Stinnere7ed1d72010-04-21 13:55:23 +00004620
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004621- Issue #3864: Skip three test_signal tests on freebsd6 because they fail if any
4622 thread was previously started, most likely due to a platform bug.
R. David Murrayedcfeba2010-04-21 01:51:57 +00004623
Antoine Pitrou90ee4df2010-04-06 17:23:13 +00004624- Issue #8193: Fix test_zlib failure with zlib 1.2.4.
4625
Antoine Pitrou503ab332010-03-30 18:56:19 +00004626- Issue #8248: Add some tests for the bool type. Patch by Gregory Nofi.
4627
Florent Xiclunad6995eb2010-03-30 19:43:09 +00004628- Issue #8263: Now regrtest.py will report a failure if it receives a
4629 KeyboardInterrupt (SIGINT).
4630
Florent Xiclunafd1b0932010-03-28 00:25:02 +00004631- Issue #8180 and #8207: Fix test_pep277 on OS X and add more tests for special
4632 Unicode normalization cases.
Florent Xiclunaeb136182010-03-21 18:49:50 +00004633
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004634- Issue #7783: test.support.open_urlresource invalidates the outdated files from
4635 the local cache.
Florent Xiclunaf089fd62010-03-19 14:25:03 +00004636
Florent Xiclunab14930c2010-03-13 15:26:44 +00004637- Issue #7849: Now the utility ``check_warnings`` verifies if the warnings are
4638 effectively raised.
4639
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004640- The four path modules (genericpath, macpath, ntpath, posixpath) share a common
4641 TestCase for some tests: test_genericpath.CommonTest.
Florent Xiclunac9c79782010-03-08 12:24:53 +00004642
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004643- Print platform information when running the whole test suite, or using the
4644 --verbose flag.
Florent Xicluna0e62a142010-03-06 17:34:48 +00004645
Florent Xicluna683a7e72010-03-03 00:06:37 +00004646- Issue #767675: enable test_pep277 on POSIX platforms with Unicode-friendly
4647 filesystem encoding.
4648
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004649- Issue #6292: for the moment at least, the test suite runs cleanly if python is
4650 run with the -OO flag. Tests requiring docstrings are skipped.
R. David Murray378c0cf2010-02-24 01:46:21 +00004651
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004652- Issue #7712: test.support gained a new `temp_cwd` context manager which is now
4653 also used by regrtest to run all the tests in a temporary directory. The
4654 original CWD is saved in `support.SAVEDCWD`. Thanks to Florent Xicluna who
4655 helped with the patch.
Ezio Melotti184bdfb2010-02-18 09:37:05 +00004656
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004657- Issue #7924: Fix an intermittent 'XXX undetected error' failure in test_capi
4658 (only seen so far on platforms where the curses module wasn't built), due to
4659 an uncleared exception.
Mark Dickinsonedff7af2010-02-13 18:34:53 +00004660
Florent Xicluna3f88c0e2010-03-19 14:40:31 +00004661- Issue #7728: test_timeout was changed to use support.bind_port instead of a
4662 hard coded port.
R. David Murraye9e95932010-02-06 05:00:15 +00004663
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004664- Issue #7376: Instead of running a self-test (which was failing) when called
R. David Murray445448c2009-12-20 17:28:31 +00004665 with no arguments, doctest.py now gives a usage message.
4666
R. David Murrayef1992b2009-12-16 15:19:27 +00004667- Issue #7396: fix regrtest -s, which was broken by the -j enhancement.
4668
R. David Murray596da442009-12-14 23:06:11 +00004669- Issue #7498: test_multiprocessing now uses test.support.find_unused_port
R. David Murray83396232009-12-14 22:45:15 +00004670 instead of a hardcoded port number in test_rapid_restart.
4671
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004672- Issue #7431: Use TESTFN in test_linecache instead of trying to create a file
4673 in the Lib/test directory, which might be read-only for the user running the
4674 tests.
R. David Murrayba311052009-12-04 00:09:14 +00004675
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004676- Issue #7324: Add a sanity check to regrtest argument parsing to catch the case
4677 of an option with no handler.
R. David Murray35768ad2009-11-15 00:23:21 +00004678
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004679- Issue #7312: Add a -F flag to run the selected tests in a loop until a test
4680 fails. Can be combined with -j.
R. David Murray7dc72cc2009-11-14 16:13:02 +00004681
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004682- Issue #6551: test_zipimport could import and then destroy some modules of the
4683 encodings package, which would make other tests fail further down the road
4684 because the internally cached encoders and decoders would point to empty
4685 global variables.
Antoine Pitrou060cee22009-11-13 16:29:04 +00004686
Antoine Pitrou941ee882009-11-11 20:59:38 +00004687- Issue #7295: Do not use a hardcoded file name in test_tarfile.
4688
Antoine Pitrou557934f2009-11-06 22:41:14 +00004689- Issue #7270: Add some dedicated unit tests for multi-thread synchronization
4690 primitives such as Lock, RLock, Condition, Event and Semaphore.
4691
Brett Cannoncfed0292009-11-05 01:26:57 +00004692- Issue #7248 (part 2): Use a unique temporary directory for importlib source
4693 tests instead of tempfile.tempdir. This prevents the tests from sharing state
4694 between concurrent executions on the same system.
4695
Brett Cannon0ae45112009-11-05 01:17:22 +00004696- Issue #7248: In importlib.test.source.util a try/finally block did not make
4697 sure that some referenced objects actually were created in the block before
4698 calling methods on the object.
4699
Antoine Pitrou65c9c642009-10-30 17:25:12 +00004700- Issue #7222: Make thread "reaping" more reliable so that reference
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004701 leak-chasing test runs give sensible results. The previous method of reaping
4702 threads could return successfully while some Thread objects were still
4703 referenced. This also introduces a new private function:
Antoine Pitrou65c9c642009-10-30 17:25:12 +00004704 :func:`_thread._count()`.
4705
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004706- Issue #7151: Fixed regrtest -j so that output to stderr from a test no longer
4707 runs the risk of causing the worker thread to fail.
R. David Murray27144602009-10-19 15:26:16 +00004708
Antoine Pitrou4de39cd2009-10-10 21:08:31 +00004709- Issue #7055: test___all__ now greedily detects all modules which have an
4710 __all__ attribute, rather than using a hardcoded and incomplete list.
4711
R. David Murray0bc11ae2009-10-18 22:18:17 +00004712- Issue #7058: Added save/restore for things like sys.argv and cwd to
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004713 runtest_inner in regrtest, with warnings if the called test modifies them, and
4714 a new section in the summary report at the end.
R. David Murray097e51f2009-10-07 23:38:55 +00004715
Mark Dickinson2e304402009-10-04 18:43:54 +00004716- Issue #7042: Fix test_signal (test_itimer_virtual) failure on OS X 10.6.
4717
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004718- Fixed tests in importlib.test.source.test_abc_loader that were masking the
4719 proper exceptions that should be raised for missing or improper code object
4720 bytecode.
Brett Cannon3c273842009-07-20 00:14:29 +00004721
Brett Cannonb49c70c2009-07-15 04:08:33 +00004722- Removed importlib's custom test discovery code and switched to
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004723 unittest.TestLoader.discover().
Brett Cannonb49c70c2009-07-15 04:08:33 +00004724
Antoine Pitroua69ba652010-01-18 21:20:53 +00004725Tools/Demos
4726-----------
4727
Martin v. Löwis25fcd392010-07-11 17:39:46 +00004728- Issue #5464, #8974: Implement plural forms in msgfmt.py.
Martin v. Löwiscb081b82010-06-04 18:14:42 +00004729
Antoine Pitroua69ba652010-01-18 21:20:53 +00004730- iobench (a file I/O benchmark) and ccbench (a concurrency benchmark) were
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004731 added to the `Tools/` directory. They were previously living in the sandbox.
Antoine Pitroua69ba652010-01-18 21:20:53 +00004732
Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +00004733
Benjamin Peterson01bf2362009-06-13 14:50:22 +00004734What's New in Python 3.1?
4735=========================
4736
4737*Release date: 27-June-2009*
4738
4739Core and Builtins
4740-----------------
4741
Mark Dickinsonad195562009-06-24 19:01:32 +00004742- Issue #6334: Fix bug in range length calculation for ranges with
4743 large arguments.
4744
Raymond Hettinger159eac92009-06-23 20:38:54 +00004745- Issue #6329: Fixed iteration for memoryview objects (it was being blocked
4746 because it wasn't recognized as a sequence).
4747
Benjamin Peterson01bf2362009-06-13 14:50:22 +00004748Library
4749-------
4750
Georg Brandld07ac642009-08-13 07:50:57 +00004751- Issue #6126: Fixed pdb command-line usage.
4752
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00004753- Issue #6314: logging: performs extra checks on the "level" argument.
Vinay Sajip0f6eac22009-06-21 17:46:49 +00004754
Facundo Batista10706e22009-06-19 20:34:30 +00004755- Issue #6274: Fixed possible file descriptors leak in subprocess.py
4756
Benjamin Peterson6a38ced2009-06-14 18:32:19 +00004757- Accessing io.StringIO.buffer now raises an AttributeError instead of
4758 io.UnsupportedOperation.
4759
Vinay Sajip0f6eac22009-06-21 17:46:49 +00004760- Issue #6271: mmap tried to close invalid file handle (-1) when anonymous.
Hirokazu Yamamoto3d8827d2009-06-14 04:58:16 +00004761 (On Unix)
4762
Gregory P. Smithe88749b2009-06-26 08:05:13 +00004763- Issue #1202: zipfile module would cause a struct.error when attempting to
4764 store files with a CRC32 > 2**31-1.
4765
Matthias Kloseab2b7552009-06-22 13:05:52 +00004766Extension Modules
4767-----------------
4768
4769- Issue #5590: Remove unused global variable in pyexpat extension.
4770
Benjamin Peterson01bf2362009-06-13 14:50:22 +00004771
Antoine Pitrou3b1b8072009-05-30 21:01:23 +00004772What's New in Python 3.1 Release Candidate 2?
4773=============================================
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00004774
Benjamin Petersonc7c12282009-06-13 13:15:04 +00004775*Release date: 13-June-2009*
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00004776
4777Core and Builtins
4778-----------------
4779
Raymond Hettinger94f55832009-06-12 18:40:16 +00004780- Fixed SystemError triggered by "range([], 1, -1)".
4781
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc66f8c432009-06-09 21:30:01 +00004782- Issue #5924: On Windows, a large PYTHONPATH environment variable
4783 (more than 255 characters) would be completely ignored.
4784
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc24e581f2009-06-01 21:28:37 +00004785- Issue #4547: When debugging a very large function, it was not always
4786 possible to update the lineno attribute of the current frame.
4787
Antoine Pitrou8e124f32009-05-30 21:41:10 +00004788- Issue #5330: C functions called with keyword arguments were not reported by
Alexandre Vassalottiea3714e2009-07-17 09:34:31 +00004789 the various profiling modules (profile, cProfile). Patch by Hagen Fürstenau.
Antoine Pitrou8e124f32009-05-30 21:41:10 +00004790
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00004791Library
4792-------
4793
Tarek Ziadéc9e6cec2009-07-12 08:27:26 +00004794- Issue #6438: Fixed distutils.cygwinccompiler.get_versions : the regular
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00004795 expression string pattern was trying to match against a bytes returned by
Tarek Ziadéc9e6cec2009-07-12 08:27:26 +00004796 Popen. Tested under win32 to build the py-postgresql project.
4797
Martin v. Löwis83eacca2009-06-12 17:31:41 +00004798- Issue #6258: Support AMD64 in bdist_msi.
4799
R. David Murray58641de2009-06-12 15:33:19 +00004800- Issue #6195: fixed doctest to no longer try to read 'source' data from
4801 binary files.
4802
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00004803- Issue #5262: Fixed bug in next rollover time computation in
4804 TimedRotatingFileHandler.
4805
Benjamin Peterson0926ad12009-06-06 18:02:12 +00004806- Issue #6217: The C implementation of io.TextIOWrapper didn't include the
4807 errors property. Additionally, the errors and encoding properties of StringIO
4808 are always None now.
