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Georg Brandlab6f2f62009-03-31 04:16:10 +00002Python News
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00003+++++++++++
4
Martin v. Löwis7be5b782011-02-21 16:26:47 +00005What's New in Python 3.2.1?
6===========================
7
8*Release date: XX-XXX-20XX*
9
10Core and Builtins
11-----------------
12
Victor Stinner2b574a22011-03-01 22:48:49 +000013- Issue #11246: Fix PyUnicode_FromFormat("%V") to decode the byte string from
14 UTF-8 (with replace error handler) instead of ISO-8859-1 (in strict mode).
15 Patch written by Ray Allen.
16
Antoine Pitrou915605c2011-02-24 20:53:48 +000017- Issue #11286: Raise a ValueError from calling PyMemoryView_FromBuffer with
18 a buffer struct having a NULL data pointer.
19
Victor Stinner02bfdb32011-02-23 12:10:23 +000020- Issue #11272: On Windows, input() strips '\r' (and not only '\n'), and
21 sys.stdin uses universal newline (replace '\r\n' by '\n').
22
Victor Stinner659eb842011-02-23 12:14:22 +000023- Issue #10830: Fix PyUnicode_FromFormatV("%c") for non-BMP characters on
24 narrow build.
25
Martin v. Löwis7be5b782011-02-21 16:26:47 +000026- Check for NULL result in PyType_FromSpec.
27
Eli Benderskye0c8635d82011-03-04 05:10:57 +000028- Issue #11386: bytearray.pop() now throws IndexError when the bytearray is
29 empty, instead of OverflowError.
30
Antoine Pitrouf3d22752011-02-21 18:09:00 +000031Library
32-------
33
R. David Murray752b9502011-03-03 18:12:34 +000034- Issue #11306: mailbox in certain cases adapts to an inability to open
35 certain files in read-write mode. Previously it detected this by
36 checking for EACCES, now it also checks for EROFS.
37
Giampaolo Rodolà9c9105d2011-03-03 13:59:28 +000038- Issue #11265: asyncore now correctly handles EPIPE, EBADF and EAGAIN errors
39 on accept(), send() and recv().
40
Antoine Pitrou86cbfec2011-02-26 23:25:34 +000041- Issue #11326: Add the missing connect_ex() implementation for SSL sockets,
42 and make it work for non-blocking connects.
43
Antoine Pitrou5d5381e2011-02-25 23:14:08 +000044- Issue #7322: Trying to read from a socket's file-like object after a timeout
45 occurred now raises an error instead of silently losing data.
46
Antoine Pitroud843c2d2011-02-25 21:34:39 +000047- Issue #10956: Buffered I/O classes retry reading or writing after a signal
48 has arrived and the handler returned successfully.
49
Lars Gustäbel9f6cbe02011-02-23 11:52:31 +000050- Issue #11224: Fixed a regression in tarfile that affected the file-like
51 objects returned by TarFile.extractfile() regarding performance, memory
52 consumption and failures with the stream interface.
53
Brett Cannon45b96d32011-02-22 03:35:18 +000054- Issue #11074: Make 'tokenize' so it can be reloaded.
55
Antoine Pitrou97696cb2011-02-21 23:46:27 +000056- Issue #4681: Allow mmap() to work on file sizes and offsets larger than
57 4GB, even on 32-bit builds. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall, adapted for
58 32-bit Windows.
59
Raymond Hettingere6603602011-02-21 19:38:53 +000060- Issue #11089: Fix performance issue limiting the use of ConfigParser()
Victor Stinner02bfdb32011-02-23 12:10:23 +000061 with large config files.
Raymond Hettingere6603602011-02-21 19:38:53 +000062
Antoine Pitrouf3d22752011-02-21 18:09:00 +000063- Issue #10276: Fix the results of zlib.crc32() and zlib.adler32() on buffers
64 larger than 4GB. Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
65
Ned Deilya16b05b2011-02-21 20:52:58 +000066Build
67-----
68
69- Issue #11268: Prevent Mac OS X Installer failure if Documentation
70 package had previously been installed.
71
Antoine Pitroua47c25d2011-02-21 21:58:42 +000072Tests
73-----
74
Victor Stinnerf0e293c2011-03-01 23:09:57 +000075- Issue #10911: Add tests on CGI with non-ASCII characters. Patch written by
76 Pierre Quentel.
77
Antoine Pitrou4914f9e2011-02-26 16:49:08 +000078- Issue #9931: Fix hangs in GUI tests under Windows in certain conditions.
79 Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
80
Antoine Pitroua47c25d2011-02-21 21:58:42 +000081- Issue #10826: Prevent sporadic failure in test_subprocess on Solaris due
82 to open door files.
83
Martin v. Löwis7be5b782011-02-21 16:26:47 +000084
Georg Brandld5852182011-02-14 06:35:00 +000085What's New in Python 3.2?
86=========================
87
88*Release date: 20-Feb-2011*
89
90Core and Builtins
91-----------------
92
Georg Brandl032400b2011-02-19 21:47:02 +000093- Issue #11249: Fix potential crashes when using the limited API.
94
Georg Brandl9a829be2011-02-15 15:44:51 +000095Build
96-----
97
Georg Brandl6e8d17c2011-02-19 08:47:14 +000098- Issue #11222: Fix non-framework shared library build on Mac OS X.
99
Georg Brandl216e4042011-02-19 08:58:23 +0000100- Issue #11184: Fix large-file support on AIX.
101
Georg Brandl9a829be2011-02-15 15:44:51 +0000102- Issue #941346: Fix broken shared library build on AIX.
103
Georg Brandl6c9ba242011-02-19 08:44:47 +0000104Documentation
105-------------
106
107- Issue #10709: Add updated AIX notes in Misc/README.AIX.
108
Georg Brandld5852182011-02-14 06:35:00 +0000109
Georg Brandla6d12ef2011-02-13 10:00:57 +0000110What's New in Python 3.2 Release Candidate 3?
111=============================================
Georg Brandl6b449ba2011-01-31 10:39:57 +0000112
Georg Brandla6d12ef2011-02-13 10:00:57 +0000113*Release date: 13-Feb-2011*
Georg Brandl6b449ba2011-01-31 10:39:57 +0000114
115Core and Builtins
116-----------------
117
Martin v. Löwiscc7e23a2011-02-11 20:50:24 +0000118- Issue #11134: Add missing fields to typeslots.h.
119
Martin v. Löwis69168062011-02-11 20:47:49 +0000120- Issue #11135: Remove redundant doc field from PyType_Spec.
121
Georg Brandl260a7882011-02-20 10:29:04 +0000122- Issue #11067: Add PyType_GetFlags, to support PyUnicode_Check in the limited
123 ABI.
Martin v. Löwis738236d2011-02-05 20:35:29 +0000124
Martin v. Löwisd77520a2011-02-04 19:09:02 +0000125- Issue #11118: Fix bogus export of None in python3.dll.
126
Georg Brandl6b449ba2011-01-31 10:39:57 +0000127Library
128-------
129
Georg Brandl260a7882011-02-20 10:29:04 +0000130- Issue #11116: any error during addition of a message to a mailbox now causes a
131 rollback, instead of leaving the mailbox partially modified.
R. David Murrayfc141142011-02-11 22:47:17 +0000132
Georg Brandl260a7882011-02-20 10:29:04 +0000133- Issue #11132: Fix passing of "optimize" parameter when recursing in
134 compileall.compile_dir().
Georg Brandl45438462011-02-07 12:36:54 +0000135
Brett Cannone1445072011-02-04 20:24:02 +0000136- Issue #11110: Fix a potential decref of a NULL in sqlite3.
137
Georg Brandl260a7882011-02-20 10:29:04 +0000138- Issue #8275: Fix passing of callback arguments with ctypes under Win64. Patch
139 by Stan Mihai.
Antoine Pitrou0ea622a2011-01-31 21:08:57 +0000140
Martin v. Löwis9b142aa2011-02-05 20:26:52 +0000141Build
142-----
143
Georg Brandl260a7882011-02-20 10:29:04 +0000144- Issue #11079: The /Applications/Python x.x folder created by the Mac OS X
145 installers now includes a link to the installed documentation and no longer
146 includes an Extras directory. The Tools directory is now installed in the
147 framework under share/doc.
Ned Deilyeb698da2011-02-07 16:44:19 +0000148
Martin v. Löwis9b142aa2011-02-05 20:26:52 +0000149- Issue #11121: Fix building with --enable-shared.
150
Nick Coghlanef316572011-02-07 13:43:07 +0000151Tests
152-----
153
Georg Brandl260a7882011-02-20 10:29:04 +0000154- Issue #10971: test_zipimport_support is once again compatible with the refleak
155 hunter feature of test.regrtest.
Nick Coghlanef316572011-02-07 13:43:07 +0000156
Georg Brandl6b449ba2011-01-31 10:39:57 +0000157
Georg Brandl0c5036f2011-01-16 08:44:50 +0000158What's New in Python 3.2 Release Candidate 2?
159=============================================
160
Georg Brandld6e19c32011-01-30 14:03:33 +0000161*Release date: 30-Jan-2011*
Georg Brandl0c5036f2011-01-16 08:44:50 +0000162
163Core and Builtins
164-----------------
165
Antoine Pitrouad62b032011-01-18 18:57:52 +0000166- Issue #10451: memoryview objects could allow to mutate a readable buffer.
167 Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
168
Georg Brandl0c5036f2011-01-16 08:44:50 +0000169Library
170-------
171
R. David Murrayb7deff12011-01-30 06:21:28 +0000172- Issue #9124: mailbox now accepts binary input and reads and writes mailbox
173 files in binary mode, using the email package's binary support to parse
174 arbitrary email messages. StringIO and text file input is deprecated,
175 and string input fails early if non-ASCII characters are used, where
176 previously it would fail when the email was processed in a later step.
177
Nick Coghlan793ee1f2011-01-30 01:24:08 +0000178- Issue #10845: Mitigate the incompatibility between the multiprocessing
179 module on Windows and the use of package, zipfile or directory execution
180 by special casing main modules that actually *are* called __main__.py.
181
Éric Araujoac4e58e2011-01-29 20:32:11 +0000182- Issue #11045: Protect logging call against None argument.
183
Ned Deily5c2d3302011-01-29 19:10:26 +0000184- Issue #11052: Correct IDLE menu accelerators on Mac OS X for Save
185 commands.
186
Ned Deily806c9442011-01-29 18:43:56 +0000187- Issue #11053: Fix IDLE "Syntax Error" windows to behave as in 2.x,
188 preventing a confusing hung appearance on OS X with the windows
189 obscured.
190
Ned Deily70063932011-01-29 18:29:01 +0000191- Issue #10940: Workaround an IDLE hang on Mac OS X 10.6 when using the
192 menu accelerators for Open Module, Go to Line, and New Indent Width.
193 The accelerators still work but no longer appear in the menu items.
194
Victor Stinner80f75e62011-01-29 11:31:20 +0000195- Issue #10989: Fix a crash on SSLContext.load_verify_locations(None, True).
196
Raymond Hettinger8b5eb2f2011-01-27 00:06:54 +0000197- Issue #11020: Command-line pyclbr was broken because of missing 2-to-3
198 conversion.
199
R. David Murray7372a072011-01-26 21:21:32 +0000200- Issue #11019: Fixed BytesGenerator so that it correctly handles a Message
201 with a None body.
202
Raymond Hettingera63a3122011-01-26 20:34:14 +0000203- Issue #11014: Make 'filter' argument in tarfile.Tarfile.add() into a
204 keyword-only argument. The preceding positional argument was deprecated,
205 so it made no sense to add filter as a positional argument.
206
Raymond Hettinger512d2cc2011-01-25 21:32:39 +0000207- Issue #11004: Repaired edge case in deque.count().
208
Ned Deily122539e2011-01-24 21:46:44 +0000209- Issue #10974: IDLE no longer crashes if its recent files list includes files
210 with non-ASCII characters in their path names.
211
Raymond Hettingerbf1d2bc2011-01-24 04:52:27 +0000212- Have hashlib.algorithms_available and hashlib.algorithms_guaranteed both
213 return sets instead of one returning a tuple and the other a frozenset.
214
Antoine Pitroue6d4c5b2011-01-23 17:12:25 +0000215- Issue #10987: Fix the recursion limit handling in the _pickle module.
216
Georg Brandlc7c199f2011-01-22 22:06:24 +0000217- Issue #10983: Fix several bugs making tunnel requests in http.client.
218
Victor Stinnerf2e439f2011-01-23 00:11:58 +0000219- Issue #10955: zipimport uses ASCII encoding instead of cp437 to decode
Victor Stinner4ee65a92011-01-22 10:30:29 +0000220 filenames, at bootstrap, if the codec registry is not ready yet. It is still
221 possible to have non-ASCII filenames using the Unicode flag (UTF-8 encoding)
Victor Stinner137e0f02011-01-22 10:33:01 +0000222 for all file entries in the ZIP file.
Victor Stinner4ee65a92011-01-22 10:30:29 +0000223
Vinay Sajip01241d62011-01-21 23:35:57 +0000224- Issue #10949: Improved robustness of rotating file handlers.
225
Antoine Pitrou305bc9e2011-01-20 21:07:24 +0000226- Issue #10955: Fix a potential crash when trying to mmap() a file past its
227 length. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
228
Antoine Pitroue47e0932011-01-19 15:21:35 +0000229- Issue #10898: Allow compiling the posix module when the C library defines
230 a symbol named FSTAT.
231
Armin Ronacher8d96d772011-01-22 13:13:05 +0000232- Issue #10980: the HTTP server now encodes headers with iso-8859-1 (latin1)
233 encoding. This is the preferred encoding of PEP 3333 and the base encoding
234 of HTTP 1.1.
235
Armin Ronacher59531282011-01-22 13:44:22 +0000236- To match the behaviour of HTTP server, the HTTP client library now also
237 encodes headers with iso-8859-1 (latin1) encoding. It was already doing
238 that for incoming headers which makes this behaviour now consistent in
239 both incoming and outgoing direction.
240
Steven Bethardb0270112011-01-24 21:02:50 +0000241- Issue #9509: argparse now properly handles IOErrors raised by
242 argparse.FileType.
Georg Brandl0c5036f2011-01-16 08:44:50 +0000243
Georg Brandld2f38572011-01-30 08:37:19 +0000244- Issue #10961: The new pydoc server now better handles exceptions raised
245 during request handling.
246
Georg Brandl0f6b47a2011-01-30 12:19:35 +0000247- Issue #10680: Fix mutually exclusive arguments for argument groups in
248 argparse.
249
Ned Deilye59e4c52011-01-29 18:56:28 +0000250Build
251-----
252
253- Issue #11054: Allow Mac OS X installer builds to again work on 10.5 with
254 the system-provided Python.
255
256
Raymond Hettinger8ebe27f2010-12-21 19:24:26 +0000257What's New in Python 3.2 Release Candidate 1
258============================================
259
Georg Brandl3988ed82011-01-15 17:08:53 +0000260*Release date: 16-Jan-2011*
261
Raymond Hettinger8ebe27f2010-12-21 19:24:26 +0000262Core and Builtins
263-----------------
264
Nick Coghlaneea594b2011-01-16 13:08:48 +0000265- Issue #10889: range indexing and slicing now works correctly on ranges with
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +0000266 a length that exceeds sys.maxsize.
Nick Coghlaneea594b2011-01-16 13:08:48 +0000267
Benjamin Peterson477ba912011-01-12 15:34:01 +0000268- Issue #10892: Don't segfault when trying to delete __abstractmethods__ from a
269 class.
270
Antoine Pitrou3be412d2011-01-07 21:47:02 +0000271- Issue #8020: Avoid a crash where the small objects allocator would read
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +0000272 non-Python managed memory while it is being modified by another thread. Patch
273 by Matt Bandy.
Antoine Pitrou3be412d2011-01-07 21:47:02 +0000274
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +0000275- Issue #10841: On Windows, set the binary mode on stdin, stdout, stderr and all
276 io.FileIO objects (to not translate newlines, \r\n <=> \n). The Python parser
277 translates newlines (\r\n => \n).
Victor Stinner89e34362011-01-07 18:47:22 +0000278
Martin v. Löwisc83bc3c2011-01-06 19:15:47 +0000279- Remove buffer API from stable ABI for now, see #10181.
280
Victor Stinnerb3c9e072011-01-04 02:07:34 +0000281- Issue #8651: PyArg_Parse*() functions raise an OverflowError if the file
282 doesn't have PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN define and the size doesn't fit in an int
283 (length bigger than 2^31-1 bytes).
284
Victor Stinnerdc555402011-01-04 13:15:39 +0000285- Issue #9015, #9611: FileIO.readinto(), FileIO.write(), os.write() and
286 stdprinter.write() clamp the length to 2^31-1 on Windows.
Victor Stinnere6edec22011-01-04 00:29:35 +0000287
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca251a852011-01-03 00:19:11 +0000288- Issue #8278: On Windows and with a NTFS filesystem, os.stat() and os.utime()
289 can now handle dates after 2038.
290
Victor Stinner92be9392010-12-28 00:28:21 +0000291- Issue #10780: PyErr_SetFromWindowsErrWithFilename() and
292 PyErr_SetExcFromWindowsErrWithFilename() decode the filename from the
293 filesystem encoding instead of UTF-8.
294
Victor Stinnercb428f02010-12-27 20:10:36 +0000295- Issue #10779: PyErr_WarnExplicit() decodes the filename from the filesystem
296 encoding instead of UTF-8.
297
Georg Brandl8aa7e992010-12-28 18:30:18 +0000298- Add sys.flags attribute for the new -q command-line option.
299
Raymond Hettinger8ebe27f2010-12-21 19:24:26 +0000300Library
301-------
302
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +0000303- Issue #10916: mmap should not segfault when a file is mapped using 0 as length
304 and a non-zero offset, and an attempt to read past the end of file is made
305 (IndexError is raised instead). Patch by Ross Lagerwall.
Antoine Pitrou85f46152011-01-15 16:17:07 +0000306
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +0000307- Issue #10907: Warn OS X 10.6 IDLE users to use ActiveState Tcl/Tk 8.5, rather
308 than the currently problematic Apple-supplied one, when running with the
309 64-/32-bit installer variant.
Ned Deily4ce92b22011-01-15 04:37:12 +0000310
Victor Stinner5c23b8e2011-01-14 13:05:21 +0000311- Issue #4953: cgi.FieldStorage and cgi.parse() parse the request as bytes, not
312 as unicode, and accept binary files. Add encoding and errors attributes to
Victor Stinnerc5982962011-01-14 14:11:45 +0000313 cgi.FieldStorage. Patch written by Pierre Quentel (with many inputs by Glenn
314 Linderman).
Victor Stinner5c23b8e2011-01-14 13:05:21 +0000315
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +0000316- Add encoding and errors arguments to urllib.parse_qs() and urllib.parse_qsl().
Victor Stinnerac71c542011-01-14 12:52:12 +0000317
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +0000318- Issue #10899: No function type annotations in the standard library. Removed
319 function type annotations from _pyio.py.
Raymond Hettinger3c940242011-01-12 23:39:31 +0000320
Terry Reedyaacfd4a2011-01-10 21:27:49 +0000321- Issue #10875: Update Regular Expression HOWTO; patch by 'SilentGhost'.
322
Antoine Pitroua4815ca2011-01-09 20:38:15 +0000323- Issue #10872: The repr() of TextIOWrapper objects now includes the mode
324 if available.
325
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +0000326- Issue #10869: Fixed bug where ast.increment_lineno modified the root node
327 twice.
Georg Brandl619e7ba2011-01-09 07:38:51 +0000328
R. David Murray5b2d9dd2011-01-09 02:35:24 +0000329- Issue #5871: email.header.Header.encode now raises an error if any
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +0000330 continuation line in the formatted value has no leading white space and looks
331 like a header. Since Generator uses Header to format all headers, this check
332 is made for all headers in any serialized message at serialization time. This
333 provides protection against header injection attacks.
R. David Murray5b2d9dd2011-01-09 02:35:24 +0000334
Antoine Pitrou67b212e2011-01-08 09:55:31 +0000335- Issue #10859: Make ``contextlib.GeneratorContextManager`` officially
336 private by renaming it to ``_GeneratorContextManager``.
337
Raymond Hettinger23f9fc32011-01-08 07:01:56 +0000338- Issue #10042: Fixed the total_ordering decorator to handle cross-type
339 comparisons that could lead to infinite recursion.
340
R. David Murray92532142011-01-07 23:25:30 +0000341- Issue #10686: the email package now :rfc:`2047`\ -encodes headers with
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +0000342 non-ASCII bytes (parsed by a Bytes Parser) when doing conversion to 7bit-clean
343 presentation, instead of replacing them with ?s.
R. David Murray92532142011-01-07 23:25:30 +0000344
R. David Murray6f0022d2011-01-07 21:57:25 +0000345- email.header.Header was incorrectly encoding folding white space when
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +0000346 rfc2047-encoding header values with embedded newlines, leaving them without
347 folding whitespace. It now uses the continuation_ws, as it does for
348 continuation lines that it creates itself.
R. David Murray6f0022d2011-01-07 21:57:25 +0000349
Victor Stinner3ec899f2011-01-08 16:37:47 +0000350- Issue #1777412, #10827: Changed the rules for 2-digit years. The
351 time.asctime(), time.ctime() and time.strftime() functions will now format
352 any year when ``time.accept2dyear`` is False and will accept years >= 1000
353 otherwise. ``time.mktime`` and ``time.strftime`` now accept full range
354 supported by the OS. With Visual Studio or on Solaris, the year is limited to
355 the range [1; 9999]. Conversion of 2-digit years to 4-digit is deprecated.
Alexander Belopolskyc64708a2011-01-07 19:59:19 +0000356
Antoine Pitroue85da7a2011-01-06 18:25:55 +0000357- Issue #7858: Raise an error properly when os.utime() fails under Windows
358 on an existing file.
359
Antoine Pitroub715fac2011-01-06 17:17:04 +0000360- Issue #3839: wsgiref should not override a Content-Length header set by
361 the application. Initial patch by Clovis Fabricio.
362
Victor Stinner4bd81722011-01-06 00:49:38 +0000363- Issue #10492: bdb.Bdb.run() only traces the execution of the code, not the
364 compilation (if the input is a string).
365
Antoine Pitrou600232b2011-01-05 21:03:42 +0000366- Issue #7995: When calling accept() on a socket with a timeout, the returned
Antoine Pitroudc51a3c2011-01-05 22:43:26 +0000367 socket is now always blocking, regardless of the operating system.
Antoine Pitrou600232b2011-01-05 21:03:42 +0000368
Victor Stinner8786d3d2011-01-05 03:56:22 +0000369- Issue #10756: atexit normalizes the exception before displaying it. Patch by
370 Andreas Stührk.
Victor Stinner358e11d2011-01-05 03:54:25 +0000371
R. David Murray477efb32011-01-05 01:39:32 +0000372- Issue #10790: email.header.Header.append's charset logic now works correctly
373 for charsets whose output codec is different from its input codec.
374
Victor Stinnerc3a51ec2011-01-04 11:00:45 +0000375- Issue #10819: SocketIO.name property returns -1 when its closed, instead of
376 raising a ValueError, to fix repr().
377
Victor Stinner8848c7a2011-01-04 02:07:36 +0000378- Issue #8650: zlib.compress() and zlib.decompress() raise an OverflowError if
379 the input buffer length doesn't fit into an unsigned int (length bigger than
380 2^32-1 bytes).
381
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +0000382- Issue #6643: Reinitialize locks held within the threading module after fork to
383 avoid a potential rare deadlock or crash on some platforms.
Gregory P. Smith4d419682011-01-03 21:09:23 +0000384
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +0000385- Issue #10806, issue #9905: Fix subprocess pipes when some of the standard file
386 descriptors (0, 1, 2) are closed in the parent process. Initial patch by Ross
387 Lagerwall.
Antoine Pitrouc9c83ba2011-01-03 18:23:55 +0000388
Michael Foord32e1d832011-01-03 17:00:11 +0000389- `unittest.TestCase` can be instantiated without a method name; for simpler
390 exploration from the interactive interpreter.
391
Martin v. Löwis9f6d48b2011-01-03 00:07:01 +0000392- Issue #10798: Reject supporting concurrent.futures if the system has too
393 few POSIX semaphores.
394
Victor Stinnerb6f42402011-01-02 19:50:36 +0000395- Issue #10807: Remove base64, bz2, hex, quopri, rot13, uu and zlib codecs from
396 the codec aliases. They are still accessible via codecs.lookup().
397
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +0000398- Issue #10801: In zipfile, support different encodings for the header and the
399 filenames.
Georg Brandl5ba11de2011-01-01 10:09:32 +0000400
Georg Brandld30a0dd2011-01-01 10:07:30 +0000401- Issue #6285: IDLE no longer crashes on missing help file; patch by Scott
402 David Daniels.
Terry Reedy554e6fa2011-01-01 02:54:11 +0000403
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +0000404- Fix collections.OrderedDict.setdefault() so that it works in subclasses that
405 define __missing__().
Raymond Hettingera673b1f2010-12-31 23:16:17 +0000406
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +0000407- Issue #10786: unittest.TextTestRunner default stream no longer bound at import
408 time. `sys.stderr` now looked up at instantiation time. Fix contributed by
409 Mark Roddy.
Michael Foord6f17e2d2010-12-30 19:36:29 +0000410
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +0000411- Issue #10753: Characters ';','=' and ',' in the PATH_INFO environment variable
412 won't be quoted when the URI is constructed by the wsgiref.util 's request_uri
413 method. According to RFC 3986, these characters can be a part of params in
414 PATH component of URI and need not be quoted.
Senthil Kumaran299fa4c2010-12-29 06:25:42 +0000415
Georg Brandld30a0dd2011-01-01 10:07:30 +0000416- Issue #10738: Fix webbrowser.Opera.raise_opts.
Terry Reedydad532f2010-12-28 19:30:19 +0000417
Georg Brandld30a0dd2011-01-01 10:07:30 +0000418- Issue #9824: SimpleCookie now encodes , and ; in values to cater to how
R. David Murraye05ca2a2010-12-28 18:54:13 +0000419 browsers actually parse cookies.
420
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +0000421- Issue #9333: os.symlink now available regardless of user privileges. The
422 function now raises OSError on Windows >=6.0 when the user is unable to create
423 symbolic links. XP and 2003 still raise NotImplementedError.
Brian Curtin3b4499c2010-12-28 14:31:47 +0000424
Victor Stinnerde3aa7f2010-12-29 02:44:42 +0000425- Issue #10783: struct.pack() no longer implicitly encodes unicode to UTF-8.
Victor Stinnerda9ec992010-12-28 13:26:42 +0000426
Georg Brandl68eb4642010-12-28 11:02:12 +0000427- Issue #10730: Add SVG mime types to mimetypes module.
428
Georg Brandl780d5e02010-12-28 10:56:20 +0000429- Issue #10768: Make the Tkinter ScrolledText widget work again.
430
Georg Brandl90b20672010-12-28 10:38:33 +0000431- Issue #10777: Fix "dictionary changed size during iteration" bug in
432 ElementTree register_namespace().
433
Vinay Sajip67981ec2010-12-27 18:34:25 +0000434- Issue #10626: test_logging now preserves logger disabled states.
435
436- Issue #10774: test_logging now removes temp files created during tests.
437
R. David Murrayb4ca59b2010-12-26 19:54:29 +0000438- Issue #5258/#10642: if site.py encounters a .pth file that generates an error,
439 it now prints the filename, line number, and traceback to stderr and skips
440 the rest of that individual file, instead of stopping processing entirely.
441
Victor Stinner667d4b52010-12-25 22:40:32 +0000442- Issue #10763: subprocess.communicate() closes stdout and stderr if both are
443 pipes (bug specific to Windows).
444
R. David Murraydfd7eb02010-12-24 22:36:49 +0000445- Issue #1693546: fix email.message RFC 2231 parameter encoding to be in better
446 compliance (no "s around encoded values).
447
Raymond Hettinger1e7efdf2010-12-24 10:04:00 +0000448- Improved the diff message in the unittest module's assertCountEqual().
449
R. David Murray4a62e892010-12-23 20:35:46 +0000450- Issue #1155362: email.utils.parsedate_tz now handles a missing space before
451 the '-' of a timezone field as well as before a '+'.
452
R. David Murray8d855d82010-12-21 21:53:37 +0000453- Issue #4871: The zipfile module now gives a more useful error message if
454 an attempt is made to use a string to specify the archive password.
455
Antoine Pitrou7f8f4182010-12-21 21:20:59 +0000456- Issue #10750: The ``raw`` attribute of buffered IO objects is now read-only.
457
Raymond Hettinger8dff4ba2010-12-31 23:23:06 +0000458- Deprecated assertDictContainsSubset() in the unittest module.
Raymond Hettinger8ebe27f2010-12-21 19:24:26 +0000459
Antoine Pitrou23683ef2011-01-04 00:00:31 +0000460C-API
461-----
462
Antoine Pitrou5ace8e92011-01-15 13:11:48 +0000463- Issue #10913: Deprecate misleading functions PyEval_AcquireLock() and
464 PyEval_ReleaseLock(). The thread-state aware APIs should be used instead.
465
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +0000466- Issue #10333: Remove ancient GC API, which has been deprecated since Python
467 2.2.
Antoine Pitrou23683ef2011-01-04 00:00:31 +0000468
Georg Brandlff52f762010-12-28 09:51:43 +0000469Build
470-----
471
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +0000472- Issue #10843: Update third-party library versions used in OS X 32-bit
473 installer builds: bzip2 1.0.6, readline 6.1.2, SQLite 3.7.4 (with FTS3/FTS4
474 and RTREE enabled), and ncursesw 5.5 (wide-char support enabled).
Ned Deily4f7ff782011-01-15 05:29:12 +0000475
Ned Deily9a1383e2011-01-10 22:14:25 +0000476- Issue #10820: Fix OS X framework installs to support version-specific
477 scripts (#10679).
478
Antoine Pitrouf3fcd9f2011-01-03 18:53:50 +0000479- Issue #7716: Under Solaris, don't assume existence of /usr/xpg4/bin/grep in
480 the configure script but use $GREP instead. Patch by Fabian Groffen.
481
Antoine Pitrouc2244582011-01-02 19:34:03 +0000482- Issue #10475: Don't hardcode compilers for LDSHARED/LDCXXSHARED on NetBSD
483 and DragonFly BSD. Patch by Nicolas Joly.
484
Georg Brandlff52f762010-12-28 09:51:43 +0000485- Issue #10679: The "idle", "pydoc" and "2to3" scripts are now installed with
486 a version-specific suffix on "make altinstall".
487
David Malcolmf1397ad2011-01-06 17:01:36 +0000488- Issue #10655: Fix the build on PowerPC on Linux with GCC when building with
489 timestamp profiling (--with-tsc): the preprocessor test for the PowerPC
490 support now looks for "__powerpc__" as well as "__ppc__": the latter seems to
491 only be present on OS X; the former is the correct one for Linux with GCC.
492
Georg Brandl59b44722010-12-30 22:12:40 +0000493Tools/Demos
494-----------
495
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +0000496- Issue #10843: Install the Tools directory on OS X in the applications Extras
497 (/Applications/Python 3.n/Extras/) where the Demo directory had previous been
498 installed.
Ned Deily916f2a82011-01-15 05:05:53 +0000499
Georg Brandl59b44722010-12-30 22:12:40 +0000500- Issue #7962: The Demo directory is gone. Most of the old and unmaintained
501 demos have been removed, others integrated in documentation or a new
502 Tools/demo subdirectory.
503
Michael Foord90efac72011-01-03 15:39:49 +0000504- Issue #10502: Addition of the unittestgui tool. Originally by Steve Purcell.
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +0000505 Updated for test discovery by Mark Roddy and Python 3 compatibility by Brian
506 Curtin.
Michael Foord90efac72011-01-03 15:39:49 +0000507
Antoine Pitrou3c4402f2011-01-03 20:38:52 +0000508Tests
509-----
510
Antoine Pitrou318b8f32011-01-12 18:45:27 +0000511- Issue #10822: Fix test_posix:test_getgroups failure under Solaris. Patch
512 by Ross Lagerwall.
513
Brett Cannon63eef1e2011-01-06 22:32:41 +0000514- Make the --coverage flag work for test.regrtest.
515
Antoine Pitrouca023ca2011-01-06 09:05:22 +0000516- Issue #1677694: Refactor and improve test_timeout. Original patch by
517 Björn Lindqvist.
518
Antoine Pitrou452196f2011-01-05 18:44:14 +0000519- Issue #5485: Add tests for the UseForeignDTD method of expat parser objects.
520 Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone and Sandro Tosi.
521
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +0000522- Issue #6293: Have regrtest.py echo back sys.flags. This is done by default in
523 whole runs and enabled selectively using ``--header`` when running an explicit
524 list of tests. Original patch by Collin Winter.
Antoine Pitrou3c4402f2011-01-03 20:38:52 +0000525
Raymond Hettinger8ebe27f2010-12-21 19:24:26 +0000526
Ronald Oussoren10e05e12010-12-07 15:28:10 +0000527What's New in Python 3.2 Beta 2?
528================================
529
Georg Brandl8a60e942010-12-19 10:30:28 +0000530*Release date: 19-Dec-2010*
Ronald Oussoren10e05e12010-12-07 15:28:10 +0000531
R. David Murrayce4b1702010-12-14 23:06:25 +0000532Core and Builtins
533-----------------
534
Antoine Pitrou810023d2010-12-15 22:59:16 +0000535- Issue #8844: Regular and recursive lock acquisitions can now be interrupted
536 by signals on platforms using pthreads. Patch by Reid Kleckner.
537
R. David Murrayce4b1702010-12-14 23:06:25 +0000538- Issue #4236: PyModule_Create2 now checks the import machinery directly
539 rather than the Py_IsInitialized flag, avoiding a Fatal Python
540 error in certain circumstances when an import is done in __del__.
Ronald Oussoren10e05e12010-12-07 15:28:10 +0000541
Ezio Melottiac53ab62010-12-18 14:59:43 +0000542- Issue #5587: add a repr to dict_proxy objects. Patch by David Stanek and
543 Daniel Urban.
544
Ronald Oussoren10e05e12010-12-07 15:28:10 +0000545Library
546-------
Antoine Pitrou988dbd72010-12-17 17:35:56 +0000547
Senthil Kumaran7bc0d872010-12-19 10:49:52 +0000548- Issue #3243: Support iterable bodies in httplib. Patch Contributions by
549 Xuanji Li and Chris AtLee.
550
Michael Foordb3468f72010-12-19 03:19:47 +0000551- Issue #10611: SystemExit exception will no longer kill a unittest run.
552
553- Issue #9857: It is now possible to skip a test in a setUp, tearDown or clean
554 up function.
555
Ezio Melottiaddc6f52010-12-18 20:00:04 +0000556- Issue #10573: use actual/expected consistently in unittest methods.
557 The order of the args of assertCountEqual is also changed.
558
R. David Murray63563cd2010-12-18 18:25:38 +0000559- Issue #9286: email.utils.parseaddr no longer concatenates blank-separated
560 words in the local part of email addresses, thereby preserving the input.
561
Antoine Pitrou2b37ce72010-12-18 17:59:18 +0000562- Issue #6791: Limit header line length (to 65535 bytes) in http.client
563 and http.server, to avoid denial of services from the other party.
564
R. David Murrayb68a7bc2010-12-18 17:19:10 +0000565- Issue #10404: Use ctl-button-1 on OSX for the context menu in Idle.
566
567- Issue #9907: Fix tab handling on OSX when using editline by calling
R. David Murray52d1b4e2010-12-18 03:48:32 +0000568 rl_initialize first, then setting our custom defaults, then reading .editrc.
569
Antoine Pitrou401edd62010-12-17 17:42:16 +0000570- Issue #4188: Avoid creating dummy thread objects when logging operations
571 from the threading module (with the internal verbose flag activated).
572
Antoine Pitrou988dbd72010-12-17 17:35:56 +0000573- Issue #10711: Remove HTTP 0.9 support from http.client. The ``strict``
574 parameter to HTTPConnection and friends is deprecated.
575
Senthil Kumarandca5b862010-12-17 04:48:45 +0000576- Issue #9721: Fix the behavior of urljoin when the relative url starts with a
577 ';' character. Patch by Wes Chow.
Ronald Oussoren10e05e12010-12-07 15:28:10 +0000578
Antoine Pitrouc4924372010-12-16 16:48:36 +0000579- Issue #10714: Limit length of incoming request in http.server to 65536 bytes
580 for security reasons. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
581
Éric Araujo60532bd2010-12-15 21:07:22 +0000582- Issue #9558: Fix distutils.command.build_ext with VS 8.0.
583
Raymond Hettinger96f34102010-12-15 16:30:37 +0000584- Issue #10667: Fast path for collections.Counter().
585
R. David Murray32ef70c2010-12-14 14:16:20 +0000586- Issue #10695: passing the port as a string value to telnetlib no longer
587 causes debug mode to fail.
588
R. David Murray7ec754b2010-12-13 23:51:19 +0000589- Issue #1078919: add_header now automatically RFC2231 encodes parameters
590 that contain non-ascii values.
591
Gregory P. Smithf86aa7c2010-12-13 08:07:14 +0000592- Issue #10188 (partial resolution): tempfile.TemporaryDirectory emits
Nick Coghlan6b22f3f2010-12-12 15:24:21 +0000593 a warning on sys.stderr rather than throwing a misleading exception
594 if cleanup fails due to nulling out of modules during shutdown.
595 Also avoids an AttributeError when mkdtemp call fails and issues
596 a ResourceWarning on implicit cleanup via __del__.
597
Gregory P. Smithf86aa7c2010-12-13 08:07:14 +0000598- Issue #10107: Warn about unsaved files in IDLE on OSX.
599
600- Issue #7213: subprocess.Popen's default for close_fds has been changed.
Gregory P. Smith8edd99d2010-12-14 13:43:30 +0000601 It is now True in most cases other than on Windows when input, output or
602 error handles are provided.
603
604- Issue #6559: subprocess.Popen has a new pass_fds parameter (actually
605 added in 3.2beta1) to allow specifying a specific list of file descriptors
606 to keep open in the child process.
Ronald Oussoren10e05e12010-12-07 15:28:10 +0000607
Gregory P. Smithe85db2b2010-12-14 14:38:00 +0000608- Issue #1731717: Fixed the problem where subprocess.wait() could cause an
609 OSError exception when The OS had been told to ignore SIGCLD in our process
610 or otherwise not wait for exiting child processes.