4809
Antoine Pitroud9dfaa92009-06-04 20:32:06 +00004810- Issue #6137: The pickle module now translates module names when loading
4811 or dumping pickles with a 2.x-compatible protocol, in order to make data
4812 sharing and migration easier. This behaviour can be disabled using the
4813 new `fix_imports` optional argument.
4814
Raymond Hettinger40925d22009-06-04 18:32:39 +00004815- Removed the ipaddr module.
4816
Georg Brandlb54d8012009-06-04 09:11:51 +00004817- Issue #3613: base64.{encode,decode}string are now called
4818 base64.{encode,decode}bytes which reflects what type they accept and return.
4819 The old names are still there as deprecated aliases.
4820
Georg Brandl317185a2009-06-04 09:00:56 +00004821- Issue #5767: Remove sgmlop support from xmlrpc.client.
4822
Martin v. Löwis74b7e442009-06-01 04:23:07 +00004823- Issue #6150: Fix test_unicode on wide-unicode builds.
4824
Antoine Pitrouc06de472009-05-30 21:04:26 +00004825- Issue #6149: Fix initialization of WeakValueDictionary objects from non-empty
4826 parameters.
4827
Martin v. Löwis79b13872009-06-01 04:13:14 +00004828Windows
4829-------
4830
Martin v. Löwisb7a51562009-06-07 17:55:17 +00004831- Issue #6221: Delete test registry key before running the test.
4832
Martin v. Löwis79b13872009-06-01 04:13:14 +00004833- Issue #6158: Package Sine-1000Hz-300ms.aif in MSI file.
4834
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc11729992009-06-01 21:16:17 +00004835C-API
4836-----
4837
4838- Issue #5735: Python compiled with --with-pydebug should throw an
4839 ImportError when trying to import modules compiled without
4840 --with-pydebug, and vice-versa.
4841
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00004842
Brett Cannonc6d936e2009-06-07 20:09:53 +00004843Build
4844-----
4845
4846- Issue #6154: Make sure the intl library is added to LIBS if needed. Also
4847 added LIBS to OS X framework builds.
4848
Ronald Oussoren99aab652009-06-08 21:22:57 +00004849- Issue #5809: Specifying both --enable-framework and --enable-shared is
4850 an error. Configure now explicity tells you about this.
4851
4852
Brett Cannonc6d936e2009-06-07 20:09:53 +00004853
Mark Dickinson4eb88b32009-05-11 16:41:34 +00004854What's New in Python 3.1 release candidate 1?
4855=============================================
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00004856
Benjamin Petersone6ad3872009-05-30 15:30:16 +00004857*Release date: 2009-05-30*
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00004858
4859Core and Builtins
4860-----------------
4861
Martin v. Löwis8ed91b22009-05-29 16:22:26 +00004862- Issue #6097: Escape UTF-8 surrogates resulting from mbstocs conversion
4863 of the command line.
4864
Martin v. Löwisc15bdef2009-05-29 14:47:46 +00004865- Issue #6012: Add cleanup support to O& argument parsing.
4866
Eric Smith41669ca2009-05-23 14:23:22 +00004867- Issue #6089: Fixed str.format with certain invalid field specifiers
4868 that would raise SystemError.
4869
Raymond Hettinger2bcde142009-05-29 04:52:27 +00004870- Issue #5982: staticmethod and classmethod now expose the wrapped
4871 function with __func__.
4872
Raymond Hettinger91e3b9d2009-05-28 22:20:03 +00004873- Added support for multiple context managers in the same with-statement.
4874 Deprecated contextlib.nested() which is no longer needed.
Georg Brandl0c315622009-05-25 21:10:36 +00004875
Mark Dickinson6b1e43b2009-05-20 18:41:04 +00004876- Issue #5829: complex("1e500") no longer raises OverflowError. This
4877 makes it consistent with float("1e500") and interpretation of real
4878 and imaginary literals.
4879
Hirokazu Yamamoto8223c242009-05-17 04:21:53 +00004880- Issue #3527: Removed Py_WIN_WIDE_FILENAMES which is not used any more.
4881
R. David Murraydd226ea2009-05-13 12:27:21 +00004882- Issue #5994: the marshal module now has docstrings.
4883
Mark Dickinsond1ec8b22009-05-11 15:45:15 +00004884- Issue #5981: Fix three minor inf/nan issues in float.fromhex:
4885 (1) inf and nan strings with trailing whitespace were incorrectly
4886 rejected; (2) parsing of strings representing infinities and nans
4887 was locale aware; and (3) the interpretation of fromhex('-nan')
4888 didn't match that of float('-nan').
4889
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00004890Library
4891-------
4892
Martin v. Löwisb6a748b2009-05-29 15:23:17 +00004893- Issue #4859: Implement PEP 383 for pwd, spwd, and grp.
4894
R. David Murrayfb123912009-05-28 18:19:00 +00004895- smtplib 'login' and 'cram-md5' login are also fixed (see Issue #5259).
4896
R. David Murray1f1b9d32009-05-27 20:56:59 +00004897- Issue #6121: pydoc now ignores leading and trailing spaces in the
4898 argument to the 'help' function.
4899
Georg Brandlfaf41492009-05-26 18:31:11 +00004900- Issue #6118: urllib.parse.quote_plus ignored the encoding and errors
4901 arguments for strings with a space in them.
4902
Raymond Hettinger089ba7f2009-05-27 00:38:24 +00004903- collections.namedtuple() was not working with the following field
4904 names: cls, self, tuple, itemgetter, and property.
4905
Benjamin Peterson14a3dd72009-05-25 00:51:58 +00004906- In unittest, using a skipping decorator on a class is now equivalent to
4907 skipping every test on the class. The ClassTestSuite class has been removed.
4908
Martin v. Löwis70ccd162009-05-24 19:47:22 +00004909- Issue #6050: Don't fail extracting a directory from a zipfile if
4910 the directory already exists.
4911
Antoine Pitrou61f77b52009-05-24 15:46:13 +00004912- Issue #1309352: fcntl now converts its third arguments to a C `long` rather
4913 than an int, which makes some operations possible under 64-bit Linux (e.g.
4914 DN_MULTISHOT with F_NOTIFY).
4915
Antoine Pitrou716c4442009-05-23 19:04:03 +00004916- Issue #5761: Add the name of the underlying file to the repr() of various
4917 IO objects.
4918
R. David Murraycaa27b72009-05-23 18:49:56 +00004919- Issue #5259: smtplib plain auth login no longer gives a traceback. Fix
4920 by Musashi Tamura, tests by Marcin Bachry.
4921
Antoine Pitrouc3ee1662009-05-23 16:02:33 +00004922- Issue #1983: Fix functions taking or returning a process identifier to use
4923 the dedicated C type ``pid_t`` instead of a C ``int``. Some platforms have
4924 a process identifier type wider than the standard C integer type.
4925
R. David Murray87e20742009-05-23 01:30:26 +00004926- Issue #4066: smtplib.SMTP_SSL._get_socket now correctly returns the socket.
4927 Patch by Farhan Ahmad, test by Marcin Bachry.
4928
Antoine Pitrou6e610062009-05-15 17:04:50 +00004929- Issue #2116: Weak references and weak dictionaries now support copy()ing and
4930 deepcopy()ing.
4931
Antoine Pitrouc1d09362009-05-15 12:15:51 +00004932- Issue #1655: Make imaplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
4933
Antoine Pitrou37d1c182009-05-14 21:54:00 +00004934- Issue #5918: Fix a crash in the parser module.
4935
Antoine Pitrou2ca24f02009-05-14 21:30:46 +00004936- Issue #1664: Make nntplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
4937
Antoine Pitroue4501852009-05-14 18:55:55 +00004938- Issue #5006: Better handling of unicode byte-order marks (BOM) in the io
4939 library. This means, for example, that opening an UTF-16 text file in
4940 append mode doesn't add a BOM at the end of the file if the file isn't
4941 empty.
4942
R. David Murray74b89242009-05-13 17:33:03 +00004943- Issue #4050: inspect.findsource/getsource now raise an IOError if the 'source'
4944 file is a binary. Patch by Brodie Rao, tests by Daniel Diniz. This fix
4945 corrects a pydoc regression.
4946
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00004947- Issue #5955: aifc's close method did not close the file it wrapped,
R. David Murray99352742009-05-07 18:24:38 +00004948 now it does. This also means getfp method now returns the real fp.
4949
Benjamin Peterson932073a2009-05-23 16:14:33 +00004950Installation
4951------------
4952
4953- Issue #6047: fullinstall has been removed because Python 3's executable will
4954 now be known as python3.
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00004955
Ronald Oussorenbe7149e2009-05-26 21:39:08 +00004956- Lib/smtpd.py is no longer installed as a script.
4957
Martin v. Löwisdb1c3992009-05-23 10:38:26 +00004958Extension Modules
4959-----------------
4960
Martin v. Löwisa6a9c4d2009-05-30 06:15:30 +00004961- Issue #3061: Use wcsftime for time.strftime where available.
Martin v. Löwis1b01ccd2009-05-30 06:13:40 +00004962
Martin v. Löwise23c8682009-05-29 16:01:34 +00004963- Issue #4873: Fix resource leaks in error cases of pwd and grp.
4964
Martin v. Löwisdb1c3992009-05-23 10:38:26 +00004965- Issue #6093: Fix off-by-one error in locale.strxfrm.
4966
Benjamin Peterson744af442009-05-23 18:51:49 +00004967- The _functools and _locale modules are now built into the libpython shared
4968 library instead of as extension modules.
Benjamin Peterson3dc22e82009-05-23 17:09:43 +00004969
Antoine Pitrou20327222009-05-24 20:39:11 +00004970Build
4971-----
4972
4973- Issue #3585: Add pkg-config support. It creates a python-2.7.pc file
4974 and a python3.pc symlink in the $(LIBDIR)/pkgconfig directory. Patch by
4975 Clinton Roy.
4976
Brett Cannon1262e7c2009-05-11 01:47:11 +00004977Tests
4978-----
4979
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00004980- Issue #5442: Tests for importlib were not properly skipping case-sensitivity
Brett Cannon1262e7c2009-05-11 01:47:11 +00004981 tests on darwin even when the OS was installed on a case-sensitive
4982 filesystem. Also fixed tests that should not be run when
4983 sys.dont_write_bytecode is true.
4984
4985
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00004986What's New in Python 3.1 beta 1?
4987================================
4988
Benjamin Peterson5c5f3de2009-05-06 20:43:28 +00004989*Release date: 2009-05-06*
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00004990
4991Core and Builtins
4992-----------------
4993
Mark Dickinson865e01a2009-05-07 16:37:01 +00004994- Issue #5914: Add new C API function PyOS_string_to_double, and
4995 deprecate PyOS_ascii_strtod and PyOS_ascii_atof.
4996
Eric Smith741191f2009-05-06 13:08:15 +00004997- Issue #3382: float.__format__, complex.__format__, and %-formatting
4998 no longer map 'F' to 'f'. Because of issue #5859 (below), this only
4999 affects nan -> NAN and inf -> INF.
5000
Mark Hammond5a607a32009-05-06 08:04:54 +00005001- Issue #5799: ntpath (ie, os.path on Windows) fully supports UNC pathnames
5002 in all operations, including splitdrive, split, etc. splitunc() now issues
5003 a PendingDeprecation warning.
5004
Eric Smith63376222009-05-05 14:04:18 +00005005- Issue #5920: For float.__format__, change the behavior with the
5006 empty presentation type (that is, not one of 'e', 'f', 'g', or 'n')
5007 to be like 'g' but with at least one decimal point and with a
5008 default precision of 12. Previously, the behavior the same but with
5009 a default precision of 6. This more closely matches str(), and
5010 reduces surprises when adding alignment flags to the empty
5011 presentation type. This also affects the new complex.__format__ in
5012 the same way.