611
R. David Murrayec073312010-12-14 16:20:53 +0000612Tests
613-----
614
615- Issue #775964: test_grp now skips YP/NIS entries instead of failing when
616 encountering them.
617
Antoine Pitrou00c6b622010-12-15 15:33:18 +0000618Tools/Demos
619-----------
620
Georg Brandlaedd2892010-12-19 10:10:32 +0000621- Issue #6075: IDLE on Mac OS X now works with both Carbon AquaTk and
622 Cocoa AquaTk.
623
Antoine Pitrou20f0fb62010-12-16 18:25:24 +0000624- Issue #10710: ``Misc/setuid-prog.c`` is removed from the source tree.
625
Antoine Pitrou00c6b622010-12-15 15:33:18 +0000626- Issue #10706: Remove outdated script runtests.sh. Either ``make test``
627 or ``python -m test`` should be used instead.
628
Martin v. Löwis910a4ed2010-12-17 20:43:27 +0000629Build
630-----
631
Martin v. Löwis0e74cac2010-12-17 21:04:09 +0000632- The Windows build now uses Tcl/Tk 8.5.9 and sqlite3 3.7.4.
Martin v. Löwis910a4ed2010-12-17 20:43:27 +0000633
Steven Bethardfd311a72010-12-18 11:19:23 +0000634- Issue #9234: argparse supports alias names for subparsers.
635
R. David Murrayec073312010-12-14 16:20:53 +0000636
Georg Brandl9b0034d2010-11-16 15:15:56 +0000637What's New in Python 3.2 Beta 1?
638================================
639
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +0000640*Release date: 05-Dec-2010*
Georg Brandl9b0034d2010-11-16 15:15:56 +0000641
642Core and Builtins
643-----------------
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +0000644
Benjamin Peterson9b4e27e2010-12-07 03:47:37 +0000645- Issue #10630: Return dict views from the dict proxy keys()/values()/items()
646 methods.
647
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +0000648- Issue #10596: Fix float.__mod__ to have the same behaviour as float.__divmod__
649 with respect to signed zeros. -4.0 % 4.0 should be 0.0, not -0.0.
Mark Dickinsond2a9b202010-12-04 12:25:30 +0000650
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +0000651- Issue #1772833: Add the -q command-line option to suppress copyright and
652 version output in interactive mode.
Georg Brandl9d871192010-12-04 10:47:18 +0000653
Georg Brandl8334fd92010-12-04 10:26:46 +0000654- Provide an *optimize* parameter in the built-in compile() function.
655
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +0000656- Fixed several corner case issues on Windows in os.stat/os.lstat related to
657 reparse points.
Hirokazu Yamamoto427d3142010-12-04 10:16:05 +0000658
Martin v. Löwis4d0d4712010-12-03 20:14:31 +0000659- PEP 384 (Defining a Stable ABI) is implemented.
660
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +0000661- Issue #2690: Range objects support negative indices and slicing.
Nick Coghlan37ee8502010-12-03 14:26:13 +0000662
Daniel Stutzbach98338222010-12-02 21:55:33 +0000663- Issue #9915: Speed up sorting with a key.
664
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +0000665- Issue #8685: Speed up set difference ``a - b`` when source set ``a`` is much
666 larger than operand ``b``. Patch by Andrew Bennetts.
Antoine Pitrou715f3cd2010-11-30 22:23:20 +0000667
Antoine Pitroue71362d2010-11-27 22:00:11 +0000668- Issue #10518: Bring back the callable() builtin.
669
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +0000670- Issue #7094: Added alternate formatting (specified by '#') to ``__format__``
671 method of float, complex, and Decimal. This allows more precise control over
672 when decimal points are displayed.
Eric Smith984bb582010-11-25 16:08:06 +0000673
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +0000674- Issue #10474: range.count() should return integers.
Benjamin Peterson0b458d52010-11-20 22:35:41 +0000675
R. David Murray6bb99892010-11-20 16:33:30 +0000676- Issue #1574217: isinstance now catches only AttributeError, rather than
677 masking all errors.
678
Georg Brandl9b0034d2010-11-16 15:15:56 +0000679Library
680-------
681
Vinay Sajip5a27d402010-12-10 11:42:57 +0000682- logging: added "handler of last resort". See http://bit.ly/last-resort-handler
683
Vinay Sajip129fd042010-12-10 08:19:38 +0000684- test.support: Added TestHandler and Matcher classes for better support of
685 assertions about logging.
686
Éric Araujo12159152010-12-04 17:31:49 +0000687- Issue #4391: Use proper plural forms in argparse.
688
Victor Stinner13d49ee2010-12-04 17:24:33 +0000689- Issue #10601: sys.displayhook uses 'backslashreplace' error handler on
690 UnicodeEncodeError.
691
Georg Brandlcbc79c72010-12-04 16:21:42 +0000692- Add the "display" and "undisplay" pdb commands.
693
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +0000694- Issue #7245: Add a SIGINT handler in pdb that allows to break a program again
695 after a "continue" command.
Georg Brandl44f2b642010-12-04 16:00:47 +0000696
Georg Brandl1acb7462010-12-04 11:20:26 +0000697- Add the "interact" pdb command.
698
Georg Brandl732324a2010-12-04 11:12:43 +0000699- Issue #7905: Actually respect the keyencoding parameter to shelve.Shelf.
700
Georg Brandlc29cc6a2010-12-04 11:02:04 +0000701- Issue #1569291: Speed up array.repeat().
702
Georg Brandl8334fd92010-12-04 10:26:46 +0000703- Provide an interface to set the optimization level of compilation in
704 py_compile, compileall and zipfile.PyZipFile.
705
Senthil Kumaran10064e92010-12-04 09:44:30 +0000706- Issue #7904: Changes to urllib.parse.urlsplit to handle schemes as defined by
707 RFC3986. Anything before :// is considered a scheme and is followed by an
708 authority (or netloc) and by '/' led path, which is optional.
709
Georg Brandld9e833c2010-12-04 09:14:36 +0000710- Issue #6045: dbm.gnu databases now support get() and setdefault() methods.
711
712- Issue #10620: `python -m unittest` can accept file paths instead of module
Michael Foord37d120a2010-12-04 01:11:21 +0000713 names for running specific tests.
714
715- Issue #9424: Deprecate the `unittest.TestCase` methods `assertEquals`,
716 `assertNotEquals`, `assertAlmostEquals`, `assertNotAlmostEquals` and `assert_`
717 and replace them with the correct methods in the Python test suite.
718
Antoine Pitrouc4df7842010-12-03 19:59:41 +0000719- Issue #10272: The ssl module now raises socket.timeout instead of a generic
720 SSLError on socket timeouts.
721
Éric Araujobb48a8b2010-12-03 19:41:00 +0000722- Issue #10528: Allow translators to reorder placeholders in localizable
723 messages from argparse.
724
Éric Araujoa9c7a8f2010-12-03 19:19:17 +0000725- Issue #10497: Fix incorrect use of gettext in argparse.
726
Antoine Pitrouf3b68b32010-12-03 18:41:39 +0000727- Issue #10478: Reentrant calls inside buffered IO objects (for example by
728 way of a signal handler) now raise a RuntimeError instead of freezing the
729 current process.
730
Vinay Sajip61561522010-12-03 11:50:38 +0000731- logging: Added getLogRecordFactory/setLogRecordFactory with docs and tests.
732
Georg Brandl9bd45f992010-12-03 09:58:38 +0000733- Issue #10549: Fix pydoc traceback when text-documenting certain classes.
734
Nick Coghlan7bb30b72010-12-03 09:29:11 +0000735- Issue #2001: New HTML server with enhanced Web page features. Patch by Ron
736 Adam.
737
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +0000738- Issue #10360: In WeakSet, do not raise TypeErrors when testing for membership
739 of non-weakrefable objects.
Georg Brandlf8de3fe2010-12-03 07:55:44 +0000740
Georg Brandld80d5f42010-12-03 07:47:22 +0000741- Issue #940286: pydoc.Helper.help() ignores input/output init parameters.
742
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +0000743- Issue #1745035: Add a command size and data size limit to smtpd.py, to prevent
744 DoS attacks. Patch by Savio Sena.
Georg Brandl1e5c5f82010-12-03 07:38:22 +0000745
Georg Brandl106a54d2010-12-03 07:37:16 +0000746- Issue #4925: Add filename to error message when executable can't be found in
747 subprocess.
748
749- Issue #10391: Don't dereference invalid memory in error messages in the ast
750 module.
751
752- Issue #10027: st_nlink was not being set on Windows calls to os.stat or
753 os.lstat. Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
754
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +0000755- Issue #9333: Expose os.symlink only when the SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege is
756 held by the user's account, i.e., when the function can actually be used.
Georg Brandl106a54d2010-12-03 07:37:16 +0000757
758- Issue #8879: Add os.link support for Windows.
759
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +0000760- Issue #7911: ``unittest.TestCase.longMessage`` defaults to True for improved
Georg Brandl106a54d2010-12-03 07:37:16 +0000761 failure messages by default. Patch by Mark Roddy.
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +0000762
763- Issue #1486713: HTMLParser now has an optional tolerant mode where it tries to
764 guess at the correct parsing of invalid html.
R. David Murrayb579dba2010-12-03 04:06:39 +0000765
Brian Curtin79cdb662010-12-03 02:46:02 +0000766- Issue #10554: Add context manager support to subprocess.Popen objects.
767
R. David Murraya0b44b52010-12-02 21:47:19 +0000768- Issue #8989: email.utils.make_msgid now has a domain parameter that can
769 override the domain name used in the generated msgid.
770
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +0000771- Issue #9299: Add exist_ok parameter to os.makedirs to suppress the 'File
772 exists' exception when a target directory already exists with the specified
773 mode. Patch by Ray Allen.
Terry Reedy5a22b652010-12-02 07:05:56 +0000774
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +0000775- Issue #9573: os.fork() now works correctly when triggered as a side effect of
776 a module import.
Nick Coghlanb2ddf792010-12-02 04:11:46 +0000777
R. David Murrayd2bb8302010-12-02 02:58:07 +0000778- Issue #10464: netrc now correctly handles lines with embedded '#' characters.
779
Raymond Hettinger482ba772010-12-01 22:48:00 +0000780- Added itertools.accumulate().
781
Alexander Belopolsky41e422a2010-12-01 20:05:49 +0000782- Issue #4113: Added custom ``__repr__`` method to ``functools.partial``.
783 Original patch by Daniel Urban.
784
Ezio Melottied3a7d22010-12-01 02:32:32 +0000785- Issue #10273: Rename `assertRegexpMatches` and `assertRaisesRegexp` to
786 `assertRegex` and `assertRaisesRegex`.
787
Ezio Melottif10c4002010-12-01 01:45:53 +0000788- Issue #10535: Enable silenced warnings in unittest by default.
789
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +0000790- Issue #9873: The URL parsing functions in urllib.parse now accept ASCII byte
791 sequences as input in addition to character strings.
Nick Coghlan9fc443c2010-11-30 15:48:08 +0000792
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +0000793- Issue #10586: The statistics API for the new functools.lru_cache has been
794 changed to a single cache_info() method returning a named tuple.
Nick Coghlan234515a2010-11-30 06:19:46 +0000795
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +0000796- Issue #10323: itertools.islice() now consumes the minimum number of inputs
797 before stopping. Formerly, the final state of the underlying iterator was
798 undefined.
Raymond Hettinger69b34bf2010-11-30 02:49:29 +0000799
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +0000800- Issue #10565: The collections.Iterator ABC now checks for both __iter__ and
801 __next__.
Raymond Hettingeread22222010-11-29 03:56:12 +0000802
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +0000803- Issue #10242: Fixed implementation of unittest.ItemsEqual and gave it a new
804 more informative name, unittest.CountEqual.
Raymond Hettinger6e165b32010-11-27 09:31:37 +0000805
Senthil Kumaran6f107042010-11-29 11:54:17 +0000806- Issue #10561: In pdb, clear the breakpoints by the breakpoint number.
807
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +0000808- Issue #2986: difflib.SequenceMatcher gets a new parameter, autojunk, which can
809 be set to False to turn off the previously undocumented 'popularity'
Terry Reedy99f96372010-11-25 06:12:34 +0000810 heuristic. Patch by Terry Reedy and Eli Bendersky.
811
Georg Brandl68eb4642010-12-28 11:02:12 +0000812- Issue #10534: in difflib, expose bjunk and bpopular sets; deprecate
813 undocumented and now redundant isbjunk and isbpopular methods.
Terry Reedy4b9b1972010-12-03 22:50:06 +0000814
Łukasz Langae61602f2010-11-23 00:19:53 +0000815- Issue #9846: zipfile is now correctly closing underlying file objects.
816
Martin v. Löwis5cbc71e2010-11-22 09:00:02 +0000817- Issue #10459: Update CJK character names to Unicode 6.0.
818
Senthil Kumaran249d7e32010-11-22 05:08:13 +0000819- Issue #4493: urllib.request adds '/' in front of path components which does not
Senthil Kumaranc2958622010-11-22 04:48:26 +0000820 start with '/. Common behavior exhibited by browsers and other clients.
821
Brian Curtinf9916422010-11-21 23:45:10 +0000822- Issue #6378: idle.bat now runs with the appropriate Python version rather than
823 the system default. Patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
824
Michael Foord086f3082010-11-21 21:28:01 +0000825- Issue #10470: 'python -m unittest' will now run test discovery by default,
826 when no extra arguments have been provided.
827
Senthil Kumarane4dad4f2010-11-21 14:36:14 +0000828- Issue #3709: BaseHTTPRequestHandler will buffer the headers and write to
829 output stream only when end_headers is invoked. This is a speedup and an
830 internal optimization. Patch by endian.
831
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +0000832- Issue #10220: Added inspect.getgeneratorstate. Initial patch by Rodolpho
833 Eckhardt.
Nick Coghlane0f04652010-11-21 03:44:04 +0000834
R. David Murray650f1472010-11-20 21:18:51 +0000835- Issue #10453: compileall now uses argparse instead of getopt, and thus
836 provides clean output when called with '-h'.
837
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +0000838- Issue #8078: Add constants for higher baud rates in the termios module. Patch
839 by Rodolpho Eckhardt.
Antoine Pitroua78f74c2010-11-20 20:03:08 +0000840
Éric Araujoe7606642010-11-20 19:37:28 +0000841- Issue #10407: Fix two NameErrors in distutils.
842
Ezio Melottib3aedd42010-11-20 19:04:17 +0000843- Issue #10371: Deprecated undocumented functions in the trace module.
Alexander Belopolsky44454af2010-11-20 18:21:07 +0000844
Benjamin Petersonfa735552010-11-20 17:24:04 +0000845- Issue #10467: Fix BytesIO.readinto() after seeking into a position after the
846 end of the file.
847
Łukasz Langa71b37a52010-12-17 21:56:32 +0000848- configparser: 100% test coverage.
849
Łukasz Langa1ac0d7a2010-12-16 01:42:36 +0000850- Issue #10499: configparser supports pluggable interpolation handlers. The
851 default classic interpolation handler is called BasicInterpolation. Another
Łukasz Langab6a6f5f2010-12-03 16:28:00 +0000852 interpolation handler added (ExtendedInterpolation) which supports the syntax
853 used by zc.buildout (e.g. interpolation between sections).
854
Łukasz Langa1ac0d7a2010-12-16 01:42:36 +0000855- configparser: the SafeConfigParser class has been renamed to ConfigParser.
856 The legacy ConfigParser class has been removed but its interpolation mechanism
857 is still available as LegacyInterpolation.
Michael Foordb3468f72010-12-19 03:19:47 +0000858
Łukasz Langa1ac0d7a2010-12-16 01:42:36 +0000859- configparser: Usage of RawConfigParser is now discouraged for new projects
860 in favor of ConfigParser(interpolation=None).
861
Łukasz Langa45ec4262010-11-20 16:16:24 +0000862- Issue #1682942: configparser supports alternative option/value delimiters.
863
864- Issue #5412: configparser supports mapping protocol access.
865
866- Issue #9411: configparser supports specifying encoding for read operations.
867
868- Issue #9421: configparser's getint(), getfloat() and getboolean() methods
869 accept vars and default arguments just like get() does.
870
Łukasz Langa71b37a52010-12-17 21:56:32 +0000871- Issue #9452: configparser supports reading from strings and dictionaries
872 (thanks to the mapping protocol API, the latter can be used to copy data
873 between parsers).
Łukasz Langa45ec4262010-11-20 16:16:24 +0000874
875- configparser: accepted INI file structure is now customizable, including
876 comment prefixes, name of the DEFAULT section, empty lines in multiline
877 values, and indentation.
878
Michael Foord8ca6d982010-11-20 15:34:26 +0000879- Issue 10326: unittest.TestCase instances can be pickled.
880
Michael Foordc610e3e2010-11-20 17:50:34 +0000881- Issue 9926: Wrapped TestSuite subclass does not get __call__ executed.
882
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +0000883- Issue #9920: Skip tests for cmath.atan and cmath.atanh applied to complex
884 zeros on systems where the log1p function fails to respect the sign of zero.
885 This fixes a test failure on AIX.
Mark Dickinson4ccc1372010-11-20 11:08:27 +0000886
Michael Foord95fc51d2010-11-20 15:07:30 +0000887- Issue #9732: Addition of getattr_static to the inspect module.
888
Alexander Belopolsky9a4030e2010-11-18 03:50:18 +0000889- Issue #10446: Module documentation generated by pydoc now links to a
890 version-specific online reference manual.
891
Brett Cannon0ffe6a92010-11-18 03:03:04 +0000892- Make the 'No module named' exception message from importlib consistent.
893
Antoine Pitrou664c2d12010-11-17 20:29:42 +0000894- Issue #10443: Add the SSLContext.set_default_verify_paths() method.
895
Antoine Pitroub6d4ee52010-11-17 16:19:35 +0000896- Issue #10440: Support RUSAGE_THREAD as a constant in the resource module.
897 Patch by Robert Collins.
898
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +0000899- Issue #10429: IMAP.starttls() stored the capabilities as bytes objects, rather
900 than strings.
Antoine Pitroudbe75192010-11-16 17:55:26 +0000901
Benjamin Petersonf6096542010-11-17 22:33:12 +0000902C-API
903-----
904
Alexander Belopolsky942af5a2010-12-04 03:38:46 +0000905- Issue #10557: Added a new API function, PyUnicode_TransformDecimalToASCII(),
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +0000906 which transforms non-ASCII decimal digits in a Unicode string to their ASCII
907 equivalents.
Alexander Belopolsky942af5a2010-12-04 03:38:46 +0000908
Georg Brandl106a54d2010-12-03 07:37:16 +0000909- Issue #9518: Extend the PyModuleDef_HEAD_INIT macro to explicitly
910 zero-initialize all fields, fixing compiler warnings seen when building
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +0000911 extension modules with gcc with "-Wmissing-field-initializers" (implied by
912 "-W").
Georg Brandl106a54d2010-12-03 07:37:16 +0000913
914- Issue #10255: Fix reference leak in Py_InitializeEx(). Patch by Neil
915 Schemenauer.
916
Georg Brandl71c23d42010-11-30 09:30:54 +0000917- structseq.h is now included in Python.h.
918
Benjamin Petersonf6096542010-11-17 22:33:12 +0000919- Loosen PyArg_ValidateKeywordArguments to allow dict subclasses.
920
Brian Curtin8fb9b862010-11-18 02:15:28 +0000921Tests
922-----
923
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +0000924- regrtest.py once again ensures the test directory is removed from sys.path
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +0000925 when it is invoked directly as the __main__ module.
Nick Coghlan4c4c0f22010-12-03 07:44:33 +0000926
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +0000927- `python -m test` can be used to run the test suite as well as `python -m
928 test.regrtest`.
Michael Foord3ab34cc2010-12-03 12:27:40 +0000929
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +0000930- Do not fail test_socket when the IP address of the local hostname cannot be
931 looked up.
Georg Brandl89197fe2010-11-20 14:16:17 +0000932
Łukasz Langa45ec4262010-11-20 16:16:24 +0000933- Issue #8886: Use context managers throughout test_zipfile. Patch by Eric
934 Carstensen.
Brian Curtin8fb9b862010-11-18 02:15:28 +0000935
Mark Dickinson6646cd42010-11-20 10:43:10 +0000936Build
937-----
938
939- Issue #10325: Fix two issues in the fallback definitions for PY_ULLONG_MAX and
940 PY_LLONG_MAX that made them unsuitable for use in preprocessor conditionals.
941
Ezio Melotti17f9b3d2010-11-24 22:02:18 +0000942Documentation
943-------------
944
945- Issue #10299: List the built-in functions in a table in functions.rst.
946
Georg Brandl9b0034d2010-11-16 15:15:56 +0000947
Georg Brandlb8bbffd2010-11-08 16:57:52 +0000948What's New in Python 3.2 Alpha 4?
949=================================
Martin v. Löwise8930222010-10-11 22:38:01 +0000950
Georg Brandl24854ca2010-11-13 06:39:58 +0000951*Release date: 13-Nov-2010*
Martin v. Löwise8930222010-10-11 22:38:01 +0000952
953Core and Builtins
954-----------------
955
Antoine Pitroucf9f9802010-11-10 13:55:25 +0000956- Issue #10372: Import the warnings module only after the IO library is
957 initialized, so as to avoid bootstrap issues with the '-W' option.
958
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +0000959- Issue #10293: Remove obsolete field in the PyMemoryView structure, unused
960 undocumented value PyBUF_SHADOW, and strangely-looking code in
Antoine Pitrouaeb6cee2010-11-04 20:30:33 +0000961 PyMemoryView_GetContiguous.
962
Georg Brandl54445ad2010-11-20 10:24:34 +0000963- Issue #6081: Add str.format_map(), similar to ``str.format(**mapping)``.
Eric Smith27bbca62010-11-04 17:06:58 +0000964
Benjamin Petersonbbb04122010-10-30 23:16:28 +0000965- If FileIO.__init__ fails, close the file descriptor.
966
Raymond Hettingerdd421542010-10-30 08:10:29 +0000967- Issue #10221: dict.pop(k) now has a key error message that includes the
968 missing key (same message d[k] returns for missing keys).
969
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +0000970- Issue #5437: A preallocated MemoryError instance should not keep traceback
Antoine Pitrou07e20ef2010-10-28 22:56:58 +0000971 data (including local variables caught in the stack trace) alive infinitely.
972
Benjamin Peterson503d6c52010-10-24 02:52:05 +0000973- Issue #10186: Fix the SyntaxError caret when the offset is equal to the length
974 of the offending line.
975
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +0000976- Issue #10089: Add support for arbitrary -X options on the command line. They
977 can be retrieved through a new attribute ``sys._xoptions``.
Antoine Pitrou9583cac2010-10-21 13:42:28 +0000978
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +0000979- Issue #4388: On Mac OS X, decode command line arguments from UTF-8, instead of
980 the locale encoding. If the LANG (and LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE) environment
Victor Stinnerf933e1a2010-10-20 22:58:25 +0000981 variable is not set, the locale encoding is ISO-8859-1, whereas most programs
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +0000982 (including Python) expect UTF-8. Python already uses UTF-8 for the filesystem
Victor Stinnerf933e1a2010-10-20 22:58:25 +0000983 encoding and to encode command line arguments on this OS.
984
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +0000985- Issue #9713, #10114: Parser functions (e.g. PyParser_ASTFromFile) expect
986 filenames encoded to the filesystem encoding with the surrogateescape error
Victor Stinner4c7c8c32010-10-16 13:14:10 +0000987 handler (to support undecodable bytes), instead of UTF-8 in strict mode.
988
Benjamin Peterson230b2062010-10-16 03:45:45 +0000989- Issue #9997: Don't let the name "top" have special significance in scope
990 resolution.
991
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +0000992- Issue #9862: Compensate for broken PIPE_BUF in AIX by hard coding its value as
993 the default 512 when compiling on AIX.
R. David Murraye16cda92010-10-15 23:12:57 +0000994
Victor Stinnerf3170cc2010-10-15 12:04:23 +0000995- Use locale encoding instead of UTF-8 to encode and decode filenames if
996 Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding is not set.
997
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +0000998- Issue #10095: fp_setreadl() doesn't reopen the file, instead reuse the file
Victor Stinner22a351a2010-10-14 12:04:34 +0000999 descriptor.
1000
Georg Brandl66c221e2010-10-14 07:04:07 +00001001- Issue #9418: Moved private string methods ``_formatter_parser`` and
1002 ``_formatter_field_name_split`` into a new ``_string`` module.
1003
Victor Stinner8f6b6b02010-10-13 22:02:27 +00001004- Issue #9992: Remove PYTHONFSENCODING environment variable.
1005
Martin v. Löwise8930222010-10-11 22:38:01 +00001006Library
1007-------
1008
Georg Brandl9f1c1dc2010-11-20 11:25:01 +00001009- Issue #10465: fix broken delegating of attributes by gzip._PaddedFile.
1010
Stefan Krahdc817b22010-11-17 11:16:34 +00001011- Issue #10356: Decimal.__hash__(-1) should return -2.
1012
Vinay Sajip8593ae62010-11-14 21:33:04 +00001013- Issue #1553375: logging: Added stack_info kwarg to display stack information.
1014
Senthil Kumaran74ebd9e2010-11-13 12:27:49 +00001015- Issue #5111: IPv6 Host in the Header is wrapped inside [ ]. Patch by Chandru.
1016
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001017- Fix Fraction.__hash__ so that Fraction.__hash__(-1) is -2. (See also issue
1018 #10356.)
Mark Dickinsonfec66202010-11-13 10:27:38 +00001019
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001020- Issue #4471: Add the IMAP.starttls() method to enable encryption on standard
1021 IMAP4 connections. Original patch by Lorenzo M. Catucci.
Antoine Pitrouf3b001f2010-11-12 18:49:16 +00001022
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001023- Issue #1466065: Add 'validate' option to base64.b64decode to raise an error if
1024 there are non-base64 alphabet characters in the input.
R. David Murray64951362010-11-11 20:09:20 +00001025
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001026- Issue #10386: Add __all__ to token module; this simplifies importing in
Georg Brandl54445ad2010-11-20 10:24:34 +00001027 tokenize module and prevents leaking of private names through ``import *``.
Alexander Belopolskyb9d10d02010-11-11 14:07:41 +00001028
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001029- Issue #4471: Properly shutdown socket in IMAP.shutdown(). Patch by Lorenzo
1030 M. Catucci.
Antoine Pitroud79f3c82010-11-09 23:10:33 +00001031
Antoine Pitroub1436f12010-11-09 22:55:55 +00001032- Fix IMAP.login() to work properly.
1033
Ask Soleme912f5a2010-11-09 21:14:53 +00001034- Issue #9244: multiprocessing pool worker processes could terminate
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001035 unexpectedly if the return value of a task could not be pickled. Only the
1036 ``repr`` of such errors are now sent back, wrapped in an
Ask Soleme912f5a2010-11-09 21:14:53 +00001037 ``MaybeEncodingError`` exception.
1038
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001039- Issue #9244: The ``apply_async()`` and ``map_async()`` methods of
1040 ``multiprocessing.Pool`` now accepts a ``error_callback`` argument. This can
1041 be a callback with the signature ``callback(exc)``, which will be called if
1042 the target raises an exception.
Ask Soleme912f5a2010-11-09 21:14:53 +00001043
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001044- Issue #10022: The dictionary returned by the ``getpeercert()`` method of SSL
1045 sockets now has additional items such as ``issuer`` and ``notBefore``.
Antoine Pitroufb046912010-11-09 20:21:19 +00001046
Antoine Pitrou859c4ef2010-11-09 18:58:42 +00001047- ``usenetrc`` is now false by default for NNTP objects.
1048
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001049- Issue #1926: Add support for NNTP over SSL on port 563, as well as STARTTLS.
1050 Patch by Andrew Vant.
Antoine Pitrou1cb121e2010-11-09 18:54:37 +00001051
Victor Stinner58c07522010-11-09 01:08:59 +00001052- Issue #10335: Add tokenize.open(), detect the file encoding using
1053 tokenize.detect_encoding() and open it in read only mode.
1054
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001055- Issue #10321: Add support for binary data to smtplib.SMTP.sendmail, and a new
1056 method send_message to send an email.message.Message object.
R. David Murray7dff9e02010-11-08 17:15:13 +00001057
Éric Araujoa5633922010-11-08 17:13:03 +00001058- Issue #6011: sysconfig and distutils.sysconfig use the surrogateescape error
1059 handler to parse the Makefile file. Avoid a UnicodeDecodeError if the source
1060 code directory name contains a non-ASCII character and the locale encoding is
1061 ASCII.
1062
Victor Stinner64bc3b22010-11-07 15:47:36 +00001063- Issue #10329: The trace module writes reports using the input Python script
Éric Araujoa5633922010-11-08 17:13:03 +00001064 encoding, instead of the locale encoding. Patch written by Alexander
Victor Stinner64bc3b22010-11-07 15:47:36 +00001065 Belopolsky.
1066
Éric Araujoe7cf9542010-11-06 15:01:07 +00001067- Issue #10126: Fix distutils' test_build when Python was built with
1068 --enable-shared.
1069
Éric Araujoba7209f2010-11-06 04:48:05 +00001070- Issue #9281: Prevent race condition with mkdir in distutils. Patch by
1071 Arfrever.
1072
Éric Araujo909ddbd2010-11-06 04:24:00 +00001073- Issue #10229: Fix caching error in gettext.
1074
Éric Araujo89c04782010-11-05 23:58:34 +00001075- Issue #10252: Close file objects in a timely manner in distutils code and
1076 tests. Patch by Brian Brazil, completed by Éric Araujo.
1077
Antoine Pitrou243757e2010-11-05 21:15:39 +00001078- Issue #10180: Pickling file objects is now explicitly forbidden, since
1079 unpickling them produced nonsensical results.
1080
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001081- Issue #10311: The signal module now restores errno before returning from its
1082 low-level signal handler. Patch by Hallvard B Furuseth.
Antoine Pitrou39a65912010-11-05 19:47:27 +00001083
Antoine Pitroua0781152010-11-05 19:16:37 +00001084- Issue #10282: Add a ``nntp_implementation`` attribute to NNTP objects.
1085
Antoine Pitrou08eeada2010-11-04 21:36:15 +00001086- Issue #10283: Add a ``group_pattern`` argument to NNTP.list().
1087
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001088- Issue #10155: Add IISCGIHandler to wsgiref.handlers to support IIS CGI
1089 environment better, and to correct unicode environment values for WSGI 1.0.1.
Phillip J. Ebyb6d4a8e2010-11-03 22:39:01 +00001090
Antoine Pitrou4103bc02010-11-03 18:18:43 +00001091- Issue #10281: nntplib now returns None for absent fields in the OVER/XOVER
1092 response, instead of raising an exception.
1093
Phillip J. Ebya01799f2010-11-03 00:46:45 +00001094- wsgiref now implements and validates PEP 3333, rather than an experimental
1095 extension of PEP 333. (Note: earlier versions of Python 3.x may have
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001096 incorrectly validated some non-compliant applications as WSGI compliant; if
1097 your app validates with Python <3.2b1+, but not on this version, it is likely
1098 the case that your app was not compliant.)
Phillip J. Ebya01799f2010-11-03 00:46:45 +00001099
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001100- Issue #10280: NNTP.nntp_version should reflect the highest version advertised
1101 by the server.
Antoine Pitrouf80b3f72010-11-02 22:31:52 +00001102
Martin v. Löwis16f344d2010-11-01 21:39:13 +00001103- Issue #10184: Touch directories only once when extracting a tarfile.
1104
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001105- Issue #10199: New package, ``turtledemo`` now contains selected demo scripts
1106 that were formerly found under Demo/turtle.
Alexander Belopolskyea13d9d2010-11-01 17:39:37 +00001107
Antoine Pitrou4d984892010-10-31 21:27:04 +00001108- Issue #10265: Close file objects explicitly in sunau. Patch by Brian Brazil.
1109
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001110- Issue #10266: uu.decode didn't close in_file explicitly when it was given as a
1111 filename. Patch by Brian Brazil.
Antoine Pitrouf5698262010-10-31 16:04:14 +00001112
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001113- Issue #10110: Queue objects didn't recognize full queues when the maxsize
1114 parameter had been reduced.
Raymond Hettinger189316a2010-10-31 17:57:52 +00001115
Antoine Pitroue9745712010-10-31 15:26:04 +00001116- Issue #10160: Speed up operator.attrgetter. Patch by Christos Georgiou.
1117
Vinay Sajip65b4af32010-10-31 15:11:43 +00001118- logging: Added style option to basicConfig() to allow %, {} or $-formatting.
1119
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001120- Issue #5729: json.dumps() now supports using a string such as '\t' for
1121 pretty-printing multilevel objects.
Raymond Hettingerb643ef82010-10-31 08:00:16 +00001122
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001123- Issue #10253: FileIO leaks a file descriptor when trying to open a file for
1124 append that isn't seekable. Patch by Brian Brazil.
Antoine Pitrou8d2b51b2010-10-30 16:19:14 +00001125
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001126- Support context manager protocol for file-like objects returned by mailbox
1127 ``get_file()`` methods.
Georg Brandl6ce29fa2010-10-30 14:33:28 +00001128
Antoine Pitroubfa34702010-10-30 13:03:56 +00001129- Issue #10246: uu.encode didn't close file objects explicitly when filenames
1130 were given to it. Patch by Brian Brazil.
1131
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001132- Issue #10198: fix duplicate header written to wave files when writeframes() is
1133 called without data.
Georg Brandlcc2adbc2010-10-30 08:29:28 +00001134
Brett Cannon028011f2010-10-30 00:26:48 +00001135- Close file objects in modulefinder in a timely manner.
1136
Brett Cannon01105782010-10-30 00:18:54 +00001137- Close a io.TextIOWrapper object in email.parser in a timely manner.
1138
1139- Close a file object in distutils.sysconfig in a timely manner.
1140
1141- Close a file object in pkgutil in a timely manner.
1142
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001143- Issue #10233: Close file objects in a timely manner in the tarfile module and
1144 its test suite.
Antoine Pitroue1eca4e2010-10-29 23:49:49 +00001145
Antoine Pitroue033e062010-10-29 10:38:18 +00001146- Issue #10093: ResourceWarnings are now issued when files and sockets are
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001147 deallocated without explicit closing. These warnings are silenced by default,
1148 except in pydebug mode.
Antoine Pitroue033e062010-10-29 10:38:18 +00001149
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001150- tarfile.py: Add support for all missing variants of the GNU sparse extensions
1151 and create files with holes when extracting sparse members.
Lars Gustäbel9cbdd752010-10-29 09:08:19 +00001152
Georg Brandlb9a43912010-10-28 09:03:20 +00001153- Issue #10218: Return timeout status from ``Condition.wait`` in threading.
1154
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001155- Issue #7351: Add ``zipfile.BadZipFile`` spelling of the exception name and
1156 deprecate the old name ``zipfile.BadZipfile``.
Georg Brandl4d540882010-10-28 06:42:33 +00001157
Antoine Pitrou6b03ee62010-10-27 18:33:30 +00001158- Issue #5027: The standard ``xml`` namespace is now understood by
1159 xml.sax.saxutils.XMLGenerator as being bound to
1160 http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace. Patch by Troy J. Farrell.
1161
Georg Brandl7424dd32010-10-27 07:27:06 +00001162- Issue #5975: Add csv.unix_dialect class.
1163
1164- Issue #7761: telnetlib.interact failures on Windows fixed.
R. David Murrayba488d12010-10-26 12:42:24 +00001165
Vinay Sajipa39c5712010-10-25 13:57:39 +00001166- logging: Added style option to Formatter to allow %, {} or $-formatting.
1167
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001168- Issue #5178: Added tempfile.TemporaryDirectory class that can be used as a
1169 context manager.
Nick Coghlan543af752010-10-24 11:23:25 +00001170
R. David Murray8451c4b2010-10-23 22:19:56 +00001171- Issue #1349106: Generator (and BytesGenerator) flatten method and Header
1172 encode method now support a 'linesep' argument.
1173
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001174- Issue #5639: Add a *server_hostname* argument to ``SSLContext.wrap_socket`` in
1175 order to support the TLS SNI extension. ``HTTPSConnection`` and ``urlopen()``
1176 also use this argument, so that HTTPS virtual hosts are now supported.
Antoine Pitroud5323212010-10-22 18:19:07 +00001177
Georg Brandl83938432010-10-22 06:28:01 +00001178- Issue #10166: Avoid recursion in pstats Stats.add() for many stats items.
1179
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001180- Issue #10163: Skip unreadable registry keys during mimetypes initialization.
Brian Curtin000f9742010-10-21 14:11:48 +00001181
Vinay Sajip2a20dfc2010-10-20 20:05:38 +00001182- logging: Made StreamHandler terminator configurable.
1183
Vinay Sajip6dbed2e2010-10-19 20:53:01 +00001184- logging: Allowed filters to be just callables.
1185
Vinay Sajip6fac8172010-10-19 20:44:14 +00001186- logging: Added tests for _logRecordClass changes.
1187
Georg Brandl7004bd12010-10-19 18:54:25 +00001188- Issue #10092: Properly reset locale in calendar.Locale*Calendar classes.
1189
Vinay Sajip062d56b2010-10-19 15:26:24 +00001190- logging: Added _logRecordClass, getLogRecordClass, setLogRecordClass to
1191 increase flexibility of LogRecord creation.
1192
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001193- Issue #5117: Case normalization was needed on ntpath.relpath(). Also fixed
1194 root directory issue on posixpath.relpath(). (Ported working fixes from
1195 ntpath.)
Hirokazu Yamamotob08820a2010-10-18 12:13:18 +00001196
R. David Murraya90032a2010-10-17 22:46:45 +00001197- Issue #1343: xml.sax.saxutils.XMLGenerator now has an option
1198 short_empty_elements to direct it to use self-closing tags when appropriate.
1199
Barry Warsawf6219a52010-10-16 01:20:45 +00001200- Issue #9807 (part 1): Expose the ABI flags in sys.abiflags. Add --abiflags
1201 switch to python-config for command line access.
1202
Georg Brandl3844f0d2010-10-15 18:00:35 +00001203- Issue #6098: Don't claim DOM level 3 conformance in minidom.