5013
Martin v. Löwis011e8422009-05-05 04:43:17 +00005014- Implement PEP 383, Non-decodable Bytes in System Character Interfaces.
5015
R. David Murrayb18500d2009-05-04 22:59:07 +00005016- Issue #5890: in subclasses of 'property' the __doc__ attribute was
5017 shadowed by classtype's, even if it was None. property now
5018 inserts the __doc__ into the subclass instance __dict__.
5019
Antoine Pitrou244651a2009-05-04 18:56:13 +00005020- Issue #4426: The UTF-7 decoder was too strict and didn't accept some legal
5021 sequences. Patch by Nick Barnes and Victor Stinner.
5022
Martin v. Löwise0a2b722009-05-10 08:08:56 +00005023- Issue #3672: Reject surrogates in utf-8 codec; add surrogatepass error handler.
Martin v. Löwisdb12d452009-05-02 18:52:14 +00005024
Benjamin Petersond2e0c792009-05-01 20:40:59 +00005025- Issue #5883: In the io module, the BufferedIOBase and TextIOBase ABCs have
5026 received a new method, detach(). detach() disconnects the underlying stream
5027 from the buffer or text IO and returns it.
5028
Mark Dickinson33841c32009-05-01 15:37:04 +00005029- Issue #5859: Remove switch from '%f' to '%g'-style formatting for
5030 floats with absolute value over 1e50. Also remove length
5031 restrictions for float formatting: '%.67f' % 12.34 and '%.120e' %
5032 12.34 no longer raise an exception.
Mark Dickinsonf489caf2009-05-01 11:42:00 +00005033
Eric Smith741191f2009-05-06 13:08:15 +00005034- Issue #1588: Add complex.__format__. For example,
Eric Smith58a42242009-04-30 01:00:33 +00005035 format(complex(1, 2./3), '.5') now produces a sensible result.
5036
Mark Dickinsond3ca5572009-04-29 18:47:07 +00005037- Issue #5864: Fix empty format code formatting for floats so that it
5038 never gives more than the requested number of significant digits.
5039
Eric Smith6dc46f52009-04-27 20:39:49 +00005040- Issue #5793: Rationalize isdigit / isalpha / tolower, etc. Includes
5041 new Py_ISDIGIT / Py_ISALPHA / Py_TOLOWER, etc. in pctypes.h.
5042
Eric Smithcc32a112009-04-26 21:35:14 +00005043- Issue #5835: Deprecate PyOS_ascii_formatd.
5044
Martin v. Löwis71efeb72009-04-26 01:02:07 +00005045- Issue #4971: Fix titlecase for characters that are their own
5046 titlecase, but not their own uppercase.
5047
Benjamin Peterson193152c2009-04-25 01:08:45 +00005048- Issue #5283: Setting __class__ in __del__ caused a segfault.
5049
Mark Dickinsonad476da2009-04-23 19:14:16 +00005050- Issue #5816: complex(repr(z)) now recovers z exactly, even when
5051 z involves nans, infs or negative zeros.
5052
Mark Dickinson4a16e3a2009-04-23 19:15:48 +00005053- Issue #3166: Make int -> float conversions correctly rounded.
Mark Dickinsonc6300392009-04-20 21:38:00 +00005054
Mark Dickinsone6a076d2009-04-18 11:48:33 +00005055- Issue #1869 (and many duplicates): make round(x, n) correctly
5056 rounded for a float x, by using the decimal <-> binary conversions
5057 from Python/dtoa.c. As a consequence, (e.g.) round(x, 2) now
5058 consistently agrees with format(x, '.2f').
5059
Benjamin Petersonae937c02009-04-18 20:54:08 +00005060- Issue #5787: object.__getattribute__(some_type, "__bases__") segfaulted on
5061 some builtin types.
5062
Eric Smith0923d1d2009-04-16 20:16:10 +00005063- Issue #5772: format(1e100, '<') produces '1e+100', not '1.0e+100'.
5064
Eric Smith35e84722009-04-16 20:21:28 +00005065- Issue #5515: str.format() type 'n' combined with commas and leading
5066 zeros no longer gives odd results with ints and floats.
Eric Smith0923d1d2009-04-16 20:16:10 +00005067
5068- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for
5069 floats.
5070
Mark Dickinson3370cce2009-04-17 22:40:53 +00005071- The str function switches to exponential notation at
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00005072 1e11, not 1e12. This avoids printing 13 significant digits in
5073 situations where only 12 of them are correct. Example problem
5074 value: str(1e11 + 0.5). (This minor issue has existed in 2.x for a
5075 long time.)
5076
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00005077- Issue #1580: On most platforms, use a 'short' float repr: for a
5078 finite float x, repr(x) now outputs a string based on the shortest
5079 sequence of decimal digits that rounds to x. Previous behaviour was
5080 to output 17 significant digits and then strip trailing zeros.
Mark Dickinson3370cce2009-04-17 22:40:53 +00005081 Another minor difference is that the new repr switches to
5082 exponential notation at 1e16 instead of the previous 1e17; this
5083 avoids misleading output in some cases.
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00005084
5085 There's a new sys attribute sys.float_repr_style, which takes
5086 the value 'short' to indicate that we're using short float repr,
5087 and 'legacy' if the short float repr isn't available for one
5088 reason or another.
5089
5090 The float repr change involves incorporating David Gay's 'perfect
5091 rounding' code into the Python core (it's in Python/dtoa.c). As a
5092 secondary consequence, all string-to-float and float-to-string
5093 conversions (including all float formatting operations) will be
5094 correctly rounded on these platforms.
5095
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00005096 See issue #1580 discussions for details of platforms for which
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00005097 this change does not apply.
5098
Benjamin Peterson2808d3c2009-04-15 21:34:27 +00005099- Issue #5759: float() didn't call __float__ on str subclasses.
5100
Georg Brandlabc38772009-04-12 15:51:51 +00005101- The string.maketrans() function is deprecated; there is a new static method
5102 maketrans() on the bytes and bytearray classes. This removes confusion about
5103 the types string.maketrans() is supposed to work with, and mirrors the
5104 methods available on the str class.
5105
R. David Murraydc6da8a2009-04-09 22:16:43 +00005106- Issue #2170: refactored xml.dom.minidom.normalize, increasing both
5107 its clarity and its speed.
5108
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00005109- Issue #1113244: Py_XINCREF, Py_DECREF, Py_XDECREF: Add ``do { ... } while (0)``
Matthias Klose091c7b12009-04-07 13:24:27 +00005110 to avoid compiler warnings.
5111
Walter Dörwald8dc33d52009-05-06 14:41:26 +00005112- Issue #3739: The unicode-internal encoder now reports the number of characters
5113 consumed like any other encoder (instead of the number of bytes).
5114
Benjamin Peterson0b4915e2009-04-25 21:11:45 +00005115Installation
5116------------
5117
5118- Issue #5756: Install idle and pydoc with a 3 suffix.
5119
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00005120Library
5121-------
5122
Victor Stinner870f09a2010-06-17 21:43:33 +00005123- Issue #8203: Fix IDLE Credits dialog: view_file() uses its encoding argument.
5124
Martin v. Löwis403117a2009-05-24 19:19:17 +00005125- Issue #5311: bdist_msi can now build packages that do not depend on a
5126 specific Python version.
5127
Raymond Hettingereb816952009-05-29 01:22:18 +00005128- Issue #5150: IDLE's format menu now has an option to strip trailing
5129 whitespace.
5130
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00005131- Issue #5940: distutils.command.build_clib.check_library_list was not doing
Tarek Ziadédd9f65f2009-05-06 07:26:24 +00005132 the right type checkings anymore.
5133
Thomas Heller00cfc372009-05-05 19:04:40 +00005134- Issue #4875: On win32, ctypes.util.find_library does no longer
5135 return directories.
5136
Georg Brandl243ad662009-05-05 09:00:19 +00005137- Issue #5142: Add the ability to skip modules while stepping to pdb.
5138
Georg Brandl991f9202009-05-05 08:31:54 +00005139- Issue #1309567: Fix linecache behavior of stripping subdirectories when
5140 looking for files given by a relative filename.
5141
Georg Brandleaa84ef2009-05-05 08:14:33 +00005142- Issue #5923: Update the ``turtle`` module to version 1.1, add two new
5143 turtle demos in Demo/turtle.
5144
Antoine Pitrou3c33e082009-05-04 21:21:36 +00005145- Issue #5692: In :class:`zipfile.Zipfile`, fix wrong path calculation when
5146 extracting a file to the root directory.
5147
Hirokazu Yamamotobbb9be72009-05-04 05:56:46 +00005148- Issue #5913: os.listdir() should fail for empty path on windows.
5149
Antoine Pitroua9f48a02009-05-02 21:41:14 +00005150- Issue #5084: unpickling now interns the attribute names of pickled objects,
5151 saving memory and avoiding growth in size of subsequent pickles. Proposal
5152 and original patch by Jake McGuire.
5153
Benjamin Petersonc6b607d2009-05-02 12:36:44 +00005154- The json module now works exclusively with str and not bytes.
5155
Gregory P. Smithe54dff52009-05-01 22:13:48 +00005156- Issue #3959: The ipaddr module has been added to the standard library.
5157 Contributed by Google.
5158
Antoine Pitrou7fff0962009-05-01 21:09:44 +00005159- Issue #3002: ``shutil.copyfile()`` and ``shutil.copytree()`` now raise an
5160 error when a named pipe is encountered, rather than blocking infinitely.
5161
Raymond Hettinger1f0db402009-04-29 00:38:08 +00005162- Issue #5857: tokenize.tokenize() now returns named tuples.
5163
Thomas Hellerc1edc2d2009-04-28 19:55:58 +00005164- Issue #4305: ctypes should now build again on mipsel-linux-gnu
5165
Antoine Pitrou7a0fedf2009-04-27 22:31:40 +00005166- Issue #1734234: Massively speedup ``unicodedata.normalize()`` when the
5167 string is already in normalized form, by performing a quick check beforehand.
5168 Original patch by Rauli Ruohonen.
5169
Antoine Pitrou57f3d932009-04-27 21:04:19 +00005170- Issue #5853: calling a function of the mimetypes module from several threads
5171 at once could hit the recursion limit if the mimetypes database hadn't been
5172 initialized before.
5173
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00005174- Issue #5854: Updated __all__ to include some missing names and remove some
5175 names which should not be exported.
5176
Thomas Heller34596a92009-04-24 20:50:00 +00005177- Issue #3102: All global symbols that the _ctypes extension defines
5178 are now prefixed with 'Py' or '_ctypes'.
5179
5180- Issue #5041: ctypes does now allow pickling wide character.
5181
Mark Dickinsond4d95f82009-04-24 14:06:19 +00005182- Issue #5812: For the two-argument form of the Fraction constructor,
5183 Fraction(m, n), m and n are permitted to be arbitrary Rational
5184 instances.
5185
Mark Dickinsoncf63f2f2009-04-22 17:50:21 +00005186- Issue #5812: Fraction('1e6') is valid: more generally, any string
5187 that's valid for float() is now valid for Fraction(), with the
5188 exception of strings representing NaNs and infinities.
5189
Antoine Pitroucf4c7492009-04-19 00:09:36 +00005190- Issue #5734: BufferedRWPair was poorly tested and had several glaring
5191 bugs. Patch by Brian Quinlan.
5192
R. David Murray9e94ddf2009-04-13 17:06:33 +00005193- Issue #1161031: fix readwrite select flag handling: POLLPRI now
5194 results in a handle_expt_event call, not handle_read_event, and POLLERR
5195 and POLLNVAL now call handle_close, not handle_expt_event. Also,
5196 dispatcher now has an 'ignore_log_types' attribute for suppressing
5197 log messages, which is set to 'warning' by default.
5198
Matthias Klosea3d29e82009-04-07 13:13:10 +00005199- Issue #2703: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher.__init__: Provide default values for
5200 new arguments introduced in 2.5.
5201
Walter Dörwald1b08b302009-04-25 14:13:56 +00005202- Issue #5828 (Invalid behavior of unicode.lower): Fixed bogus logic in
5203 makeunicodedata.py and regenerated the Unicode database (This fixes
5204 u'\u1d79'.lower() == '\x00').
5205
Matthias Klose535336f2009-04-07 13:49:45 +00005206Extension Modules
5207-----------------
5208
Benjamin Petersone04b6272009-05-04 22:25:21 +00005209- Issue #5881: Remove old undocumented compatibility interfaces in hashlib and
5210 pwd.
5211
Mark Dickinsonea835e72009-04-19 20:40:33 +00005212- Issue #5463: In struct module, remove deprecated float coercion
5213 for integer type codes: struct.pack('L', 0.3) should now raise
5214 an error. The _PY_STRUCT_FLOAT_COERCE constant has been removed.
5215 The version number has been bumped to 0.3.
5216
Georg Brandlbb190152010-07-31 21:41:42 +00005217- Issue #5359: Readd the Berkeley DB detection code to allow _dbm be built
5218 using Berkeley DB.
Matthias Klose535336f2009-04-07 13:49:45 +00005219
Nick Coghlan47384702009-04-22 16:13:36 +00005220Tests
5221-----
5222
5223- Issue #5354: New test support function import_fresh_module() makes
5224 it easy to import both normal and optimised versions of modules.
5225 test_heapq and test_warnings have been adjusted to use it, tests for
5226 other modules with both C and Python implementations in the stdlib
5227 can be adjusted to use it over time.
5228
Walter Dörwald4ba80132009-04-25 12:48:43 +00005229- Issue #5837: Certain sequences of calls to set() and unset() for
5230 support.EnvironmentVarGuard objects restored the environment variables
5231 incorrectly on __exit__.
5232
Benjamin Petersonb173f782009-05-05 22:31:58 +00005233C-API
5234-----
5235
5236- Issue #5630: A replacement PyCObject API, PyCapsule, has been added.
5237
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00005238
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00005239What's New in Python 3.1 alpha 2?
5240=================================
5241
Benjamin Peterson88f14352009-04-04 21:06:52 +00005242*Release date: 2009-4-4*
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00005243
5244Core and Builtins
5245-----------------
Benjamin Petersone099b372009-04-04 17:09:35 +00005246
Eric Smith1e1d7d22009-04-03 22:25:33 +00005247- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for
5248 integers.
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00005249
Benjamin Peterson8f76b492009-04-03 22:22:42 +00005250- Issue #5666: Py_BuildValue's 'c' code should create byte strings.
5251
Benjamin Peterson7fe98532009-04-02 00:33:55 +00005252- Issue #5499: The 'c' code for argument parsing functions now only accepts a
5253 byte, and the 'C' code only accepts a unicode character.
5254
Georg Brandl406b3d82009-04-11 21:24:37 +00005255- Fix a problem in PyErr_NormalizeException that leads to "undetected errors"
5256 when hitting the recursion limit under certain circumstances.
5257
Brett Cannon0759dd62009-04-01 18:13:07 +00005258- Issue #1665206: Remove the last eager import in _warnings.c and make it lazy.
5259
Georg Brandlab6f2f62009-03-31 04:16:10 +00005260- Fix a segfault when running test_exceptions with coverage, caused by
5261 insufficient checks in accessors of Exception.__context__.
5262
Guido van Rossum0ad59d42009-03-30 22:01:35 +00005263- Issue #5604: non-ASCII characters in module name passed to
5264 imp.find_module() were converted to UTF-8 while the path is
5265 converted to the default filesystem encoding, causing nonsense.
5266
Benjamin Peterson09832742009-03-26 17:15:46 +00005267- Issue #5126: str.isprintable() returned False for space characters.
5268
Ronald Oussorenfa1fcd12009-03-30 23:16:10 +00005269- Issue #4865: On MacOSX /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages is added to
5270 the end sys.path, for compatibility with the system install of Python.
5271
Antoine Pitrou3a652b12009-03-23 18:52:06 +00005272- Issue #4688: Add a heuristic so that tuples and dicts containing only
5273 untrackable objects are not tracked by the garbage collector. This can
5274 reduce the size of collections and therefore the garbage collection overhead
5275 on long-running programs, depending on their particular use of datatypes.
5276
Mark Dickinson17e4fdd2009-03-23 18:44:57 +00005277- Issue #5512: Rewrite PyLong long division algorithm (x_divrem) to
5278 improve its performance. Long divisions and remainder operations
5279 are now between 50% and 150% faster.
5280
Mark Dickinsonbd792642009-03-18 20:06:12 +00005281- Issue #4258: Make it possible to use base 2**30 instead of base
5282 2**15 for the internal representation of integers, for performance
5283 reasons. Base 2**30 is enabled by default on 64-bit machines. Add
5284 --enable-big-digits option to configure, which overrides the
5285 default. Add sys.int_info structseq to provide information about
5286 the internal format.
5287
Mark Dickinson081dfee2009-03-18 14:47:41 +00005288- Issue #4474: PyUnicode_FromWideChar now converts characters outside
5289 the BMP to surrogate pairs, on systems with sizeof(wchar_t) == 4
5290 and sizeof(Py_UNICODE) == 2.
5291
Eric Smith8ec90442009-03-14 12:29:34 +00005292- Issue #5237: Allow auto-numbered fields in str.format(). For
5293 example: '{} {}'.format(1, 2) == '1 2'.
5294
Antoine Pitrou652e7072009-03-13 19:25:20 +00005295- Issue #5392: when a very low recursion limit was set, the interpreter would
5296 abort with a fatal error after the recursion limit was hit twice.
5297
Matthias Klose042f1332009-04-04 14:32:42 +00005298- Issue #3845: In PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags avoid invalid memory access with
5299 short file names.
5300
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00005301Library
5302-------
5303
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00005304- Issue #2625: added missing items() call to the for loop in
R. David Murray548ac412009-04-02 19:44:43 +00005305 mailbox.MH.get_message().
5306
Hye-Shik Chang944820b2009-04-02 10:33:16 +00005307- Issue #5640: Fix _multibytecodec so that CJK codecs don't repeat
5308 error substitutions from non-strict codec error callbacks in
5309 incrementalencoder and StreamWriter.
5310
Georg Brandl33c28812009-04-01 23:07:29 +00005311- Issue #5656: Fix the coverage reporting when running the test suite with
5312 the -T argument.
5313
Raymond Hettinger3f10a952009-04-01 19:05:50 +00005314- Issue #5647: MutableSet.__iand__() no longer mutates self during iteration.
5315
Georg Brandl4ed72ac2009-04-01 04:28:33 +00005316- Issue #5624: Fix the _winreg module name still used in several modules.
5317
Benjamin Petersona1b49012009-03-31 23:11:32 +00005318- Issue #5628: Fix io.TextIOWrapper.read() with a unreadable buffer.
5319
Jesse Nollera9314042009-03-31 22:36:44 +00005320- Issue #5619: Multiprocessing children disobey the debug flag and causes
5321 popups on windows buildbots. Patch applied to work around this issue.
5322
Jesse Noller32d68c22009-03-31 18:48:42 +00005323- Issue #5400: Added patch for multiprocessing on netbsd compilation/support
5324
Hirokazu Yamamoto16caab02009-03-31 13:44:06 +00005325- Issue #5387: Fixed mmap.move crash by integer overflow.
5326
Jesse Nollerf8d00852009-03-31 03:25:07 +00005327- Issue #5261: Patch multiprocessing's semaphore.c to support context
5328 manager use: "with multiprocessing.Lock()" works now.
5329
Brett Cannon7f6b4f82009-03-30 21:30:26 +00005330- Issue #5236: Change time.strptime() to only take strings. Didn't work with
5331 bytes already but the failure was non-obvious.
5332
Jesse Noller7af4ef82009-03-30 16:47:15 +00005333- Issue #5177: Multiprocessing's SocketListener class now uses
5334 socket.SO_REUSEADDR on all connections so that the user no longer needs
5335 to wait 120 seconds for the socket to expire.
5336
Benjamin Peterson48e24782009-03-29 13:02:52 +00005337- Issue #5595: Fix UnboundedLocalError in ntpath.ismount().
5338
Antoine Pitrou66994e12009-03-29 00:45:26 +00005339- Issue #1174606: Calling read() without arguments of an unbounded file
5340 (typically /dev/zero under Unix) could crash the interpreter.
5341
Benjamin Peterson59406a92009-03-26 17:10:29 +00005342- The max_buffer_size arguments of io.BufferedWriter, io.BufferedRWPair, and
5343 io.BufferedRandom have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.2.
5344
Lars Gustäbel42e00912009-03-22 20:34:29 +00005345- Issue #5068: Fixed the tarfile._BZ2Proxy.read() method that would loop
5346 forever on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used
5347 with mode 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or
5348 partial bzip2 compressed data.
5349
Mark Dickinson79f52032009-03-17 23:12:51 +00005350- Issue #2110: Add support for thousands separator and 'n' type
5351 specifier to Decimal.__format__
5352
Mark Dickinson9c59fe02009-03-17 18:15:08 +00005353- Fix Decimal.__format__ bug that swapped the meanings of the '<' and
5354 '>' alignment characters.
5355
Antoine Pitrou0ae29cf2009-03-13 22:33:17 +00005356- The error detection code in FileIO.close() could fail to reflect the `errno`
5357 value, and report it as -1 instead.
5358
Antoine Pitroua28fcfd2009-03-13 23:42:55 +00005359- Issue #5016: FileIO.seekable() could return False if the file position
5360 was negative when truncated to a C int. Patch by Victor Stinner.
5361
Mark Dickinsonae681df2009-03-21 10:26:31 +00005362Extension Modules
5363-----------------
5364
Benjamin Petersone099b372009-04-04 17:09:35 +00005365- Issue #5391: mmap now deals exclusively with bytes.
5366
Mark Dickinsonae681df2009-03-21 10:26:31 +00005367- Issue #5463: In struct module, remove deprecated overflow wrapping
5368 when packing an integer: struct.pack('=L', -1) now raises
Mark Dickinsonb40b9472009-03-29 16:58:21 +00005369 struct.error instead of returning b'\xff\xff\xff\xff'. The
5370 _PY_STRUCT_RANGE_CHECKING and _PY_STRUCT_OVERFLOW_MASKING constants
5371 have been removed from the struct module.
Mark Dickinsonae681df2009-03-21 10:26:31 +00005372
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00005373
Benjamin Petersona58a6262009-03-07 16:34:40 +00005374What's New in Python 3.1 alpha 1
Barry Warsaw97f005d2008-12-03 16:46:14 +00005375================================
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00005376
Benjamin Petersona58a6262009-03-07 16:34:40 +00005377*Release date: 2009-03-07*
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00005378
5379Core and Builtins
5380-----------------
5381
Benjamin Peterson4fa88fa2009-03-04 00:14:51 +00005382- The io module has been reimplemented in C for speed.
5383
Raymond Hettingerb0d56af2009-03-03 10:52:49 +00005384- Give dict views an informative __repr__.
5385
Eric Smith5e5c0db2009-02-20 14:25:03 +00005386- Issue #5247: Improve error message when unknown format codes are
5387 used when using str.format() with str, int, and float arguments.
5388
Hirokazu Yamamoto575d1332009-02-16 09:13:20 +00005389- Issue #5249: time.strftime returned malformed string when format string
5390 contained non ascii character on windows.
5391
Benjamin Petersonf5b52242009-03-02 23:31:26 +00005392- Issue #4626: compile(), exec(), and eval() ignore the coding cookie if the
5393 source has already been decoded into str.
5394
Antoine Pitrou79eee6b2009-02-13 14:01:05 +00005395- Issue #5186: Reduce hash collisions for objects with no __hash__ method by
5396 rotating the object pointer by 4 bits to the right.