1204
Georg Brandlb9cd72a2010-10-15 17:58:45 +00001205- Issue #5762: Fix AttributeError raised by ``xml.dom.minidom`` when an empty
1206 XML namespace attribute is encountered.
1207
Georg Brandl1f7fffb2010-10-15 15:57:45 +00001208- Issue #2830: Add the ``html.escape()`` function, which quotes all problematic
Victor Stinner4c7c8c32010-10-16 13:14:10 +00001209 characters by default. Deprecate ``cgi.escape()``.
Georg Brandl1f7fffb2010-10-15 15:57:45 +00001210
Georg Brandld2413422010-10-15 16:42:14 +00001211- Issue #9409: Fix the regex to match all kind of filenames, for interactive
Florent Xiclunad9f57632010-10-14 20:56:20 +00001212 debugging in doctests.
1213
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001214- Issue #9183: ``datetime.timezone(datetime.timedelta(0))`` will now return the
1215 same instance as ``datetime.timezone.utc``.
Alexander Belopolsky1bcbaab2010-10-14 17:03:51 +00001216
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001217- Issue #7523: Add SOCK_CLOEXEC and SOCK_NONBLOCK to the socket module, where
1218 supported by the system. Patch by Nikita Vetoshkin.
Antoine Pitroub1c54962010-10-14 15:05:38 +00001219
1220- Issue #10063: file:// scheme will stop accessing remote hosts via ftp
Senthil Kumaran383c32d2010-10-14 11:57:35 +00001221 protocol. file:// urls had fallback to access remote hosts via ftp. This was
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001222 not correct, change is made to raise a URLError when a remote host is tried to
1223 access via file:// scheme.
Senthil Kumaran383c32d2010-10-14 11:57:35 +00001224
Georg Brandl268e4d42010-10-14 06:59:45 +00001225- Issue #1710703: Write structures for an empty ZIP archive when a ZipFile is
1226 created in modes 'a' or 'w' and then closed without adding any files. Raise
1227 BadZipfile (rather than IOError) when opening small non-ZIP files.
1228
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001229- Issue #10041: The signature of optional arguments in socket.makefile() didn't
1230 match that of io.open(), and they also didn't get forwarded properly to
1231 TextIOWrapper in text mode. Patch by Kai Zhu.
Antoine Pitrou834bd812010-10-13 16:17:14 +00001232
Antoine Pitrou803e6d62010-10-13 10:36:15 +00001233- Issue #9003: http.client.HTTPSConnection, urllib.request.HTTPSHandler and
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001234 urllib.request.urlopen now take optional arguments to allow for server
1235 certificate checking, as recommended in public uses of HTTPS.
Antoine Pitrou803e6d62010-10-13 10:36:15 +00001236
Victor Stinner11b1f3d2010-10-12 22:42:37 +00001237- Issue #6612: Fix site and sysconfig to catch os.getcwd() error, eg. if the
1238 current directory was deleted. Patch written by W. Trevor King.
1239
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001240- Issue #3873: Speed up unpickling from file objects that have a peek() method.
Antoine Pitrou04248a82010-10-12 20:51:21 +00001241
Antoine Pitroub0182c82010-10-12 20:09:02 +00001242- Issue #10075: Add a session_stats() method to SSLContext objects.
1243
Martin v. Löwise8930222010-10-11 22:38:01 +00001244- Issue #9948: Fixed problem of losing filename case information.
1245
Hirokazu Yamamoto35adf5d2010-11-07 11:32:01 +00001246Extension Modules
1247-----------------
Martin v. Löwise8930222010-10-11 22:38:01 +00001248
Alexander Belopolskyef4a03f2011-01-11 21:44:00 +00001249- Issue #5109: array.array constructor will now use fast code when
1250 initial data is provided in an array object with correct type.
1251
Hirokazu Yamamoto4ae5f132010-11-07 14:29:26 +00001252- Issue #6317: Now winsound.PlaySound only accepts unicode.
1253
Hirokazu Yamamotoc08c9bc2010-11-07 09:23:15 +00001254- Issue #6317: Now winsound.PlaySound can accept non ascii filename.
1255
Martin v. Löwis72f48422010-10-29 18:20:08 +00001256- Issue #9377: Use Unicode API for gethostname on Windows.
1257
Jesus Cea7e9065c2010-10-25 13:02:04 +00001258- Issue #10143: Update "os.pathconf" values.
1259
Georg Brandl1e908af2010-10-23 17:31:52 +00001260- Issue #6518: Support context manager protcol for ossaudiodev types.
1261
R. David Murraye194dd62010-10-18 01:14:06 +00001262- Issue #678250: Make mmap flush a noop on ACCESS_READ and ACCESS_COPY.
1263
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001264- Issue #9054: Fix a crash occurring when using the pyexpat module with expat
1265 version 2.0.1.
Georg Brandlc01537f2010-10-15 16:26:08 +00001266
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001267- Issue #5355: Provide mappings from Expat error numbers to string descriptions
1268 and backwards, in order to actually make it possible to analyze error codes
1269 provided by ExpatError.
Georg Brandlb4dac712010-10-15 14:46:48 +00001270
Martin v. Löwis44270f12010-10-11 22:50:33 +00001271- The Unicode database was updated to 6.0.0.
1272
Benjamin Peterson8f67d082010-10-17 20:54:53 +00001273C-API
1274-----
1275
David Malcolm96960882010-11-05 17:23:41 +00001276- Issue #10288: The deprecated family of "char"-handling macros
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001277 (ISLOWER()/ISUPPER()/etc) have now been removed: use Py_ISLOWER() etc instead.
David Malcolm96960882010-11-05 17:23:41 +00001278
Benjamin Peterson8f67d082010-10-17 20:54:53 +00001279- Issue #9778: Hash values are now always the size of pointers. A new Py_hash_t
1280 type has been introduced.
1281
Benjamin Petersonaa965922010-10-13 21:59:36 +00001282Tools/Demos
1283-----------
1284
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001285- Issue #10117: Tools/scripts/reindent.py now accepts source files that use
1286 encoding other than ASCII or UTF-8. Source encoding is preserved when
1287 reindented code is written to a file.
Alexander Belopolsky4a98e3b2010-10-18 14:43:38 +00001288
Benjamin Petersonaa965922010-10-13 21:59:36 +00001289- Issue #7287: Demo/imputil/knee.py was removed.
1290
Victor Stinner9d396392010-10-16 21:54:59 +00001291Tests
1292-----
1293
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001294- Issue #3699: Fix test_bigaddrspace and extend it to test bytestrings as well
1295 as unicode strings. Initial patch by Sandro Tosi.
Antoine Pitrou99c48302010-11-04 20:48:37 +00001296
Brett Cannoned82ca12010-11-02 19:27:59 +00001297- Issue #10294: Remove dead code form test_unicode_file.
1298
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001299- Issue #10123: Don't use non-ascii filenames in test_doctest tests. Add a new
1300 test specific to unicode (non-ascii name and filename).
Victor Stinner9d396392010-10-16 21:54:59 +00001301
Matthias Klose3fbfea12010-10-14 15:24:22 +00001302Build
1303-----
1304
Benjamin Peterson076ed002010-10-31 17:11:02 +00001305- Issue #10268: Add a --enable-loadable-sqlite-extensions option to configure.
1306
Antoine Pitroub156a462010-10-27 20:13:57 +00001307- Issue #8852: Allow the socket module to build on OpenSolaris.
1308
Martin v. Löwisc980ffd2010-10-17 19:36:54 +00001309- Drop -OPT:Olimit compiler option.
1310
Matthias Klose3fbfea12010-10-14 15:24:22 +00001311- Issue #10094: Use versioned .so files on GNU/kfreeBSD and the GNU Hurd.
1312
Matthias Klose8690ae52010-10-17 13:22:33 +00001313- Accept Oracle Berkeley DB 5.0 and 5.1 as backend for the dbm extension.
1314
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001315- Issue #7473: avoid link errors when building a framework with a different set
1316 of architectures than the one that is currently installed.
Ronald Oussorenf3500e12010-10-20 13:10:12 +00001317
Martin v. Löwise8930222010-10-11 22:38:01 +00001318
Georg Brandlbad09252010-09-05 21:29:17 +00001319What's New in Python 3.2 Alpha 3?
1320=================================
1321
Georg Brandl002fa2d2010-10-10 09:40:34 +00001322*Release date: 09-Oct-2010*
Georg Brandlbad09252010-09-05 21:29:17 +00001323
1324Core and Builtins
1325-----------------
1326
Benjamin Peterson5c4bfc42010-10-12 22:57:59 +00001327- Issue #10068: Global objects which have reference cycles with their module's
1328 dict are now cleared again. This causes issue #7140 to appear again.
1329
Victor Stinner257d38f2010-10-09 10:12:11 +00001330- Issue #9738: Document PyErr_SetString() and PyErr_SetFromErrnoWithFilename()
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001331 encodings.
Victor Stinner257d38f2010-10-09 10:12:11 +00001332
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001333- ast.literal_eval() can now handle negative numbers. It is also a little more
1334 liberal in what it accepts without compromising the safety of the evaluation.
1335 For example, 3j+4 and 3+4+5 are both accepted.
Raymond Hettingerbc959732010-10-08 00:47:45 +00001336
Benjamin Peterson970d1882010-10-02 17:55:47 +00001337- Issue #10006: type.__abstractmethods__ now raises an AttributeError. As a
1338 result metaclasses can now be ABCs (see #9533).
1339
Victor Stinneraef57e32010-10-02 11:50:49 +00001340- Issue #8670: ctypes.c_wchar supports non-BMP characters with 32 bits wchar_t.
1341
Victor Stinner5593d8a2010-10-02 11:11:27 +00001342- Issue #8670: PyUnicode_AsWideChar() and PyUnicode_AsWideCharString() replace
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001343 UTF-16 surrogate pairs by single non-BMP characters for 16 bits Py_UNICODE and
1344 32 bits wchar_t (eg. Linux in narrow build).
Victor Stinner5593d8a2010-10-02 11:11:27 +00001345
Brian Curtin9e88b5a2010-10-01 14:49:24 +00001346- Issue #10003: Allow handling of SIGBREAK on Windows. Fixes a regression
Victor Stinner5593d8a2010-10-02 11:11:27 +00001347 introduced by issue #9324.
Brian Curtin9e88b5a2010-10-01 14:49:24 +00001348
Victor Stinner137c34c2010-09-29 10:25:54 +00001349- Issue #9979: Create function PyUnicode_AsWideCharString().
1350
Brett Cannon5305a992010-09-27 21:08:38 +00001351- Issue #7397: Mention that importlib.import_module() is probably what someone
1352 really wants to be using in __import__'s docstring.
1353
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001354- Issue #8521: Allow CreateKeyEx, OpenKeyEx, and DeleteKeyEx functions of winreg
1355 to use named arguments.
Brian Curtin1771b542010-09-27 17:56:36 +00001356
Mark Dickinsonb09a3d62010-09-23 20:11:19 +00001357- Issue #9930: Remove bogus subtype check that was causing (e.g.)
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001358 float.__rdiv__(2.0, 3) to return NotImplemented instead of the expected 1.5.
Mark Dickinsonb09a3d62010-09-23 20:11:19 +00001359
Brian Curtine8e4b3b2010-09-23 20:04:14 +00001360- Issue #9808: Implement os.getlogin for Windows. Patch by Jon Anglin.
1361
Benjamin Peterson0dc97ed2010-09-21 21:28:47 +00001362- Issue #9901: Destroying the GIL in Py_Finalize() can fail if some other
1363 threads are still running. Instead, reinitialize the GIL on a second call to
1364 Py_Initialize().
1365
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001366- All SyntaxErrors now have a column offset and therefore a caret when the error
1367 is printed.
Antoine Pitroub0b384b2010-09-20 20:13:48 +00001368
Brett Cannonbc2eff32010-09-19 21:39:02 +00001369- Issue #9252: PyImport_Import no longer uses a fromlist hack to return the
1370 module that was imported, but instead gets the module from sys.modules.
1371
Nick Coghlan37ee8502010-12-03 14:26:13 +00001372- Issue #9213: The range type_items now provides index() and count() methods, to
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001373 conform to the Sequence ABC. Patch by Daniel Urban and Daniel Stutzbach.
Daniel Stutzbach9f0cbf12010-09-13 21:16:29 +00001374
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001375- Issue #7994: Issue a PendingDeprecationWarning if object.__format__ is called
1376 with a non-empty format string. This is an effort to future-proof user
1377 code. If a derived class does not currently implement __format__ but later
1378 adds its own __format__, it would most likely break user code that had
1379 supplied a format string. This will be changed to a DeprecationWaring in
1380 Python 3.3 and it will be an error in Python 3.4.
Eric Smithe4d63172010-09-13 20:48:43 +00001381
Antoine Pitrou1df15362010-09-13 14:16:46 +00001382- Issue #9828: Destroy the GIL in Py_Finalize(), so that it gets properly
1383 re-created on a subsequent call to Py_Initialize(). The problem (a crash)
1384 wouldn't appear in 3.1 or 2.7 where the GIL's structure is more trivial.
1385
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb73072010-09-12 22:42:57 +00001386- Issue #9210: Configure option --with-wctype-functions was removed. Using the
1387 functions from the libc caused the methods .upper() and lower() to become
1388 locale aware and created subtly wrong results.
1389
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001390- Issue #9738: PyUnicode_FromFormat() and PyErr_Format() raise an error on a
1391 non-ASCII byte in the format string.
Victor Stinner1205f272010-09-11 00:54:47 +00001392
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcba117ef2010-09-10 21:39:53 +00001393- Issue #4617: Previously it was illegal to delete a name from the local
1394 namespace if it occurs as a free variable in a nested block. This limitation
1395 of the compiler has been lifted, and a new opcode introduced (DELETE_DEREF).
1396
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001397- Issue #9804: ascii() now always represents unicode surrogate pairs as a single
1398 ``\UXXXXXXXX``, regardless of whether the character is printable or not.
1399 Also, the "backslashreplace" error handler now joins surrogate pairs into a
1400 single character on UCS-2 builds.
Antoine Pitroue4a18922010-09-09 20:30:23 +00001401
Antoine Pitrou6e6cc832010-09-09 12:59:39 +00001402- Issue #9757: memoryview objects get a release() method to release the
1403 underlying buffer (previously this was only done when deallocating the
1404 memoryview), and gain support for the context management protocol.
1405
Antoine Pitrou079ce542010-09-08 12:37:10 +00001406- Issue #9797: pystate.c wrongly assumed that zero couldn't be a valid
1407 thread-local storage key.
1408
Georg Brandlbad09252010-09-05 21:29:17 +00001409Library
1410-------
1411
Éric Araujo0cfba092010-11-08 21:48:23 +00001412- Issue #2236: distutils' mkpath ignored the mode parameter.
1413
Éric Araujoe7cf9542010-11-06 15:01:07 +00001414- Fix typo in one sdist option (medata-check).
1415
1416- Issue #9199: Fix incorrect use of distutils.cmd.Command.announce.
1417
1418- Issue #1718574: Fix options that were supposed to accept arguments but did
1419 not in build_clib.
1420
Antoine Pitroudbec7802010-10-10 09:37:12 +00001421- Issue #9437: Fix building C extensions with non-default LDFLAGS.
1422
R. David Murray96fd54e2010-10-08 15:55:28 +00001423- Issue #4661: email can now parse bytes input and generate either converted
1424 7bit output or bytes output. Email version bumped to 5.1.0.
1425
Antoine Pitrou59fdd672010-10-08 10:37:08 +00001426- Issue #1589: Add ssl.match_hostname(), to help implement server identity
1427 verification for higher-level protocols.
1428
Antoine Pitrou7980eaa2010-10-06 21:21:18 +00001429- Issue #9759: GzipFile now raises ValueError when an operation is attempted
1430 after the file is closed. Patch by Jeffrey Finkelstein.
1431
Éric Araujo6108bf52010-10-04 23:52:37 +00001432- Issue #9042: Fix interaction of custom translation classes and caching in
1433 gettext.
1434
Éric Araujoef777bd2010-10-05 00:04:20 +00001435- Issue #6706: asyncore.dispatcher now provides a handle_accepted() method
Giampaolo Rodolà977c7072010-10-04 21:08:36 +00001436 returning a (sock, addr) pair which is called when a connection has been
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001437 established with a new remote endpoint. This is supposed to be used as a
Giampaolo Rodolà977c7072010-10-04 21:08:36 +00001438 replacement for old handle_accept() and avoids the user to call accept()
1439 directly.
1440
Lars Gustäbel331b8002010-10-04 15:18:47 +00001441- Issue #9065: tarfile no longer uses "root" as the default for the uname and
1442 gname field.
1443
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001444- Issue #8980: Fixed a failure in distutils.command check that was shadowed by
1445 an environment that does not have docutils. Patch by Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadé4bcceef2010-10-03 14:18:09 +00001446
R. David Murray5397e862010-10-02 15:58:26 +00001447- Issue #1050268: parseaddr now correctly quotes double quote and backslash
1448 characters that appear inside quoted strings in email addresses.
1449
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001450- Issue #10004: quoprimime no longer generates a traceback when confronted with
1451 invalid characters after '=' in a Q-encoded word.
R. David Murray31e984c2010-10-01 15:40:20 +00001452
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001453- Issue #1491: BaseHTTPServer nows send a ``100 Continue`` response before
1454 sending a 200 OK for the Expect: 100-continue request header.
Senthil Kumaran0f476d42010-09-30 06:09:18 +00001455
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001456- Issue #9360: Cleanup and improvements to the nntplib module. The API now
1457 conforms to the philosophy of bytes and unicode separation in Python 3. A
1458 test suite has also been added.
Antoine Pitrou69ab9512010-09-29 15:03:40 +00001459
Antoine Pitrouc3ed2e72010-09-29 10:49:46 +00001460- Issue #9962: GzipFile now has the peek() method.
1461
Antoine Pitrou3e1fd272010-09-28 21:23:11 +00001462- Issue #9090: When a socket with a timeout fails with EWOULDBLOCK or EAGAIN,
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001463 retry the select() loop instead of bailing out. This is because select() can
1464 incorrectly report a socket as ready for reading (for example, if it received
1465 some data with an invalid checksum).
Antoine Pitrou3e1fd272010-09-28 21:23:11 +00001466
Hirokazu Yamamotocc868d42010-09-28 21:08:38 +00001467- Issue #3612: Added new types to ctypes.wintypes. (CHAR and pointers)
1468
Antoine Pitrou6d7df632010-09-27 17:52:25 +00001469- Issue #9950: Fix socket.sendall() crash or misbehaviour when a signal is
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001470 received. Now sendall() properly calls signal handlers if necessary, and
1471 retries sending if these returned successfully, including on sockets with a
1472 timeout.
Antoine Pitrou6d7df632010-09-27 17:52:25 +00001473
Vinay Sajip9fdd11b2010-09-25 17:48:25 +00001474- Issue #9947: logging: Fixed locking bug in stopListening.
1475
Vinay Sajip32fb6a82010-09-25 17:42:36 +00001476- Issue #9945: logging: Fixed locking bugs in addHandler/removeHandler.
1477
Alexander Belopolskyff09ce22010-09-24 18:03:12 +00001478- Issue #9936: Fixed executable lines' search in the trace module.
1479
Brian Curtin0dac8082010-09-23 20:38:14 +00001480- Issue #9790: Rework imports necessary for samefile and sameopenfile
1481 in ntpath.
1482
Antoine Pitrou70c60442010-09-23 19:51:39 +00001483- Issue #9928: Properly initialize the types exported by the bz2 module.
1484
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001485- Issue #1675951: Allow GzipFile to work with unseekable file objects. Patch by
1486 Florian Festi.
Antoine Pitrou7b969842010-09-23 16:22:51 +00001487
Vinay Sajip0637d492010-09-23 08:15:54 +00001488- Logging: Added QueueListener class to facilitate logging usage for
1489 performance-critical threads.
1490
Barry Warsaw31c604d2010-09-22 20:58:04 +00001491- Issue #9916: Add some missing errno symbols.
1492
Benjamin Peterson0dc97ed2010-09-21 21:28:47 +00001493- Issue #9877: Expose sysconfig.get_makefile_filename()
1494
1495- logging: Added hasHandlers() method to Logger and LoggerAdapter.
1496
Antoine Pitrou38425292010-09-21 18:19:07 +00001497- Issue #9908: Fix os.stat() on bytes paths under Windows 7.
1498
Antoine Pitrou52d42502010-09-21 16:08:27 +00001499- Issue #2643: msync() is not called anymore when deallocating an open mmap
1500 object, only munmap().
1501
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001502- logging: Changed LoggerAdapter implementation internally, to make it easier to
1503 subclass in a useful way.
Vinay Sajip212b5902010-09-21 11:31:32 +00001504
Vinay Sajipc84f0162010-09-21 11:25:39 +00001505- logging: hasHandlers method was added to Logger, and isEnabledFor,
1506 getEffectiveLevel, hasHandlers and setLevel were added to LoggerAdapter.
1507 LoggerAdapter was introduced into the unit tests for logging.
1508
Florent Xiclunaeb19dce2010-09-18 23:34:07 +00001509- Issue #1686: Fix string.Template when overriding the pattern attribute.
1510
Antoine Pitrou98b46702010-09-18 22:59:00 +00001511- Issue #9854: SocketIO objects now observe the RawIOBase interface in
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001512 non-blocking mode: they return None when an operation would block (instead of
1513 raising an exception).
Antoine Pitrou98b46702010-09-18 22:59:00 +00001514
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd61d0772010-09-17 23:27:09 +00001515- Issue #1730136: Fix the comparison between a tk.font.Font and an object of
1516 another kind.
1517
Vinay Sajip19ec67a2010-09-17 18:57:36 +00001518- Issue #9441: logging has better coverage for rotating file handlers.
1519
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001520- Issue #9865: collections.OrderedDict now has a __sizeof__ method.
Raymond Hettinger35c87f22010-09-16 19:10:17 +00001521
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001522- Issue #9854: The default read() implementation in io.RawIOBase now handles
1523 non-blocking readinto() returning None correctly.
Antoine Pitrou328ec742010-09-14 18:37:24 +00001524
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001525- Issue #1552: socket.socketpair() now returns regular socket.socket objects
1526 supporting the whole socket API (rather than the "raw" _socket.socket
1527 objects).
Antoine Pitrou9e0b8642010-09-14 18:00:02 +00001528
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001529- Issue #9853: Fix the signature of SSLSocket.recvfrom() and SSLSocket.sendto()
1530 to match the corresponding socket methods.
Antoine Pitroua468adc2010-09-14 14:43:44 +00001531
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001532- Issue 9840: Added a decorator to reprlib for wrapping __repr__ methods to make
1533 them handle recursive calls within the same thread.
Raymond Hettinger98a5f3f2010-09-13 21:36:00 +00001534
Vinay Sajipaf9d10a2010-09-13 20:40:30 +00001535- logging: Enhanced HTTPHandler with secure and credentials initializers.
1536
Victor Stinnere797c162010-09-17 23:34:26 +00001537- Issue #767645: Set os.path.supports_unicode_filenames to True on Mac OS X.
Victor Stinnerccb706c2010-09-13 19:41:36 +00001538
Antoine Pitrou6464d5f2010-09-12 14:51:20 +00001539- Issue #9837: The read() method of ZipExtFile objects (as returned by
1540 ZipFile.open()) could return more bytes than requested.
1541
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001542- Issue #9826: OrderedDict.__repr__ can now handle self-referential values:
1543 d['x'] = d.
Raymond Hettingerdc08a142010-09-12 05:15:22 +00001544
Raymond Hettingerfa11db02010-09-12 04:12:42 +00001545- Issue #9825: Using __del__ in the definition of collections.OrderedDict made
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001546 it possible for the user to create self-referencing ordered dictionaries which
1547 become permanently uncollectable GC garbage. Reinstated the Python 3.1
Raymond Hettingerfa11db02010-09-12 04:12:42 +00001548 approach of using weakref proxies so that reference cycles never get created
1549 in the first place.
1550
Victor Stinnercb043522010-09-10 23:49:04 +00001551- Issue #9579, #9580: Fix os.confstr() for value longer than 255 bytes and
1552 encode the value with filesystem encoding and surrogateescape (instead of
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001553 utf-8 in strict mode) . Patch written by David Watson.
Victor Stinnercb043522010-09-10 23:49:04 +00001554
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001555- Issue #9632: Remove sys.setfilesystemencoding() function: use PYTHONFSENCODING
1556 environment variable to set the filesystem encoding at Python startup.
1557 sys.setfilesystemencoding() creates inconsistencies because it is unable to
1558 reencode all filenames in all objects.
Victor Stinner5b519e02010-09-10 21:57:59 +00001559
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001560- Issue #9410: Various optimizations to the pickle module, leading to speedups
1561 up to 4x (depending on the benchmark). Mostly ported from Unladen Swallow;
1562 initial patch by Alexandre Vassalotti.
Antoine Pitrouea99c5c2010-09-09 18:33:21 +00001563
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001564- The pprint module now supports printing OrderedDicts in their given order
1565 (formerly, it would sort the keys).
Raymond Hettingerbad3c882010-09-09 12:31:00 +00001566
Vinay Sajip121a1c42010-09-08 10:46:15 +00001567- Logging: Added QueueHandler class to facilitate logging usage with
1568 multiprocessing.
1569
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001570- Issue #9707: Rewritten reference implementation of threading.local which is
1571 friendlier towards reference cycles. This change is not normally visible
1572 since an optimized C implementation (_thread._local) is used instead.
Antoine Pitrou783eea72010-09-07 22:06:17 +00001573
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc4b6fdf32010-09-07 21:31:17 +00001574- Issue #6394: os.getppid() is now supported on Windows. Note that it will
1575 still return the id of the parent process after it has exited. This process
1576 id may even have been reused by another unrelated process.
1577
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001578- Issue #9792: In case of connection failure, socket.create_connection() would
1579 swallow the exception and raise a new one, making it impossible to fetch the
1580 original errno, or to filter timeout errors. Now the original error is
1581 re-raised.
Antoine Pitrou4b92b5f2010-09-07 21:05:49 +00001582
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001583- Issue #9758: When fcntl.ioctl() was called with mutable_flag set to True, and
1584 the passed buffer was exactly 1024 bytes long, the buffer wouldn't be updated
1585 back after the system call. Original patch by Brian Brazil.
Antoine Pitrou5e38aae2010-09-07 16:30:09 +00001586
Raymond Hettinger435cb0f2010-09-06 23:36:31 +00001587- Updates to the random module:
1588
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001589 * Document which parts of the module are guaranteed to stay the same across
1590 versions and which parts are subject to change.
Raymond Hettinger435cb0f2010-09-06 23:36:31 +00001591
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001592 * Update the seed() method to use all of the bits in a string instead of just
1593 the hash value. This makes better use of the seed value and assures the
1594 seeding is platform independent. Issue #7889.
Raymond Hettinger05156612010-09-07 04:44:52 +00001595
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001596 * Improved the random()-->integer algorithm used in choice(), shuffle(),
1597 sample(), randrange(), and randint(). Formerly, it used int(n*random())
1598 which has a slight bias whenever n is not a power of two. Issue #9025.
Raymond Hettinger05156612010-09-07 04:44:52 +00001599
1600 * Improved documentation of arguments to randrange(). Issue #9379.
Raymond Hettingerf763a722010-09-07 00:38:15 +00001601
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001602- collections.OrderedDict now supports a new method for repositioning keys to
1603 either end.
Raymond Hettingerf45abc92010-09-06 21:26:09 +00001604
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001605- Issue #9754: Similarly to assertRaises and assertRaisesRegexp, unittest test
1606 cases now also have assertWarns and assertWarnsRegexp methods to check that a
1607 given warning type was triggered by the code under test.
Antoine Pitrou4bc12ef2010-09-06 19:25:46 +00001608
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001609- Issue #5506: BytesIO objects now have a getbuffer() method exporting a view of
1610 their contents without duplicating them. The view is both readable and
1611 writable.
Antoine Pitrou972ee132010-09-06 18:48:21 +00001612
Brian Curtin62857742010-09-06 17:07:27 +00001613- Issue #7566: Implement os.path.sameopenfile for Windows.
1614
Antoine Pitrou0d739d72010-09-05 23:01:12 +00001615- Issue #9293: I/O streams now raise ``io.UnsupportedOperation`` when an
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001616 unsupported operation is attempted (for example, writing to a file open only
1617 for reading).
Antoine Pitrou0d739d72010-09-05 23:01:12 +00001618
Gregory P. Smith13b55292010-09-06 08:30:23 +00001619- hashlib has two new constant attributes: algorithms_guaranteed and
1620 algorithms_avaiable that respectively list the names of hash algorithms
1621 guaranteed to exist in all Python implementations and the names of hash
1622 algorithms available in the current process.
1623
Brian Quinlanaf38dc52010-09-21 12:28:43 +00001624- A new package ``concurrent.futures`` as defined by PEP 3148.
1625
Benjamin Peterson568867a2010-09-11 16:02:03 +00001626C-API
1627-----
1628
Benjamin Peterson2bc5c0b2010-09-20 23:01:33 +00001629- Add PyErr_SyntaxLocationEx, which supports passing a column offset.
1630
Benjamin Peterson568867a2010-09-11 16:02:03 +00001631- Issue #9834: Don't segfault in PySequence_GetSlice, PySequence_SetSlice, or
1632 PySequence_DelSlice when the object doesn't have any mapping operations
1633 defined.
1634
Antoine Pitroub41e1282010-09-08 20:57:48 +00001635Tools/Demos
1636-----------
1637
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001638- Issue #9188: The gdb extension now handles correctly narrow (UCS2) as well as
1639 wide (UCS4) unicode builds for both the host interpreter (embedded inside gdb)
1640 and the interpreter under test.
Antoine Pitroub41e1282010-09-08 20:57:48 +00001641
Florent Xiclunadc69e722010-09-13 16:35:02 +00001642Tests
1643-----
1644
Alexander Belopolskye8f58322010-10-15 16:28:20 +00001645- Issue #9308: Added tests for importing encoded modules that do not
1646 depend on specific stdlib modules being encoded in a certain way.
1647
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001648- Issue #1051: Add a script (Lib/test/make_ssl_certs.py) to generate the custom
1649 certificate and private key files used by SSL-related certs.
Antoine Pitrou81564092010-10-08 23:06:24 +00001650
Hirokazu Yamamoto54c950f2010-10-08 08:38:15 +00001651- Issue #9978: Wait until subprocess completes initialization. (Win32KillTests
1652 in test_os)
1653
R. David Murray11cabcf2010-09-29 01:08:05 +00001654- Issue #7110: regrtest now sends test failure reports and single-failure
1655 tracebacks to stderr rather than stdout.
1656
R. David Murrayb78b4892010-09-28 22:25:18 +00001657- Issue #9628: fix runtests.sh -x option so more than one test can be excluded.
1658
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001659- Issue #9899: Fix test_tkinter.test_font on various platforms. Patch by Ned
1660 Deily.
Antoine Pitroub3bfc3d2010-09-21 16:26:09 +00001661
Antoine Pitrou679e0f22010-09-18 17:56:02 +00001662- Issue #9894: Do not hardcode ENOENT in test_subprocess.
1663
Alexander Belopolsky4d770172010-09-13 18:14:34 +00001664- Issue #9315: Added tests for the trace module. Patch by Eli Bendersky.
1665
Florent Xiclunadc69e722010-09-13 16:35:02 +00001666- Issue #9323: Make test.regrtest.__file__ absolute, this was not always the
1667 case when running profile or trace, for example.
1668
Ronald Oussoren01c42892010-09-28 14:38:31 +00001669- Issue #9568: Fix test_urllib2_localnet on OS X 10.3.
1670
Antoine Pitroua3000072010-09-07 14:52:42 +00001671Build
1672-----
1673
Antoine Pitrou19f8edc2010-10-10 08:37:22 +00001674- Issue #10062: Allow building on platforms which do not have sem_timedwait.
1675
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001676- Issue #10054: Some platforms provide uintptr_t in inttypes.h. Patch by Akira
1677 Kitada.
Antoine Pitrou1bf29b72010-10-10 08:10:16 +00001678
Antoine Pitrou5b0e9e82010-10-09 15:24:28 +00001679- Issue #10055: Make json C89-compliant in UCS4 mode.
1680
Hirokazu Yamamoto2f816e62010-09-21 18:23:05 +00001681- Issue #9552: Avoid unnecessary rebuild of OpenSSL. (Windows)
1682
Antoine Pitrouf6350d22010-09-21 15:19:14 +00001683- Issue #1633863: Don't ignore $CC under AIX.
1684
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001685- Issue #9810: Compile bzip2 source files in Python's project file directly. It
1686 used to be built with bzip2's makefile.
Hirokazu Yamamoto234f88d2010-09-16 17:50:57 +00001687
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001688- Issue #9848: Stopping trying to build _weakref in setup.py as it is a built-in
1689 module.
Brett Cannonb82489d2010-09-14 19:41:23 +00001690
Georg Brandlb084b482010-09-12 17:14:26 +00001691- Issue #9806: python-config now has an ``--extension-suffix`` option that
1692 outputs the suffix for dynamic libraries including the ABI version name
1693 defined by PEP 3149.
1694
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001695- Issue #941346: Improve the build process under AIX and allow Python to be
1696 built as a shared library. Patch by Sébastien Sablé.
Antoine Pitrou8e6b4072010-09-10 19:44:44 +00001697
Antoine Pitroua3000072010-09-07 14:52:42 +00001698- Issue #4026: Make the fcntl extension build under AIX. Patch by Sébastien
1699 Sablé.
1700
Ronald Oussoren9af73802010-09-28 13:57:58 +00001701- Issue #9701: The MacOSX installer can patch the shell profile to ensure that
1702 the "bin" directory inside the framework is on the shell's search path. This
1703 feature now also supports the ZSH shell.
1704
Georg Brandlbad09252010-09-05 21:29:17 +00001705
Georg Brandlee449c42010-07-31 18:05:35 +00001706What's New in Python 3.2 Alpha 2?
1707=================================
1708
Georg Brandl58a7b462010-09-05 08:30:40 +00001709*Release date: 05-Sep-2010*
Georg Brandlee449c42010-07-31 18:05:35 +00001710
1711Core and Builtins
1712-----------------
1713
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001714- Issue #9225: Remove the ROT_FOUR and DUP_TOPX opcode, the latter replaced by
1715 the new (and simpler) DUP_TOP_TWO. Performance isn't changed, but our
1716 bytecode is a bit simplified. Patch by Demur Rumed.
Antoine Pitrou74a69fa2010-09-04 18:43:52 +00001717
Brett Cannonef0e6c32010-09-04 18:24:04 +00001718- Issue #9766: Rename poorly named variables exposed by _warnings to prevent
1719 confusion with the proper variables names from 'warnings' itself.
1720
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001721- Issue #9212: dict_keys and dict_items now provide the isdisjoint() method, to
1722 conform to the Set ABC. Patch by Daniel Urban.
Daniel Stutzbach045b3ba2010-09-02 15:06:06 +00001723
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001724- Issue #9737: Fix a crash when trying to delete a slice or an item from a
1725 memoryview object.
Antoine Pitroue0793ba2010-09-01 21:14:16 +00001726
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001727- Issue #9549: sys.setdefaultencoding() and PyUnicode_SetDefaultEncoding() are
1728 now removed, since their effect was inexistent in 3.x (the default encoding is
1729 hardcoded to utf-8 and cannot be changed).
Antoine Pitroufce7fd62010-09-01 18:54:56 +00001730
Antoine Pitroub0fa8312010-09-01 15:10:12 +00001731- Issue #7415: PyUnicode_FromEncodedObject() now uses the new buffer API
1732 properly. Patch by Stefan Behnel.
1733
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001734- Issue #5553: The Py_LOCAL_INLINE macro now results in inlining on most
1735 platforms. Previously, it inlined only when using Microsoft Visual C.
Daniel Stutzbacha606faa2010-08-31 19:51:07 +00001736
Benjamin Peterson33856de2010-08-30 14:41:20 +00001737- Issue #9712: Fix tokenize on identifiers that start with non-ascii names.
1738
Benjamin Peterson0e102062010-08-25 23:13:17 +00001739- Issue #9688: __basicsize__ and __itemsize__ must be accessed as Py_ssize_t.
1740
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001741- Issue #9684: Added a definition for SIZEOF_WCHAR_T to PC/pyconfig.h, to match
1742 the pyconfig.h generated by configure on other systems.
Daniel Stutzbach864078a2010-08-25 19:18:59 +00001743
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001744- Issue #9666: Only catch AttributeError in hasattr(). All other exceptions that
1745 occur during attribute lookup are now propagated to the caller.
Benjamin Peterson17689992010-08-24 03:26:23 +00001746
Victor Stinner94908bb2010-08-18 21:23:25 +00001747- Issue #8622: Add PYTHONFSENCODING environment variable to override the
1748 filesystem encoding.
1749
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc324ac652010-08-18 20:44:58 +00001750- Issue #5127: The C functions that access the Unicode Database now accept and
1751 return characters from the full Unicode range, even on narrow unicode builds
1752 (Py_UNICODE_TOLOWER, Py_UNICODE_ISDECIMAL, and others). A visible difference
1753 in Python is that unicodedata.numeric() now returns the correct value for
1754 large code points, and repr() may consider more characters as printable.
1755
Victor Stinner6c00c142010-08-17 23:37:11 +00001756- Issue #9425: Create PyModule_GetFilenameObject() function to get the filename
1757 as a unicode object, instead of a byte string. Function needed to support
1758 unencodable filenames. Deprecate PyModule_GetFilename() in favor on the new
1759 function.
1760
Victor Stinner6961bd62010-08-17 22:26:51 +00001761- Issue #8063: Call _PyGILState_Init() earlier in Py_InitializeEx().
1762
Antoine Pitrou671b4d92010-08-17 17:55:07 +00001763- Issue #9612: The set object is now 64-bit clean under Windows.
1764
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001765- Issue #8202: sys.argv[0] is now set to '-m' instead of '-c' when searching for
1766 the module file to be executed with the -m command line option.
Nick Coghland26c18a2010-08-17 13:06:11 +00001767
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001768- Issue #9599: Create PySys_FormatStdout() and PySys_FormatStderr() functions to
1769 write a message formatted by PyUnicode_FromFormatV() to sys.stdout and
Victor Stinner79766632010-08-16 17:36:42 +00001770 sys.stderr.
1771
Victor Stinner47fcb5b2010-08-13 23:59:58 +00001772- Issue #9542: Create PyUnicode_FSDecoder() function, a ParseTuple converter:
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001773 decode bytes objects to unicode using PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefaultAndSize(); str
1774 objects are output as-is.