5397
Mark Dickinson87ec0852009-02-09 17:15:59 +00005398- Issue #4575: Fix Py_IS_INFINITY macro to work correctly on x87 FPUs:
5399 it now forces its argument to double before testing for infinity.
5400
Benjamin Petersonee1ae7c2009-02-08 21:07:20 +00005401- Issue #5137: Make len() correctly raise a TypeError when a __len__ method
5402 returns a non-number type.
5403
Benjamin Peterson87618552009-02-08 15:00:52 +00005404- Issue #5182: Removed memoryview.__str__.
5405
Mark Dickinsonc008a172009-02-01 13:59:22 +00005406- Issue #1717: Removed builtin cmp() function, dropped tp_compare
5407 slot, the C API functions PyObject_Compare and PyUnicode_Compare and
Mark Dickinsone94c6792009-02-02 20:36:42 +00005408 the type definition cmpfunc. The tp_compare slot has been renamed
5409 to tp_reserved, and is reserved for future usage.
Mark Dickinsonf02e0aa2009-02-01 12:13:56 +00005410
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00005411- Issue #1242657: the __len__() and __length_hint__() calls in several tools
Raymond Hettingere8364232009-02-02 22:55:09 +00005412 were suppressing all exceptions. These include list() and bytearray().
5413
Mark Dickinson1124e712009-01-28 21:25:58 +00005414- Issue #4707: round(x, n) now returns an integer if x is an integer.
5415 Previously it returned a float.
5416
Antoine Pitroub52ec782009-01-25 16:34:23 +00005417- Issue #4753: By enabling a configure option named '--with-computed-gotos'
5418 on compilers that support it (notably: gcc, SunPro, icc), the bytecode
5419 evaluation loop is compiled with a new dispatch mechanism which gives
5420 speedups of up to 20%, depending on the system, on various benchmarks.
5421
Antoine Pitrou81fabdb2009-01-22 10:11:36 +00005422- Issue #4874: Most builtin decoders now reject unicode input.
5423
Mark Dickinson9ffc0202009-01-20 20:45:53 +00005424- Issue #4842: Don't allow trailing 'L' when constructing an integer
5425 from a string.
5426
Benjamin Peterson05e782f2009-01-19 15:15:02 +00005427- Issue #4991: os.fdopen now raises an OSError for invalid file descriptors.
5428
Antoine Pitroue4bc7f62009-01-17 21:06:43 +00005429- Issue #4838: When a module is deallocated, free the memory backing the
5430 optional module state data.
5431
Mark Dickinson8055afd2009-01-17 10:04:45 +00005432- Issue #4910: Rename nb_long slot to nb_reserved, and change its
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00005433 type to ``(void *)``.
Mark Dickinson8055afd2009-01-17 10:04:45 +00005434
Antoine Pitrou8d4e5052009-01-13 22:59:11 +00005435- Issue #4935: The overflow checking code in the expandtabs() method common
5436 to str, bytes and bytearray could be optimized away by the compiler, letting
5437 the interpreter segfault instead of raising an error.
5438
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf343e012009-01-12 23:58:21 +00005439- Issue #3720: Fix a crash when an iterator modifies its class and removes its
5440 __next__ method.
5441
Mark Dickinsone5e298f2009-01-12 20:49:19 +00005442- Issue #4910: Builtin int() function and PyNumber_Long/PyNumber_Int API
5443 function no longer attempt to call the __long__ slot to convert an object
5444 to an integer. Only the __int__ and __trunc__ slots are examined.
5445
Martin v. Löwis7c2b66c2009-01-12 08:21:03 +00005446- Issue #4893: Use NT threading on CE.
5447
Martin v. Löwisec59d042009-01-12 07:59:10 +00005448- Issue #4915: Port sysmodule to Windows CE.
5449
Antoine Pitrouab868312009-01-10 15:40:25 +00005450- Issue #4868: utf-8, utf-16 and latin1 decoding are now 2x to 4x faster. The
5451 common cases are optimized thanks to a dedicated fast path and a moderate
5452 amount of loop unrolling.
5453
Antoine Pitrou14b78f52009-01-09 22:27:08 +00005454- Issue #4074: Change the criteria for doing a full garbage collection (i.e.
5455 collecting the oldest generation) so that allocating lots of objects without
5456 destroying them does not show quadratic performance. Based on a proposal by
5457 Martin von Löwis at
5458 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080579.html.
5459
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00005460- Issue #4604: Some objects of the I/O library could still be used after
Antoine Pitrou8043cf82009-01-09 19:54:29 +00005461 having been closed (for instance, a read() call could return some
5462 previously buffered data). Patch by Dmitry Vasiliev.
5463
Antoine Pitrou05608432009-01-09 18:53:14 +00005464- Issue #4705: Fix the -u ("unbuffered binary stdout and stderr") command-line
5465 flag to work properly. Furthermore, when specifying -u, the text stdout
5466 and stderr streams have line-by-line buffering enabled (the default being
5467 to buffer arbitrary chunks of data).
5468
Raymond Hettinger35631532009-01-09 03:58:09 +00005469- The internal table, _PyLong_DigitValue, is now an array of unsigned chars
5470 instead of ints (reducing its size from 4 to 8 times thereby reducing
5471 Python's overall memory).
5472
Antoine Pitroud35cbf62009-01-06 19:02:24 +00005473- Issue #1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with
5474 an existing .py counterpart, override the co_filename attributes of all
5475 code objects if the original filename is obsolete (which can happen if the
5476 file has been renamed, moved, or if it is accessed through different paths).
5477 Patch by Ziga Seilnacht and Jean-Paul Calderone.
5478
Antoine Pitrouc3b39242009-01-03 16:59:18 +00005479- Issue #4580: Fix slicing of memoryviews when the item size is greater than
5480 one byte. Also fixes the meaning of len() so that it returns the number of
5481 items, rather than the size in bytes.
5482
Martin v. Löwis5c88d812009-01-02 20:47:48 +00005483- Issue #4075: Use OutputDebugStringW in Py_FatalError.
5484
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc374e2202009-01-01 23:05:36 +00005485- Issue #4747: When the terminal does not use utf-8, executing a script with
5486 non-ascii characters in its name could fail with a "SyntaxError: None" error.
5487
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00005488- Issue #4797: IOError.filename was not set when ``_fileio.FileIO`` failed
5489 to open file with a bytes filename on Windows.
Hirokazu Yamamoto0f22d692009-01-01 16:03:45 +00005490
Antoine Pitrou7ddda782009-01-01 15:35:33 +00005491- Issue #3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator
5492 did not get collected.
5493
Nick Coghlanf1f2f682008-12-30 07:29:12 +00005494- Issue #4701: PyObject_Hash now implicitly calls PyType_Ready on types
5495 where the tp_hash and tp_dict slots are both NULL.
5496
Georg Brandlccc47b62008-12-28 11:44:14 +00005497- Issue #4759: None is now allowed as the first argument of
5498 bytearray.translate(). It was always allowed for bytes.translate().
5499
Skip Montanaro80072cb2008-12-23 03:51:14 +00005500- Added test case to ensure attempts to read from a file opened for writing
5501 fail.
5502
Antoine Pitrou51f3ef92008-12-20 13:14:23 +00005503- Issue #3106: Speedup some comparisons (str/str and int/int).
5504
Antoine Pitrouf289ae62008-12-18 11:06:25 +00005505- Issue #2183: Simplify and optimize bytecode for list, dict and set
5506 comprehensions. Original patch for list comprehensions by Neal Norwitz.
5507
Antoine Pitrou621601a2008-12-17 23:18:19 +00005508- Issue #2467: gc.DEBUG_STATS reported invalid elapsed times. Also, always
5509 print elapsed times, not only when some objects are uncollectable /
5510 unreachable. Original patch by Neil Schemenauer.
5511
Mark Dickinson54bc1ec2008-12-17 16:19:07 +00005512- Issue #3439: Add a bit_length method to int.
5513
Mark Dickinsonda2706b2008-12-11 18:03:03 +00005514- Issue #2173: When getting device encoding, check that return value of
5515 nl_langinfo is not the empty string. This was causing silent build
5516 failures on OS X.
5517
Jeffrey Yasskinb9083f32008-12-11 06:18:33 +00005518- Issue #4597: Fixed several opcodes that weren't always propagating
5519 exceptions.
5520
5521- Issue #4589: Fixed exception handling when the __exit__ function of a
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc10b24e82008-12-10 23:49:33 +00005522 context manager returns a value that cannot be converted to a bool.
5523
Mark Dickinsonfd24b322008-12-06 15:33:31 +00005524- Issue #4445: Replace "sizeof(PyBytesObject)" with
5525 "offsetof(PyBytesObject, ob_sval) + 1" when allocating memory for
5526 bytes instances. On a typical machine this saves 3 bytes of memory
5527 (on average) per allocation of a bytes instance.
5528
Christian Heimesa872de52008-12-05 08:26:55 +00005529- Issue #4533: File read operation was dreadfully slow due to a slowly
5530 growing read buffer. Fixed by using the same growth rate algorithm as
5531 Python 2.x.
5532
Antoine Pitrou5504e892008-12-06 21:27:53 +00005533- Issue #4509: Various issues surrounding resize of bytearray objects to
5534 which there are buffer exports (e.g. memoryview instances).
5535
Georg Brandlf9734072008-12-07 15:30:06 +00005536- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()``
5537 method on file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still
5538 kept open but the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO``
5539 object also got a new readonly attribute ``closefd``.
Matthias Klose7e1b8fa2008-11-26 17:22:04 +00005540
Antoine Pitroubc420402008-12-07 20:14:49 +00005541- Issue #4569: Interpreter crash when mutating a memoryview with an item size
5542 larger than 1.
5543
Benjamin Peterson371ccfb2008-12-27 19:03:36 +00005544- Issue #4748: Lambda generators no longer return a value.
5545
Gregory P. Smithccc5ae72009-03-02 05:21:55 +00005546- The re.sub(), re.subn() and re.split() functions now accept a flags parameter.
5547
Walter Dörwaldc1651a02009-05-03 22:55:55 +00005548- Issue #5108: Handle %s like %S, %R and %A in PyUnicode_FromFormatV(): Call
5549 PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8() once, remember the result and output it in a second
5550 step. This avoids problems with counting UTF-8 bytes that ignores the effect
5551 of using the replace error handler in PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8().
5552
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00005553Library
5554-------
Tarek Ziadé38e3d512009-02-27 12:58:56 +00005555
Tarek Ziadé04fe7c02009-10-25 23:08:47 +00005556- Issue #7071: byte-compilation in Distutils is now done with respect to
5557 sys.dont_write_bytecode.
5558
Victor Stinnere125f132010-05-15 21:04:43 +00005559- Issue #7066: archive_util.make_archive now restores the cwd if an error is
Tarek Ziadé978cca62009-10-24 13:38:27 +00005560 raised. Initial patch by Ezio Melotti.
5561
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +00005562- Issue #6516: Added owner/group support when creating tar archives in
Tarek Ziadé05b30342009-10-02 23:56:02 +00005563 Distutils.
5564
Tarek Ziadé31d46072009-09-21 13:55:19 +00005565- Issue #6954: Fixed crash when using DISTUTILS_DEBUG flag in Distutils.
5566
Tarek Ziadé165581c2009-09-09 08:48:07 +00005567- Issue #6163: Fixed HP-UX runtime library dir options in
5568 distutils.unixcompiler. Initial patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar and
5569 Michael Haubenwallner.
5570
Tarek Ziadé4a608c02009-08-20 21:28:05 +00005571- Issue #6693: New functions in site.py to get user/global site packages paths.
5572
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbc347802009-07-28 22:18:57 +00005573- Issue #6511: ZipFile now raises BadZipfile (instead of an IOError) when
5574 opening an empty or very small file.
5575
5576- Issue #6545: Removed assert statements in distutils.Extension, so the
Tarek Ziadé2f19bb12009-07-22 08:57:28 +00005577 behavior is similar when used with -O.
5578
Benjamin Petersonbed7d042009-07-19 21:01:52 +00005579- unittest has been split up into a package. All old names should still work.