Victor Stinner47fcb5b2010-08-13 23:59:58 +00001775
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001776- Issue #9203: Computed gotos are now enabled by default on supported compilers
1777 (which are detected by the configure script). They can still be disable
1778 selectively by specifying --without-computed-gotos.
Antoine Pitrou042b1282010-08-13 21:15:58 +00001779
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001780- Issue #9425: Create PyErr_WarnFormat() function, similar to PyErr_WarnEx() but
1781 use PyUnicode_FromFormatV() to format the warning message.
Victor Stinner4a2b7a12010-08-13 14:03:48 +00001782
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001783- Issue #8530: Prevent stringlib fastsearch from reading beyond the front of an
1784 array.
Florent Xiclunaeb6f3ea2010-08-08 22:07:16 +00001785
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001786- Issue #5319: Print an error if flushing stdout fails at interpreter shutdown.
Antoine Pitroubddc9fe2010-08-08 20:46:42 +00001787
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001788- Issue #9337: The str() of a float or complex number is now identical to its
1789 repr().
Mark Dickinson388122d2010-08-04 20:56:28 +00001790
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001791- Issue #9416: Fix some issues with complex formatting where the output with no
1792 type specifier failed to match the str output:
Mark Dickinson5b65df72010-08-01 10:41:49 +00001793
1794 - format(complex(-0.0, 2.0), '-') omitted the real part from the output,
1795 - format(complex(0.0, 2.0), '-') included a sign and parentheses.
1796
Hirokazu Yamamoto35adf5d2010-11-07 11:32:01 +00001797Extension Modules
1798-----------------
Georg Brandl0bccc182010-08-01 14:50:00 +00001799
Alexander Belopolskyb9588b52011-01-04 16:34:30 +00001800- Issue #8013: time.asctime and time.ctime no longer call system
1801 asctime and ctime functions. The year range for time.asctime is now
1802 1900 through maxint. The range for time.ctime is the same as for
1803 time.localtime. The string produced by these functions is longer
1804 than 24 characters when year is greater than 9999.
1805
Alexander Belopolsky38e29962010-10-01 14:18:49 +00001806- Issue #6608: time.asctime is now checking struct tm fields its input
1807 before passing it to the system asctime. Patch by MunSic Jeong.
1808
Antoine Pitrou00492492010-09-04 20:53:29 +00001809- Issue #8734: Avoid crash in msvcrt.get_osfhandle() when an invalid file
1810 descriptor is provided. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
1811
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001812- Issue #7736: Release the GIL around calls to opendir() and closedir() in the
1813 posix module. Patch by Marcin Bachry.
Antoine Pitroud3ccde82010-09-04 17:21:57 +00001814
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001815- Issue #4835: make PyLong_FromSocket_t() and PyLong_AsSocket_t() private to the
1816 socket module, and fix the width of socket descriptors to be correctly
1817 detected under 64-bit Windows.
Antoine Pitrou67c7ce42010-08-28 20:42:55 +00001818
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001819- Issue #1027206: Support IDNA in gethostbyname, gethostbyname_ex, getaddrinfo
1820 and gethostbyaddr. getnameinfo is now restricted to numeric addresses as
1821 input.
Martin v. Löwisfc0275a2010-08-22 19:33:47 +00001822
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001823- Issue #9214: Set operations on a KeysView or ItemsView in collections now
1824 correctly return a set. Patch by Eli Bendersky.
Raymond Hettinger9117c752010-08-22 07:44:24 +00001825
Antoine Pitroub85e1652010-08-18 21:05:19 +00001826- Issue #5737: Add Solaris-specific mnemonics in the errno module. Patch by
1827 Matthew Ahrens.
1828
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001829- Restore GIL in nis_cat in case of error. Decode NIS data to fs encoding, using
1830 the surrogate error handler.
Martin v. Löwisdfaf9ec2010-08-18 16:12:23 +00001831
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001832- Issue #665761: ``functools.reduce()`` will no longer mask exceptions other
1833 than ``TypeError`` raised by the iterator argument.
Alexander Belopolskye29e6bf2010-08-16 18:55:46 +00001834
Benjamin Petersond4efbf92010-08-11 19:20:42 +00001835- Issue #9570: Use PEP 383 decoding in os.mknod and os.mkfifo.
1836
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001837- Issue #6915: Under Windows, os.listdir() didn't release the Global Interpreter
1838 Lock around all system calls. Original patch by Ryan Kelly.
Antoine Pitroub73caab2010-08-09 23:39:31 +00001839
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001840- Issue #8524: Add a detach() method to socket objects, so as to put the socket
1841 into the closed state without closing the underlying file descriptor.
Antoine Pitroue43f9d02010-08-08 23:24:50 +00001842
Georg Brandl08be72d2010-10-24 15:11:22 +00001843- Issue #477863: Emit a ResourceWarning at shutdown if gc.garbage is not empty.
Antoine Pitrou696e0352010-08-08 22:18:46 +00001844
Thomas Hellerbf4cc5d2010-08-08 18:16:20 +00001845- Issue #6869: Fix a refcount problem in the _ctypes extension.
1846
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001847- Issue #5504: ctypes should now work with systems where mmap can't be
1848 PROT_WRITE and PROT_EXEC.
Thomas Heller864cc672010-08-08 17:58:53 +00001849
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001850- Issue #9507: Named tuple repr will now automatically display the right name in
1851 a tuple subclass.
Raymond Hettingerd331ce92010-08-08 01:13:42 +00001852
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001853- Issue #9324: Add parameter validation to signal.signal on Windows in order to
1854 prevent crashes.
Brian Curtinef9efbd2010-08-06 19:27:32 +00001855
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001856- Issue #9526: Remove some outdated (int) casts that were preventing the array
1857 module from working correctly with arrays of more than 2**31 elements.
Mark Dickinson4f3086f2010-08-06 09:38:58 +00001858
Mark Dickinsondf7f2fd2010-08-03 18:44:16 +00001859- Fix memory leak in ssl._ssl._test_decode_cert.
1860
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001861- Issue #8065: Fix memory leak in readline module (from failure to free the
1862 result of history_get_history_state()).
Mark Dickinson6b54e1f2010-08-03 16:49:49 +00001863
Mark Dickinson29b238e2010-08-03 16:08:16 +00001864- Issue #9450: Fix memory leak in readline.replace_history_item and
1865 readline.remove_history_item for readline version >= 5.0.
1866
Brian Curtinea47eaa2010-08-01 15:26:26 +00001867- Issue #8105: Validate file descriptor passed to mmap.mmap on Windows.
1868
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001869- Issue #8046: Add context manager protocol support and .closed property to mmap
1870 objects.
Georg Brandl0bccc182010-08-01 14:50:00 +00001871
Georg Brandlee449c42010-07-31 18:05:35 +00001872Library
1873-------
1874
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001875- Issue #7451: Improve decoding performance of JSON objects, and reduce the
1876 memory consumption of said decoded objects when they use the same strings as
1877 keys.
Antoine Pitrou7d6e0762010-09-04 20:16:53 +00001878
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001879- Issue #1100562: Fix deep-copying of objects derived from the list and dict
1880 types. Patch by Michele Orrù and Björn Lindqvist.
Antoine Pitrou3941a8f2010-09-04 17:40:21 +00001881
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001882- Issue #9753: Fixed socket.dup, which did not always work correctly on Windows.
Daniel Stutzbach6c765282010-09-03 12:38:33 +00001883
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001884- Issue #9421: Made the get<type> methods consistently accept the vars and
1885 default arguments on all parser classes.
Fred Drakecc645b92010-09-04 04:35:34 +00001886
Fred Drake88444412010-09-03 04:22:36 +00001887- Issue #7005: Fixed output of None values for RawConfigParser.write and
1888 ConfigParser.write.
1889
Antoine Pitrou1ce3eb52010-09-01 20:29:34 +00001890- Issue #8990: array.fromstring() and array.tostring() get renamed to
1891 frombytes() and tobytes(), respectively, to avoid confusion. Furthermore,
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001892 array.frombytes(), array.extend() as well as the array.array() constructor now
1893 accept bytearray objects. Patch by Thomas Jollans.
Antoine Pitrou1ce3eb52010-09-01 20:29:34 +00001894
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001895- Issue #808164: Fixed socket.close to avoid references to globals, to avoid
1896 issues when socket.close is called from a __del__ method.
Daniel Stutzbach19d6a4f2010-08-31 20:08:07 +00001897
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001898- Issue #9706: ssl module provides a better error handling in various
Giampaolo Rodolà51078b12010-08-29 19:31:49 +00001899 circumstances.
1900
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001901- Issue #1868: Eliminate subtle timing issues in thread-local objects by getting
1902 rid of the cached copy of thread-local attribute dictionary.
Antoine Pitrou1a9a9d52010-08-28 18:17:03 +00001903
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001904- Issue #1512791: In setframerate() in the wave module, non-integral frame rates
1905 are rounded to the nearest integer.
Mark Dickinson64a38c02010-08-28 17:22:16 +00001906
Senthil Kumaran4bb5c272010-08-26 06:16:22 +00001907- Issue #8797: urllib2 does a retry for Basic Authentication failure instead of
1908 falling into recursion.
1909
R. David Murray219d1c82010-08-25 00:45:55 +00001910- Issue #1194222: email.utils.parsedate now returns RFC2822 compliant four
1911 character years even if the message contains RFC822 two character years.
1912
Benjamin Petersonf52c2c62010-08-24 21:03:37 +00001913- Issue #8750: Fixed MutableSet's methods to correctly handle reflexive
1914 operations on its self, namely x -= x and x ^= x.
Daniel Stutzbach31da5b22010-08-24 20:49:57 +00001915
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001916- Issue #9129: smtpd.py is vulnerable to DoS attacks deriving from missing error
1917 handling when accepting a new connection.
Giampaolo Rodolà9cf5ef42010-08-23 22:28:13 +00001918
Barry Warsawaa44b2b2010-09-03 18:36:11 +00001919- Issue #9601: ftplib now provides a workaround for non-compliant
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001920 implementations such as IIS shipped with Windows server 2003 returning invalid
1921 response codes for MKD and PWD commands.
Giampaolo Rodolàbbc47822010-08-23 22:10:32 +00001922
Giampaolo Rodolà76fc8c72010-08-23 21:53:41 +00001923- Issue #658749: asyncore's connect() method now correctly interprets winsock
Giampaolo Rodolàbbc47822010-08-23 22:10:32 +00001924 errors.
Giampaolo Rodolà76fc8c72010-08-23 21:53:41 +00001925
Vinay Sajipde6e9d62010-08-23 17:50:30 +00001926- Issue #9501: Fixed logging regressions in cleanup code.
1927
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001928- Fix functools.total_ordering() to skip methods inherited from object.
Benjamin Peterson06b8b102010-08-23 17:47:43 +00001929
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001930- Issue #9572: Importlib should not raise an exception if a directory it thought
1931 it needed to create was done concurrently by another process.
Brett Cannonee6d6472010-08-22 22:19:11 +00001932
Antoine Pitroub46b9d52010-08-21 19:09:32 +00001933- Issue #9617: Signals received during a low-level write operation aren't
1934 ignored by the buffered IO layer anymore.
1935
Benjamin Peterson23110e72010-08-21 02:54:44 +00001936- Issue #843590: Make "macintosh" an alias to the "mac_roman" encoding.
1937
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001938- Create os.fsdecode(): decode from the filesystem encoding with surrogateescape
1939 error handler, or strict error handler on Windows.
Victor Stinnere8d51452010-08-19 01:05:19 +00001940
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001941- Issue #3488: Provide convenient shorthand functions ``gzip.compress`` and
1942 ``gzip.decompress``. Original patch by Anand B. Pillai.
Antoine Pitrou79c5ef12010-08-17 21:10:05 +00001943
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001944- Issue #8807: poplib.POP3_SSL class now accepts a context parameter, which is a
1945 ssl.SSLContext object allowing bundling SSL configuration options,
Giampaolo Rodolà42382fe2010-08-17 16:09:53 +00001946 certificates and private keys into a single (potentially long-lived)
1947 structure.
1948
Giampaolo Rodolàccfb91c2010-08-17 15:30:23 +00001949- Issue #8866: parameters passed to socket.getaddrinfo can now be specified as
1950 single keyword arguments.
1951
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001952- Address XXX comment in dis.py by having inspect.py prefer to reuse the dis.py
1953 compiler flag values over defining its own.
Nick Coghlan09c81232010-08-17 10:18:16 +00001954
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001955- Issue #9147: Added dis.code_info() which is similar to show_code() but returns
1956 formatted code information in a string rather than displaying on screen.
Nick Coghlaneae2da12010-08-17 08:03:36 +00001957
Nick Coghlan98876832010-08-17 06:17:18 +00001958- Issue #9567: functools.update_wrapper now adds a __wrapped__ attribute
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001959 pointing to the original callable.
Nick Coghlan98876832010-08-17 06:17:18 +00001960
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001961- Issue #3445: functools.update_wrapper now tolerates missing attributes on
1962 wrapped callables.
Nick Coghlan98876832010-08-17 06:17:18 +00001963
Benjamin Peterson45c257f2010-08-17 00:52:52 +00001964- Issue #5867: Add abc.abstractclassmethod and abc.abstractstaticmethod.
1965
Victor Stinnere039ffe2010-08-15 09:33:08 +00001966- Issue #9605: posix.getlogin() decodes the username with file filesystem
1967 encoding and surrogateescape error handler. Patch written by David Watson.
1968
Victor Stinner61ec5dc2010-08-15 09:22:44 +00001969- Issue #9604: posix.initgroups() encodes the username using the fileystem
1970 encoding and surrogateescape error handler. Patch written by David Watson.
1971
Victor Stinner5fe6de82010-08-15 09:12:51 +00001972- Issue #9603: posix.ttyname() and posix.ctermid() decode the terminal name
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001973 using the filesystem encoding and surrogateescape error handler. Patch written
1974 by David Watson.
Victor Stinner5fe6de82010-08-15 09:12:51 +00001975
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001976- Issue #7647: The posix module now has the ST_RDONLY and ST_NOSUID constants,
1977 for use with the statvfs() function. Patch by Adam Jackson.
Andrew M. Kuchling4ea04a32010-08-18 22:30:34 +00001978
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001979- Issue #8688: MANIFEST files created by distutils now include a magic comment
1980 indicating they are generated. Manually maintained MANIFESTs without this
1981 marker will not be overwritten or removed.
Éric Araujoda668ff2010-08-14 02:30:34 +00001982
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001983- Issue #7467: when reading a file from a ZIP archive, its CRC is checked and a
1984 BadZipfile error is raised if it doesn't match (as used to be the case in
1985 Python 2.5 and earlier).
Antoine Pitrou7c8bcb62010-08-12 15:11:50 +00001986
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001987- Issue #9550: a BufferedReader could issue an additional read when the original
1988 read request had been satisfied, which could block indefinitely when the
1989 underlying raw IO channel was e.g. a socket. Report and original patch by
1990 Jason V. Miller.
Antoine Pitrou32cfede2010-08-11 13:31:33 +00001991
Antoine Pitrou5af4f4b2010-08-09 22:38:19 +00001992- Issue #3757: thread-local objects now support cyclic garbage collection.
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001993 Thread-local objects involved in reference cycles will be deallocated timely
1994 by the cyclic GC, even if the underlying thread is still running.
Antoine Pitrou5af4f4b2010-08-09 22:38:19 +00001995
Victor Stinner4a2b7a12010-08-13 14:03:48 +00001996- Issue #9452: Add read_file, read_string, and read_dict to the configparser
Fred Drakea4923622010-08-09 12:52:45 +00001997 API; new source attribute to exceptions.
1998
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001999- Issue #6231: Fix xml.etree.ElementInclude to include the tail of the current
2000 node.
Florent Xiclunaba8a9862010-08-08 23:08:41 +00002001
Florent Xiclunac17f1722010-08-08 19:48:29 +00002002- Issue #8047: Fix the xml.etree serializer to return bytes by default. Use
2003 ``encoding="unicode"`` to generate a Unicode string.
2004
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002005- Issue #8280: urllib2's Request method will remove fragments in the url. This
2006 is how it is supposed to work, wget and curl do the same. Previous behavior
2007 was wrong.
Senthil Kumaranc41e1fa2010-08-08 11:50:22 +00002008
Gerhard Häring1c5471f2010-08-05 14:08:44 +00002009- Issue #6683: For SMTP logins we now try all authentication methods advertised
Florent Xicluna09245d82010-08-14 16:56:27 +00002010 by the server. Many servers are buggy and advertise authentication methods
2011 they do not support in reality.
Gerhard Häring1c5471f2010-08-05 14:08:44 +00002012
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002013- Issue #8814: function annotations (the ``__annotations__`` attribute) are now
2014 included in the set of attributes copied by default by functools.wraps and
2015 functools.update_wrapper. Patch by Terrence Cole.
Antoine Pitrou560f7642010-08-04 18:28:02 +00002016
Giampaolo Rodolà934abdd2010-08-04 09:02:27 +00002017- Issue #2944: asyncore doesn't handle connection refused correctly.
2018
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002019- Issue #4184: Private attributes on smtpd.SMTPChannel made public and deprecate
2020 the private attributes. Add tests for smtpd module.
Richard Jonesdd24cf62010-08-04 01:19:22 +00002021
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002022- Issue #3196: email header decoding is now forgiving if an RFC2047 encoded word
2023 encoded in base64 is lacking padding.
R. David Murrayc4e69cc2010-08-03 22:14:10 +00002024
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002025- Issue #9444: Argparse now uses the first element of prefix_chars as the option
2026 character for the added 'h/help' option if prefix_chars does not contain a
2027 '-', instead of raising an error.
R. David Murray88c49fe2010-08-03 17:56:09 +00002028
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002029- Issue #7372: Fix pstats regression when stripping paths from profile data
2030 generated with the profile module.
Georg Brandl2d3c4e72010-08-02 17:24:49 +00002031
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002032- Issue #9428: Fix running scripts with the profile/cProfile modules from the
2033 command line.
Georg Brandl8e43fbf2010-08-02 12:20:23 +00002034
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002035- Issue #7781: Fix restricting stats by entry counts in the pstats interactive
2036 browser.
Georg Brandlb1a97af2010-08-02 12:06:18 +00002037
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002038- Issue #9209: Do not crash in the pstats interactive browser on invalid regular
2039 expressions.
Georg Brandlb1a97af2010-08-02 12:06:18 +00002040
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002041- Update collections.OrderedDict to match the implementation in Py2.7 (based on
2042 lists instead of weakly referenced Link objects).
Raymond Hettinger5be21b72010-08-01 22:10:57 +00002043
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002044- Issue #8397: Raise an error when attempting to mix iteration and regular reads
2045 on a BZ2File object, rather than returning incorrect results.
Antoine Pitrou7ffa1962010-08-01 20:08:46 +00002046
Antoine Pitrouc881f152010-08-01 16:53:42 +00002047- Issue #9448: Fix a leak of OS resources (mutexes or semaphores) when
2048 re-initializing a buffered IO object by calling its ``__init__`` method.
2049
Georg Brandle6c59502010-08-01 15:30:56 +00002050- Issue #1713: Fix os.path.ismount(), which returned true for symbolic links
2051 across devices.
2052
Georg Brandlb16e38b2010-08-01 09:06:34 +00002053- Issue #8826: Properly load old-style "expires" attribute in http.cookies.
2054
Georg Brandl8f9f4662010-08-01 08:35:29 +00002055- Issue #1690103: Fix initial namespace for code run with trace.main().
2056
Georg Brandl920bc0f2010-08-01 08:10:08 +00002057- Issue #7395: Fix tracebacks in pstats interactive browser.
2058
Georg Brandlf325e032010-08-01 08:07:49 +00002059- Issue #8230: Fix Lib/test/sortperf.py.
2060
Terry Reedy74901002010-12-29 19:02:07 +00002061- Issue #8620: when a cmd.Cmd() is fed input that reaches EOF without a final
2062 newline, it no longer truncates the last character of the last command line.
R. David Murray7905d612010-08-01 03:31:09 +00002063
Georg Brandl05245f72010-07-31 22:32:52 +00002064- Issue #5146: Handle UID THREAD command correctly in imaplib.
2065
Georg Brandl87a15642010-07-31 22:11:11 +00002066- Issue #5147: Fix the header generated for cookie files written by
2067 http.cookiejar.MozillaCookieJar.
2068
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002069- Issue #8198: In pydoc, output all help text to the correct stream when
2070 sys.stdout is reassigned.
Georg Brandl78aa3962010-07-31 21:51:48 +00002071
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002072- Issue #7909: Do not touch paths with the special prefixes ``\\.\`` or ``\\?\``
2073 in ntpath.normpath().
Georg Brandlcfb68212010-07-31 21:40:15 +00002074
Georg Brandl6cb7b652010-07-31 20:08:15 +00002075- Issue #1286: Allow using fileinput.FileInput as a context manager.
2076
Nick Coghlan632a0c12010-08-17 05:22:50 +00002077- Add lru_cache() decorator to the functools module.
Georg Brandlebb280c2010-07-31 18:09:46 +00002078
Antoine Pitrouf767f082010-08-03 17:09:36 +00002079Tools/Demos
2080-----------
2081
Florent Xiclunac7eaede2010-08-09 12:26:44 +00002082- Fix ``Tools/scripts/checkpyc.py`` after PEP 3147.
2083
Antoine Pitrouf767f082010-08-03 17:09:36 +00002084- Issue #8867: Fix ``Tools/scripts/serve.py`` to work with files containing
2085 non-ASCII content.
2086
Giampaolo Rodolàb5c23762010-08-04 09:28:05 +00002087Tests
2088-----
2089
Giampaolo Rodolàbbc47822010-08-23 22:10:32 +00002090- Issue #9601: Provide a test case for ftplib.parse257.
2091
Giampaolo Rodolà419f7042010-08-14 16:45:41 +00002092- Issue #8857: Provide a test case for socket.getaddrinfo.
2093
Florent Xicluna39d795d2010-08-08 18:06:13 +00002094- Issue #7564: Skip test_ioctl if another process is attached to /dev/tty.
2095
Mark Dickinsonaf43e9a2010-08-07 12:33:36 +00002096- Issue #8433: Fix test_curses failure with newer versions of ncurses.
2097
Antoine Pitrou482e66a2010-08-04 15:43:16 +00002098- Issue #9496: Provide a test suite for the rlcompleter module. Patch by
2099 Michele Orrù.
2100
Giampaolo Rodolàb5c23762010-08-04 09:28:05 +00002101- Issue #8687: provide a test suite for sched.py module.
2102
Martin v. Löwis907229a2010-08-15 15:47:25 +00002103Build
2104-----
2105
Martin v. Löwisa5e31092010-09-04 14:38:09 +00002106- Issue #1303434: Generate ZIP file containing all PDBs.
2107
Barry Warsawaa44b2b2010-09-03 18:36:11 +00002108- Issue #9193: PEP 3149 is accepted.
2109
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002110- Issue #3101: Helper functions _add_one_to_index_C() and _add_one_to_index_F()
2111 become _Py_add_one_to_index_C() and _Py_add_one_to_index_F(), respectively.
Antoine Pitrouf68c2a72010-09-01 12:58:21 +00002112
Antoine Pitrou33a29942010-08-30 14:52:00 +00002113- Issue #9700: define HAVE_BROKEN_POSIX_SEMAPHORES under AIX 6.x. Patch by
2114 Sébastien Sablé.
2115
Martin v. Löwis907229a2010-08-15 15:47:25 +00002116- Don't run pgen twice when using make -j.
2117
Georg Brandlee449c42010-07-31 18:05:35 +00002118
Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +00002119What's New in Python 3.2 Alpha 1?
2120=================================
2121
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002122*Release date: 01-Aug-2010*
Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +00002123
2124Core and Builtins
2125-----------------
2126
Victor Stinner8182b712010-07-28 00:40:58 +00002127- Issue #8991: convertbuffer() rejects discontigious buffers.
2128
Antoine Pitrou1ac745b2010-07-11 12:12:00 +00002129- Issue #7616: Fix copying of overlapping memoryview slices with the Intel
2130 compiler.
2131
Benjamin Petersonccabcd42010-07-07 20:54:01 +00002132- Issue #8413: structsequence now subclasses tuple.
2133
Ezio Melotti57221d02010-07-01 07:32:02 +00002134- Issue #8271: during the decoding of an invalid UTF-8 byte sequence, only the
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002135 start byte and the continuation byte(s) are now considered invalid, instead of
2136 the number of bytes specified by the start byte. E.g.:
2137 '\xf1\x80AB'.decode('utf-8', 'replace') now returns u'\ufffdAB' and replaces
2138 with U+FFFD only the start byte ('\xf1') and the continuation byte ('\x80')
2139 even if '\xf1' is the start byte of a 4-bytes sequence. Previous versions
2140 returned a single u'\ufffd'.
Ezio Melotti57221d02010-07-01 07:32:02 +00002141
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002142- Issue #9011: A negated imaginary literal (e.g., "-7j") now has real part -0.0
2143 rather than 0.0. So "-7j" is now exactly equivalent to "-(7j)".
Mark Dickinson50b79a82010-06-30 11:13:36 +00002144
Benjamin Peterson88968ad2010-06-25 19:30:21 +00002145- Be more specific in error messages about positional arguments.
2146
Victor Stinner4aae1eb2010-06-24 22:08:25 +00002147- Issue #8949: "z" format of PyArg_Parse*() functions doesn't accept bytes
2148 objects, as described in the documentation.
2149
Victor Stinner0fe25a42010-06-17 23:08:50 +00002150- Issue #6543: Write the traceback in the terminal encoding instead of utf-8.
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002151 Fix the encoding of the modules filename. Patch written by Amaury Forgeot
Victor Stinner2cd12522010-06-17 23:17:37 +00002152 d'Arc.
Victor Stinner0fe25a42010-06-17 23:08:50 +00002153
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002154- Issue #9011: Remove buggy and unnecessary (in 3.x) ST->AST compilation code
2155 dealing with unary minus applied to a constant. The removed code was mutating
2156 the ST, causing a second compilation to fail.
Mark Dickinsond35a32e2010-06-17 12:33:22 +00002157
Victor Stinner554f3f02010-06-16 23:33:54 +00002158- Issue #850997: mbcs encoding (Windows only) handles errors argument: strict
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002159 mode raises unicode errors. The encoder only supports "strict" and "replace"
Victor Stinner554f3f02010-06-16 23:33:54 +00002160 error handlers, the decoder only supports "strict" and "ignore" error
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002161 handlers. Patch written by Mark Hammond.
Victor Stinner554f3f02010-06-16 23:33:54 +00002162
Victor Stinner25e8ec42010-06-25 00:02:38 +00002163- Issue #8850: Remove "w" and "w#" formats from PyArg_Parse*() functions, use
2164 "w*" format instead. Add tests for "w*" format.
2165
Victor Stinner06e49dd2010-06-13 18:21:50 +00002166- Issue #8592: PyArg_Parse*() functions raise a TypeError for "y", "u" and "Z"
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002167 formats if the string contains a null byte/character. Write unit tests for
Victor Stinner06e49dd2010-06-13 18:21:50 +00002168 string formats.
2169
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002170- Issue #7490: To facilitate sharing of doctests between 2.x and 3.x test
Nick Coghlan5e76e942010-06-12 13:42:46 +00002171 suites, the IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL directive now also ignores the module
2172 location of the raised exception.
2173
Victor Stinner313a1202010-06-11 23:56:51 +00002174- Issue #8969: On Windows, use mbcs codec in strict mode to encode and decode
2175 filenames and enable os.fsencode().
2176
Benjamin Peterson285a6892010-06-22 19:21:52 +00002177- Issue #9058: Remove assertions about INT_MAX in UnicodeDecodeError.
2178
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002179- Issue #8941: Decoding big endian UTF-32 data in UCS-2 builds could crash the
2180 interpreter with characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane (higher than
2181 0x10000).
Antoine Pitroucc0cfd32010-06-11 21:46:32 +00002182
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002183- Issue #8950: (See also issue #5080). Py_ArgParse*() functions now raise
2184 TypeError instead of giving a DeprecationWarning when a float is parsed using
2185 the 'L' code (for long long). (All other integer codes already raise
2186 TypeError in this case.)
Mark Dickinsonc7301312010-06-10 16:05:10 +00002187
Victor Stinner600d3be2010-06-10 12:00:55 +00002188- Issue #8922: Normalize the encoding name in PyUnicode_AsEncodedString() to
2189 enable shortcuts for upper case encoding name. Add also a shortcut for
2190 "iso-8859-1" in PyUnicode_AsEncodedString() and PyUnicode_Decode().
2191
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002192- Issue #8838: Remove codecs.charbuffer_encode() function. The buffer protocol
2193 doesn't support "char buffer" anymore in Python 3.
Victor Stinner3dcb5ac2010-06-08 22:54:19 +00002194
2195- Issue #8339: Remove "t#" format of PyArg_Parse*() functions, use "s#" or "s*"
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002196 instead. codecs.charbuffer_encode() now accepts modifiable buffer objects
Victor Stinner3dcb5ac2010-06-08 22:54:19 +00002197 like bytearray.
2198
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002199- Issue #8837: Remove "O?" format of PyArg_Parse*() functions. The format is no
Victor Stinner33109a12010-05-28 21:55:10 +00002200 used anymore and it was never documented.
2201
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002202- In str.format(), raise a ValueError when indexes to arguments are too large.
Benjamin Peterson59a1b2f2010-06-07 22:31:26 +00002203
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002204- Issue #2844: Make int('42', n) consistently raise ValueError for invalid
2205 integers n (including n = -909).
Mark Dickinsonf9a5a8e2010-05-26 20:07:58 +00002206
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002207- Issue #8188: Introduce a new scheme for computing hashes of numbers (instances
2208 of int, float, complex, decimal.Decimal and fractions.Fraction) that makes it
2209 easy to maintain the invariant that hash(x) == hash(y) whenever x and y have
2210 equal value.
Mark Dickinsondc787d22010-05-23 13:33:13 +00002211
Mark Dickinsoncc6a9822010-05-21 14:55:26 +00002212- Issue #8748: Fix two issues with comparisons between complex and integer
2213 objects. (1) The comparison could incorrectly return True in some cases
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002214 (2**53+1 == complex(2**53) == 2**53), breaking transitivity of equality.
2215 (2) The comparison raised an OverflowError for large integers, leading to
2216 unpredictable exceptions when combining integers and complex objects in sets
2217 or dicts.
Mark Dickinsoncc6a9822010-05-21 14:55:26 +00002218
Victor Stinner7d79b8b2010-05-19 20:40:50 +00002219- Issue #8766: Initialize _warnings module before importing the first module.
2220 Fix a crash if an empty directory called "encodings" exists in sys.path.
2221
Victor Stinner9ca9c252010-05-19 16:53:30 +00002222- Issue #8589: Decode PYTHONWARNINGS environment variable with the file system
Victor Stinnere039ffe2010-08-15 09:33:08 +00002223 encoding and surrogateescape error handler instead of the locale encoding to
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002224 be consistent with os.environ. Add PySys_AddWarnOptionUnicode() function.
Victor Stinner9ca9c252010-05-19 16:53:30 +00002225
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002226- PyObject_Dump() encodes unicode objects to utf8 with backslashreplace (instead
2227 of strict) error handler to escape surrogates.
Victor Stinner372ac5e2010-05-17 01:26:01 +00002228
Victor Stinnerae6265f2010-05-15 16:27:27 +00002229- Issue #8715: Create PyUnicode_EncodeFSDefault() function: Encode a Unicode
2230 object to Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding with the "surrogateescape" error
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002231 handler, and return bytes. If Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding is not set, fall
Benjamin Peterson0c3d21d2010-05-15 17:43:57 +00002232 back to UTF-8.
Victor Stinnerae6265f2010-05-15 16:27:27 +00002233
Victor Stinner59e62db2010-05-15 13:14:32 +00002234- Enable shortcuts for common encodings in PyUnicode_AsEncodedString() for any
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002235 error handler, not only the default error handler (strict).
Victor Stinner59e62db2010-05-15 13:14:32 +00002236
Victor Stinnerb744ba12010-05-15 12:27:16 +00002237- Issue #8610: Load file system codec at startup, and display a fatal error on
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002238 failure. Set the file system encoding to utf-8 (instead of None) if getting
Victor Stinnerb744ba12010-05-15 12:27:16 +00002239 the locale encoding failed, or if nl_langinfo(CODESET) function is missing.
2240
Victor Stinner0964ee12010-04-30 16:48:45 +00002241- PyFile_FromFd() uses PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefault() instead of
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002242 PyUnicode_FromString() to support surrogates in the filename and use the right
2243 encoding.
Victor Stinner0964ee12010-04-30 16:48:45 +00002244
Georg Brandl8569e582010-05-19 20:57:08 +00002245- Issue #7507: Quote "!" in pipes.quote(); it is special to some shells.
2246
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002247- PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefaultAndSize() uses surrogateescape error handler.
Victor Stinnerb9a20ad2010-04-30 16:37:52 +00002248
Benjamin Petersonfb886362010-04-24 18:21:17 +00002249- Issue #8419: Prevent the dict constructor from accepting non-string keyword
2250 arguments.
2251
Victor Stinner14284c22010-04-23 12:02:30 +00002252- Issue #8124: PySys_WriteStdout() and PySys_WriteStderr() don't execute
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002253 indirectly Python signal handlers anymore because mywrite() ignores exceptions
2254 (KeyboardInterrupt).
Victor Stinner14284c22010-04-23 12:02:30 +00002255
Victor Stinner31be90b2010-04-22 19:38:16 +00002256- Issue #8092: Fix PyUnicode_EncodeUTF8() to support error handler producing
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002257 unicode string (eg. backslashreplace).
Victor Stinner31be90b2010-04-22 19:38:16 +00002258
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002259- Issue #8485: PyUnicode_FSConverter() doesn't accept byteearray objects
2260 anymore, you have to convert your bytearray filenames to bytes.
Victor Stinnerdcb24032010-04-22 12:08:36 +00002261
Antoine Pitrou5bc7ec92010-04-21 22:56:22 +00002262- Issue #7332: Remove the 16KB stack-based buffer in
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002263 PyMarshal_ReadLastObjectFromFile, which doesn't bring any noticeable benefit
2264 compared to the dynamic memory allocation fallback. Patch by Charles-François
2265 Natali.
Antoine Pitrou5bc7ec92010-04-21 22:56:22 +00002266
Benjamin Peterson8380dd52010-04-16 22:51:37 +00002267- Issue #8417: Raise an OverflowError when an integer larger than sys.maxsize is
2268 passed to bytes or bytearray.
2269
Philip Jenvey0805ca32010-04-07 04:04:10 +00002270- Issue #7301: Add environment variable $PYTHONWARNINGS.
2271
Benjamin Petersond856ab62010-04-06 21:55:16 +00002272- Issue #8329: Don't return the same lists from select.select when no fds are
2273 changed.
2274
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002275- Issue #8259: 1L << (2**31) no longer produces an 'outrageous shift error' on
2276 64-bit machines. The shift count for either left or right shift is permitted
2277 to be up to sys.maxsize.
Mark Dickinson3318d292010-04-06 16:53:17 +00002278
Benjamin Peterson8daa49e2010-04-03 22:55:48 +00002279- Ensure that tokenization of identifiers is not affected by locale.
2280
Tarek Ziadé03d788d2010-04-03 08:46:49 +00002281- Issue #1222585: Added LDCXXSHARED for C++ support. Patch by Arfrever.
2282
Benjamin Peterson80d8fd82010-04-03 01:40:24 +00002283- Raise a TypeError when trying to delete a T_STRING_INPLACE struct member.
2284
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002285- Issue #8211: Save/restore CFLAGS around AC_PROG_CC in configure.in, in case it
2286 is set.
Victor Stinner00d6a1d2010-03-25 01:02:29 +00002287
Victor Stinner120c2122010-03-25 00:30:28 +00002288- Issue #8226: sys.setfilesystemencoding() raises a LookupError if the encoding
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002289 is unknown.
Victor Stinner120c2122010-03-25 00:30:28 +00002290
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002291- Issue #1583863: A str subclass can now override the __str__ method.
Victor Stinner808fc0a2010-03-22 12:50:40 +00002292
Mark Dickinsond59b4162010-03-13 11:34:40 +00002293- Issue #8014: Setting a T_UINT or T_PYSSIZET attribute of an object with
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002294 PyMemberDefs could produce an internal error; raise TypeError instead.
Mark Dickinsond59b4162010-03-13 11:34:40 +00002295
Mark Dickinsonf673f0c2010-03-13 09:48:39 +00002296- Issue #7845: Rich comparison methods on the complex type now return
2297 NotImplemented rather than raising a TypeError when comparing with an
2298 incompatible type; this allows user-defined classes to implement their own
2299 comparisons with complex.
2300
Victor Stinner52f6dd72010-03-12 14:45:56 +00002301- Issue #3137: Don't ignore errors at startup, especially a keyboard interrupt
2302 (SIGINT). If an error occurs while importing the site module, the error is
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002303 printed and Python exits. Initialize the GIL before importing the site module.
Victor Stinner52f6dd72010-03-12 14:45:56 +00002304
Benjamin Petersonae5f2f42010-03-07 17:10:51 +00002305- Issue #7173: Generator finalization could invalidate sys.exc_info().
2306
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002307- Issue #7544: Preallocate thread memory before creating the thread to avoid a
2308 fatal error in low memory condition.
Victor Stinner45b9be52010-03-03 23:28:07 +00002309
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002310- Issue #7820: The parser tokenizer restores all bytes in the right if the BOM
2311 check fails.
Victor Stinner6aa278e2010-03-03 00:18:49 +00002312
Benjamin Peterson23e018a2010-02-27 17:40:01 +00002313- Handle errors from looking up __prepare__ correctly.
2314
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002315- Issue #5939: Add additional runtime checking to ensure a valid capsule in
2316 Modules/_ctypes/callproc.c.
Larry Hastings1373a072010-02-24 22:49:58 +00002317
Eric Smith0facd772010-02-24 15:42:29 +00002318- Issue #7309: Fix unchecked attribute access when converting
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002319 UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError, and UnicodeTranslateError to strings.
Eric Smith0facd772010-02-24 15:42:29 +00002320
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002321- Issue #6902: Fix problem with built-in types format incorrectly with 0
2322 padding.
Eric Smithabb28c62010-02-23 00:22:24 +00002323
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002324- Issue #7988: Fix default alignment to be right aligned for complex.__format__.
2325 Now it matches other numeric types.
Eric Smith4e260c52010-02-22 18:54:44 +00002326
Eric Smith68af50b2010-02-22 14:58:30 +00002327- Issue #5988: Remove deprecated functions PyOS_ascii_formatd,
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002328 PyOS_ascii_strtod, and PyOS_ascii_atof. Use PyOS_double_to_string and
2329 PyOS_string_to_double instead. See issue #5835 for the original deprecations.
Eric Smith68af50b2010-02-22 14:58:30 +00002330
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002331- Issue #7385: Fix a crash in `MemoryView_FromObject` when `PyObject_GetBuffer`
2332 fails. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou05b7c562010-02-02 22:47:00 +00002333
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002334- Issue #7788: Fix an interpreter crash produced by deleting a list slice with
2335 very large step value.
Mark Dickinsonbc099642010-01-29 17:27:24 +00002336
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002337- Issue #7766: Change sys.getwindowsversion() return value to a named tuple and
2338 add the additional members returned in an OSVERSIONINFOEX structure. The new
2339 members are service_pack_major, service_pack_minor, suite_mask, and
2340 product_type.
Eric Smithf7bb5782010-01-27 00:44:57 +00002341
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002342- Issue #7561: Operations on empty bytearrays (such as `int(bytearray())`) could
2343 crash in many places because of the PyByteArray_AS_STRING() macro returning
2344 NULL. The macro now returns a statically allocated empty string instead.
Antoine Pitroufc8d6f42010-01-17 12:38:54 +00002345
Antoine Pitroub7fbcd32010-01-16 18:37:38 +00002346- Issue #6690: Optimize the bytecode for expressions such as `x in {1, 2, 3}`,
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002347 where the right hand operand is a set of constants, by turning the set into a
2348 frozenset and pre-building it as a constant. The comparison operation is made
2349 against the constant instead of building a new set each time it is executed (a
2350 similar optimization already existed which turned a list of constants into a
2351 pre-built tuple). Patch and additional tests by Dave Malcolm.
Antoine Pitroub7fbcd32010-01-16 18:37:38 +00002352
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002353- Issue #7622: Improve the split(), rsplit(), splitlines() and replace() methods
2354 of bytes, bytearray and unicode objects by using a common implementation based
2355 on stringlib's fast search. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrouf2c54842010-01-13 08:07:53 +00002356
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002357- Issue #7632: Fix various str -> float conversion bugs present in 2.7 alpha 2,
2358 including: (1) a serious 'wrong output' bug that could occur for long (> 40
2359 digit) input strings, (2) a crash in dtoa.c that occurred in debug builds when
2360 parsing certain long numeric strings corresponding to subnormal values, (3) a
2361 memory leak for some values large enough to cause overflow, and (4) a number
2362 of flaws that could lead to incorrectly rounded results.
Mark Dickinson81612e82010-01-12 23:04:19 +00002363
Benjamin Petersonaea44282010-01-04 01:10:28 +00002364- The __complex__ method is now looked up on the class of instances to make it
2365 consistent with other special methods.
2366
Antoine Pitrouda2ecaf2010-01-02 21:40:36 +00002367- Issue #7462: Implement the stringlib fast search algorithm for the `rfind`,
2368 `rindex`, `rsplit` and `rpartition` methods. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
2369
Benjamin Petersond12362a2009-12-30 19:44:54 +00002370- Issue #7604: Deleting an unset slotted attribute did not raise an
2371 AttributeError.
2372
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002373- Issue #7534: Fix handling of IEEE specials (infinities, nans, negative zero)
2374 in ** operator. The behaviour now conforms to that described in C99 Annex F.
Mark Dickinson9ab44b52009-12-30 16:22:49 +00002375
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002376- Issue #1811: improve accuracy and cross-platform consistency for true division
2377 of integers: the result of a/b is now correctly rounded for ints a and b (at
2378 least on IEEE 754 platforms), and in particular does not depend on the
2379 internal representation of an int.
Mark Dickinsoncbb62742009-12-27 15:09:50 +00002380
Ronald Oussoren6f6c5622009-12-24 14:03:19 +00002381- Issue #6834: replace the implementation for the 'python' and 'pythonw'
2382 executables on OSX.
2383
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002384 These executables now work properly with the arch(1) command: ``arch -ppc
2385 python`` will start a universal binary version of python in PPC mode (unlike
2386 previous releases).
Ronald Oussoren6f6c5622009-12-24 14:03:19 +00002387
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002388- Issue #7466: Segmentation fault when the garbage collector is called in the
2389 middle of populating a tuple. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou6b7dfc92009-12-12 19:18:27 +00002390
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc64f3ca42009-12-01 21:59:18 +00002391- Issue #7419: setlocale() could crash the interpreter on Windows when called
2392 with invalid values.
2393
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7d0bddd2009-11-30 00:08:56 +00002394- Issue #6077: On Windows, files opened with tempfile.TemporaryFile in "wt+"
2395 mode would appear truncated on the first '0x1a' byte (aka. Ctrl+Z).
2396
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002397- Issue #7085: Fix crash when importing some extensions in a thread on MacOSX
2398 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren3c1928a2009-11-19 17:15:31 +00002399
Philip Jenvey1309adb2009-11-17 03:43:14 +00002400- Issue #1757126: Fix the cyrillic-asian alias for the ptcp154 encoding.
2401
Mark Dickinson6f1d0492009-11-15 13:58:49 +00002402- Issue #6970: Remove redundant calls when comparing objects that don't
2403 implement the relevant rich comparison methods.
2404
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002405- Issue #7298: Fixes for range and reversed(range(...)). Iteration over
2406 range(a, b, c) incorrectly gave an empty iterator when a, b and c fit in C
2407 long but the length of the range did not. Also fix several cases where
2408 reversed(range(a, b, c)) gave wrong results, and fix a refleak for
2409 reversed(range(a, b, c)) with large arguments.
Mark Dickinsond550c9a2009-11-15 09:57:26 +00002410
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002411- Issue #7244: itertools.izip_longest() no longer ignores exceptions raised
2412 during the formation of an output tuple.
Raymond Hettingerfc438512009-11-01 20:55:33 +00002413
Benjamin Petersonb2e796a2009-10-28 21:59:39 +00002414- Issue #3297: On wide unicode builds, do not split unicode characters into
2415 surrogates.
2416
Mark Dickinsonf9724882009-10-26 21:51:18 +00002417- Remove length limitation when constructing a complex number from a string.
2418
Mark Dickinson27a87a22009-10-25 20:43:34 +00002419- Issue #1087418: Boost performance of bitwise operations for longs.
2420
Antoine Pitroub6ef9632009-10-24 20:47:05 +00002421- Support for AtheOS has been completely removed from the code base. It was
2422 disabled since Python 3.0.
2423
2424- Support for several legacy threading libraries has been disabled. These
2425 libraries are: Mach C threads, SunOS LWP, GNU pth, Irix threads. Support code
2426 will be entirely removed in 3.3.
2427
Jesus Cea6a792292010-05-03 21:18:48 +00002428- Support for OSF* has been disabled. If nobody stands up, support will be
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002429 removed in 3.3. See <http://bugs.python.org/issue8606>.
Jesus Cea6a792292010-05-03 21:18:48 +00002430
Raymond Hettingeraf7adad2009-10-22 11:22:50 +00002431- Peephole constant folding had missed UNARY_POSITIVE.
2432
Antoine Pitrou011bd622009-10-20 21:52:47 +00002433- Issue #1722344: threading._shutdown() is now called in Py_Finalize(), which
2434 fixes the problem of some exceptions being thrown at shutdown when the
2435 interpreter is killed. Patch by Adam Olsen.
2436
Antoine Pitrou671141d2009-10-19 19:37:25 +00002437- Issue #7147: Remove support for compiling Python without complex number
Skip Montanaroba1e0f42009-10-18 14:25:35 +00002438 support.
2439
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002440- Issue #7120: logging: Removed import of multiprocessing which is causing crash
2441 in GAE.
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +00002442
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002443- Issue #1754094: Improve the stack depth calculation in the compiler. There
2444 should be no other effect than a small decrease in memory use. Patch by
2445 Christopher Tur Lesniewski-Laas.
Neil Schemenauere441cb72009-10-14 19:14:38 +00002446
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002447- Issue #7065: Fix a crash in bytes.maketrans and bytearray.maketrans when using
2448 byte values greater than 127. Patch by Derk Drukker.
Antoine Pitrou403ce782009-10-14 17:14:16 +00002449
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7d520792009-10-06 21:03:20 +00002450- Issue #1571184: The Unicode database contains properties for more characters.
2451 The tables for code points representing numeric values, white spaces or line
2452 breaks are now generated from the official Unicode Character Database files,
2453 and include information from the Unihan.txt file.
2454
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002455- Issue #7019: Raise ValueError when unmarshalling bad long data, instead of
2456 producing internally inconsistent Python longs.
Mark Dickinson2683ab02009-09-29 19:21:35 +00002457
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002458- Issue #6990: Fix threading.local subclasses leaving old state around after a
2459 reference cycle GC which could be recycled by new locals.
Philip Jenvey26713ca2009-09-29 04:57:18 +00002460
Benjamin Peterson4905e802009-09-27 02:43:28 +00002461- Issue #5460: Fix an ambiguity in the grammar.
2462
Mark Dickinson3e124ae2009-09-22 21:47:24 +00002463- Issue #1766304: Improve performance of membership tests on range objects.
2464
Mark Dickinson0a1efd02009-09-16 21:23:34 +00002465- Issue #6713: Improve performance of integer -> string conversions.
2466
Mark Dickinson54a3db92009-09-06 10:19:23 +00002467- Issue #6846: Fix bug where bytearray.pop() returns negative integers.
2468
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002469- Issue #6750: A text file opened with io.open() could duplicate its output when
2470 writing from multiple threads at the same time.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcccd686a2009-08-29 23:00:38 +00002471
Benjamin Peterson14327712009-08-15 13:23:05 +00002472- Issue #6707: dir() on an uninitialized module caused a crash.
2473
Georg Brandl953152f2009-07-22 12:03:59 +00002474- Issue #6540: Fixed crash for bytearray.translate() with invalid parameters.
2475
Raymond Hettingere805ecc2009-07-27 20:16:37 +00002476- Issue #6573: set.union() stopped processing inputs if an instance of self
2477 occurred in the argument chain.
2478
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002479- Issue #6070: On posix platforms import no longer copies the execute bit from
2480 the .py file to the .pyc file if it is set.
R. David Murray046f7232009-07-19 02:22:05 +00002481
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc8b84ea02009-07-13 20:38:21 +00002482- Issue #1616979: Added the cp720 (Arabic DOS) encoding.
2483
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002484- Issue #6428: Since Python 3.0, the __bool__ method must return a bool object,
2485 and not an int. Fix the corresponding error message, and the documentation.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc097cd072009-07-07 00:43:08 +00002486
Benjamin Petersonf1664ae2009-07-01 01:28:55 +00002487- The deprecated PyCObject has been removed.
2488
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002489- Issue #6347: Include inttypes.h as well as stdint.h in pyport.h. This fixes a
2490 build failure on HP-UX: int32_t and uint32_t are defined in inttypes.h instead
2491 of stdint.h on that platform.
Mark Dickinson835a6c82009-06-30 15:45:17 +00002492
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002493- Issue #6373: Fixed a SystemError when encoding with the latin-1 codec and the
2494 'surrogateescape' error handler, a string which contains unpaired surrogates.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc84ec8d92009-06-29 22:36:49 +00002495
Hirokazu Yamamoto892a37a2009-06-28 11:07:03 +00002496- Issue #4856: Remove checks for win NT.
2497
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002498- Issue #6687: PyBytes_FromObject() no longer accepts an integer as its argument
2499 to construct a null-initialized bytes object.
Alexandre Vassalottieb6f8de2009-12-31 03:56:09 +00002500
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002501- Issue #1023290: Add from_bytes() and to_bytes() methods to integers. These
2502 methods allow the conversion of integers to bytes, and vice-versa.
Alexandre Vassalottic36c3782010-01-09 20:35:09 +00002503
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002504- Issue #7382: Fix bug in bytes.__getnewargs__ that prevented bytes instances
2505 from being copied with copy.copy(), and bytes subclasses from being pickled
2506 properly.
Alexandre Vassalotti41f58a72010-01-12 01:23:09 +00002507
Collin Winter4222e9c2010-03-18 22:46:40 +00002508- Code objects now support weak references.
2509
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002510- Issue #7072: isspace(0xa0) is true on Mac OS X.
Ronald Oussoren501aeff2010-04-18 15:02:38 +00002511
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002512- Issue #8084: PEP 370 now conforms to system conventions for framework builds
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00002513 on MacOS X. That is, "python setup.py install --user" will install into
2514 "~/Library/Python/2.7" instead of "~/.local".
Ronald Oussoren501aeff2010-04-18 15:02:38 +00002515
Benjamin Peterson466a7822009-07-02 21:44:01 +00002516C-API
2517-----
2518
Alexander Belopolskyf0f45142010-08-11 17:31:17 +00002519- Issue #2443: A new macro, `Py_VA_COPY`, copies the state of the
2520 variable argument list. `Py_VA_COPY` is equivalent to C99
2521 `va_copy`, but available on all python platforms.
2522
Mark Dickinsone6fc7402010-08-06 18:55:26 +00002523- PySlice_GetIndicesEx now clips the step to [-PY_SSIZE_T_MAX, PY_SSIZE_T_MAX]
2524 instead of [-PY_SSIZE_T_MAX-1, PY_SSIZE_T_MAX]. This makes it safe to do
2525 "step = -step" when reversing a slice.
2526
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002527- Issue #5753: A new C API function, `PySys_SetArgvEx`, allows embedders of the
2528 interpreter to set sys.argv without also modifying sys.path. This helps fix
2529 `CVE-2008-5983
Antoine Pitrouf978fac2010-05-21 17:25:34 +00002530 <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5983>`_.
2531
Benjamin Petersonfb886362010-04-24 18:21:17 +00002532- Add PyArg_ValidateKeywordArguments, which checks if all keyword arguments are
2533 strings in an efficient manner.
2534
Antoine Pitrou8689a102010-04-01 16:53:15 +00002535- Issue #8276: PyEval_CallObject() is now only available in macro form. The
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002536 function declaration, which was kept for backwards compatibility reasons, is
2537 now removed (the macro was introduced in 1997!).
Antoine Pitrou8689a102010-04-01 16:53:15 +00002538
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002539- Issue #7767: New function PyLong_AsLongLongAndOverflow added, analogous to
2540 PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow.
Mark Dickinson93f562c2010-01-30 10:30:15 +00002541
Benjamin Peterson8667a9b2010-01-09 21:45:28 +00002542- Make PyUnicode_CompareWithASCIIString return not equal if the Python string
2543 has '\0' at the end.
2544
Mark Dickinsonde604012010-01-01 19:27:32 +00002545- Issue #5080: The argument parsing functions PyArg_ParseTuple,
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002546 PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords, PyArg_VaParse, PyArg_VaParseTupleAndKeywords and
2547 PyArg_Parse now raise a DeprecationWarning for float arguments passed with the
2548 'L' format code. This will become a TypeError in a future version of Python,
Mark Dickinsonde604012010-01-01 19:27:32 +00002549 to match the behaviour of the other integer format codes.
2550
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002551- Issue #7033: Function ``PyErr_NewExceptionWithDoc()`` added.
Georg Brandl1e28a272009-12-28 08:41:01 +00002552
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002553- Issue #7414: 'C' code wasn't being skipped properly (for keyword arguments) in
2554 PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords.
Mark Dickinsonf08173b2009-12-03 10:59:46 +00002555
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002556- Issue #7228: Add '%lld' and '%llu' support to PyString_FromFormat(V) and
2557 PyErr_Format, on machines with HAVE_LONG_LONG defined.
Mark Dickinson6ce4a9a2009-11-16 17:00:11 +00002558
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002559- Issue #6151: Made PyDescr_COMMON conform to standard C (like PyObject_HEAD in
2560 PEP 3123). The PyDescr_TYPE and PyDescr_NAME macros should be should used for
2561 accessing the d_type and d_name members of structures using PyDescr_COMMON.
Alexandre Vassalotti2db046d2009-07-22 03:56:36 +00002562
2563- Issue #6405: Remove duplicate type declarations in descrobject.h.
Benjamin Peterson89b89172009-07-03 13:30:25 +00002564
Benjamin Peterson466a7822009-07-02 21:44:01 +00002565- The code flags for old __future__ features are now available again.
2566
Alexandre Vassalotti7b82b402009-07-21 04:30:03 +00002567- Issue #5954: Add a PyFrame_GetLineNumber() function to replace most uses of
2568 PyCode_Addr2Line().
2569
2570- Issue #5959: Add a PyCode_NewEmpty() function to create a new empty code
2571 object at a specified file, function, and line number.
2572
2573- Issue #1419652: Change the first argument to PyImport_AppendInittab() to
2574 ``const char *`` as the string is stored beyond the call.
2575
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002576- Issue #2422: When compiled with the ``--with-valgrind`` option, the pymalloc
2577 allocator will be automatically disabled when running under Valgrind. This
2578 gives improved memory leak detection when running under Valgrind, while taking
2579 advantage of pymalloc at other times.
Benjamin Peterson05159c42009-12-03 03:01:27 +00002580
Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +00002581Library
2582-------
2583
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002584- In pdb, when Ctrl-C is entered while defining commands for a breakpoint, the
2585 old commands are restored.
Georg Brandlb90ffd82010-07-30 22:20:16 +00002586
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002587- For traceback debugging, the pdb listing now also shows the locations where
2588 the exception was originally (re)raised, if it differs from the last line
2589 executed (e.g. in case of finally clauses).
Georg Brandl0a9c3e92010-07-30 18:46:38 +00002590
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002591- The pdb command "source" has been added. It displays the source code for a
2592 given object, if possible.
Georg Brandle59ca2a2010-07-30 17:04:28 +00002593
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002594- The pdb command "longlist" has been added. It displays the whole source code
2595 for the current function.
Georg Brandle59ca2a2010-07-30 17:04:28 +00002596
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002597- Issue #1503502: Make pdb.Pdb easier to subclass by putting message and error
2598 output into methods.
Georg Brandle59ca2a2010-07-30 17:04:28 +00002599
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002600- Issue #809887: Make the output of pdb's breakpoint deletions more consistent;
2601 emit a message when a breakpoint is enabled or disabled.
Georg Brandl7410dd12010-07-30 12:01:20 +00002602
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002603- Issue #5294: Fix the behavior of pdb's "continue" command when called in the
2604 top-level debugged frame.
Georg Brandl3f940892010-07-30 10:29:19 +00002605
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002606- Issue #5727: Restore the ability to use readline when calling into pdb in
2607 doctests.
Georg Brandld72e0432010-07-30 09:59:28 +00002608
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002609- Issue #6719: In pdb, do not stop somewhere in the encodings machinery if the
2610 source file to be debugged is in a non-builtin encoding.
Georg Brandl34cc0f52010-07-30 09:43:00 +00002611
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002612- Issue #8048: Prevent doctests from failing when sys.displayhook has been
2613 reassigned.
Georg Brandl25fbb892010-07-30 09:23:23 +00002614
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002615- Issue #8015: In pdb, do not crash when an empty line is entered as a
2616 breakpoint command.
Georg Brandl44f8bf92010-07-30 08:54:49 +00002617
Georg Brandl2dfec552010-07-30 08:43:32 +00002618- In pdb, allow giving a line number to the "until" command.
2619
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002620- Issue #1437051: For pdb, allow "continue" and related commands in .pdbrc
2621 files. Also, add a command-line option "-c" that runs a command as if given
2622 in .pdbrc.
Georg Brandle0230912010-07-30 08:29:39 +00002623
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002624- Issue #4179: In pdb, allow "list ." as a command to return to the currently
2625 debugged line.
Georg Brandla91a94b2010-07-30 07:14:01 +00002626
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00002627- Issue #4108: In urllib.robotparser, if there are multiple ``User-agent: *``
Georg Brandl0a0fc072010-07-29 17:55:01 +00002628 entries, consider the first one.
2629
Georg Brandl056cb932010-07-29 17:16:10 +00002630- Issue #6630: Allow customizing regex flags when subclassing the
2631 string.Template class.
2632
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002633- Issue #9411: Allow specifying an encoding for config files in the configparser
2634 module.
Georg Brandl8dcaa732010-07-29 12:17:40 +00002635
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002636- Issue #1682942: Improvements to configparser: support alternate delimiters,
2637 alternate comment prefixes and empty lines in values.
Georg Brandl96a60ae2010-07-28 13:13:46 +00002638
Georg Brandlcbb0ae42010-07-28 08:19:35 +00002639- Issue #9354: Provide getsockopt() in asyncore's file_wrapper.
2640
Victor Stinnercf448832010-07-28 00:15:03 +00002641- Issue #8966: ctypes: Remove implicit bytes-unicode conversion.
2642
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002643- Issue #9378: python -m pickle <pickle file> will now load and display the
2644 first object in the pickle file.
Alexander Belopolsky455f7bd2010-07-27 23:02:38 +00002645
Florent Xiclunaf1046ca2010-07-27 21:20:15 +00002646- Issue #4770: Restrict binascii module to accept only bytes (as specified).
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002647 And fix the email package to encode to ASCII instead of ``raw-unicode-escape``
2648 before ASCII-to-binary decoding.
Florent Xiclunaf1046ca2010-07-27 21:20:15 +00002649
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002650- Issue #9384: ``python -m tkinter`` will now display a simple demo applet.
Alexander Belopolskyc02cc272010-07-27 14:16:32 +00002651
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002652- The default size of the re module's compiled regular expression cache has been
2653 increased from 100 to 500 and the cache replacement policy has changed from
Antoine Pitrou3060c452010-08-13 16:27:38 +00002654 simply clearing the entire cache on overflow to forgetting the least recently
2655 used cached compiled regular expressions. This is a performance win for
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002656 applications that use a lot of regular expressions and limits the impact of
2657 the performance hit anytime the cache is exceeded.
Gregory P. Smith5a631832010-07-27 05:31:29 +00002658
Brian Curtin0f0c3322010-07-26 02:36:32 +00002659- Issue #7113: Speed up loading in configparser. Patch by Łukasz Langa.
2660
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002661- Issue #9032: XML-RPC client retries the request on EPIPE error. The EPIPE
Victor Stinner756f5472010-07-24 02:24:55 +00002662 error occurs when the server closes the socket and the client sends a big
2663 XML-RPC request.
2664
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002665- Issue #4629: getopt raises an error if an argument ends with "=", whereas
2666 getopt doesn't accept a value (eg. --help= is rejected if getopt uses
2667 ['help='] long options).
Victor Stinnereccc5fa2010-07-24 00:49:20 +00002668
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002669- Issue #7989: Added pure python implementation of the `datetime` module. The C
2670 module is renamed to `_datetime` and if available, overrides all classes
2671 defined in datetime with fast C impementation. Python implementation is based
2672 on the original python prototype for the datetime module by Tim Peters with
2673 minor modifications by the PyPy project. The test suite now tests `datetime`
2674 module with and without `_datetime` acceleration using the same test cases.
Alexander Belopolskycf86e362010-07-23 19:25:47 +00002675
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002676- Issue #7895: platform.mac_ver() no longer crashes after calling os.fork().
Ronald Oussorene186e382010-07-23 11:54:59 +00002677
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002678- Issue #9323: Fixed a bug in trace.py that resulted in loosing the name of the
2679 script being traced. Patch by Eli Bendersky.
Alexander Belopolsky3f8ecab2010-07-21 17:43:42 +00002680
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002681- Issue #9282: Fixed --listfuncs option of trace.py. Thanks Eli Bendersky for
2682 the patch.
Alexander Belopolsky533a1672010-07-20 19:55:18 +00002683
Gregory P. Smith41e6c3d2010-07-19 23:17:22 +00002684- Issue #3704: http.cookiejar was not properly handling URLs with a / in the
2685 parameters.
2686
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002687- Issue #9268: ``pickletools.dis()`` now has an optional *annotate* argument
2688 which controls printing of opcode descriptions in ``dis()`` output.
Alexander Belopolsky929d3842010-07-17 15:51:21 +00002689
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002690- Issue #1555570: email no longer inserts extra blank lines when a \r\n combo
2691 crosses an 8192 byte boundary.
R. David Murray45bf773f2010-07-17 01:19:57 +00002692
Victor Stinnere9ebde42010-07-13 23:04:56 +00002693- Issue #9243: Fix sndhdr module and add unit tests, contributed by James Lee.
2694
Benjamin Peterson5ef96e52010-07-11 23:06:06 +00002695- ``ast.literal_eval()`` now allows byte literals.
2696
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002697- Issue #9137: Fix issue in MutableMapping.update, which incorrectly treated
2698 keyword arguments called 'self' or 'other' specially.
Mark Dickinsonb214e902010-07-11 18:53:06 +00002699
Georg Brandl492f3fc2010-07-11 09:41:21 +00002700- ``ast.literal_eval()`` now allows set literals.
2701
2702- Issue #9164: Ensure that sysconfig handles duplicate -arch flags in CFLAGS.
Ronald Oussorend3950522010-07-11 09:05:07 +00002703
R. David Murrayea340a32010-07-09 12:23:21 +00002704- Issue #7646: The fnmatch pattern cache no longer grows without bound.
2705
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002706- Issue #9136: Fix 'dictionary changed size during iteration' RuntimeError
2707 produced when profiling the decimal module. This was due to a dangerous
2708 iteration over 'locals()' in Context.__init__.
Mark Dickinson0dd8f782010-07-08 21:15:36 +00002709
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002710- Fix extreme speed issue in Decimal.pow when the base is an exact power of 10
2711 and the exponent is tiny (for example, ``Decimal(10) **
2712 Decimal('1e-999999999')``).
Mark Dickinsona1236312010-07-08 19:03:34 +00002713
Mark Dickinsonbe64d952010-07-07 16:21:29 +00002714- Issue #9186: Fix math.log1p(-1.0) to raise ValueError, not OverflowError.
2715
Mark Dickinson2cc8a5e2010-07-04 18:11:51 +00002716- Issue #9130: Fix validation of relative imports in parser module.
2717
Mark Dickinson2bd61a92010-07-04 16:37:31 +00002718- Issue #9128: Fix validation of class decorators in parser module.
2719
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002720- Issue #9094: python -m pickletools will now disassemble pickle files listed in
2721 the command line arguments. See output of python -m pickletools -h for more
2722 details.
Alexander Belopolsky60c762b2010-07-03 20:35:53 +00002723
Senthil Kumarandf022da2010-07-03 17:48:22 +00002724- Issue #5468: urlencode to handle bytes type and other encodings in its query
2725 parameter. Patch by Dan Mahn.
2726
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002727- Issue #7673: Fix security vulnerability (CVE-2010-2089) in the audioop module,
2728 ensure that the input string length is a multiple of the frame size.
Victor Stinnerbc5c54b2010-07-03 13:44:22 +00002729
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002730- Issue #6507: Accept source strings in dis.dis(). Original patch by Daniel
2731 Urban.
Nick Coghlan5c8b54e2010-07-03 07:36:51 +00002732
Brett Cannon8315fd12010-07-02 22:03:00 +00002733- Issue #7829: Clearly document that the dis module is exposing an
2734 implementation detail that is not stable between Python VMs or releases.
2735
Victor Stinnerbc5c54b2010-07-03 13:44:22 +00002736- Issue #6589: cleanup asyncore.socket_map in case smtpd.SMTPServer constructor
Giampaolo Rodolà610aa4f2010-06-30 17:47:39 +00002737 raises an exception.
2738
Michael Foordb3a89842010-06-30 12:17:50 +00002739- Issue #9110: Addition of ContextDecorator to contextlib, for creating APIs
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002740 that act as both context managers and decorators. contextmanager changes to
2741 use ContextDecorator.
Michael Foordb3a89842010-06-30 12:17:50 +00002742
Brett Cannonf23e3742010-06-27 23:57:46 +00002743- Implement importlib.abc.SourceLoader and deprecate PyLoader and PyPycLoader
2744 for removal in Python 3.4.
2745
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002746- Issue #9064: pdb's "up" and "down" commands now accept an optional argument
2747 giving the number of frames to go.
Georg Brandleb1f4aa2010-06-27 10:37:48 +00002748
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002749- Issue #9018: os.path.normcase() now raises a TypeError if the argument is not
2750 ``str`` or ``bytes``.
Ezio Melotti5a3ef5b2010-06-25 10:56:11 +00002751
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002752- Issue #9075: In the ssl module, remove the setting of a ``debug`` flag on an
2753 OpenSSL structure.
Antoine Pitrou6186bfb2010-06-25 00:07:34 +00002754
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002755- Issue #8682: The ssl module now temporary increments the reference count of a
2756 socket object got through ``PyWeakref_GetObject``, so as to avoid possible
Antoine Pitrou8bae4ec2010-06-24 22:34:04 +00002757 deallocation while the object is still being used.
2758
Senthil Kumaran80f1b052010-06-18 15:08:18 +00002759- Issue #1368368: FancyURLOpener class changed to throw an Exception on wrong
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002760 password instead of presenting an interactive prompt. Older behavior can be
Senthil Kumaran80f1b052010-06-18 15:08:18 +00002761 obtained by passing retry=True to http_error_xxx methods of FancyURLOpener.
2762
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002763- Issue #8720: Fix regression caused by fix for #4050 by making getsourcefile
R. David Murraya1b37402010-06-17 02:04:29 +00002764 smart enough to find source files in the linecache.
2765
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002766- Issue #5610: feedparser no longer eats extra characters at the end of a body
2767 part if the body part ends with a ``\r\n``.
R. David Murray45e0e142010-06-16 02:19:40 +00002768
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002769- Issue #8986: math.erfc was incorrectly raising OverflowError for values
2770 between -27.3 and -30.0 on some platforms.
Mark Dickinsonbcdf9da2010-06-13 10:52:38 +00002771
Victor Stinner0f35e2c2010-06-11 23:46:47 +00002772- Issue #8784: Set tarfile default encoding to 'utf-8' on Windows.
2773
Victor Stinnerda0eca42010-06-11 21:50:30 +00002774- Issue #8966: If a ctypes structure field is an array of c_char, convert its
2775 value to bytes instead of str (as done for c_char and c_char_p).
2776
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002777- Issue #8188: Comparisons between Decimal and Fraction objects are now
2778 permitted, returning a result based on the exact numerical values of the
2779 operands. This builds on issue #2531, which allowed Decimal-to-float
2780 comparisons; all comparisons involving numeric types (bool, int, float,
2781 complex, Decimal, Fraction) should now act as expected.
Mark Dickinson08ade6f2010-06-11 10:44:52 +00002782
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002783- Issue #8897: Fix sunau module, use bytes to write the header. Patch written by
2784 Thomas Jollans.
Victor Stinner7f3652e2010-06-07 20:14:04 +00002785
Raymond Hettinger48f3bd32010-12-16 00:30:53 +00002786- Issue #8899: time.struct_time now has class and attribute docstrings.
Alexander Belopolsky69f3fd02010-06-05 15:04:51 +00002787
Martin v. Löwis2d5157e2010-06-04 19:50:26 +00002788- Issue #6470: Drop UNC prefix in FixTk.
2789
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002790- Issue #4768: base64 encoded email body parts were incorrectly stored as binary
2791 strings. They are now correctly converted to strings.
R. David Murray7da8f062010-06-04 16:11:08 +00002792
Lars Gustäbel2470ff12010-06-03 10:11:52 +00002793- Issue #8833: tarfile created hard link entries with a size field != 0 by
2794 mistake.
2795
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002796- Charset.body_encode now correctly handles base64 encoding by encoding with the
2797 output_charset before calling base64mime.encode. Passes the tests from 2.x
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00002798 issue #1368247.
R. David Murray850fc852010-06-03 01:58:28 +00002799
R. David Murrayd35251d2010-06-01 01:32:12 +00002800- Issue #8845: sqlite3 Connection objects now have a read-only in_transaction
2801 attribute that is True iff there are uncommitted changes.
2802
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002803- Issue #1289118: datetime.timedelta objects can now be multiplied by float and
2804 divided by float and int objects. Results are rounded to the nearest multiple
2805 of timedelta.resolution with ties resolved using round-half-to-even method.
Alexander Belopolsky1790bc42010-05-31 17:33:47 +00002806
Alexander Belopolskyf03a6162010-05-27 21:42:58 +00002807- Issue #7150: Raise OverflowError if the result of adding or subtracting
2808 timedelta from date or datetime falls outside of the MINYEAR:MAXYEAR range.
2809
Giampaolo Rodolàa67299e2010-05-26 18:06:04 +00002810- Issue #8806: add SSL contexts support to ftplib.
2811
Victor Stinner479736b2010-05-25 21:12:34 +00002812- Issue #4769: Fix main() function of the base64 module, use sys.stdin.buffer
2813 and sys.stdout.buffer (instead of sys.stdin and sys.stdout) to use the bytes
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002814 API.
Victor Stinner479736b2010-05-25 21:12:34 +00002815
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002816- Issue #8770: Now sysconfig displays information when it's called as a script.
2817 Initial idea by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
Tarek Ziadéa7514992010-05-25 09:44:36 +00002818
Victor Stinnere021f4b2010-05-24 21:46:25 +00002819- Issue #6662: Fix parsing of malformatted charref (&#bad;), patch written by
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002820 Fredrik Håård.
Victor Stinnere021f4b2010-05-24 21:46:25 +00002821
Mark Dickinsonb1d8e322010-05-22 18:35:36 +00002822- Issue #8540: Decimal module: rename the Context._clamp attribute to
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002823 Context.clamp and make it public. This is useful in creating contexts that
2824 correspond to the decimal interchange formats specified in IEEE 754.
Mark Dickinsonb1d8e322010-05-22 18:35:36 +00002825
Victor Stinnera92ad7e2010-05-22 16:59:09 +00002826- Issue #6268: Fix seek() method of codecs.open(), don't read or write the BOM
2827 twice after seek(0). Fix also reset() method of codecs, UTF-16, UTF-32 and
2828 StreamWriter classes.
Victor Stinner3fed0872010-05-22 02:16:27 +00002829
Victor Stinner7126dbc2010-05-21 23:45:42 +00002830- Issue #3798: sys.exit(message) writes the message to sys.stderr file, instead
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002831 of the C file stderr, to use stderr encoding and error handler.
Victor Stinner7126dbc2010-05-21 23:45:42 +00002832
Benjamin Petersonaada7b82010-05-21 21:45:06 +00002833- Issue #8782: Add a trailing newline in linecache.updatecache to the last line
2834 of files without one.
2835
Benjamin Peterson4ad6bd52010-05-21 20:55:22 +00002836- Issue #8729: Return NotImplemented from collections.Mapping.__eq__ when
2837 comparing to a non-mapping.
2838
Victor Stinnerf0feec22010-05-21 10:52:08 +00002839- Issue #8774: tabnanny uses the encoding cookie (#coding:...) to use the
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002840 correct encoding.
Victor Stinnerf0feec22010-05-21 10:52:08 +00002841
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002842- Issue #4870: Add an `options` attribute to SSL contexts, as well as several
2843 ``OP_*`` constants to the `ssl` module. This allows to selectively disable
2844 protocol versions, when used in combination with `PROTOCOL_SSLv23`.
Antoine Pitroub5218772010-05-21 09:56:06 +00002845
Tarek Ziadé06710a82010-05-19 22:25:00 +00002846- Issue #8759: Fixed user paths in sysconfig for posix and os2 schemes.
2847
Victor Stinner2ca03c12010-05-19 17:00:07 +00002848- Issue #8663: distutils.log emulates backslashreplace error handler. Fix
2849 compilation in a non-ASCII directory if stdout encoding is ASCII (eg. if
2850 stdout is not a TTY).
2851
Victor Stinnerb745a742010-05-18 17:17:23 +00002852- Issue #8513: os.get_exec_path() supports b'PATH' key and bytes value.
2853 subprocess.Popen() and os._execvpe() support bytes program name. Add
2854 os.supports_bytes_environ flag: True if the native OS type of the environment
2855 is bytes (eg. False on Windows).
2856
Lars Gustäbel1465cc22010-05-17 18:02:50 +00002857- Issue #8633: tarfile is now able to read and write archives with "raw" binary
2858 pax headers as described in POSIX.1-2008.
2859
Florent Xiclunac7b8e862010-05-17 17:33:07 +00002860- Issue #1285086: Speed up urllib.parse functions: quote, quote_from_bytes,
2861 unquote, unquote_to_bytes.
2862
Tarek Ziadéc16a85c2010-05-17 10:38:53 +00002863- Issue #8688: Distutils now recalculates MANIFEST everytime.
2864
Victor Stinnerf9faaad2010-05-16 21:36:37 +00002865- Issue #8477: ssl.RAND_egd() and ssl._test_decode_cert() support str with
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002866 surrogates and bytes for the filename.
Victor Stinner3800e1e2010-05-16 21:23:48 +00002867
Antoine Pitrou152efa22010-05-16 18:19:27 +00002868- Issue #8550: Add first class ``SSLContext`` objects to the ssl module.
2869
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002870- Issue #8681: Make the zlib module's error messages more informative when the
2871 zlib itself doesn't give any detailed explanation.
Antoine Pitrou53b21662010-05-11 23:46:02 +00002872
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002873- The audioop module now supports sound fragments of length greater than 2**31
2874 bytes on 64-bit machines, and is PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN.
Mark Dickinson81fece22010-05-11 13:34:35 +00002875
Giampaolo Rodolàbd576b72010-05-10 14:53:29 +00002876- Issue #4972: Add support for the context manager protocol to the ftplib.FTP
2877 class.
2878
Benjamin Petersone87c0fc2010-05-08 19:52:49 +00002879- Issue #8664: In py_compile, create __pycache__ when the compiled path is
2880 given.
2881
Victor Stinner449c4662010-05-08 11:10:09 +00002882- Issue #8514: Add os.fsencode() function (Unix only): encode a string to bytes
2883 for use in the file system, environment variables or the command line.
2884
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002885- Issue #8571: Fix an internal error when compressing or decompressing a chunk
2886 larger than 1GB with the zlib module's compressor and decompressor objects.