5580
Tarek Ziadéf8926b22009-07-16 16:18:19 +00005581- Issue #6466: now distutils.cygwinccompiler and distutils.emxccompiler
5582 uses the same refactored function to get gcc/ld/dllwrap versions numbers.
5583 It's `distutils.util.get_compiler_versions`. Added deprecation warnings
5584 for the obsolete get_versions() functions.
5585
Alexandre Vassalottie52e3782009-07-17 09:18:18 +00005586- Issue #6433: fixed issues with multiprocessing.pool.map hanging on empty list
5587
5588- Issue #6314: logging: Extra checks on the "level" argument in more places.
5589
Florent Xiclunae7eaec62010-08-08 18:03:44 +00005590- Issue #2622: Fixed an ImportError when importing email.message from a
Alexandre Vassalottie52e3782009-07-17 09:18:18 +00005591 standalone application built with py2exe or py2app.
5592
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00005593- Issue #6455: Fixed test_build_ext under win32.
Tarek Ziadéb7815e32009-07-10 09:14:31 +00005594
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00005595- Issue #6377: Enabled the compiler option, and deprecate its usage as an
Tarek Ziadédd07ebb2009-07-06 13:52:17 +00005596 attribute.
5597
Tarek Ziadé05bf01a2009-07-04 02:04:21 +00005598- Issue #6413: Fixed the log level in distutils.dist for announce.
5599
Tarek Ziadée10d6de2009-07-03 08:33:28 +00005600- Issue #6403: Fixed package path usage in build_ext.
5601
Alexandre Vassalottie52e3782009-07-17 09:18:18 +00005602- Issues #5155, 5313, 5331: multiprocessing.Process._bootstrap was
5603 unconditionally calling "os.close(sys.stdin.fileno())" resulting in file
5604 descriptor errors
5605
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00005606- Issue #6365: Distutils build_ext inplace mode was copying the compiled
Tarek Ziadé0156f912009-06-29 16:19:22 +00005607 extension in a subdirectory if the extension name had dots.
5608
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00005609- Issue #6164: Added an AIX specific linker argument in Distutils
Tarek Ziadé8f480e52009-06-28 21:30:52 +00005610 unixcompiler. Original patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
5611
Tarek Ziadé25bd2062009-06-28 21:26:27 +00005612- Issue #6286: Now Distutils upload command is based on urllib2 instead of
5613 httplib, allowing the usage of http_proxy.
5614
Tarek Ziadé5e06a652009-06-16 07:43:42 +00005615- Issue #6287: Added the license field in Distutils documentation.
5616
Tarek Ziadéff543362009-06-11 09:25:41 +00005617- Issue #6263: Fixed syntax error in distutils.cygwincompiler.
5618
Tarek Ziadéabcc3f42009-06-11 08:31:17 +00005619- Issue #5201: distutils.sysconfig.parse_makefile() now understands `$$`
5620 in Makefiles. This prevents compile errors when using syntax like:
5621 `LDFLAGS='-rpath=\$$LIB:/some/other/path'`. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
5622
Hirokazu Yamamoto2703fd92009-05-29 09:14:04 +00005623- Issue #6131: test_modulefinder leaked when run after test_distutils.
5624 Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
5625
Tarek Ziadé77c8b372009-05-28 13:01:13 +00005626- Issue #6048: Now Distutils uses the tarfile module in archive_util.
5627
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00005628- Issue #6062: In distutils, fixed the package option of build_ext. Feedback
Tarek Ziadé822eb842009-05-19 16:22:57 +00005629 and tests on pywin32 by Tim Golden.
5630
Tarek Ziadé93fb3aa2009-05-18 12:29:06 +00005631- Issue #6053: Fixed distutils tests on win32. patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
5632
Tarek Ziadéd18a84e2009-05-18 08:07:46 +00005633- Issue #6046: Fixed the library extension when distutils build_ext is used
5634 inplace. Initial patch by Roumen Petrov.
5635
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00005636- Issue #6041: Now distutils `sdist` and `register` commands use `check` as a
Tarek Ziadé5af55c62009-05-16 16:52:13 +00005637 subcommand.
5638
Tarek Ziadé4210c6e2009-05-14 20:20:47 +00005639- Issue #6022: a test file was created in the current working directory by
5640 test_get_outputs in Distutils.
5641
Tarek Ziadéff0e5002009-05-12 17:14:01 +00005642- Issue #5977: distutils build_ext.get_outputs was not taking into account the
5643 inplace option. Initial patch by kxroberto.
5644
Tarek Ziadé06fbee12009-05-10 10:34:01 +00005645- Issue #5984: distutils.command.build_ext.check_extensions_list checks were broken
5646 for old-style extensions.
5647
Tarek Ziadébe5b1b92009-05-09 10:09:11 +00005648- Issue #5976: Fixed Distutils test_check_environ.
5649
Tarek Ziadé5662d3e2009-05-07 21:24:43 +00005650- Issue #5941: Distutils build_clib command was not working anymore because
5651 of an incomplete costumization of the archiver command. Added ARFLAGS in the
5652 Makefile besides AR and make Distutils use it. Original patch by David
5653 Cournapeau.
5654
R. David Murrayb507d2e2009-04-29 15:34:32 +00005655- Issue #2245: aifc now skips chunk types it doesn't recognize, per spec.
5656
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00005657- Issue #5874: distutils.tests.test_config_cmd is not locale-sensitive
Tarek Ziadé81623822009-04-29 08:07:44 +00005658 anymore.
5659
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00005660- Issue #5810: Fixed Distutils test_build_scripts so it uses
Tarek Ziadé939f9c82009-04-25 12:53:56 +00005661 sysconfig.get_config_vars.
5662
Tarek Ziadé23336082009-04-25 12:39:56 +00005663- Issue #4951: Fixed failure in test_httpservers.
5664
Thomas Hellerd3cfe992009-04-24 20:10:24 +00005665- Issue #5795: Fixed test_distutils failure on Debian ppc.
5666
Tarek Ziadé822e1d42009-04-13 12:37:57 +00005667- Issue #5607: fixed Distutils test_get_platform for Mac OS X fat binaries.
5668
Georg Brandl1f9fa312009-04-27 16:42:58 +00005669- Issue #5741: don't disallow "%%" (which is an escape for "%") when setting
5670 a value in SafeConfigParser.
5671
Tarek Ziadéf396ecf2009-04-11 15:00:43 +00005672- Issue #5732: added a new command in Distutils: check.
5673
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00005674- Issue #5731: Distutils bdist_wininst no longer worked on non-Windows
Tarek Ziadéa6191802009-04-09 22:02:39 +00005675 platforms. Initial patch by Paul Moore.
5676
Tarek Ziadéf6370502009-04-05 22:57:21 +00005677- Issue #5095: Added bdist_msi to the list of bdist supported formats.
5678 Initial fix by Steven Bethard.
5679
Tarek Ziadé889b0aa2009-04-05 21:49:36 +00005680- Issue #1491431: Fixed distutils.filelist.glob_to_re for edge cases.
5681 Initial fix by Wayne Davison.
5682
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00005683- Issue #5694: removed spurious test output in Distutils (test_clean).
Tarek Ziadéea261632009-04-05 18:33:34 +00005684
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00005685- Issue #1326077: fix the formatting of SyntaxErrors by the traceback module.
Georg Brandl236f7972009-04-05 14:28:42 +00005686
Brett Cannonf47e84c2009-04-01 16:06:01 +00005687- Issue #1665206 (partially): Move imports in cgitb to the top of the module
5688 instead of performing them in functions. Helps prevent import deadlocking in
5689 threads.
5690
R. David Murraye59482e2009-04-01 03:42:00 +00005691- Issue #2522: locale.format now checks its first argument to ensure it has
5692 been passed only one pattern, avoiding mysterious errors where it appeared
5693 that it was failing to do localization.
5694
Tarek Ziadéb2e36f12009-03-31 22:37:55 +00005695- Issue #5583: Added optional Extensions in Distutils. Initial patch by Georg
5696 Brandl.
5697
Antoine Pitrou350370c2009-03-14 00:13:13 +00005698- Issue #1222: locale.format() bug when the thousands separator is a space
5699 character.
5700
Tarek Ziadé516db942009-03-11 12:52:00 +00005701- Issue #5472: Fixed distutils.test_util tear down. Original patch by
5702 Tim Golden.
5703
Raymond Hettinger5bb0f0e2009-03-10 12:56:32 +00005704- collections.deque() objects now have a read-only attribute called maxlen.
5705
Guilherme Polof45b4cc2009-03-07 02:19:14 +00005706- Issue #2638: Show a window constructed with tkSimpleDialog.Dialog only after
5707 it is has been populated and properly configured in order to prevent
5708 window flashing.
5709
Guilherme Polo56f5be52009-03-07 01:54:57 +00005710- Issue #4792: Prevent a segfault in _tkinter by using the
5711 guaranteed to be safe interp argument given to the PythonCmd in place of
5712 the Tcl interpreter taken from a PythonCmd_ClientData.
5713
5714- Issue #5193: Guarantee that tkinter.Text.search returns a string.
5715
Tarek Ziadé63b64c02009-03-07 00:51:53 +00005716- Issue #5394: removed > 2.3 syntax from distutils.msvc9compiler.
5717 Original patch by Akira Kitada.
5718
Hirokazu Yamamoto54d0df62009-03-06 03:04:07 +00005719- Issue #5334: array.fromfile() failed to insert values when EOFError was raised.
5720
Hirokazu Yamamoto8e722bc2009-03-05 14:33:01 +00005721- Issue #5385: Fixed mmap crash after resize failure on windows.
5722
Hirokazu Yamamoto0c988172009-03-03 22:41:26 +00005723- Issue #5179: Fixed subprocess handle leak on failure on windows.
5724
Raymond Hettinger2d32f632009-03-02 21:24:57 +00005725- PEP 372: Added collections.OrderedDict().
5726
Raymond Hettingera4f52b12009-03-02 22:28:31 +00005727- The _asdict() for method for namedtuples now returns an OrderedDict().
5728
Raymond Hettinger0663a1e2009-03-02 23:06:00 +00005729- configparser now defaults to using an ordered dictionary.
5730
Benjamin Petersone0124bd2009-03-09 21:04:33 +00005731- Issue #5401: Fixed a performance problem in mimetypes when ``from mimetypes
5732 import guess_extension`` was used.
5733
Hirokazu Yamamoto10c99372009-02-28 12:21:53 +00005734- Issue #1733986: Fixed mmap crash in accessing elements of second map object
5735 with same tagname but larger size than first map. (Windows)
5736
Hirokazu Yamamoto39c6dea2009-02-28 10:56:50 +00005737- Issue #5386: mmap.write_byte didn't check map size, so it could cause buffer
5738 overrun.
5739
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00005740- Issue #1533164: Installed but not listed ``*.pyo`` was breaking Distutils
Tarek Ziadéf0721222009-02-28 10:16:43 +00005741 bdist_rpm command.
5742
5743- Issue #5378: added --quiet option to Distutils bdist_rpm command.
5744
Tarek Ziadé38e3d512009-02-27 12:58:56 +00005745- Issue #5052: make Distutils compatible with 2.3 again.
5746
Tarek Ziadé0f31e6d2009-02-25 22:31:38 +00005747- Issue #5316: Fixed buildbot failures introduced by multiple inheritance
5748 in Distutils tests.
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00005749
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00005750- Issue #5287: Add exception handling around findCaller() call to help out
5751 IronPython.
5752
Hirokazu Yamamoto0654ccd2009-02-18 16:38:00 +00005753- Issue #5282: Fixed mmap resize on 32bit windows and unix. When offset > 0,
5754 The file was resized to wrong size.
5755
5756- Issue #5292: Fixed mmap crash on its boundary access m[len(m)].
5757
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00005758- Issue #2279: distutils.sdist.add_defaults now add files
Tarek Ziadé0d0506e2009-02-16 21:49:12 +00005759 from the package_data and the data_files metadata.
5760
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00005761- Issue #5257: refactored all tests in distutils, so they use
Tarek Ziadéc1375d52009-02-14 14:35:51 +00005762 support.TempdirManager, to avoid writing in the tests directory.
5763
Tarek Ziadé68c50952009-02-13 23:04:17 +00005764- Issue #4524: distutils build_script command failed with --with-suffix=3.
5765 Initial patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
5766
Tarek Ziadé811d6242009-02-13 22:26:15 +00005767- Issue #2461: added tests for distutils.util
5768
Mark Dickinsonc28ad272009-02-12 17:58:36 +00005769- Issue #4998: The memory saving effect of __slots__ had been lost on Fractions
5770 which inherited from numbers.py which did not have __slots__ defined. The
5771 numbers hierarchy now has its own __slots__ declarations.
5772
Antoine Pitroub353c122009-02-11 00:39:14 +00005773- Issue #4631: Fix urlopen() result when an HTTP response uses chunked
5774 encoding.
5775
Thomas Heller465c8022009-02-10 18:59:04 +00005776- Issue #5203: Fixed ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a
5777 function without argtypes (only occurs if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false).
5778
Tarek Ziadé7d5e9872009-02-10 12:36:33 +00005779- Issue #3386: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument was ignored
5780 under NT and OS2. Patch by Philip Jenvey.
5781
Brett Cannonbefb14f2009-02-10 02:10:16 +00005782- Issue #5128: Make compileall properly inspect bytecode to determine if needs
5783 to be recreated. This avoids a timing hole thanks to the old reliance on the
5784 ctime of the files involved.
5785
Guilherme Polob681df42009-02-09 22:33:59 +00005786- Issue #5122: Synchronize tk load failure check to prevent a potential
5787 deadlock.
5788
Benjamin Petersona86f2c02009-02-10 02:41:10 +00005789- Issue #1818: collections.namedtuple() now supports a keyword argument
5790 'rename' which lets invalid fieldnames be automatically converted to
5791 positional names in the form, _1, _2, ...
5792
Guilherme Poloae098992009-02-09 16:44:24 +00005793- Issue #4890: Handle empty text search pattern in Tkinter.Text.search.
5794
Nick Coghlan9a1d6e32009-02-08 03:37:27 +00005795- Issue #4512 (part 2): Promote ``ZipImporter._get_filename()`` to be a
5796 public documented method ``ZipImporter.get_filename()``.
5797
Nick Coghlan3f48ae32009-02-08 01:58:26 +00005798- Issue #4195: The ``runpy`` module (and the ``-m`` switch) now support
5799 the execution of packages by looking for and executing a ``__main__``
5800 submodule when a package name is supplied. Initial patch by Andi
5801 Vajda.
5802
Guilherme Polo491aee22009-02-06 23:16:11 +00005803- Issue #1731706: Call Tcl_ConditionFinalize for Tcl_Conditions that will
5804 not be used again (this requires Tcl/Tk 8.3.1), also fix a memory leak in
5805 Tkapp_Call when calling from a thread different than the one that created
5806 the Tcl interpreter. Patch by Robert Hancock.
5807
Eric Smith0e5b5622009-02-06 01:32:42 +00005808- Issue #4285: Change sys.version_info to be a named tuple. Patch by
5809 Ross Light.
5810
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00005811- Issue #1520877: Now distutils.sysconfig reads $AR from the
Tarek Ziadéd3409de2009-02-06 01:18:36 +00005812 environment/Makefile. Patch by Douglas Greiman.
5813
Tarek Ziadé70a74eb2009-02-06 00:38:35 +00005814- Issue #1276768: The verbose option was not used in the code of
5815 distutils.file_util and distutils.dir_util.
5816
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00005817- Issue #5132: Fixed trouble building extensions under Solaris with
Tarek Ziadé5874ef12009-02-05 22:56:14 +00005818 --enabled-shared activated. Initial patch by Dave Peterson.
5819
Guilherme Polo7f423952009-02-02 21:17:09 +00005820- Issue #1581476: Always use the Tcl global namespace when calling into Tcl.
5821
Raymond Hettinger85602262009-02-03 04:19:10 +00005822- The shelve module now defaults to pickle protocol 3.
5823
Brett Cannone61426e2009-01-30 01:31:34 +00005824- Fix a bug in the trace module where a bytes object from co_lnotab had its
5825 items being passed through ord().
5826
Antoine Pitrou0dcc3cd2009-01-29 20:26:59 +00005827- Issue #2047: shutil.move() could believe that its destination path was
5828 inside its source path if it began with the same letters (e.g. "src" vs.
5829 "src.new").
5830
Guilherme Polo5f238482009-01-28 14:41:10 +00005831- Added the ttk module. See issue #2983: Ttk support for Tkinter.
5832
Raymond Hettinger89e12962009-01-26 02:09:03 +00005833- Removed isSequenceType(), isMappingType, and isNumberType() from the
5834 operator module; use the abstract base classes instead. Also removed
5835 the repeat() function; use mul() instead.
5836
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00005837- Issue #5021: doctest.testfile() did not create __name__ and
Raymond Hettinger0f055172009-01-27 10:06:09 +00005838 collections.namedtuple() relied on __name__ being defined.
5839
5840- Backport importlib from Python 3.1. Only the import_module() function has
5841 been backported to help facilitate transitions from 2.7 to 3.1.
5842
Tarek Ziadé0302cf52009-01-26 17:23:20 +00005843- Issue #1885: distutils. When running sdist with --formats=tar,gztar
5844 the tar file was overriden by the gztar one.
5845
Tarek Ziadé4d4456f2009-01-25 18:27:45 +00005846- Issue #4863: distutils.mwerkscompiler has been removed.
5847
Raymond Hettingerd07d9392009-01-27 04:20:44 +00005848- Added a new itertools functions: combinations_with_replacement()
5849 and compress().
Raymond Hettinger6b3b0fc2009-01-26 02:56:58 +00005850
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00005851- Issue #5032: added a step argument to itertools.count() and
Raymond Hettinger30729212009-02-12 06:28:27 +00005852 allowed non-integer arguments.
5853
Jesse Noller41faa542009-01-25 03:45:53 +00005854- Fix and properly document the multiprocessing module's logging
5855 support, expose the internal levels and provide proper usage
5856 examples.
5857
Mark Dickinsoncddcf442009-01-24 21:46:33 +00005858- Issue #1672332: fix unpickling of subnormal floats, which was
5859 producing a ValueError on some platforms.
5860
Martin v. Löwisacbf4612009-01-24 16:19:45 +00005861- Issue #3881: Help Tcl to load even when started through the
5862 unreadable local symlink to "Program Files" on Vista.
5863
Martin v. Löwis59e47792009-01-24 14:10:07 +00005864- Issue #4710: Extract directories properly in the zipfile module;
5865 allow adding directories to a zipfile.
5866
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00005867- Issue #3807: _multiprocessing build fails when configure is passed
Jesse Noller6fd47e22009-01-23 14:09:08 +00005868 --without-threads argument. When this occurs, _multiprocessing will
5869 be disabled, and not compiled.
5870
Antoine Pitrou08838b62009-01-21 00:55:13 +00005871- Issue #5008: When a file is opened in append mode with the new IO library,
5872 do an explicit seek to the end of file (so that e.g. tell() returns the
5873 file size rather than 0). This is consistent with the behaviour of the
5874 traditional 2.x file object.
5875
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00005876- Issue #5013: Fixed a bug in FileHandler which occurred when the delay
5877 parameter was set.
5878
Mark Dickinson8dd05142009-01-20 20:43:58 +00005879- Issue #4842: Always append a trailing 'L' when pickling longs using
5880 pickle protocol 0. When reading, the 'L' is optional.
5881
Brett Cannonafccd632009-01-20 02:21:27 +00005882- Add the importlib package.
5883
Jesse Noller9a0fc972009-01-18 21:12:58 +00005884- Issue #4301: Patch the logging module to add processName support, remove
5885 _check_logger_class from multiprocessing.
5886
Jesse Noller1cbb17a2009-01-18 19:45:18 +00005887- Issue #3325: Remove python2.x try: except: imports for old cPickle from
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00005888 multiprocessing.
Jesse Nollerf70a5382009-01-18 19:44:02 +00005889
Benjamin Peterson9953a8d2009-01-17 04:15:01 +00005890- Issue #4959: inspect.formatargspec now works for keyword only arguments
5891 without defaults.
5892
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00005893- Issue #3321: ``_multiprocessing.Connection()`` doesn't check handle; added checks
5894 for Unix machines for negative handles and large int handles. Without this check
Jesse Noller6214edd2009-01-19 16:23:53 +00005895 it is possible to segfault the interpreter.
5896
Jesse Nollerb0516a62009-01-18 03:11:38 +00005897- Issue #4449: AssertionError in mp_benchmarks.py, caused by an underlying issue
5898 in sharedctypes.py.
5899
5900- Issue #1225107: inspect.isclass() returned True for instances with a custom
5901 __getattr__.
5902
Gregory P. Smithde3369f2009-01-12 04:50:11 +00005903- Issue #3826 and #4791: The socket module now closes the underlying socket
5904 appropriately when it is being used via socket.makefile() objects
5905 rather than delaying the close by waiting for garbage collection to do it.
5906
Raymond Hettingerb8baf632009-01-14 02:20:07 +00005907- Issue #1696199: Add collections.Counter() for rapid and convenient
5908 counting.
5909
Antoine Pitrou308705e2009-01-10 16:22:51 +00005910- Issue #3860: GzipFile and BZ2File now support the context manager protocol.
5911
Thomas Heller5e4e4272009-01-08 09:34:20 +00005912- Issue #4867: Fixed a crash in ctypes when passing a string to a
5913 function without defining argtypes.
5914
Antoine Pitrou42db3ef2009-01-04 21:37:59 +00005915- Issue #4272: Add an optional argument to the GzipFile constructor to override
5916 the timestamp in the gzip stream. The default value remains the current time.
5917 The information can be used by e.g. gunzip when decompressing. Patch by
5918 Jacques Frechet.
5919
Mark Dickinson315a20a2009-01-04 21:34:18 +00005920- Restore Python 2.3 compatibility for decimal.py.
5921
Guilherme Polo3f5f8222009-01-03 22:00:39 +00005922- Issue #3638: Remove functions from _tkinter module level that depend on
5923 TkappObject to work with multiple threads.
5924
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00005925- Issue #4718: Adapt the wsgiref package so that it actually works with
5926 Python 3.x, in accordance with the `official amendments of the spec
Antoine Pitrou38a66ad2009-01-03 18:41:49 +00005927 <http://www.wsgi.org/wsgi/Amendments_1.0>`_.
5928
Raymond Hettinger771ed762009-01-03 19:20:32 +00005929- Issue #4796: Added Decimal.from_float() and Context.create_decimal_from_float()
5930 to the decimal module.
5931
Georg Brandl3a9b0622009-01-03 22:07:57 +00005932- Fractions.from_float() no longer loses precision for integers too big to
5933 cast as floats.
5934
Mark Dickinsonf9236412009-01-02 23:23:21 +00005935- Issue #4812: add missing underscore prefix to some internal-use-only
5936 constants in the decimal module. (Dec_0 becomes _Dec_0, etc.)
5937
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00005938- Issue #4790: The nsmallest() and nlargest() functions in the heapq module
Georg Brandl3a9b0622009-01-03 22:07:57 +00005939 did unnecessary work in the common case where no key function was specified.
5940
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00005941- Issue #4795: inspect.isgeneratorfunction() returns False instead of None when
5942 the function is not a generator.
5943
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00005944- Issue #4702: Throwing a DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError in case
5945 no MSVC compiler is found under Windows. Original patch by Philip Jenvey.
Tarek Ziadé9df8ce32008-12-30 23:09:20 +00005946
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00005947- Issue #4646: distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup
Tarek Ziadé4450dcf2008-12-29 22:38:38 +00005948 function. Original patch by Thomas Heller.