Antoine Pitrou89562712010-05-07 17:04:02 +00002887
Benjamin Peterson225168e2010-05-06 22:29:53 +00002888- Issue #8603: Support bytes environmental variables on Unix: Add os.environb
2889 mapping and os.getenvb() function. os.unsetenv() encodes str argument to the
2890 file system encoding with the surrogateescape error handler (instead of
2891 utf8/strict) and accepts bytes. posix.environ keys and values are now bytes.
Victor Stinner84ae1182010-05-06 22:05:07 +00002892
Giampaolo Rodolà8d2dc852010-05-06 18:06:30 +00002893- Issue #8573: asyncore _strerror() function might throw ValueError.
2894
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002895- Issue #8483: asyncore.dispatcher's __getattr__ method produced confusing error
2896 messages when accessing undefined class attributes because of the cheap
2897 inheritance with the underlying socket object. The cheap inheritance has been
2898 deprecated.
Giampaolo Rodolà8d2dc852010-05-06 18:06:30 +00002899
Tarek Ziadéae4d5c62010-05-05 22:27:31 +00002900- Issue #4265: shutil.copyfile() was leaking file descriptors when disk fills.
2901 Patch by Tres Seaver.
2902
Victor Stinnerd17f2192010-08-15 09:56:07 +00002903- Issue #8390: tarfile uses surrogateescape as the default error handler
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002904 (instead of replace in read mode or strict in write mode).
Victor Stinnerde629d42010-05-05 21:43:57 +00002905
Barry Warsaw83d89982010-05-05 16:18:31 +00002906- Issue #7755: Use an unencumbered audio file for tests.
2907
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002908- Issue #8621: uuid.uuid4() returned the same sequence of values in the parent
2909 and any children created using ``os.fork`` on MacOS X 10.6.
Ronald Oussorenac764d32010-05-05 15:32:33 +00002910
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002911- Issue #8567: Fix precedence of signals in Decimal module: when a Decimal
2912 operation raises multiple signals and more than one of those signals is
2913 trapped, the specification determines the order in which the signals should be
2914 handled. In many cases this order wasn't being followed, leading to the wrong
2915 Python exception being raised.
Mark Dickinsonc69160e2010-05-04 14:35:33 +00002916
Antoine Pitrou6be88762010-05-03 16:48:20 +00002917- Issue #7865: The close() method of :mod:`io` objects should not swallow
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002918 exceptions raised by the implicit flush(). Also qensure that calling close()
2919 several times is supported. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
Antoine Pitrou6be88762010-05-03 16:48:20 +00002920
Antoine Pitrou6e20a1b2010-05-02 19:59:47 +00002921- Issue #4687: Fix accuracy of garbage collection runtimes displayed with
2922 gc.DEBUG_STATS.
2923
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002924- Issue #8354: The siginterrupt setting is now preserved for all signals, not
2925 just SIGCHLD.
Jean-Paul Calderone6f137ca2010-05-09 03:18:57 +00002926
Georg Brandl25106ce2010-05-21 21:49:47 +00002927- Issue #7192: webbrowser.get("firefox") now works on Mac OS X, as does
Ronald Oussoren4d39f6e2010-05-02 09:54:35 +00002928 webbrowser.get("safari").
2929
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002930- Issue #8464: tarfile no longer creates files with execute permissions set when
2931 mode="w|" is used.
Lars Gustäbeld6eb70b2010-04-29 15:37:02 +00002932
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002933- Issue #7834: Fix connect() of Bluetooth L2CAP sockets with recent versions of
2934 the Linux kernel. Patch by Yaniv Aknin.
Antoine Pitroubf043492010-04-29 10:11:46 +00002935
Tarek Ziadé6ac91722010-04-28 17:51:36 +00002936- Issue #8295: Added shutil.unpack_archive.
2937
Senthil Kumaran71fb6c82010-04-28 17:39:48 +00002938- Issue #6312: Fixed http HEAD request when the transfer encoding is chunked.
2939 It should correctly return an empty response now.
2940
Benjamin Peterson95e392c2010-04-27 21:07:21 +00002941- Issue #8546: Reject None given as the buffering argument to _pyio.open.
2942
Antoine Pitrou06e34a92010-04-27 19:14:15 +00002943- Issue #8549: Fix compiling the _ssl extension under AIX. Patch by
2944 Sridhar Ratnakumar.
2945
R. David Murrayad78d152010-04-27 02:45:53 +00002946- Issue #6656: fix locale.format_string to handle escaped percents
2947 and mappings.
2948
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002949- Issue #2302: Fix a race condition in SocketServer.BaseServer.shutdown, where
2950 the method could block indefinitely if called just before the event loop
2951 started running. This also fixes the occasional freezes witnessed in
2952 test_httpservers.
Antoine Pitrou3bcba8e2010-04-25 22:01:43 +00002953
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002954- Issue #8524: When creating an SSL socket, the timeout value of the original
2955 socket wasn't retained (instead, a socket with a positive timeout would be
2956 turned into a non-blocking SSL socket).
Antoine Pitrou40f08742010-04-24 22:04:40 +00002957
Antoine Pitroud3f8ab82010-04-24 21:26:44 +00002958- Issue #5103: SSL handshake would ignore the socket timeout and block
2959 indefinitely if the other end didn't respond.
2960
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002961- The do_handshake() method of SSL objects now adjusts the blocking mode of the
2962 SSL structure if necessary (as other methods already do).
Antoine Pitroud3f8ab82010-04-24 21:26:44 +00002963
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002964- Issue #8391: os.execvpe() and os.getenv() supports unicode with surrogates and
2965 bytes strings for environment keys and values.
Victor Stinner13bb71c2010-04-23 21:41:56 +00002966
Victor Stinner4d078042010-04-23 19:28:32 +00002967- Issue #8467: Pure Python implementation of subprocess encodes the error
2968 message using surrogatepass error handler to support surrogates in the
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002969 message.
Victor Stinner4d078042010-04-23 19:28:32 +00002970
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002971- Issue #8468: bz2.BZ2File() accepts str with surrogates and bytes filenames.
Victor Stinner349fd522010-04-23 10:56:17 +00002972
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002973- Issue #8451: Syslog module now uses basename(sys.argv[0]) instead of the
2974 string "python" as the *ident*. openlog() arguments are all optional and
2975 keywords.
Sean Reifscheider13daf122010-04-23 09:29:52 +00002976
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002977- Issue #8108: Fix the unwrap() method of SSL objects when the socket has a
2978 non-infinite timeout. Also make that method friendlier with applications
Antoine Pitrou2c4f98b2010-04-23 00:16:21 +00002979 wanting to continue using the socket in clear-text mode, by disabling
2980 OpenSSL's internal readahead. Thanks to Darryl Miles for guidance.
2981
Antoine Pitrou7062db82010-04-22 13:30:10 +00002982- Issue #8496: make mailcap.lookup() always return a list, rather than an
2983 iterator. Patch by Gregory Nofi.
2984
Victor Stinner35466c52010-04-22 11:23:23 +00002985- Issue #8195: Fix a crash in sqlite Connection.create_collation() if the
2986 collation name contains a surrogate character.
2987
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002988- Issue #8484: Load all ciphers and digest algorithms when initializing the _ssl
2989 extension, such that verification of some SSL certificates doesn't fail
2990 because of an "unknown algorithm".
Antoine Pitroufec12ff2010-04-21 19:46:23 +00002991
Tarek Ziadéfb437512010-04-20 08:57:33 +00002992- Issue #6547: Added the ignore_dangling_symlinks option to shutil.copytree.
2993
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002994- Issue #1540112: Now allowing the choice of a copy function in shutil.copytree.
Tarek Ziadé5340db32010-04-19 22:30:51 +00002995
Giampaolo Rodolà5fb313b2010-04-19 22:05:54 +00002996- Issue #4814: timeout parameter is now applied also for connections resulting
2997 from PORT/EPRT commands.
2998
Tarek Ziadé10a51af2010-04-19 21:31:42 +00002999- Issue #8463: added missing reference to bztar in shutil's documentation.
3000
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003001- Issue #7154: urllib.request can now detect the proxy settings on OSX 10.6 (as
3002 long as the user didn't specify 'automatic proxy configuration').
Ronald Oussoren84151202010-04-18 20:46:11 +00003003
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003004- Issue #3817: ftplib.FTP.abort() method now considers 225 a valid response code
3005 as stated in RFC-959 at chapter 5.4.
Giampaolo Rodolàceb513a2010-04-18 13:36:35 +00003006
Victor Stinner738446f02010-04-18 00:00:44 +00003007- Issue #8394: _ctypes.dlopen() accepts bytes, bytearray and str with
3008 surrogates.
3009
Antoine Pitrou0454af92010-04-17 23:51:58 +00003010- Issue #850728: Add a *timeout* parameter to the `acquire()` method of
Antoine Pitroua7ecfe72010-04-17 23:52:21 +00003011 `threading.Semaphore` objects. Original patch by Torsten Landschoff.
Antoine Pitrou0454af92010-04-17 23:51:58 +00003012
Antoine Pitrou2d9cb9c2010-04-17 17:40:45 +00003013- Issue #8322: Add a *ciphers* argument to SSL sockets, so as to change the
3014 available cipher list. Helps fix test_ssl with OpenSSL 1.0.0.
3015
Victor Stinner0e59cc32010-04-16 23:49:32 +00003016- Issue #8393: subprocess accepts bytes, bytearray and str with surrogates for
3017 the current working directory.
3018
Victor Stinner5bfe1462010-04-16 13:28:05 +00003019- Issue #7606: XML-RPC traceback stored in X-traceback is now encoded to ASCII
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003020 using backslashreplace error handler.
Victor Stinner5bfe1462010-04-16 13:28:05 +00003021
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003022- Issue #8412: os.system() now accepts bytes, bytearray and str with surrogates.
Victor Stinnercfa72782010-04-16 11:45:13 +00003023
Senthil Kumaranad02d232010-04-16 03:02:13 +00003024- Issue #2987: RFC2732 support for urlparse (IPv6 addresses). Patch by Tony
3025 Locke and Hans Ulrich Niedermann.
3026
R. David Murrayd48739f2010-04-14 18:59:18 +00003027- Issue #5277: Fix quote counting when parsing RFC 2231 encoded parameters.
3028
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003029- Issue #7316: The acquire() method of lock objects in the :mod:`threading`
Antoine Pitrou7c3e5772010-04-14 15:44:10 +00003030 module now takes an optional timeout argument in seconds. Timeout support
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003031 relies on the system threading library, so as to avoid a semi-busy wait loop.
Antoine Pitrou7c3e5772010-04-14 15:44:10 +00003032
Victor Stinner485fb562010-04-13 11:07:24 +00003033- Issue #8383: pickle and pickletools use surrogatepass error handler when
3034 encoding unicode as utf8 to support lone surrogates and stay compatible with
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003035 Python 2.x and 3.x.
Victor Stinner485fb562010-04-13 11:07:24 +00003036
R. David Murrayb2416e52010-04-12 16:58:02 +00003037- Issue #7585: difflib context and unified diffs now place a tab between
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003038 filename and date, conforming to the 'standards' they were originally designed
3039 to follow. This improves compatibility with patch tools.
R. David Murrayb2416e52010-04-12 16:58:02 +00003040
R. David Murrayef3d6bd2010-04-12 14:48:58 +00003041- Issue #7472: Fixed typo in email.encoders module; messages using ISO-2022
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003042 character sets will now consistently use a Content-Transfer-Encoding of 7bit
3043 rather than sometimes being marked as 8bit.
R. David Murrayef3d6bd2010-04-12 14:48:58 +00003044
Tarek Ziadé46cd93a2010-04-12 08:23:49 +00003045- Issue #8375: test_distutils now checks if the temporary directory are still
3046 present before it cleans them.
3047
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003048- Issue #8374: Update the internal alias table in the :mod:`locale` module to
3049 cover recent locale changes and additions.
Antoine Pitrou0c70d2d2010-04-11 22:35:34 +00003050
Antoine Pitrou04f6a322010-04-05 21:40:07 +00003051- Issue #8321: Give access to OpenSSL version numbers from the `ssl` module,
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003052 using the new attributes `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION`, `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_INFO` and
3053 `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER`.
Antoine Pitrou04f6a322010-04-05 21:40:07 +00003054
Raymond Hettingerc50846a2010-04-05 18:56:31 +00003055- Add functools.total_ordering() and functools.cmp_to_key().
3056
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003057- Issue #8257: The Decimal construct now accepts a float instance directly,
3058 converting that float to a Decimal of equal value:
Mark Dickinson089b00c2010-04-03 15:51:03 +00003059
3060 >>> Decimal(1.1)
3061 Decimal('1.100000000000000088817841970012523233890533447265625')
3062
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003063- Issue #8294: The Fraction constructor now accepts Decimal and float instances
3064 directly.
Mark Dickinson98127c32010-04-03 11:18:52 +00003065
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003066- Issue #7279: Comparisons involving a Decimal signaling NaN now signal
3067 InvalidOperation instead of returning False. (Comparisons involving a quiet
3068 NaN are unchanged.) Also, Decimal quiet NaNs are now hashable; Decimal
3069 signaling NaNs remain unhashable.
Mark Dickinsonac256ab2010-04-03 11:08:14 +00003070
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003071- Issue #2531: Comparison operations between floats and Decimal instances now
3072 return a result based on the numeric values of the operands; previously they
3073 returned an arbitrary result based on the relative ordering of id(float) and
3074 id(Decimal). See also issue #8188, which adds Decimal-to-Fraction
3075 comparisons.
Mark Dickinsonac256ab2010-04-03 11:08:14 +00003076
Raymond Hettinger9c01e442010-04-03 10:32:58 +00003077- Added a subtract() method to collections.Counter().
3078
Barry Warsawd5f9bf52010-03-31 21:36:22 +00003079- Issue #8233: When run as a script, py_compile.py optionally takes a single
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003080 argument `-` which tells it to read files to compile from stdin. Each line is
3081 read on demand and the named file is compiled immediately. (Original patch by
3082 Piotr Ożarowski).
Barry Warsawd5f9bf52010-03-31 21:36:22 +00003083
Florent Xicluna806d8cf2010-03-30 19:34:18 +00003084- Backwards incompatible change: Unicode codepoints line tabulation (0x0B) and
3085 form feed (0x0C) are now considered linebreaks, as specified in Unicode
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003086 Standard Annex #14. See issue #7643. http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr14/
Florent Xicluna806d8cf2010-03-30 19:34:18 +00003087
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003088- Comparisons using one of <, <=, >, >= between a complex instance and a
3089 Fractions instance now raise TypeError instead of returning True/False. This
3090 makes Fraction <=> complex comparisons consistent with int <=> complex, float
3091 <=> complex, and complex <=> complex comparisons.
Mark Dickinsonab4d63b2010-03-27 11:16:00 +00003092
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003093- Issue #8139: ossaudiodev didn't initialize its types properly, therefore some
3094 methods (such as oss_mixer_device.fileno()) were not available. Initial patch
3095 by Bertrand Janin.
Antoine Pitrou39b35432010-03-23 00:25:54 +00003096
Florent Xiclunafd1b0932010-03-28 00:25:02 +00003097- Issue #8205: Remove the "Modules" directory from sys.path when Python is
3098 running from the build directory (POSIX only).
3099
Antoine Pitrou910bd512010-03-22 20:11:09 +00003100- Issue #7512: shutil.copystat() could raise an OSError when the filesystem
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003101 didn't support chflags() (for example ZFS under FreeBSD). The error is now
3102 silenced.
Antoine Pitrou910bd512010-03-22 20:11:09 +00003103
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003104- Issue #7860: platform.uname now reports the correct 'machine' type when Python
3105 is running in WOW64 mode on 64 bit Windows.
R. David Murrayca2edce2010-03-22 17:48:48 +00003106
Antoine Pitrou3c0fac22010-03-26 19:36:14 +00003107- Issue #3890, #8222: Fix recv() and recv_into() on non-blocking SSL sockets.
3108 Also, enable the SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY flag on SSL sockets, so that blocking
3109 reads and writes are always retried by OpenSSL itself.
Antoine Pitrou5733c082010-03-22 14:49:10 +00003110
Victor Stinnere3a1f6d2010-03-22 01:58:35 +00003111- Issue #4282: Fix the main function of the profile module for a non-ASCII
3112 script, open the file in binary mode and not in text mode with the default
3113 (utf8) encoding.
3114
Florent Xicluna54467e02010-03-21 12:29:50 +00003115- Issue #8179: Fix macpath.realpath() on a non-existing path.
3116
Florent Xiclunafaa663f2010-03-19 13:37:08 +00003117- Issue #8024: Update the Unicode database to 5.2.
3118
Benjamin Peterson00888932010-03-18 22:37:38 +00003119- Issue #8168: py_compile now handles files with utf-8 BOMS.
3120
Benjamin Peterson689a5582010-03-18 22:29:52 +00003121- ``tokenize.detect_encoding`` now returns ``'utf-8-sig'`` when a UTF-8 BOM is
3122 detected.
3123
Martin v. Löwis4b003072010-03-16 13:19:21 +00003124- Issue #6716/2: Backslash-replace error output in compilall.
3125
Matthias Klosea6d9abf2010-03-16 10:51:28 +00003126- Issue #4961: Inconsistent/wrong result of askyesno function in tkMessageBox
3127 with Tcl/Tk-8.5.
3128
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003129- Issue #8140: extend compileall to compile single files. Add -i option.
Matthias Klosec33b9022010-03-16 00:36:26 +00003130
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003131- Issue #7356: ctypes.util: Make parsing of ldconfig output independent of the
3132 locale.
Matthias Klose82f60912010-03-15 13:46:04 +00003133
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003134- The internals of the subprocess module on POSIX systems have been replaced by
3135 an extension module (_posixsubprocess) so that the fork()+exec() can be done
3136 safely without the possibility of deadlock in multithreaded applications.
Gregory P. Smitha31f57c2010-03-14 06:52:18 +00003137
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003138- subprocess.Popen now has restore_signals and start_new_session features. The
3139 default of restore_signals=True is a new behavior compared to earlier Python
3140 versions. This means that signals such as SIGPIPE are not ignored by default
3141 in subprocesses launched by Python (Issue #1652).
Gregory P. Smith580d60c2010-03-14 07:13:25 +00003142
Florent Xiclunaf15351d2010-03-13 23:24:31 +00003143- Issue #6472: The xml.etree package is updated to ElementTree 1.3. The
3144 cElementTree module is updated too.
3145
Victor Stinnerb33062c2010-03-12 14:27:16 +00003146- Issue #7774: Set sys.executable to an empty string if argv[0] has been set to
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003147 an non existent program name and Python is unable to retrieve the real program
3148 name.
Victor Stinnerb33062c2010-03-12 14:27:16 +00003149
Florent Xiclunaa4707382010-03-11 00:05:17 +00003150- Issue #7880: Fix sysconfig when the python executable is a symbolic link.
3151
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003152- Issue #6509: fix re.sub to work properly when the pattern, the string, and the
3153 replacement were all bytes. Patch by Antoine Pitrou.
Ezio Melottib92ed7c2010-03-06 15:24:08 +00003154
Gerhard Häringf9cee222010-03-05 15:20:03 +00003155- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.6.0. This fixes several obscure
3156 bugs and allows loading SQLite extensions from shared libraries.
3157
Ezio Melottida227042010-03-14 11:51:00 +00003158- Issue #1054943: Fix ``unicodedata.normalize('NFC', text)`` for the Public
3159 Review Issue #29 (http://unicode.org/review/pr-29.html).
Victor Stinner7ed9c4c2010-03-04 12:14:57 +00003160
Victor Stinnercee3ae82010-03-04 00:29:24 +00003161- Issue #7494: fix a crash in _lsprof (cProfile) after clearing the profiler,
3162 reset also the pointer to the current pointer context.
3163
Lars Gustäbel01385812010-03-03 12:08:54 +00003164- Issue #7232: Add support for the context manager protocol to the TarFile
3165 class.
3166
Barry Warsawb1938262010-03-01 21:53:00 +00003167- Issue #7250: Fix info leak of os.environ across multi-run uses of
3168 wsgiref.handlers.CGIHandler.
3169
Florent Xicluna59250852010-02-27 14:21:57 +00003170- Issue #1729305: Fix doctest to handle encode error with "backslashreplace".
3171
Florent Xiclunac279ebf2010-02-27 11:31:21 +00003172- Issue #691291: codecs.open() should not convert end of lines on reading and
3173 writing.
3174
Vinay Sajipdb81c4c2010-02-25 23:13:06 +00003175- Issue #7869: logging: improved diagnostic for format-time errors.
3176
3177- Issue #7868: logging: added loggerClass attribute to Manager.
3178
3179- logging: Implemented PEP 391.
3180
R. David Murraybe0698b2010-02-23 22:57:58 +00003181- Issue #1537721: Add a writeheader() method to csv.DictWriter.
3182
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003183- Issue #7959: ctypes callback functions are now registered correctly with the
3184 cycle garbage collector.
Thomas Heller5117b0b2010-02-23 20:25:02 +00003185
Tarek Ziadé8e615ae2010-02-23 06:00:04 +00003186- Issue #5801: removed spurious empty lines in wsgiref.
3187
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003188- Issue #6666: fix bug in trace.py that applied the list of directories to be
3189 ignored only to the first file. Noted by Bogdan Opanchuk.
Andrew M. Kuchlinge1f9beb2010-02-22 22:16:58 +00003190
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003191- Issue #7597: curses.use_env() can now be called before initscr(). Noted by
3192 Kan-Ru Chen.
Andrew M. Kuchlingfbacb062010-02-22 16:52:52 +00003193
Ezio Melotti19e4acf2010-02-22 15:59:01 +00003194- Issue #7310: fix the __repr__ of os.environ to show the environment variables.
3195
R. David Murray57c45ac2010-02-21 04:39:40 +00003196- Issue #7970: email.Generator.flatten now correctly flattens message/rfc822
3197 messages parsed by email.Parser.HeaderParser.
3198
Brett Cannonef7d6722010-02-19 16:04:36 +00003199- Issue #7361: Importlib was not properly checking the number of bytes in
3200 bytecode file when it was less then 8 bytes.
3201
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003202- Issue #7633: In the decimal module, Context class methods (with the exception
3203 of canonical and is_canonical) now accept instances of int and long wherever a
3204 Decimal instance is accepted, and implicitly convert that argument to Decimal.
3205 Previously only some arguments were converted.
Mark Dickinson84230a12010-02-18 14:49:50 +00003206
R. David Murray1f449142010-02-11 00:15:05 +00003207- Issue #7835: shelve should no longer produce mysterious warnings during
3208 interpreter shutdown.
3209
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003210- Issue #2746: Don't escape ampersands and angle brackets ("&", "<", ">") in XML
3211 processing instructions and comments. These raw characters are allowed by the
3212 XML specification, and are necessary when outputting e.g. PHP code in a
3213 processing instruction. Patch by Neil Muller.
Antoine Pitrou99f69ee2010-02-09 17:25:47 +00003214
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003215- Issue #6233: ElementTree failed converting unicode characters to XML entities
3216 when they could't be represented in the requested output encoding. Patch by
3217 Jerry Chen.
Antoine Pitrouc77dd322010-02-09 16:51:16 +00003218
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003219- Issue #6003: add an argument to ``zipfile.Zipfile.writestr`` to specify the
3220 compression type.
Ronald Oussorenee5c8852010-02-07 20:24:02 +00003221
Antoine Pitroub6375f12010-02-04 20:23:24 +00003222- Issue #4772: Raise a ValueError when an unknown Bluetooth protocol is
3223 specified, rather than fall through to AF_PACKET (in the `socket` module).
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003224 Also, raise ValueError rather than TypeError when an unknown TIPC address type
3225 is specified. Patch by Brian Curtin.
Antoine Pitroub6375f12010-02-04 20:23:24 +00003226
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003227- Issue #6939: Fix file I/O objects in the `io` module to keep the original file
3228 position when calling `truncate()`. It would previously change the file
3229 position to the given argument, which goes against the tradition of
Antoine Pitrou905a2ff2010-01-31 22:47:27 +00003230 ftruncate() and other truncation APIs. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
3231
Antoine Pitroua32f9a22010-01-27 21:18:57 +00003232- Issue #7610: Reworked implementation of the internal
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003233 :class:`zipfile.ZipExtFile` class used to represent files stored inside an
3234 archive. The new implementation is significantly faster and can be wrapped in
3235 a :class:`io.BufferedReader` object for more speedups. It also solves an
3236 issue where interleaved calls to `read()` and `readline()` give wrong results.
3237 Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitroua32f9a22010-01-27 21:18:57 +00003238
Jesse Noller1f0b6582010-01-27 03:36:01 +00003239- Issue #6963: Added "maxtasksperchild" argument to multiprocessing.Pool,
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003240 allowing for a maximum number of tasks within the pool to be completed by the
3241 worker before that worker is terminated, and a new one created to replace it.
Jesse Noller1f0b6582010-01-27 03:36:01 +00003242
Benjamin Petersond6326642010-01-27 02:25:58 +00003243- Issue #7792: Registering non-classes to ABCs raised an obscure error.
3244
Benjamin Peterson9a11a362010-01-27 01:51:29 +00003245- Issue #7785: Don't accept bytes in FileIO.write().
Benjamin Peterson255058f2010-01-27 01:47:14 +00003246
Ezio Melotti38f00332010-01-25 12:39:47 +00003247- Removed the functions 'verify' and 'vereq' from Lib/test/support.py.
3248
Benjamin Peterson25001472010-01-25 03:37:42 +00003249- Issue #7773: Fix an UnboundLocalError in platform.linux_distribution() when
3250 the release file is empty.
3251
Antoine Pitrou1119a642010-01-17 12:16:23 +00003252- Issue #7561: Fix crashes when using bytearray objects with the posix
3253 module.
3254
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003255- Issue #1670765: Prevent email.generator.Generator from re-wrapping headers in
3256 multipart/signed MIME parts, which fixes one of the sources of invalid
3257 modifications to such parts by Generator.
R. David Murraya8f480f2010-01-16 18:30:03 +00003258
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003259- Issue #7703: Add support for the new buffer API to `binascii.a2bhqx`. Patch
3260 by Florent Xicluna, along with some additional tests.
Antoine Pitrou747e8b32010-01-16 17:55:52 +00003261
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003262- Issue #7701: Fix crash in binascii.b2a_uu() in debug mode when given a 1-byte
3263 argument. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou2843aa82010-01-15 00:27:43 +00003264
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003265- Issue #3299: Fix possible crash in the _sre module when given bad argument
3266 values in debug mode. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou82feb1f2010-01-14 17:34:48 +00003267
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003268- Issue #2846: Add support for gzip.GzipFile reading zero-padded files. Patch
3269 by Brian Curtin.
Antoine Pitrou8e33fd72010-01-13 14:37:26 +00003270
Benjamin Peterson5efea042010-01-13 03:49:50 +00003271- Issue #7681: Use floor division in appropiate places in the wave module.
3272
Tarek Ziadéac4e6ea2010-01-11 23:15:52 +00003273- Issue #5372: Drop the reuse of .o files in Distutils' ccompiler (since
3274 Extension extra options may change the output without changing the .c
3275 file). Initial patch by Collin Winter.
3276
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003277- Issue #7617: Make sure distutils.unixccompiler.UnixCCompiler recognizes gcc
3278 when it has a fully qualified configuration prefix. Initial patch by Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadéaf77a2f2010-01-08 23:57:53 +00003279
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003280- Issue #7105: Make WeakKeyDictionary and WeakValueDictionary robust against the
3281 destruction of weakref'ed objects while iterating.
Antoine Pitrouc1baa602010-01-08 17:54:23 +00003282
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003283- Issue #7455: Fix possible crash in cPickle on invalid input. Patch by Victor
3284 Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou01a15ea2010-01-07 17:57:31 +00003285
Gregory P. Smithaafdca82010-01-04 04:50:36 +00003286- Issue #1628205: Socket file objects returned by socket.socket.makefile() now
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003287 properly handles EINTR within the read, readline, write & flush methods. The
3288 socket.sendall() method now properly handles interrupted system calls.
Gregory P. Smithaafdca82010-01-04 04:50:36 +00003289
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003290- Issue #7471: Improve the performance of GzipFile's buffering mechanism, and
3291 make it implement the `io.BufferedIOBase` ABC to allow for further speedups by
3292 wrapping it in an `io.BufferedReader`. Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitroub1f88352010-01-03 22:37:40 +00003293
3294- Issue #3972: http.client.HTTPConnection now accepts an optional source_address
Gregory P. Smithb4066372010-01-03 03:28:29 +00003295 parameter to allow specifying where your connections come from.
3296
3297- socket.create_connection now accepts an optional source_address parameter.
3298
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003299- Issue #5511: now zipfile.ZipFile can be used as a context manager. Initial
3300 patch by Brian Curtin.
Ezio Melottifaa6b7f2009-12-30 12:34:59 +00003301
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003302- Issue #7556: Make sure Distutils' msvc9compile reads and writes the MSVC XML
3303 Manifest file in text mode so string patterns can be used in regular
3304 expressions.
Tarek Ziadéc60ea322009-12-21 23:12:41 +00003305
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003306- Issue #7552: Removed line feed in the base64 Authorization header in the
3307 Distutils upload command to avoid an error when PyPI reads it. This occurs on
3308 long passwords. Initial patch by JP St. Pierre.
Tarek Ziadé8b9361a2009-12-21 00:02:20 +00003309
Senthil Kumaran47fff872009-12-20 07:10:31 +00003310- Issue #7231: urllib2 cannot handle https with proxy requiring auth. Patch by
3311 Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa.
3312
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003313- Issue #4757: `zlib.compress` and other methods in the zlib module now raise a
3314 TypeError when given an `str` object (rather than a `bytes`-like object).
3315 Patch by Victor Stinner and Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou77b338b2009-12-14 18:00:06 +00003316
Benjamin Petersonbf5ff762009-12-13 19:25:34 +00003317- Issue #7349: Make methods of file objects in the io module accept None as an
3318 argument where file-like objects (ie StringIO and BytesIO) accept them to mean
3319 the same as passing no argument.
3320
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003321- Issue #7357: tarfile no longer suppresses fatal extraction errors by default.
Lars Gustäbel365aff32009-12-13 11:42:29 +00003322
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003323- Issue #5949: added check for correct lineends in input from IMAP server in
3324 imaplib.
R. David Murraye8dc2582009-12-10 02:08:06 +00003325
Raymond Hettinger44459de2010-04-03 23:20:46 +00003326- Add count() and reverse() methods to collections.deque().
Raymond Hettingere5fdedb2009-12-10 00:47:21 +00003327
Raymond Hettinger3f9afd82009-12-10 03:03:02 +00003328- Fix variations of extending deques: d.extend(d) d.extendleft(d) d+=d
3329
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003330- Issue #6986: Fix crash in the JSON C accelerator when called with the wrong
3331 parameter types. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou781eba72009-12-08 15:57:31 +00003332
Victor Stinnere125f132010-05-15 21:04:43 +00003333- Issue #7457: added a read_pkg_file method to
Tarek Ziadéb88a4962009-12-08 09:45:25 +00003334 distutils.dist.DistributionMetadata.
3335
Vinay Sajip540f2152009-12-06 17:57:11 +00003336- logging: Added optional `secure` parameter to SMTPHandler, to enable use of
3337 TLS with authentication credentials.
3338
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003339- Issue #1923: Fixed the removal of meaningful spaces when PKG-INFO is generated
3340 in Distutils. Patch by Stephen Emslie.
Tarek Ziadédf872d42009-12-06 09:28:17 +00003341
Martin v. Löwis1679ea82009-12-03 20:57:49 +00003342- Issue #4120: Drop reference to CRT from manifest when building extensions with
3343 msvc9compiler.
3344
Antoine Pitroub7572f02009-12-02 20:46:48 +00003345- Issue #7333: The `posix` module gains an `initgroups()` function providing
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003346 access to the initgroups(3) C library call on Unix systems which implement it.
3347 Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone.
Antoine Pitroub7572f02009-12-02 20:46:48 +00003348
Tarek Ziadéacafc2d2009-11-29 22:24:57 +00003349- Issue #7408: Fixed distutils.tests.sdist so it doesn't check for group
3350 ownership when the group is not forced, because the group may be different
3351 from the user's group and inherit from its container when the test is run.
3352
Antoine Pitrou7b0d4a22009-11-28 16:12:28 +00003353- Issue #4486: When an exception has an explicit cause, do not print its
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003354 implicit context too. This affects the `traceback` module as well as built-in
3355 exception printing.
Antoine Pitrou7b0d4a22009-11-28 16:12:28 +00003356
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003357- Issue #1515: Enable use of deepcopy() with instance methods. Patch by Robert
3358 Collins.
Antoine Pitrou1fc0d2b2009-11-28 15:58:27 +00003359
Vinay Sajip03f6c112009-11-27 14:03:36 +00003360- Issue #7403: logging: Fixed possible race condition in lock creation.
3361
Antoine Pitrou648bcd72009-11-27 13:23:26 +00003362- Issue #6845: Add restart support for binary upload in ftplib. The
3363 `storbinary()` method of FTP and FTP_TLS objects gains an optional `rest`
3364 argument. Patch by Pablo Mouzo.
3365
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003366- Issue #5788: `datetime.timedelta` objects get a new `total_seconds()` method
3367 returning the total number of seconds in the duration. Patch by Brian
3368 Quinlan.
Antoine Pitroube6859d2009-11-25 23:02:32 +00003369
Antoine Pitrou7d7aede2009-11-25 18:55:32 +00003370- Issue #7133: SSL objects now support the new buffer API.
3371
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003372- Issue #1488943: difflib.Differ() doesn't always add hints for tab characters.
Senthil Kumaran758025c2009-11-23 19:02:52 +00003373
Lars Gustäbel9520a432009-11-22 18:48:49 +00003374- Issue #6123: tarfile now opens empty archives correctly and consistently
3375 raises ReadError on empty files.
3376
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003377- Issue #7354: distutils.tests.test_msvc9compiler - dragfullwindows can be 2.
Tarek Ziadé26afd482009-11-19 05:39:00 +00003378
Benjamin Peterson3ec9b6e2009-11-19 21:22:27 +00003379- Issue #5037: Proxy the __bytes__ special method instead to __bytes__ instead
3380 of __str__.
Benjamin Peterson32019772009-11-19 03:08:32 +00003381
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003382- Issue #7341: Close the internal file object in the TarFile constructor in case
3383 of an error.
Lars Gustäbel7b465392009-11-18 20:29:25 +00003384
Tarek Ziadé11c9d252009-11-18 09:32:34 +00003385- Issue #7293: distutils.test_msvc9compiler is fixed to work on any fresh
3386 Windows box. Help provided by David Bolen.
3387
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003388- Issue #2054: ftplib now provides an FTP_TLS class to do secure FTP using TLS
3389 or SSL. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.
Antoine Pitrouf988cd02009-11-17 20:21:14 +00003390
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003391- Issue #7328: pydoc no longer corrupts sys.path when run with the '-m' switch.
Nick Coghlan106274b2009-11-15 23:04:33 +00003392
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003393- Issue #4969: The mimetypes module now reads the MIME database from the
3394 registry under Windows. Patch by Gabriel Genellina.
Antoine Pitroub8108e22009-11-15 14:25:16 +00003395
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003396- Issue #6816: runpy now provides a run_path function that allows Python code to
3397 execute file paths that refer to source or compiled Python files as well as
3398 zipfiles, directories and other valid sys.path entries that contain a
3399 __main__.py file. This allows applications that run other Python scripts to
Nick Coghlan260bd3e2009-11-16 06:49:25 +00003400 support the same flexibility as the CPython command line itself.
3401
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003402- Issue #7318: multiprocessing now uses a timeout when it fails to establish a
3403 connection with another process, rather than looping endlessly. The default
3404 timeout is 20 seconds, which should be amply sufficient for local connections.
Antoine Pitrou45d61a32009-11-13 22:35:18 +00003405
Antoine Pitrouc63ecee2009-11-10 21:34:48 +00003406- Issue #7197: Allow unittest.TextTestRunner objects to be pickled and
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003407 unpickled. This fixes crashes under Windows when trying to run
Antoine Pitrouc63ecee2009-11-10 21:34:48 +00003408 test_multiprocessing in verbose mode.
3409
Michael Foord34c94622010-02-10 15:51:42 +00003410- Issue #7893: ``unittest.TextTestResult`` is made public and a ``resultclass``
3411 argument added to the TextTestRunner constructor allowing a different result
3412 class to be used without having to subclass.
Victor Stinnere125f132010-05-15 21:04:43 +00003413
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00003414- Issue #7588: ``unittest.TextTestResult.getDescription`` now includes the test
Michael Foord34c94622010-02-10 15:51:42 +00003415 name in failure reports even if the test has a docstring.
3416
Antoine Pitrou434736a2009-11-10 18:46:01 +00003417- Issue #3001: Add a C implementation of recursive locks which is used by
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003418 default when instantiating a `threading.RLock` object. This makes recursive
3419 locks as fast as regular non-recursive locks (previously, they were slower by
3420 10x to 15x).
Antoine Pitrou434736a2009-11-10 18:46:01 +00003421
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003422- Issue #7282: Fix a memory leak when an RLock was used in a thread other than
3423 those started through `threading.Thread` (for example, using
Antoine Pitroub0872682009-11-09 16:08:16 +00003424 `_thread.start_new_thread()`).
3425
Brett Cannone52c9192009-11-07 23:55:05 +00003426- Issue #7187: Importlib would not silence the IOError raised when trying to
3427 write new bytecode when it was made read-only.
3428
Antoine Pitroubdec11f2009-11-05 13:49:14 +00003429- Issue #7264: Fix a possible deadlock when deallocating thread-local objects
3430 which are part of a reference cycle.
3431
Antoine Pitroud83f1e62009-11-04 21:10:38 +00003432- Issue #7211: Allow 64-bit values for the `ident` and `data` fields of kevent
3433 objects on 64-bit systems. Patch by Michael Broghton.
3434
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003435- Issue #6896: mailbox.Maildir now invalidates its internal cache each time a
3436 modification is done through it. This fixes inconsistencies and test failures
3437 on systems with slightly bogus mtime behaviour.
Antoine Pitrou03f13442009-11-02 11:36:51 +00003438
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003439- Issue #7246 & Issue #7208: getpass now properly flushes input before reading
3440 from stdin so that existing input does not confuse it and lead to incorrect
3441 entry or an IOError. It also properly flushes it afterwards to avoid the
3442 terminal echoing the input afterwards on OSes such as Solaris.
Gregory P. Smith50467882009-11-01 18:42:17 +00003443
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003444- Issue #7233: Fix a number of two-argument Decimal methods to make sure that
3445 they accept an int or long as the second argument. Also fix buggy handling of
3446 large arguments (those with coefficient longer than the current precision) in
3447 shift and rotate.
Mark Dickinsona2d1fe02009-10-29 12:23:02 +00003448
Lars Gustäbel1440df22009-10-29 09:39:47 +00003449- Issue #4750: Store the basename of the original filename in the gzip FNAME
3450 header as required by RFC 1952.
3451
Tarek Ziadéc7c71ff2009-10-27 23:12:01 +00003452- Issue #1180: Added a new global option to ignore ~/.pydistutils.cfg in
3453 Distutils.
3454
Tarek Ziadé8c0e2172009-10-27 21:24:21 +00003455- Issue #7218: Fix test_site for win32, the directory comparison was done with
3456 an uppercase.
3457
Antoine Pitrouc66363f2009-10-27 17:47:14 +00003458- Issue #7205: Fix a possible deadlock when using a BZ2File object from
3459 several threads at once.
3460
Vinay Sajip42ead482009-10-21 20:22:14 +00003461- Issue #7077: logging: SysLogHandler now treats Unicode as per RFC 5424.
3462
Mark Dickinson06bb6742009-10-20 13:38:04 +00003463- Issue #7099: Decimal.is_normal now returns True for numbers with exponent
3464 larger than emax.
3465
Antoine Pitrou6a448d42009-10-19 19:43:09 +00003466- Issue #7080: locale.strxfrm() raises a MemoryError on 64-bit non-Windows
3467 platforms, and assorted locale fixes by Derk Drukker.
3468
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003469- Issue #5833: Fix extra space character in readline completion with the GNU
3470 readline library version 6.0.
Antoine Pitroudc0900b2009-10-19 18:22:37 +00003471
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003472- Issue #6894: Fixed the issue urllib2 doesn't respect "no_proxy" environment.
Senthil Kumaran7bb04972009-10-11 04:58:55 +00003473
Vinay Sajipcbabd7e2009-10-10 20:32:36 +00003474- Issue #7086: Added TCP support to SysLogHandler, and tidied up some
3475 anachronisms in the code which were a relic of 1.5.2 compatibility.
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +00003476
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003477- Issue #7082: When falling back to the MIME 'name' parameter, the correct place
3478 to look for it is the Content-Type header.
R. David Murraybf2e0aa2009-10-10 00:13:32 +00003479
Benjamin Petersond3afada2009-10-09 21:43:09 +00003480- Make tokenize.detect_coding() normalize utf-8 and iso-8859-1 variants like the
3481 builtin tokenizer.
3482
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003483- Issue #7048: Force Decimal.logb to round its result when that result is too
3484 large to fit in the current precision.
Mark Dickinson56df8872009-10-07 19:23:50 +00003485
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003486- Issue #6236, #6348: Fix various failures in the I/O library under AIX and
3487 other platforms, when using a non-gcc compiler. Patch by Derk Drukker.
Antoine Pitrouca767bd2009-09-21 21:37:02 +00003488
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003489- Issue #4606: Passing 'None' if ctypes argtype is set to POINTER(...) does now
3490 always result in NULL.
Thomas Heller69b639f2009-09-18 20:08:39 +00003491
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003492- Issue #5042: Structure sub-subclass does now initialize correctly with base
3493 class positional arguments.
Thomas Hellerd7cb1b92009-09-18 19:05:13 +00003494
Eric Smith81fd8042009-09-18 13:23:13 +00003495- Issue #6882: Import uuid creates zombies processes.
3496
Matthias Klosef6b76b02009-09-13 15:18:53 +00003497- Issue #6635: Fix profiler printing usage message.
3498
Lars Gustäbel049d2aa2009-09-12 10:44:00 +00003499- Issue #6856: Add a filter keyword argument to TarFile.add().
3500
Benjamin Petersonbe74a372009-09-11 21:17:13 +00003501- Issue #6888: pdb's alias command was broken when no arguments were given.
3502
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003503- Issue #6857: Default format() alignment should be '>' for Decimal instances.
Mark Dickinson46ab5d02009-09-08 20:22:46 +00003504
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003505- Issue #6795: int(Decimal('nan')) now raises ValueError instead of returning
3506 NaN or raising InvalidContext. Also, fix infinite recursion in
3507 long(Decimal('nan')).
Mark Dickinson825fce32009-09-07 18:08:12 +00003508
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003509- Issue #6850: Fix bug in Decimal._parse_format_specifier for formats with no
3510 type specifier.
Mark Dickinson7718d2b2009-09-07 16:21:56 +00003511
Thomas Heller8b939522009-09-04 18:24:41 +00003512- Issue #6239: ctypes.c_char_p return value must return bytes.
3513
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003514- Issue #6838: Use a list to accumulate the value instead of repeatedly
3515 concatenating strings in http.client's HTTPResponse._read_chunked providing a
3516 significant speed increase when downloading large files servend with a
3517 Transfer-Encoding of 'chunked'.
Chris Withers9c33cbf2009-09-04 17:04:16 +00003518
Brett Cannon1c1dcbf2009-08-30 20:22:21 +00003519- Trying to import a submodule from a module that is not a package, ImportError
3520 should be raised, not AttributeError.
3521
Brett Cannonde4ebfe2009-08-30 19:53:48 +00003522- When the globals past to importlib.__import__() has __package__ set to None,
3523 fall back to computing what __package__ should be instead of giving up.
3524
Brett Cannon6afbaef2009-08-30 19:08:58 +00003525- Raise a TypeError when the name of a module to be imported for
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003526 importlib.__import__ is not a string (was raising an AttributeError before).
Brett Cannon6afbaef2009-08-30 19:08:58 +00003527
Brett Cannon9e0e1a62009-08-30 18:28:46 +00003528- Allow the fromlist passed into importlib.__import__ to be any iterable.
3529
Brett Cannon4d75fc12009-08-30 03:47:36 +00003530- Have importlib raise ImportError if None is found in sys.modules.
3531
Lars Gustäbelbfdfdda2009-08-28 19:59:59 +00003532- Issue #6054: Do not normalize stored pathnames in tarfile.
3533
Mark Dickinsond314e1b2009-08-28 13:39:53 +00003534- Issue #6794: Fix Decimal.compare_total and Decimal.compare_total_mag: NaN
3535 payloads are now ordered by integer value rather than lexicographically.
3536
Guilherme Polobcd03df2009-08-18 15:35:57 +00003537- Issue #1356969: Add missing info methods in tix.HList.
3538
3539- Issue #1522587: New constants and methods for the tix.Grid widget.
3540
3541- Issue #1250469: Fix the return value of tix.PanedWindow.panes.
3542
3543- Issue #1119673: Do not override tkinter.Text methods when creating a
3544 ScrolledText.
3545
Gregory P. Smith01099702009-08-16 18:58:46 +00003546- Issue #6665: Fix fnmatch to properly match filenames with newlines in them.
3547
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003548- Issue #1135: Add the XView and YView mix-ins to avoid duplicating the xview*
3549 and yview* methods.
Guilherme Poloc3b2ae42009-08-16 14:46:16 +00003550
Antoine Pitroua0ceb732009-08-06 20:29:56 +00003551- Issue #6629: Fix a data corruption issue in the new I/O library, which could
3552 occur when writing to a BufferedRandom object (e.g. a file opened in "rb+" or
3553 "wb+" mode) after having buffered a certain amount of data for reading. This
3554 bug was not present in the pure Python implementation.
3555
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003556- Issue #6622: Fix "local variable 'secret' referenced before assignment" bug in
3557 POP3.apop.
Mark Dickinsonea1158f2009-08-06 16:06:25 +00003558
Mark Dickinson45f799f2009-08-02 20:08:54 +00003559- Issue #2715: Remove remnants of Carbon.File from binhex module.
3560
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003561- Issue #6595: The Decimal constructor now allows arbitrary Unicode decimal
3562 digits in input, as recommended by the standard. Previously it was restricted
3563 to accepting [0-9].
Mark Dickinson345adc42009-08-02 10:14:23 +00003564
Jack Diederich36596a32009-07-26 22:23:04 +00003565- Issue #6106: telnetlib.Telnet.process_rawq doesn't handle default WILL/WONT
3566 DO/DONT correctly.
3567
Senthil Kumaran67305382009-07-26 04:46:00 +00003568- Issue #1424152: Fix for http.client, urllib.request to support SSL while
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003569 working through proxy. Original patch by Christopher Li, changes made by
3570 Senthil Kumaran.
Senthil Kumaran97f0c6b2009-07-25 04:24:38 +00003571
Brett Cannon69194272009-07-20 04:23:48 +00003572- Add importlib.abc.ExecutionLoader to represent the PEP 302 protocol for
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003573 loaders that allow for modules to be executed. Both importlib.abc.PyLoader and
3574 PyPycLoader inherit from this class and provide implementations in relation to
3575 other methods required by the ABCs.
Brett Cannon69194272009-07-20 04:23:48 +00003576
Brett Cannon64ef00f2009-07-20 03:19:18 +00003577- importlib.abc.PyLoader did not inherit from importlib.abc.ResourceLoader like
3578 the documentation said it did even though the code in PyLoader relied on the
3579 abstract method required by ResourceLoader.
3580
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003581- Issue #6431: Make Fraction type return NotImplemented when it doesn't know how
3582 to handle a comparison without loss of precision. Also add correct handling
3583 of infinities and nans for comparisons with float.
Mark Dickinson85424c92009-07-18 14:41:42 +00003584
Antoine Pitrouf3637322009-08-06 21:00:37 +00003585- Issue #6415: Fixed warnings.warn segfault on bad formatted string.
Hirokazu Yamamoto1c0c0032009-07-17 06:55:42 +00003586
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003587- Issue #6358: The exit status of a command started with os.popen() was reported
3588 differently than it did with python 2.x.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc97e5f282009-07-11 09:35:13 +00003589
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003590- Issue #6323: The pdb debugger did not exit when running a script with a syntax
3591 error.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc2de11152009-07-09 23:07:52 +00003592
Gregory P. Smithd06fa472009-07-04 02:46:54 +00003593- Issue #3392: The subprocess communicate() method no longer fails in select()
3594 when file descriptors are large; communicate() now uses poll() when possible.
3595
Antoine Pitrou54923952009-07-01 14:53:06 +00003596- Issue #6369: Fix an RLE decompression bug in the binhex module.
3597
Hirokazu Yamamoto7a9e1bd2009-06-29 14:54:12 +00003598- Issue #6344: Fixed a crash of mmap.read() when passed a negative argument.
3599
Benjamin Peterson5a6deb42009-06-28 21:35:31 +00003600- The deprecated function string.maketrans has been removed.
3601
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +00003602- Issue #4005: Fixed a crash of pydoc when there was a zip file present in
3603 sys.path.
3604
Alexandre Vassalotticf76e1a2009-07-22 03:24:36 +00003605- Issue #6218: io.StringIO and io.BytesIO instances are now picklable.
3606
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003607- The os.get_exec_path() function to return the list of directories that will be
3608 searched for an executable when launching a subprocess was added.
Gregory P. Smithb6e8c7e2010-02-27 07:22:22 +00003609
Gregory P. Smith3fdd9642010-02-28 18:57:46 +00003610- Issue #7481: When a threading.Thread failed to start it would leave the
3611 instance stuck in initial state and present in threading.enumerate().
3612
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003613- Issue #1068268: The subprocess module now handles EINTR in internal os.waitpid
3614 and os.read system calls where appropriate.
Gregory P. Smitha59c59f2010-03-01 00:17:40 +00003615
Gregory P. Smith1a530912010-03-01 04:59:27 +00003616- Issue #6729: Added ctypes.c_ssize_t to represent ssize_t.
3617
Steven Bethard6d265692010-03-02 09:22:57 +00003618- Issue #6247: The argparse module has been added to the standard library.
3619
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003620- Issue #8235: _socket: Add the constant ``SO_SETFIB``. SO_SETFIB is a socket
3621 option available on FreeBSD 7.1 and newer.
Larry Hastingsf0f37952010-04-02 11:47:10 +00003622
Alexander Belopolsky4d770172010-09-13 18:14:34 +00003623- Issue #9315: Fix for the trace module to record correct class name
3624 for tracing methods.
3625
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +00003626Extension Modules
3627-----------------
Mark Dickinson12c4bdb2009-09-28 19:21:11 +00003628
Mark Dickinsonfa41e602010-09-28 07:22:27 +00003629- Issue #9959: Tweak formula used for computing math.log of an integer,
3630 making it marginally more accurate for exact powers of 2.
3631
Mark Dickinsoncf28b952010-07-29 21:41:59 +00003632- Issue #9422: Fix memory leak when re-initializing a struct.Struct object.
3633
Ronald Oussorenb6ee4f52010-07-23 13:53:51 +00003634- Issue #7900: The getgroups(2) system call on MacOSX behaves rather oddly
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003635 compared to other unix systems. In particular, os.getgroups() does not reflect
3636 any changes made using os.setgroups() but basicly always returns the same
3637 information as the id command. os.getgroups() can now return more than 16
3638 groups on MacOSX.
Ronald Oussorenb6ee4f52010-07-23 13:53:51 +00003639
Martin v. Löwisc9e1c7d2010-07-23 12:16:41 +00003640- Issue #6095: Make directory argument to os.listdir optional.
3641
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003642- Issue #9277: Fix bug in struct.pack for bools in standard mode (e.g.,
3643 struct.pack('>?')): if conversion to bool raised an exception then that
3644 exception wasn't properly propagated on machines where char is unsigned.
Mark Dickinsone26660f2010-07-18 07:48:20 +00003645
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003646- Issue #5180: Fixed a bug that prevented loading 2.x pickles in 3.x python when
3647 they contain instances of old-style classes.
Alexander Belopolskyd92f0402010-07-17 22:50:45 +00003648
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003649- Issue #9165: Add new functions math.isfinite and cmath.isfinite, to accompany
3650 existing isinf and isnan functions.
Mark Dickinson8e0c9962010-07-11 17:38:24 +00003651
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003652- Issue #1578269: Implement os.symlink for Windows 6.0+. Patch by Jason
3653 R. Coombs.
Brian Curtind40e6f72010-07-08 21:39:08 +00003654
Benjamin Petersona9800a82010-07-07 19:04:48 +00003655- In struct.pack, correctly propogate exceptions from computing the truth of an
3656 object in the '?' format.
3657
Alexander Belopolskya11d8c02010-07-06 23:19:45 +00003658- Issue #9000: datetime.timezone objects now have eval-friendly repr.
3659
Benjamin Petersonf751bc92010-07-02 13:46:42 +00003660- In the math module, correctly lookup __trunc__, __ceil__, and __floor__ as
3661 special methods.
Benjamin Peterson8bb9cde2010-07-01 15:16:55 +00003662
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003663- Issue #9005: Prevent utctimetuple() from producing year 0 or year 10,000.
3664 Prior to this change, timezone adjustment in utctimetuple() could produce
3665 tm_year value of 0 or 10,000. Now an OverflowError is raised in these edge
3666 cases.
Alexander Belopolsky75f94c22010-06-21 15:21:14 +00003667
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003668- Issue #6641: The ``datetime.strptime`` method now supports the ``%z``
3669 directive. When the ``%z`` directive is present in the format string, an
3670 aware ``datetime`` object is returned with ``tzinfo`` bound to a
3671 ``datetime.timezone`` instance constructed from the parsed offset. If both
3672 ``%z`` and ``%Z`` are present, the data in ``%Z`` field is used for timezone
3673 name, but ``%Z`` data without ``%z`` is discarded.
Alexander Belopolskyca94f552010-06-17 18:30:34 +00003674
Alexander Belopolsky4e749a12010-06-14 14:15:50 +00003675- Issue #5094: The ``datetime`` module now has a simple concrete class
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003676 implementing ``datetime.tzinfo`` interface. Instances of the new class,
3677 ``datetime.timezone``, return fixed name and UTC offset from their
3678 ``tzname(dt)`` and ``utcoffset(dt)`` methods. The ``dst(dt)`` method always
3679 returns ``None``. A class attribute, ``utc`` contains an instance
3680 representing the UTC timezone. Original patch by Rafe Kaplan.
Alexander Belopolsky4e749a12010-06-14 14:15:50 +00003681
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003682- Issue #8973: Add __all__ to struct module; this ensures that help(struct)
3683 includes documentation for the struct.Struct class.
Mark Dickinson4b80ef52010-06-12 15:17:02 +00003684
Alexander Belopolskyfcdc79a2010-06-12 17:18:45 +00003685- Issue #3129: Trailing digits in struct format string are no longer ignored.
Victor Stinnerda0eca42010-06-11 21:50:30 +00003686 For example, "1" or "ilib123" are now invalid formats and cause
Alexander Belopolskyfcdc79a2010-06-12 17:18:45 +00003687 ``struct.error`` to be raised. Patch by Caleb Deveraux.
Alexander Belopolsky177e8532010-06-11 16:04:59 +00003688
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003689- Issue #7384: If the system readline library is linked against ncurses, the
3690 curses module must be linked against ncurses as well. Otherwise it is not safe
3691 to load both the readline and curses modules in an application.
Stefan Kraha3ac44e2010-06-08 14:00:52 +00003692
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003693- Issue #2810: Fix cases where the Windows registry API returns ERROR_MORE_DATA,
3694 requiring a re-try in order to get the complete result.
Brian Curtin60853212010-05-26 17:43:50 +00003695
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003696- Issue #8692: Optimize math.factorial: replace the previous naive algorithm
3697 with an improved 'binary-split' algorithm that uses fewer multiplications and
3698 allows many of the multiplications to be performed using plain C integer
3699 arithmetic instead of PyLong arithmetic. Also uses a lookup table for small
3700 arguments.
Mark Dickinson4c8a9a22010-05-15 17:02:38 +00003701
Mark Dickinson85eacea2010-05-10 16:27:45 +00003702- Issue #8674: Fixed a number of incorrect or undefined-behaviour-inducing
3703 overflow checks in the audioop module.
3704
Mark Dickinson0381e3f2010-05-08 14:35:02 +00003705- Issue #8644: The accuracy of td.total_seconds() has been improved (by
3706 calculating with integer arithmetic instead of float arithmetic internally):
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003707 the result is now always correctly rounded, and is equivalent to ``td /
3708 timedelta(seconds=1)``.
Mark Dickinson0381e3f2010-05-08 14:35:02 +00003709
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003710- Issue #2706: Allow division of a timedelta by another timedelta: timedelta /
3711 timedelta, timedelta % timedelta, timedelta // timedelta and divmod(timedelta,
3712 timedelta) are all supported.
Mark Dickinson7c186e22010-04-20 22:32:49 +00003713
Victor Stinnerfebecd82010-04-16 12:07:30 +00003714- Issue #8314: Fix unsigned long long bug in libffi on Sparc v8.
3715
Mark Dickinsonc5935772010-04-03 15:54:36 +00003716- Issue #8300: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with any
3717 integer format code, struct.pack first attempts to convert the non-integer
3718 using its __index__ method. If that method is non-existent or raises
3719 TypeError it goes on to try the __int__ method, as described below.
3720
Matthias Klosea8349752010-03-15 13:25:28 +00003721- Issue #8142: Update libffi to the 3.0.9 release.
3722
Matthias Klose9550aa12010-03-15 12:49:46 +00003723- Issue #6949: Allow the _dbm extension to be built with db 4.8.x.
3724
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003725- Issue #6544: Fix a reference leak in the kqueue implementation's error
Georg Brandlc0e22b72010-03-14 10:51:01 +00003726 handling.
3727
Martin v. Löwis3afc62e2010-02-18 16:27:43 +00003728- Stop providing crtassem.h symbols when compiling with Visual Studio 2010, as
3729 msvcr100.dll is not a platform assembly anymore.
3730
Martin v. Löwis7aed61a2009-11-27 14:09:49 +00003731- Issue #6508: Add posix.{getresuid,getresgid,setresuid,setresgid}.
3732
Mark Dickinson40714af2009-10-08 15:59:20 +00003733- Issue #7078: Set struct.__doc__ from _struct.__doc__.
3734
Mark Dickinson45f992a2009-12-19 11:20:49 +00003735- Issue #3366: Add erf, erfc, expm1, gamma, lgamma functions to math module.
Mark Dickinson12c4bdb2009-09-28 19:21:11 +00003736
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003737- Issue #6877: It is now possible to link the readline extension to the libedit
3738 readline emulation on OSX 10.5 or later.
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +00003739
Mark Dickinson5ea7d642009-09-06 21:24:55 +00003740- Issue #6848: Fix curses module build failure on OS X 10.6.
3741
Brett Cannon2f827382009-08-13 19:58:01 +00003742- Fix a segfault that could be triggered by expat with specially formed input.
3743
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003744- Issue #6561: '\d' in a regex now matches only characters with Unicode category
3745 'Nd' (Number, Decimal Digit). Previously it also matched characters with
3746 category 'No'.
Mark Dickinson1f268282009-07-28 17:22:36 +00003747
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003748- Issue #4509: Array objects are no longer modified after an operation failing
3749 due to the resize restriction in-place when the object has exported buffers.
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +00003750
Alexandre Vassalottiad077152009-07-15 17:49:23 +00003751- Issue #2389: Array objects are now pickled in a portable manner.
3752
Matthias Klosea50ffe52010-01-22 01:10:19 +00003753- Expat: Fix DoS via XML document with malformed UTF-8 sequences
3754 (CVE_2009_3560).
3755
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003756- Issue #7242: On Solaris 9 and earlier calling os.fork() from within a thread
3757 could raise an incorrect RuntimeError about not holding the import lock. The
3758 import lock is now reinitialized after fork.
Gregory P. Smith24cec9f2010-03-01 06:18:41 +00003759
Gregory P. Smithc78d79c2010-03-01 05:54:14 +00003760- Issue #7999: os.setreuid() and os.setregid() would refuse to accept a -1
3761 parameter on some platforms such as OS X.
3762
Matthias Klose4c4b0782010-04-21 22:21:03 +00003763- Build the ossaudio extension on GNU/kFreeBSD.
3764
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003765- Issue #7347: winreg: Add CreateKeyEx and DeleteKeyEx, as well as fix a bug in
3766 the return value of QueryReflectionKey.
Brian Curtinb4e8ca12010-04-22 01:52:50 +00003767
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00003768- Issue #7567: PyCurses_setupterm: Don't call ``setupterm`` twice.
Matthias Klose635edd12010-07-30 21:40:57 +00003769
Martin v. Löwis95c46012009-06-28 09:36:14 +00003770Build
3771-----
3772
Martin v. Löwise38de852010-07-30 17:30:51 +00003773- Use OpenSSL 1.0.0a on Windows.
3774
Benjamin Petersonbbda0c52010-07-17 20:39:23 +00003775- Issue #9280: Make sharedinstall depend on sharedmods.
3776
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003777- Issue #9189: Make a user-specified CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS, or LDFLAGS setting
3778 override the configure and makefile defaults, without deleting options the
3779 user didn't intend to override. Developers should no longer need to specify
3780 OPT or EXTRA_CFLAGS, although those variables are still present for
3781 backward-compatibility.
Jeffrey Yasskind4fcdb12010-07-09 16:30:58 +00003782
Benjamin Peterson31b16a52010-06-21 15:37:16 +00003783- Issue #8854: Fix finding Visual Studio 2008 on Windows x64.
3784
Martin v. Löwisec78d0a2010-06-04 17:20:56 +00003785- Issue #1759169, #8864: Drop _XOPEN_SOURCE on Solaris, define it for
3786 multiprocessing only.
Martin v. Löwis1a415762010-05-28 15:44:20 +00003787
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003788- Issue #8625: Turn off optimization in --with-pydebug builds with gcc.
3789 (Optimization was unintentionally turned on in gcc --with-pydebug builds as a
3790 result of the issue #1628484 fix, combined with autoconf's strange choice of
3791 default CFLAGS produced by AC_PROG_CC for gcc.)
Mark Dickinsonb2153e92010-05-05 22:31:36 +00003792
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003793- Issue #3646: It is now easily possible to install a Python framework into your
3794 home directory on MacOSX, see Mac/README for more information.
Ronald Oussoren86b33c82010-04-30 11:41:56 +00003795
Jesus Cea740f53a2010-04-28 11:35:30 +00003796- Issue #3928: os.mknod() now available in Solaris, also.
3797
Benjamin Petersone6c9d242010-03-30 17:34:47 +00003798- Issue #3326: Build Python without -fno-strict-aliasing when the gcc does not
3799 give false warnings.
3800
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003801- Issue #1628484: The Makefile doesn't ignore the CFLAGS environment variable
3802 anymore. It also forwards the LDFLAGS settings to the linker when building a
3803 shared library.
Antoine Pitrou7a61ba92010-03-21 19:25:26 +00003804
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003805- Issue #6716: Quote -x arguments of compileall in MSI installer. Exclude 2to3
3806 tests from compileall.
Martin v. Löwis09c86af2010-03-16 11:03:13 +00003807
Martin v. Löwis19ed3c82010-02-15 21:45:06 +00003808- Issue #3920, #7903: Define _BSD_SOURCE on OpenBSD 4.4 through 4.9.
Martin v. Löwis7671efc2010-02-15 08:35:16 +00003809
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003810- Issue #7632: When Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER is defined, disable the private
3811 memory allocation scheme in dtoa.c and use PyMem_Malloc and PyMem_Free
3812 instead. Also disable caching of powers of 5.
Mark Dickinsonde508002010-01-17 21:02:55 +00003813
Benjamin Petersond78735d2010-01-01 16:04:23 +00003814- Issue #6491: Allow --with-dbmliborder to specify that no dbms will be built.
3815
3816- Issue #6943: Use pkg-config to find the libffi headers when the
3817 --with-system-ffi flag is used.
3818
Benjamin Petersonb2d90462009-12-31 03:23:10 +00003819- Issue #7609: Add a --with-system-expat option that causes the system's expat
3820 library to be used for the pyexpat module instead of the one included with
3821 Python.
3822
Benjamin Petersone57d6762009-12-30 03:02:03 +00003823- Issue #7589: Only build the nis module when the correct header files are
3824 found.
3825
Martin v. Löwis7df3b9e2010-01-02 10:06:19 +00003826- Switch to OpenSSL 0.9.8l and sqlite 3.6.21 on Windows.
Martin v. Löwise5692cd2009-12-22 08:57:39 +00003827
Mark Dickinsonf4243f62009-11-15 13:47:27 +00003828- Issue #5792: Extend the short float repr support to x86 systems using
3829 icc or suncc.
3830
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003831- Issue #6603: Change READ_TIMESTAMP macro in ceval.c so that it compiles
3832 correctly under gcc on x86-64. This fixes a reported problem with the
3833 --with-tsc build on x86-64.
Mark Dickinsona25b1312009-10-31 10:18:44 +00003834
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003835- Issue #6802: Fix build issues on MacOSX 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren5bbab3e2009-09-06 11:01:15 +00003836
Guilherme Polo5d377bd2009-08-16 14:44:14 +00003837- Issue #6244: Allow detect_tkinter to look for Tcl/Tk 8.6.
3838
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00003839- Issue #4601: 'make install' did not set the appropriate permissions on
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc321e5332009-07-02 23:08:45 +00003840 directories.
3841
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00003842- Issue #5390: Add uninstall icon independent of whether file extensions are
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003843 installed.
Martin v. Löwis95c46012009-06-28 09:36:14 +00003844
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003845- Issue #7541: When using ``python-config`` with a framework install the
Florent Xicluna3f88c0e2010-03-19 14:40:31 +00003846 compiler might use the wrong library.
Ronald Oussoren585c1732009-12-24 14:21:55 +00003847
Collin Winterbf199072010-03-19 21:17:17 +00003848- python-config now supports multiple options on the same command line.
3849
Matthias Klosec80c93f2010-04-24 17:04:35 +00003850- Issue #8509: Fix quoting in help strings and code snippets in configure.in.
3851
Matthias Kloseb9621712010-04-24 17:59:49 +00003852- Issue #8510: Update to autoconf2.65.
3853
Mark Dickinsond3aa6462009-09-17 00:06:41 +00003854Documentation
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00003855-------------
Tarek Ziadéf3b33222009-08-21 14:22:45 +00003856
Matthias Klose62d52fd2010-09-12 16:31:58 +00003857- Issue #9817: Add expat COPYING file; add expat, libffi and expat licenses
3858 to Doc/license.rst.
3859
Brian Curtinf045d772010-08-05 18:56:00 +00003860- Issue #9524: Document that two CTRL* signals are meant for use only
3861 with os.kill.
3862
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00003863- Issue #9255: Document that the 'test' package is meant for internal Python use
Brett Cannon3a4e50c2010-07-23 11:31:31 +00003864 only.
3865
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003866- A small WSGI server was added as Tools/scripts/serve.py, and is used to
R. David Murraye821cb62010-03-08 17:48:38 +00003867 implement a local documentation server via 'make serve' in the doc directory.
3868
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003869- Updating `Using Python` documentation to include description of CPython's -J
3870 and -X options.
Barry Warsaw615368f2010-02-05 19:12:30 +00003871
Brett Cannon757df6e2009-08-30 04:00:12 +00003872- Document that importing a module that has None in sys.modules triggers an
3873 ImportError.
3874
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003875- Issue #6556: Fixed the Distutils configuration files location explanation for
3876 Windows.
Florent Xiclunaf089fd62010-03-19 14:25:03 +00003877
Matthias Klosec8b16f82010-01-31 16:14:37 +00003878- Update python manual page (options -B, -O0, -s, environment variables
3879 PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE, PYTHONNOUSERSITE).
Tarek Ziadéf3b33222009-08-21 14:22:45 +00003880
Tarek Ziadé7047eb72010-06-06 20:18:42 +00003881- Issue #8909: Added the size of the bitmap used in the installer created by
3882 distutils' bdist_wininst. Patch by Anatoly Techtonik.
3883
Brett Cannonb49c70c2009-07-15 04:08:33 +00003884Tests
3885-----
3886
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003887- Issue #9251: test_threaded_import didn't fail when run through regrtest if the
3888 import lock was disabled.
Antoine Pitrou1f9dea02010-07-14 11:52:38 +00003889
Antoine Pitrouf48ea7c2010-07-08 18:51:30 +00003890- Issue #8605: Skip test_gdb if Python is compiled with optimizations.
3891
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003892- Issue #7449: Skip test_socketserver if threading support is disabled.
Victor Stinner5f22e722010-05-26 17:33:03 +00003893
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003894- Issue #8672: Add a zlib test ensuring that an incomplete stream can be handled
3895 by a decompressor object without errors (it returns incomplete uncompressed
3896 data).
Antoine Pitrouc09c92f2010-05-11 23:36:40 +00003897
Victor Stinnerf58087b2010-05-02 17:24:51 +00003898- Issue #8533: regrtest uses backslashreplace error handler for stdout to avoid
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003899 UnicodeEncodeError (write non-ASCII character to stdout using ASCII encoding).
Victor Stinner0d80a582010-05-02 09:37:08 +00003900
Antoine Pitrou043bad02010-04-30 23:20:15 +00003901- Issue #8576: Remove use of find_unused_port() in test_smtplib and
3902 test_multiprocessing. Patch by Paul Moore.
3903
Victor Stinner45df8202010-04-28 22:31:17 +00003904- Issue #7449: Fix many tests to support Python compiled without thread
3905 support. Patches written by Jerry Seutter.
3906
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003907- Issue #8108: test_ftplib's non-blocking SSL server now has proper handling of
3908 SSL shutdowns.
Antoine Pitrou2c4f98b2010-04-23 00:16:21 +00003909
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003910- Issues #8279, #8330, #8437, #8480, #8495: Fix test_gdb failures, patch written
3911 by Dave Malcolm.
Victor Stinnere7ed1d72010-04-21 13:55:23 +00003912
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003913- Issue #3864: Skip three test_signal tests on freebsd6 because they fail if any
3914 thread was previously started, most likely due to a platform bug.
R. David Murrayedcfeba2010-04-21 01:51:57 +00003915
Antoine Pitrou90ee4df2010-04-06 17:23:13 +00003916- Issue #8193: Fix test_zlib failure with zlib 1.2.4.
3917
Antoine Pitrou503ab332010-03-30 18:56:19 +00003918- Issue #8248: Add some tests for the bool type. Patch by Gregory Nofi.
3919
Florent Xiclunad6995eb2010-03-30 19:43:09 +00003920- Issue #8263: Now regrtest.py will report a failure if it receives a
3921 KeyboardInterrupt (SIGINT).
3922
Florent Xiclunafd1b0932010-03-28 00:25:02 +00003923- Issue #8180 and #8207: Fix test_pep277 on OS X and add more tests for special
3924 Unicode normalization cases.
Florent Xiclunaeb136182010-03-21 18:49:50 +00003925
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003926- Issue #7783: test.support.open_urlresource invalidates the outdated files from
3927 the local cache.
Florent Xiclunaf089fd62010-03-19 14:25:03 +00003928
Florent Xiclunab14930c2010-03-13 15:26:44 +00003929- Issue #7849: Now the utility ``check_warnings`` verifies if the warnings are
3930 effectively raised.
3931
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003932- The four path modules (genericpath, macpath, ntpath, posixpath) share a common
3933 TestCase for some tests: test_genericpath.CommonTest.
Florent Xiclunac9c79782010-03-08 12:24:53 +00003934
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003935- Print platform information when running the whole test suite, or using the
3936 --verbose flag.
Florent Xicluna0e62a142010-03-06 17:34:48 +00003937
Florent Xicluna683a7e72010-03-03 00:06:37 +00003938- Issue #767675: enable test_pep277 on POSIX platforms with Unicode-friendly
3939 filesystem encoding.
3940
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003941- Issue #6292: for the moment at least, the test suite runs cleanly if python is
3942 run with the -OO flag. Tests requiring docstrings are skipped.
R. David Murray378c0cf2010-02-24 01:46:21 +00003943
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003944- Issue #7712: test.support gained a new `temp_cwd` context manager which is now
3945 also used by regrtest to run all the tests in a temporary directory. The
3946 original CWD is saved in `support.SAVEDCWD`. Thanks to Florent Xicluna who
3947 helped with the patch.
Ezio Melotti184bdfb2010-02-18 09:37:05 +00003948
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003949- Issue #7924: Fix an intermittent 'XXX undetected error' failure in test_capi
3950 (only seen so far on platforms where the curses module wasn't built), due to
3951 an uncleared exception.
Mark Dickinsonedff7af2010-02-13 18:34:53 +00003952
Florent Xicluna3f88c0e2010-03-19 14:40:31 +00003953- Issue #7728: test_timeout was changed to use support.bind_port instead of a
3954 hard coded port.
R. David Murraye9e95932010-02-06 05:00:15 +00003955
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003956- Issue #7376: Instead of running a self-test (which was failing) when called
R. David Murray445448c2009-12-20 17:28:31 +00003957 with no arguments, doctest.py now gives a usage message.
3958
R. David Murrayef1992b2009-12-16 15:19:27 +00003959- Issue #7396: fix regrtest -s, which was broken by the -j enhancement.
3960
R. David Murray596da442009-12-14 23:06:11 +00003961- Issue #7498: test_multiprocessing now uses test.support.find_unused_port
R. David Murray83396232009-12-14 22:45:15 +00003962 instead of a hardcoded port number in test_rapid_restart.
3963
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003964- Issue #7431: Use TESTFN in test_linecache instead of trying to create a file
3965 in the Lib/test directory, which might be read-only for the user running the
3966 tests.
R. David Murrayba311052009-12-04 00:09:14 +00003967
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003968- Issue #7324: Add a sanity check to regrtest argument parsing to catch the case
3969 of an option with no handler.
R. David Murray35768ad2009-11-15 00:23:21 +00003970
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003971- Issue #7312: Add a -F flag to run the selected tests in a loop until a test
3972 fails. Can be combined with -j.
R. David Murray7dc72cc2009-11-14 16:13:02 +00003973
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003974- Issue #6551: test_zipimport could import and then destroy some modules of the
3975 encodings package, which would make other tests fail further down the road
3976 because the internally cached encoders and decoders would point to empty
3977 global variables.
Antoine Pitrou060cee22009-11-13 16:29:04 +00003978
Antoine Pitrou941ee882009-11-11 20:59:38 +00003979- Issue #7295: Do not use a hardcoded file name in test_tarfile.
3980
Antoine Pitrou557934f2009-11-06 22:41:14 +00003981- Issue #7270: Add some dedicated unit tests for multi-thread synchronization
3982 primitives such as Lock, RLock, Condition, Event and Semaphore.
3983
Brett Cannoncfed0292009-11-05 01:26:57 +00003984- Issue #7248 (part 2): Use a unique temporary directory for importlib source
3985 tests instead of tempfile.tempdir. This prevents the tests from sharing state
3986 between concurrent executions on the same system.
3987
Brett Cannon0ae45112009-11-05 01:17:22 +00003988- Issue #7248: In importlib.test.source.util a try/finally block did not make
3989 sure that some referenced objects actually were created in the block before
3990 calling methods on the object.
3991
Antoine Pitrou65c9c642009-10-30 17:25:12 +00003992- Issue #7222: Make thread "reaping" more reliable so that reference
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003993 leak-chasing test runs give sensible results. The previous method of reaping
3994 threads could return successfully while some Thread objects were still
3995 referenced. This also introduces a new private function:
Antoine Pitrou65c9c642009-10-30 17:25:12 +00003996 :func:`_thread._count()`.
3997
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003998- Issue #7151: Fixed regrtest -j so that output to stderr from a test no longer
3999 runs the risk of causing the worker thread to fail.
R. David Murray27144602009-10-19 15:26:16 +00004000
Antoine Pitrou4de39cd2009-10-10 21:08:31 +00004001- Issue #7055: test___all__ now greedily detects all modules which have an
4002 __all__ attribute, rather than using a hardcoded and incomplete list.
4003
R. David Murray0bc11ae2009-10-18 22:18:17 +00004004- Issue #7058: Added save/restore for things like sys.argv and cwd to
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004005 runtest_inner in regrtest, with warnings if the called test modifies them, and
4006 a new section in the summary report at the end.
R. David Murray097e51f2009-10-07 23:38:55 +00004007
Mark Dickinson2e304402009-10-04 18:43:54 +00004008- Issue #7042: Fix test_signal (test_itimer_virtual) failure on OS X 10.6.
4009
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004010- Fixed tests in importlib.test.source.test_abc_loader that were masking the
4011 proper exceptions that should be raised for missing or improper code object
4012 bytecode.