5949
Martin v. Löwis1f1620e2008-12-29 16:27:13 +00005950- Issue #3767: Convert Tk object to string in tkColorChooser.
5951
Martin v. Löwise354d782008-12-29 16:03:04 +00005952- Issue #3248: Allow placing ScrolledText in a PanedWindow.
5953
Antoine Pitrou5acd41e2008-12-28 14:29:00 +00005954- Issue #4444: Allow assertRaises() to be used as a context handler, so that
5955 the code under test can be written inline if more practical.
5956
Georg Brandldb7b6b92009-01-01 15:53:14 +00005957- Issue #4739: Add pydoc help topics for symbols, so that e.g. help('@')
5958 works as expected in the interactive environment.
5959
Antoine Pitroudb5fe662008-12-27 15:50:40 +00005960- Issue #4756: zipfile.is_zipfile() now supports file-like objects. Patch by
5961 Gabriel Genellina.
5962
Antoine Pitrou180a3362008-12-14 16:36:46 +00005963- Issue #4574: reading an UTF16-encoded text file crashes if \r on 64-char
5964 boundary.
5965
Nick Coghlanf088e5e2008-12-14 11:50:48 +00005966- Issue #4223: inspect.getsource() will now correctly display source code
5967 for packages loaded via zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302
5968 loader). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
5969
5970- Issue #4201: pdb can now access and display source code loaded via
5971 zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302 loader). Original patch by
5972 Alexander Belopolsky.
5973
5974- Issue #4197: doctests in modules loaded via zipimport (or any other PEP
5975 302 conformant loader) will now work correctly in most cases (they
5976 are still subject to the constraints that exist for all code running
5977 from inside a module loaded via a PEP 302 loader and attempting to
5978 perform IO operations based on __file__). Original patch by
5979 Alexander Belopolsky.
5980
5981- Issues #4082 and #4512: Add runpy support to zipimport in a manner that
5982 allows backporting to maintenance branches. Original patch by
5983 Alexander Belopolsky.
5984
Antoine Pitrou7c59bc62008-12-13 23:20:54 +00005985- Issue #4163: textwrap module: allow word splitting on a hyphen preceded by
5986 a non-ASCII letter.
5987
Lars Gustäbel43fcf3a2008-12-12 14:58:38 +00005988- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
5989
Benjamin Peterson433f32c2008-12-12 01:25:05 +00005990- Issue #4021: tokenize.detect_encoding() now raises a SyntaxError when the
5991 codec cannot be found. This is for compatibility with the builtin behavior.
5992
Facundo Batista708d5812008-12-11 04:20:07 +00005993- Issue #4084: Fix max, min, max_mag and min_mag Decimal methods to
5994 give correct results in the case where one argument is a quiet NaN
5995 and the other is a finite number that requires rounding.
5996
Skip Montanaroc1ce2862008-12-06 17:25:02 +00005997- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat
5998 libs.
5999
Georg Brandlf9734072008-12-07 15:30:06 +00006000- Added the subprocess.check_call_output() convenience function to get output
6001 from a subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
6002
6003- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
6004 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
6005 Content-Disposition headers.
6006
6007- Issue #4384: Added logging integration with warnings module using
6008 captureWarnings(). This change includes a NullHandler which does nothing;
6009 it will be of use to library developers who want to avoid the "No handlers
6010 could be found for logger XXX" message which can appear if the library user
6011 doesn't configure logging.
6012
6013- Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
6014 exception.
6015
Georg Brandleee31162008-12-07 15:15:22 +00006016- Issue #4529: fix the parser module's validation of try-except-finally
6017 statements.
6018
6019- Issue #4458: getopt.gnu_getopt() now recognizes a single "-" as an argument,
6020 not a malformed option.
6021
6022- Added the subprocess.check_output() convenience function to get output
6023 from a subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
6024
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbc9d4742008-12-05 01:40:43 +00006025- Issue #4542: On Windows, binascii.crc32 still accepted str as binary input;
6026 the corresponding tests now pass.
6027
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbc2ce572008-12-05 01:02:21 +00006028- Issue #4537: webbrowser.UnixBrowser would fail to open the browser because
6029 it was calling the wrong open() function.
6030
Fred Drake9a0a65b2008-12-04 19:24:50 +00006031- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
6032 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
6033 Content-Disposition headers.
6034
Matthias Klose2c7e3ee2009-01-10 17:08:25 +00006035- Issue #4861: ctypes.util.find_library(): Robustify. Fix library detection on
6036 biarch systems. Try to rely on ldconfig only, without using objdump and gcc.
6037
Benjamin Peterson5c6d7872009-02-06 02:40:07 +00006038- Issue #5104: The socket module now raises OverflowError when 16-bit port and
6039 protocol numbers are supplied outside the allowed 0-65536 range on bind()
6040 and getservbyport().
6041
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven0a866942009-05-08 14:18:00 +00006042- Windows locale mapping updated to Vista.
6043
Antoine Pitrou2a013ea2008-12-27 20:39:28 +00006044Tools/Demos
6045-----------
6046
Antoine Pitrou8a681222009-02-07 17:13:31 +00006047- Issue #4704: remove use of cmp() in pybench, bump its version number to 2.1,
6048 and make it 2.6-compatible.
6049
Guilherme Poloa7d27972009-01-28 16:06:51 +00006050- Ttk demos added in Demo/tkinter/ttk/
6051
Antoine Pitrou2a013ea2008-12-27 20:39:28 +00006052- Issue #4677: add two list comprehension tests to pybench.
6053
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00006054
6055Build
6056-----
6057
Benjamin Petersonf53eec82009-05-23 19:36:27 +00006058- Issue #6094: Build correctly with Subversion 1.7.
6059
Martin v. Löwis8482ef92009-05-05 16:14:30 +00006060- Issue #5847: Remove -n switch on "Edit with IDLE" menu item.
6061
Antoine Pitrou8966c992009-05-01 21:18:27 +00006062- Issue #5726: Make Modules/ld_so_aix return the actual exit code of the
6063 linker, rather than always exit successfully. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
6064
Matthias Klose55708cc2009-04-30 08:06:49 +00006065- Issue #4587: Add configure option --with-dbmliborder=db1:db2:... to specify
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00006066 the order that backends for the dbm extension are checked.
Matthias Klose55708cc2009-04-30 08:06:49 +00006067
Matthias Klose906785c2009-02-22 23:18:38 +00006068- Link the shared python library with $(MODLIBS).
6069
Martin v. Löwis11f72102009-02-10 13:13:30 +00006070- Issue #5134: Silence compiler warnings when compiling sqlite with VC++.
6071
Martin v. Löwisbc186a82009-02-02 15:32:22 +00006072- Issue #4494: Fix build with Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED on Windows.
6073
Martin v. Löwise97637d2009-01-11 09:45:11 +00006074- Issue #4895: Use _strdup on Windows CE.
6075
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00006076- Issue #4472: "configure --enable-shared" now works on OSX
6077
6078- Issues #4728 and #4060: WORDS_BIGEDIAN is now correct in Universal builds.
6079
6080- Issue #4389: Add icon to the uninstall entry in "add-and-remove-programs".
6081
6082- Issue #4289: Remove Cancel button from AdvancedDlg.
6083
6084- Issue #1656675: Register a drop handler for .py* files on Windows.
6085
6086- Issue #4120: Exclude manifest from extension modules in VS2008.
6087
6088- Issue #4091: Install pythonxy.dll in system32 again.
6089
6090- Issue #4018: Disable "for me" installations on Vista.
6091
6092- Issue #3758: Add ``patchcheck`` build target to .PHONY.
6093
6094- Issue #4204: Fixed module build errors on FreeBSD 4.
6095
6096
6097C-API
6098-----
6099
Sean Reifscheider642d96a2009-08-01 23:55:06 +00006100- Issue #6624: yArg_ParseTuple with "s" format when parsing argument with
6101 NUL: Bogus TypeError detail string.
6102
Mark Dickinson21776072009-02-10 16:13:25 +00006103- Issue #5175: PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLong now raises OverflowError
6104 for negative arguments. Previously, it raised TypeError.
6105
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00006106- Issue #4720: The format for PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords can begin with '|'.
6107
6108- Issue #3632: from the gdb debugger, the 'pyo' macro can now be called when
6109 the GIL is released, or owned by another thread.
6110
6111- Issue #4122: On Windows, fix a compilation error when using the
6112 Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE macro in an extension module.
6113
6114
Mark Dickinsone675f082008-12-11 21:56:00 +00006115Extension Modules
6116-----------------
6117
Gregory P. Smith365a1862009-02-12 07:35:29 +00006118- Issue #3745: Fix hashlib to always reject unicode and non buffer-api
6119 supporting objects as input no matter how it was compiled (built in
6120 implementations or external openssl library).
6121
Mark Dickinson29500f62009-01-15 15:36:10 +00006122- Issue #4397: Fix occasional test_socket failure on OS X.
6123
Martin v. Löwisa9b54c72009-01-11 09:30:50 +00006124- Issue #4279: Fix build of parsermodule under Cygwin.
6125
Antoine Pitroubcd5cbe2009-01-08 21:17:16 +00006126- Issue #4751: hashlib now releases the GIL when hashing large buffers
6127 (with a hardwired threshold of 2048 bytes), allowing better parallelization
6128 on multi-CPU systems. Contributed by Lukas Lueg (ebfe) and Victor Stinner.
6129
Martin v. Löwis5c88d812009-01-02 20:47:48 +00006130- Issue #4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle.
6131
Antoine Pitrou31f30b12009-01-02 17:34:35 +00006132- Issue #4738: Each zlib object now has a separate lock, allowing to compress
6133 or decompress several streams at once on multi-CPU systems. Also, the GIL
6134 is now released when computing the CRC of a large buffer. Patch by ebfe.
6135
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00006136- Issue #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format.
6137
Martin v. Löwis05bfe1f2008-12-29 18:21:47 +00006138- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
6139
Mark Dickinsone675f082008-12-11 21:56:00 +00006140- Issues #3167, #3682: Fix test_math failures for log, log10 on Solaris,
6141 OpenBSD.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcefae8c42008-11-21 23:08:09 +00006142
Antoine Pitrou3ad3a0d2008-12-18 17:08:32 +00006143- Issue #4583: array.array would not always prohibit resizing when a buffer
6144 has been exported, resulting in an interpreter crash when accessing the
6145 buffer.
6146
Martin v. Löwis841edad2008-11-30 10:36:49 +00006147
Jack Diederiche0cbd692009-04-01 04:27:09 +00006148- Issue #5228: Make functools.partial objects can now be pickled.
6149
Guilherme Polo9de29af2009-01-28 20:40:48 +00006150Tests
6151-----
6152
Antoine Pitrou88909542009-06-29 13:54:42 +00006153- Issue #6152: New option '-j'/'--multiprocess' for regrtest allows running
6154 regression tests in parallel, shortening the total runtime.
6155
Guilherme Polo2a998fa2009-06-21 17:40:07 +00006156- Issue #5450: Moved tests involving loading tk from Lib/test/test_tcl to
6157 Lib/tkinter/test/test_tkinter/test_loadtk. With this, these tests demonstrate
6158 the same behaviour as test_ttkguionly (and now also test_tk) which is to
6159 skip the tests if DISPLAY is defined but can't be used.
6160
R. David Murraya21e4ca2009-03-31 23:16:50 +00006161- regrtest no longer treats ImportError as equivalent to SkipTest. Imports
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00006162 that should cause a test to be skipped are now done using import_module
R. David Murraya21e4ca2009-03-31 23:16:50 +00006163 from test support, which does the conversion.
6164
Guilherme Polo9de29af2009-01-28 20:40:48 +00006165- Issue #5083: New 'gui' resource for regrtest.
6166
6167
Brett Cannon7317c1e2008-11-25 19:19:17 +00006168Docs
6169----
6170
Georg Brandl52b92cc2008-05-25 09:43:03 +00006171
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00006172**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**