Brett Cannon3c273842009-07-20 00:14:29 +00004013
Brett Cannonb49c70c2009-07-15 04:08:33 +00004014- Removed importlib's custom test discovery code and switched to
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004015 unittest.TestLoader.discover().
Brett Cannonb49c70c2009-07-15 04:08:33 +00004016
Antoine Pitroua69ba652010-01-18 21:20:53 +00004017Tools/Demos
4018-----------
4019
Martin v. Löwis25fcd392010-07-11 17:39:46 +00004020- Issue #5464, #8974: Implement plural forms in msgfmt.py.
Martin v. Löwiscb081b82010-06-04 18:14:42 +00004021
Antoine Pitroua69ba652010-01-18 21:20:53 +00004022- iobench (a file I/O benchmark) and ccbench (a concurrency benchmark) were
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004023 added to the `Tools/` directory. They were previously living in the sandbox.
Antoine Pitroua69ba652010-01-18 21:20:53 +00004024
Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +00004025
Benjamin Peterson01bf2362009-06-13 14:50:22 +00004026What's New in Python 3.1?
4027=========================
4028
4029*Release date: 27-June-2009*
4030
4031Core and Builtins
4032-----------------
4033
Mark Dickinsonad195562009-06-24 19:01:32 +00004034- Issue #6334: Fix bug in range length calculation for ranges with
4035 large arguments.
4036
Raymond Hettinger159eac92009-06-23 20:38:54 +00004037- Issue #6329: Fixed iteration for memoryview objects (it was being blocked
4038 because it wasn't recognized as a sequence).
4039
Benjamin Peterson01bf2362009-06-13 14:50:22 +00004040Library
4041-------
4042
Georg Brandld07ac642009-08-13 07:50:57 +00004043- Issue #6126: Fixed pdb command-line usage.
4044
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00004045- Issue #6314: logging: performs extra checks on the "level" argument.
Vinay Sajip0f6eac22009-06-21 17:46:49 +00004046
Facundo Batista10706e22009-06-19 20:34:30 +00004047- Issue #6274: Fixed possible file descriptors leak in subprocess.py
4048
Benjamin Peterson6a38ced2009-06-14 18:32:19 +00004049- Accessing io.StringIO.buffer now raises an AttributeError instead of
4050 io.UnsupportedOperation.
4051
Vinay Sajip0f6eac22009-06-21 17:46:49 +00004052- Issue #6271: mmap tried to close invalid file handle (-1) when anonymous.
Hirokazu Yamamoto3d8827d2009-06-14 04:58:16 +00004053 (On Unix)
4054
Gregory P. Smithe88749b2009-06-26 08:05:13 +00004055- Issue #1202: zipfile module would cause a struct.error when attempting to
4056 store files with a CRC32 > 2**31-1.
4057
Matthias Kloseab2b7552009-06-22 13:05:52 +00004058Extension Modules
4059-----------------
4060
4061- Issue #5590: Remove unused global variable in pyexpat extension.
4062
Benjamin Peterson01bf2362009-06-13 14:50:22 +00004063
Antoine Pitrou3b1b8072009-05-30 21:01:23 +00004064What's New in Python 3.1 Release Candidate 2?
4065=============================================
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00004066
Benjamin Petersonc7c12282009-06-13 13:15:04 +00004067*Release date: 13-June-2009*
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00004068
4069Core and Builtins
4070-----------------
4071
Raymond Hettinger94f55832009-06-12 18:40:16 +00004072- Fixed SystemError triggered by "range([], 1, -1)".
4073
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc66f8c432009-06-09 21:30:01 +00004074- Issue #5924: On Windows, a large PYTHONPATH environment variable
4075 (more than 255 characters) would be completely ignored.
4076
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc24e581f2009-06-01 21:28:37 +00004077- Issue #4547: When debugging a very large function, it was not always
4078 possible to update the lineno attribute of the current frame.
4079
Antoine Pitrou8e124f32009-05-30 21:41:10 +00004080- Issue #5330: C functions called with keyword arguments were not reported by
Alexandre Vassalottiea3714e2009-07-17 09:34:31 +00004081 the various profiling modules (profile, cProfile). Patch by Hagen Fürstenau.
Antoine Pitrou8e124f32009-05-30 21:41:10 +00004082
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00004083Library
4084-------
4085
Tarek Ziadéc9e6cec2009-07-12 08:27:26 +00004086- Issue #6438: Fixed distutils.cygwinccompiler.get_versions : the regular
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00004087 expression string pattern was trying to match against a bytes returned by
Tarek Ziadéc9e6cec2009-07-12 08:27:26 +00004088 Popen. Tested under win32 to build the py-postgresql project.
4089
Martin v. Löwis83eacca2009-06-12 17:31:41 +00004090- Issue #6258: Support AMD64 in bdist_msi.
4091
R. David Murray58641de2009-06-12 15:33:19 +00004092- Issue #6195: fixed doctest to no longer try to read 'source' data from
4093 binary files.
4094
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00004095- Issue #5262: Fixed bug in next rollover time computation in
4096 TimedRotatingFileHandler.
4097
Benjamin Peterson0926ad12009-06-06 18:02:12 +00004098- Issue #6217: The C implementation of io.TextIOWrapper didn't include the
4099 errors property. Additionally, the errors and encoding properties of StringIO
4100 are always None now.
4101
Antoine Pitroud9dfaa92009-06-04 20:32:06 +00004102- Issue #6137: The pickle module now translates module names when loading
4103 or dumping pickles with a 2.x-compatible protocol, in order to make data
4104 sharing and migration easier. This behaviour can be disabled using the
4105 new `fix_imports` optional argument.
4106
Raymond Hettinger40925d22009-06-04 18:32:39 +00004107- Removed the ipaddr module.
4108
Georg Brandlb54d8012009-06-04 09:11:51 +00004109- Issue #3613: base64.{encode,decode}string are now called
4110 base64.{encode,decode}bytes which reflects what type they accept and return.
4111 The old names are still there as deprecated aliases.
4112
Georg Brandl317185a2009-06-04 09:00:56 +00004113- Issue #5767: Remove sgmlop support from xmlrpc.client.
4114
Martin v. Löwis74b7e442009-06-01 04:23:07 +00004115- Issue #6150: Fix test_unicode on wide-unicode builds.
4116
Antoine Pitrouc06de472009-05-30 21:04:26 +00004117- Issue #6149: Fix initialization of WeakValueDictionary objects from non-empty
4118 parameters.
4119
Martin v. Löwis79b13872009-06-01 04:13:14 +00004120Windows
4121-------
4122
Martin v. Löwisb7a51562009-06-07 17:55:17 +00004123- Issue #6221: Delete test registry key before running the test.
4124
Martin v. Löwis79b13872009-06-01 04:13:14 +00004125- Issue #6158: Package Sine-1000Hz-300ms.aif in MSI file.
4126
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc11729992009-06-01 21:16:17 +00004127C-API
4128-----
4129
4130- Issue #5735: Python compiled with --with-pydebug should throw an
4131 ImportError when trying to import modules compiled without
4132 --with-pydebug, and vice-versa.
4133
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00004134
Brett Cannonc6d936e2009-06-07 20:09:53 +00004135Build
4136-----
4137
4138- Issue #6154: Make sure the intl library is added to LIBS if needed. Also
4139 added LIBS to OS X framework builds.
4140
Ronald Oussoren99aab652009-06-08 21:22:57 +00004141- Issue #5809: Specifying both --enable-framework and --enable-shared is
4142 an error. Configure now explicity tells you about this.
4143
4144
Brett Cannonc6d936e2009-06-07 20:09:53 +00004145
Mark Dickinson4eb88b32009-05-11 16:41:34 +00004146What's New in Python 3.1 release candidate 1?
4147=============================================
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00004148
Benjamin Petersone6ad3872009-05-30 15:30:16 +00004149*Release date: 2009-05-30*
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00004150
4151Core and Builtins
4152-----------------
4153
Martin v. Löwis8ed91b22009-05-29 16:22:26 +00004154- Issue #6097: Escape UTF-8 surrogates resulting from mbstocs conversion
4155 of the command line.
4156
Martin v. Löwisc15bdef2009-05-29 14:47:46 +00004157- Issue #6012: Add cleanup support to O& argument parsing.
4158
Eric Smith41669ca2009-05-23 14:23:22 +00004159- Issue #6089: Fixed str.format with certain invalid field specifiers
4160 that would raise SystemError.
4161
Raymond Hettinger2bcde142009-05-29 04:52:27 +00004162- Issue #5982: staticmethod and classmethod now expose the wrapped
4163 function with __func__.
4164
Raymond Hettinger91e3b9d2009-05-28 22:20:03 +00004165- Added support for multiple context managers in the same with-statement.
4166 Deprecated contextlib.nested() which is no longer needed.
Georg Brandl0c315622009-05-25 21:10:36 +00004167
Mark Dickinson6b1e43b2009-05-20 18:41:04 +00004168- Issue #5829: complex("1e500") no longer raises OverflowError. This
4169 makes it consistent with float("1e500") and interpretation of real
4170 and imaginary literals.
4171
Hirokazu Yamamoto8223c242009-05-17 04:21:53 +00004172- Issue #3527: Removed Py_WIN_WIDE_FILENAMES which is not used any more.
4173
R. David Murraydd226ea2009-05-13 12:27:21 +00004174- Issue #5994: the marshal module now has docstrings.
4175
Mark Dickinsond1ec8b22009-05-11 15:45:15 +00004176- Issue #5981: Fix three minor inf/nan issues in float.fromhex:
4177 (1) inf and nan strings with trailing whitespace were incorrectly
4178 rejected; (2) parsing of strings representing infinities and nans
4179 was locale aware; and (3) the interpretation of fromhex('-nan')
4180 didn't match that of float('-nan').
4181
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00004182Library
4183-------
4184
Martin v. Löwisb6a748b2009-05-29 15:23:17 +00004185- Issue #4859: Implement PEP 383 for pwd, spwd, and grp.
4186
R. David Murrayfb123912009-05-28 18:19:00 +00004187- smtplib 'login' and 'cram-md5' login are also fixed (see Issue #5259).
4188
R. David Murray1f1b9d32009-05-27 20:56:59 +00004189- Issue #6121: pydoc now ignores leading and trailing spaces in the
4190 argument to the 'help' function.
4191
Georg Brandlfaf41492009-05-26 18:31:11 +00004192- Issue #6118: urllib.parse.quote_plus ignored the encoding and errors
4193 arguments for strings with a space in them.
4194
Raymond Hettinger089ba7f2009-05-27 00:38:24 +00004195- collections.namedtuple() was not working with the following field
4196 names: cls, self, tuple, itemgetter, and property.
4197
Benjamin Peterson14a3dd72009-05-25 00:51:58 +00004198- In unittest, using a skipping decorator on a class is now equivalent to
4199 skipping every test on the class. The ClassTestSuite class has been removed.
4200
Martin v. Löwis70ccd162009-05-24 19:47:22 +00004201- Issue #6050: Don't fail extracting a directory from a zipfile if
4202 the directory already exists.
4203
Antoine Pitrou61f77b52009-05-24 15:46:13 +00004204- Issue #1309352: fcntl now converts its third arguments to a C `long` rather
4205 than an int, which makes some operations possible under 64-bit Linux (e.g.
4206 DN_MULTISHOT with F_NOTIFY).
4207
Antoine Pitrou716c4442009-05-23 19:04:03 +00004208- Issue #5761: Add the name of the underlying file to the repr() of various
4209 IO objects.
4210
R. David Murraycaa27b72009-05-23 18:49:56 +00004211- Issue #5259: smtplib plain auth login no longer gives a traceback. Fix
4212 by Musashi Tamura, tests by Marcin Bachry.
4213
Antoine Pitrouc3ee1662009-05-23 16:02:33 +00004214- Issue #1983: Fix functions taking or returning a process identifier to use
4215 the dedicated C type ``pid_t`` instead of a C ``int``. Some platforms have
4216 a process identifier type wider than the standard C integer type.
4217
R. David Murray87e20742009-05-23 01:30:26 +00004218- Issue #4066: smtplib.SMTP_SSL._get_socket now correctly returns the socket.
4219 Patch by Farhan Ahmad, test by Marcin Bachry.
4220
Antoine Pitrou6e610062009-05-15 17:04:50 +00004221- Issue #2116: Weak references and weak dictionaries now support copy()ing and
4222 deepcopy()ing.
4223
Antoine Pitrouc1d09362009-05-15 12:15:51 +00004224- Issue #1655: Make imaplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
4225
Antoine Pitrou37d1c182009-05-14 21:54:00 +00004226- Issue #5918: Fix a crash in the parser module.
4227
Antoine Pitrou2ca24f02009-05-14 21:30:46 +00004228- Issue #1664: Make nntplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
4229
Antoine Pitroue4501852009-05-14 18:55:55 +00004230- Issue #5006: Better handling of unicode byte-order marks (BOM) in the io
4231 library. This means, for example, that opening an UTF-16 text file in
4232 append mode doesn't add a BOM at the end of the file if the file isn't
4233 empty.
4234
R. David Murray74b89242009-05-13 17:33:03 +00004235- Issue #4050: inspect.findsource/getsource now raise an IOError if the 'source'
4236 file is a binary. Patch by Brodie Rao, tests by Daniel Diniz. This fix
4237 corrects a pydoc regression.
4238
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00004239- Issue #5955: aifc's close method did not close the file it wrapped,
R. David Murray99352742009-05-07 18:24:38 +00004240 now it does. This also means getfp method now returns the real fp.
4241
Benjamin Peterson932073a2009-05-23 16:14:33 +00004242Installation
4243------------
4244
4245- Issue #6047: fullinstall has been removed because Python 3's executable will
4246 now be known as python3.
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00004247
Ronald Oussorenbe7149e2009-05-26 21:39:08 +00004248- Lib/smtpd.py is no longer installed as a script.
4249
Martin v. Löwisdb1c3992009-05-23 10:38:26 +00004250Extension Modules
4251-----------------
4252
Martin v. Löwisa6a9c4d2009-05-30 06:15:30 +00004253- Issue #3061: Use wcsftime for time.strftime where available.
Martin v. Löwis1b01ccd2009-05-30 06:13:40 +00004254
Martin v. Löwise23c8682009-05-29 16:01:34 +00004255- Issue #4873: Fix resource leaks in error cases of pwd and grp.
4256
Martin v. Löwisdb1c3992009-05-23 10:38:26 +00004257- Issue #6093: Fix off-by-one error in locale.strxfrm.
4258
Benjamin Peterson744af442009-05-23 18:51:49 +00004259- The _functools and _locale modules are now built into the libpython shared
4260 library instead of as extension modules.
Benjamin Peterson3dc22e82009-05-23 17:09:43 +00004261
Antoine Pitrou20327222009-05-24 20:39:11 +00004262Build
4263-----
4264
4265- Issue #3585: Add pkg-config support. It creates a python-2.7.pc file
4266 and a python3.pc symlink in the $(LIBDIR)/pkgconfig directory. Patch by
4267 Clinton Roy.
4268
Brett Cannon1262e7c2009-05-11 01:47:11 +00004269Tests
4270-----
4271
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00004272- Issue #5442: Tests for importlib were not properly skipping case-sensitivity
Brett Cannon1262e7c2009-05-11 01:47:11 +00004273 tests on darwin even when the OS was installed on a case-sensitive
4274 filesystem. Also fixed tests that should not be run when
4275 sys.dont_write_bytecode is true.
4276
4277
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00004278What's New in Python 3.1 beta 1?
4279================================
4280
Benjamin Peterson5c5f3de2009-05-06 20:43:28 +00004281*Release date: 2009-05-06*
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00004282
4283Core and Builtins
4284-----------------
4285
Mark Dickinson865e01a2009-05-07 16:37:01 +00004286- Issue #5914: Add new C API function PyOS_string_to_double, and
4287 deprecate PyOS_ascii_strtod and PyOS_ascii_atof.
4288
Eric Smith741191f2009-05-06 13:08:15 +00004289- Issue #3382: float.__format__, complex.__format__, and %-formatting
4290 no longer map 'F' to 'f'. Because of issue #5859 (below), this only
4291 affects nan -> NAN and inf -> INF.
4292
Mark Hammond5a607a32009-05-06 08:04:54 +00004293- Issue #5799: ntpath (ie, os.path on Windows) fully supports UNC pathnames
4294 in all operations, including splitdrive, split, etc. splitunc() now issues
4295 a PendingDeprecation warning.
4296
Eric Smith63376222009-05-05 14:04:18 +00004297- Issue #5920: For float.__format__, change the behavior with the
4298 empty presentation type (that is, not one of 'e', 'f', 'g', or 'n')
4299 to be like 'g' but with at least one decimal point and with a
4300 default precision of 12. Previously, the behavior the same but with
4301 a default precision of 6. This more closely matches str(), and
4302 reduces surprises when adding alignment flags to the empty
4303 presentation type. This also affects the new complex.__format__ in
4304 the same way.
4305
Martin v. Löwis011e8422009-05-05 04:43:17 +00004306- Implement PEP 383, Non-decodable Bytes in System Character Interfaces.
4307
R. David Murrayb18500d2009-05-04 22:59:07 +00004308- Issue #5890: in subclasses of 'property' the __doc__ attribute was
4309 shadowed by classtype's, even if it was None. property now
4310 inserts the __doc__ into the subclass instance __dict__.
4311
Antoine Pitrou244651a2009-05-04 18:56:13 +00004312- Issue #4426: The UTF-7 decoder was too strict and didn't accept some legal
4313 sequences. Patch by Nick Barnes and Victor Stinner.
4314
Martin v. Löwise0a2b722009-05-10 08:08:56 +00004315- Issue #3672: Reject surrogates in utf-8 codec; add surrogatepass error handler.
Martin v. Löwisdb12d452009-05-02 18:52:14 +00004316
Benjamin Petersond2e0c792009-05-01 20:40:59 +00004317- Issue #5883: In the io module, the BufferedIOBase and TextIOBase ABCs have
4318 received a new method, detach(). detach() disconnects the underlying stream
4319 from the buffer or text IO and returns it.
4320
Mark Dickinson33841c32009-05-01 15:37:04 +00004321- Issue #5859: Remove switch from '%f' to '%g'-style formatting for
4322 floats with absolute value over 1e50. Also remove length
4323 restrictions for float formatting: '%.67f' % 12.34 and '%.120e' %
4324 12.34 no longer raise an exception.
Mark Dickinsonf489caf2009-05-01 11:42:00 +00004325
Eric Smith741191f2009-05-06 13:08:15 +00004326- Issue #1588: Add complex.__format__. For example,
Eric Smith58a42242009-04-30 01:00:33 +00004327 format(complex(1, 2./3), '.5') now produces a sensible result.
4328
Mark Dickinsond3ca5572009-04-29 18:47:07 +00004329- Issue #5864: Fix empty format code formatting for floats so that it
4330 never gives more than the requested number of significant digits.
4331
Eric Smith6dc46f52009-04-27 20:39:49 +00004332- Issue #5793: Rationalize isdigit / isalpha / tolower, etc. Includes
4333 new Py_ISDIGIT / Py_ISALPHA / Py_TOLOWER, etc. in pctypes.h.
4334
Eric Smithcc32a112009-04-26 21:35:14 +00004335- Issue #5835: Deprecate PyOS_ascii_formatd.
4336
Martin v. Löwis71efeb72009-04-26 01:02:07 +00004337- Issue #4971: Fix titlecase for characters that are their own
4338 titlecase, but not their own uppercase.
4339
Benjamin Peterson193152c2009-04-25 01:08:45 +00004340- Issue #5283: Setting __class__ in __del__ caused a segfault.
4341
Mark Dickinsonad476da2009-04-23 19:14:16 +00004342- Issue #5816: complex(repr(z)) now recovers z exactly, even when
4343 z involves nans, infs or negative zeros.
4344
Mark Dickinson4a16e3a2009-04-23 19:15:48 +00004345- Issue #3166: Make int -> float conversions correctly rounded.
Mark Dickinsonc6300392009-04-20 21:38:00 +00004346
Mark Dickinsone6a076d2009-04-18 11:48:33 +00004347- Issue #1869 (and many duplicates): make round(x, n) correctly
4348 rounded for a float x, by using the decimal <-> binary conversions
4349 from Python/dtoa.c. As a consequence, (e.g.) round(x, 2) now
4350 consistently agrees with format(x, '.2f').
4351
Benjamin Petersonae937c02009-04-18 20:54:08 +00004352- Issue #5787: object.__getattribute__(some_type, "__bases__") segfaulted on
4353 some builtin types.
4354
Eric Smith0923d1d2009-04-16 20:16:10 +00004355- Issue #5772: format(1e100, '<') produces '1e+100', not '1.0e+100'.
4356
Eric Smith35e84722009-04-16 20:21:28 +00004357- Issue #5515: str.format() type 'n' combined with commas and leading
4358 zeros no longer gives odd results with ints and floats.
Eric Smith0923d1d2009-04-16 20:16:10 +00004359
4360- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for
4361 floats.
4362
Mark Dickinson3370cce2009-04-17 22:40:53 +00004363- The str function switches to exponential notation at
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00004364 1e11, not 1e12. This avoids printing 13 significant digits in
4365 situations where only 12 of them are correct. Example problem
4366 value: str(1e11 + 0.5). (This minor issue has existed in 2.x for a
4367 long time.)
4368
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00004369- Issue #1580: On most platforms, use a 'short' float repr: for a
4370 finite float x, repr(x) now outputs a string based on the shortest
4371 sequence of decimal digits that rounds to x. Previous behaviour was
4372 to output 17 significant digits and then strip trailing zeros.
Mark Dickinson3370cce2009-04-17 22:40:53 +00004373 Another minor difference is that the new repr switches to
4374 exponential notation at 1e16 instead of the previous 1e17; this
4375 avoids misleading output in some cases.
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00004376
4377 There's a new sys attribute sys.float_repr_style, which takes
4378 the value 'short' to indicate that we're using short float repr,
4379 and 'legacy' if the short float repr isn't available for one
4380 reason or another.
4381
4382 The float repr change involves incorporating David Gay's 'perfect
4383 rounding' code into the Python core (it's in Python/dtoa.c). As a
4384 secondary consequence, all string-to-float and float-to-string
4385 conversions (including all float formatting operations) will be
4386 correctly rounded on these platforms.
4387
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00004388 See issue #1580 discussions for details of platforms for which
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00004389 this change does not apply.
4390
Benjamin Peterson2808d3c2009-04-15 21:34:27 +00004391- Issue #5759: float() didn't call __float__ on str subclasses.
4392
Georg Brandlabc38772009-04-12 15:51:51 +00004393- The string.maketrans() function is deprecated; there is a new static method
4394 maketrans() on the bytes and bytearray classes. This removes confusion about
4395 the types string.maketrans() is supposed to work with, and mirrors the
4396 methods available on the str class.
4397
R. David Murraydc6da8a2009-04-09 22:16:43 +00004398- Issue #2170: refactored xml.dom.minidom.normalize, increasing both
4399 its clarity and its speed.
4400
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00004401- Issue #1113244: Py_XINCREF, Py_DECREF, Py_XDECREF: Add ``do { ... } while (0)``
Matthias Klose091c7b12009-04-07 13:24:27 +00004402 to avoid compiler warnings.
4403
Walter Dörwald8dc33d52009-05-06 14:41:26 +00004404- Issue #3739: The unicode-internal encoder now reports the number of characters
4405 consumed like any other encoder (instead of the number of bytes).
4406
Benjamin Peterson0b4915e2009-04-25 21:11:45 +00004407Installation
4408------------
4409
4410- Issue #5756: Install idle and pydoc with a 3 suffix.
4411
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00004412Library
4413-------
4414
Victor Stinner870f09a2010-06-17 21:43:33 +00004415- Issue #8203: Fix IDLE Credits dialog: view_file() uses its encoding argument.
4416
Martin v. Löwis403117a2009-05-24 19:19:17 +00004417- Issue #5311: bdist_msi can now build packages that do not depend on a
4418 specific Python version.
4419
Raymond Hettingereb816952009-05-29 01:22:18 +00004420- Issue #5150: IDLE's format menu now has an option to strip trailing
4421 whitespace.
4422
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00004423- Issue #5940: distutils.command.build_clib.check_library_list was not doing
Tarek Ziadédd9f65f2009-05-06 07:26:24 +00004424 the right type checkings anymore.
4425
Thomas Heller00cfc372009-05-05 19:04:40 +00004426- Issue #4875: On win32, ctypes.util.find_library does no longer
4427 return directories.
4428
Georg Brandl243ad662009-05-05 09:00:19 +00004429- Issue #5142: Add the ability to skip modules while stepping to pdb.
4430
Georg Brandl991f9202009-05-05 08:31:54 +00004431- Issue #1309567: Fix linecache behavior of stripping subdirectories when
4432 looking for files given by a relative filename.
4433
Georg Brandleaa84ef2009-05-05 08:14:33 +00004434- Issue #5923: Update the ``turtle`` module to version 1.1, add two new
4435 turtle demos in Demo/turtle.
4436
Antoine Pitrou3c33e082009-05-04 21:21:36 +00004437- Issue #5692: In :class:`zipfile.Zipfile`, fix wrong path calculation when
4438 extracting a file to the root directory.
4439
Hirokazu Yamamotobbb9be72009-05-04 05:56:46 +00004440- Issue #5913: os.listdir() should fail for empty path on windows.
4441
Antoine Pitroua9f48a02009-05-02 21:41:14 +00004442- Issue #5084: unpickling now interns the attribute names of pickled objects,
4443 saving memory and avoiding growth in size of subsequent pickles. Proposal
4444 and original patch by Jake McGuire.
4445
Benjamin Petersonc6b607d2009-05-02 12:36:44 +00004446- The json module now works exclusively with str and not bytes.
4447
Gregory P. Smithe54dff52009-05-01 22:13:48 +00004448- Issue #3959: The ipaddr module has been added to the standard library.
4449 Contributed by Google.
4450
Antoine Pitrou7fff0962009-05-01 21:09:44 +00004451- Issue #3002: ``shutil.copyfile()`` and ``shutil.copytree()`` now raise an
4452 error when a named pipe is encountered, rather than blocking infinitely.
4453
Raymond Hettinger1f0db402009-04-29 00:38:08 +00004454- Issue #5857: tokenize.tokenize() now returns named tuples.
4455
Thomas Hellerc1edc2d2009-04-28 19:55:58 +00004456- Issue #4305: ctypes should now build again on mipsel-linux-gnu
4457
Antoine Pitrou7a0fedf2009-04-27 22:31:40 +00004458- Issue #1734234: Massively speedup ``unicodedata.normalize()`` when the
4459 string is already in normalized form, by performing a quick check beforehand.
4460 Original patch by Rauli Ruohonen.
4461
Antoine Pitrou57f3d932009-04-27 21:04:19 +00004462- Issue #5853: calling a function of the mimetypes module from several threads
4463 at once could hit the recursion limit if the mimetypes database hadn't been
4464 initialized before.
4465
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00004466- Issue #5854: Updated __all__ to include some missing names and remove some
4467 names which should not be exported.
4468
Thomas Heller34596a92009-04-24 20:50:00 +00004469- Issue #3102: All global symbols that the _ctypes extension defines
4470 are now prefixed with 'Py' or '_ctypes'.
4471
4472- Issue #5041: ctypes does now allow pickling wide character.
4473
Mark Dickinsond4d95f82009-04-24 14:06:19 +00004474- Issue #5812: For the two-argument form of the Fraction constructor,
4475 Fraction(m, n), m and n are permitted to be arbitrary Rational
4476 instances.
4477
Mark Dickinsoncf63f2f2009-04-22 17:50:21 +00004478- Issue #5812: Fraction('1e6') is valid: more generally, any string
4479 that's valid for float() is now valid for Fraction(), with the
4480 exception of strings representing NaNs and infinities.
4481
Antoine Pitroucf4c7492009-04-19 00:09:36 +00004482- Issue #5734: BufferedRWPair was poorly tested and had several glaring
4483 bugs. Patch by Brian Quinlan.
4484
R. David Murray9e94ddf2009-04-13 17:06:33 +00004485- Issue #1161031: fix readwrite select flag handling: POLLPRI now
4486 results in a handle_expt_event call, not handle_read_event, and POLLERR
4487 and POLLNVAL now call handle_close, not handle_expt_event. Also,
4488 dispatcher now has an 'ignore_log_types' attribute for suppressing
4489 log messages, which is set to 'warning' by default.
4490
Matthias Klosea3d29e82009-04-07 13:13:10 +00004491- Issue #2703: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher.__init__: Provide default values for
4492 new arguments introduced in 2.5.
4493
Walter Dörwald1b08b302009-04-25 14:13:56 +00004494- Issue #5828 (Invalid behavior of unicode.lower): Fixed bogus logic in
4495 makeunicodedata.py and regenerated the Unicode database (This fixes
4496 u'\u1d79'.lower() == '\x00').
4497
Matthias Klose535336f2009-04-07 13:49:45 +00004498Extension Modules
4499-----------------
4500
Benjamin Petersone04b6272009-05-04 22:25:21 +00004501- Issue #5881: Remove old undocumented compatibility interfaces in hashlib and
4502 pwd.
4503
Mark Dickinsonea835e72009-04-19 20:40:33 +00004504- Issue #5463: In struct module, remove deprecated float coercion
4505 for integer type codes: struct.pack('L', 0.3) should now raise
4506 an error. The _PY_STRUCT_FLOAT_COERCE constant has been removed.
4507 The version number has been bumped to 0.3.
4508
Georg Brandlbb190152010-07-31 21:41:42 +00004509- Issue #5359: Readd the Berkeley DB detection code to allow _dbm be built
4510 using Berkeley DB.
Matthias Klose535336f2009-04-07 13:49:45 +00004511
Nick Coghlan47384702009-04-22 16:13:36 +00004512Tests
4513-----
4514
4515- Issue #5354: New test support function import_fresh_module() makes
4516 it easy to import both normal and optimised versions of modules.
4517 test_heapq and test_warnings have been adjusted to use it, tests for
4518 other modules with both C and Python implementations in the stdlib
4519 can be adjusted to use it over time.
4520
Walter Dörwald4ba80132009-04-25 12:48:43 +00004521- Issue #5837: Certain sequences of calls to set() and unset() for
4522 support.EnvironmentVarGuard objects restored the environment variables
4523 incorrectly on __exit__.
4524
Benjamin Petersonb173f782009-05-05 22:31:58 +00004525C-API
4526-----
4527
4528- Issue #5630: A replacement PyCObject API, PyCapsule, has been added.
4529
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00004530
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00004531What's New in Python 3.1 alpha 2?
4532=================================
4533
Benjamin Peterson88f14352009-04-04 21:06:52 +00004534*Release date: 2009-4-4*
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00004535
4536Core and Builtins
4537-----------------
Benjamin Petersone099b372009-04-04 17:09:35 +00004538
Eric Smith1e1d7d22009-04-03 22:25:33 +00004539- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for
4540 integers.
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00004541
Benjamin Peterson8f76b492009-04-03 22:22:42 +00004542- Issue #5666: Py_BuildValue's 'c' code should create byte strings.
4543
Benjamin Peterson7fe98532009-04-02 00:33:55 +00004544- Issue #5499: The 'c' code for argument parsing functions now only accepts a
4545 byte, and the 'C' code only accepts a unicode character.
4546
Georg Brandl406b3d82009-04-11 21:24:37 +00004547- Fix a problem in PyErr_NormalizeException that leads to "undetected errors"
4548 when hitting the recursion limit under certain circumstances.
4549
Brett Cannon0759dd62009-04-01 18:13:07 +00004550- Issue #1665206: Remove the last eager import in _warnings.c and make it lazy.
4551
Georg Brandlab6f2f62009-03-31 04:16:10 +00004552- Fix a segfault when running test_exceptions with coverage, caused by
4553 insufficient checks in accessors of Exception.__context__.
4554
Guido van Rossum0ad59d42009-03-30 22:01:35 +00004555- Issue #5604: non-ASCII characters in module name passed to
4556 imp.find_module() were converted to UTF-8 while the path is
4557 converted to the default filesystem encoding, causing nonsense.
4558
Benjamin Peterson09832742009-03-26 17:15:46 +00004559- Issue #5126: str.isprintable() returned False for space characters.
4560
Ronald Oussorenfa1fcd12009-03-30 23:16:10 +00004561- Issue #4865: On MacOSX /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages is added to
4562 the end sys.path, for compatibility with the system install of Python.
4563
Antoine Pitrou3a652b12009-03-23 18:52:06 +00004564- Issue #4688: Add a heuristic so that tuples and dicts containing only
4565 untrackable objects are not tracked by the garbage collector. This can
4566 reduce the size of collections and therefore the garbage collection overhead
4567 on long-running programs, depending on their particular use of datatypes.
4568
Mark Dickinson17e4fdd2009-03-23 18:44:57 +00004569- Issue #5512: Rewrite PyLong long division algorithm (x_divrem) to
4570 improve its performance. Long divisions and remainder operations
4571 are now between 50% and 150% faster.
4572
Mark Dickinsonbd792642009-03-18 20:06:12 +00004573- Issue #4258: Make it possible to use base 2**30 instead of base
4574 2**15 for the internal representation of integers, for performance
4575 reasons. Base 2**30 is enabled by default on 64-bit machines. Add
4576 --enable-big-digits option to configure, which overrides the
4577 default. Add sys.int_info structseq to provide information about
4578 the internal format.
4579
Mark Dickinson081dfee2009-03-18 14:47:41 +00004580- Issue #4474: PyUnicode_FromWideChar now converts characters outside
4581 the BMP to surrogate pairs, on systems with sizeof(wchar_t) == 4
4582 and sizeof(Py_UNICODE) == 2.
4583
Eric Smith8ec90442009-03-14 12:29:34 +00004584- Issue #5237: Allow auto-numbered fields in str.format(). For
4585 example: '{} {}'.format(1, 2) == '1 2'.
4586
Antoine Pitrou652e7072009-03-13 19:25:20 +00004587- Issue #5392: when a very low recursion limit was set, the interpreter would
4588 abort with a fatal error after the recursion limit was hit twice.
4589
Matthias Klose042f1332009-04-04 14:32:42 +00004590- Issue #3845: In PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags avoid invalid memory access with
4591 short file names.
4592
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00004593Library
4594-------
4595
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00004596- Issue #2625: added missing items() call to the for loop in
R. David Murray548ac412009-04-02 19:44:43 +00004597 mailbox.MH.get_message().
4598
Hye-Shik Chang944820b2009-04-02 10:33:16 +00004599- Issue #5640: Fix _multibytecodec so that CJK codecs don't repeat
4600 error substitutions from non-strict codec error callbacks in
4601 incrementalencoder and StreamWriter.
4602
Georg Brandl33c28812009-04-01 23:07:29 +00004603- Issue #5656: Fix the coverage reporting when running the test suite with
4604 the -T argument.
4605
Raymond Hettinger3f10a952009-04-01 19:05:50 +00004606- Issue #5647: MutableSet.__iand__() no longer mutates self during iteration.
4607
Georg Brandl4ed72ac2009-04-01 04:28:33 +00004608- Issue #5624: Fix the _winreg module name still used in several modules.
4609
Benjamin Petersona1b49012009-03-31 23:11:32 +00004610- Issue #5628: Fix io.TextIOWrapper.read() with a unreadable buffer.
4611
Jesse Nollera9314042009-03-31 22:36:44 +00004612- Issue #5619: Multiprocessing children disobey the debug flag and causes
4613 popups on windows buildbots. Patch applied to work around this issue.
4614
Jesse Noller32d68c22009-03-31 18:48:42 +00004615- Issue #5400: Added patch for multiprocessing on netbsd compilation/support
4616
Hirokazu Yamamoto16caab02009-03-31 13:44:06 +00004617- Issue #5387: Fixed mmap.move crash by integer overflow.
4618
Jesse Nollerf8d00852009-03-31 03:25:07 +00004619- Issue #5261: Patch multiprocessing's semaphore.c to support context
4620 manager use: "with multiprocessing.Lock()" works now.
4621
Brett Cannon7f6b4f82009-03-30 21:30:26 +00004622- Issue #5236: Change time.strptime() to only take strings. Didn't work with
4623 bytes already but the failure was non-obvious.
4624
Jesse Noller7af4ef82009-03-30 16:47:15 +00004625- Issue #5177: Multiprocessing's SocketListener class now uses
4626 socket.SO_REUSEADDR on all connections so that the user no longer needs
4627 to wait 120 seconds for the socket to expire.
4628
Benjamin Peterson48e24782009-03-29 13:02:52 +00004629- Issue #5595: Fix UnboundedLocalError in ntpath.ismount().
4630
Antoine Pitrou66994e12009-03-29 00:45:26 +00004631- Issue #1174606: Calling read() without arguments of an unbounded file
4632 (typically /dev/zero under Unix) could crash the interpreter.
4633
Benjamin Peterson59406a92009-03-26 17:10:29 +00004634- The max_buffer_size arguments of io.BufferedWriter, io.BufferedRWPair, and
4635 io.BufferedRandom have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.2.
4636
Lars Gustäbel42e00912009-03-22 20:34:29 +00004637- Issue #5068: Fixed the tarfile._BZ2Proxy.read() method that would loop
4638 forever on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used
4639 with mode 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or
4640 partial bzip2 compressed data.
4641
Mark Dickinson79f52032009-03-17 23:12:51 +00004642- Issue #2110: Add support for thousands separator and 'n' type
4643 specifier to Decimal.__format__
4644
Mark Dickinson9c59fe02009-03-17 18:15:08 +00004645- Fix Decimal.__format__ bug that swapped the meanings of the '<' and
4646 '>' alignment characters.
4647
Antoine Pitrou0ae29cf2009-03-13 22:33:17 +00004648- The error detection code in FileIO.close() could fail to reflect the `errno`
4649 value, and report it as -1 instead.
4650
Antoine Pitroua28fcfd2009-03-13 23:42:55 +00004651- Issue #5016: FileIO.seekable() could return False if the file position
4652 was negative when truncated to a C int. Patch by Victor Stinner.
4653
Mark Dickinsonae681df2009-03-21 10:26:31 +00004654Extension Modules
4655-----------------
4656
Benjamin Petersone099b372009-04-04 17:09:35 +00004657- Issue #5391: mmap now deals exclusively with bytes.
4658
Mark Dickinsonae681df2009-03-21 10:26:31 +00004659- Issue #5463: In struct module, remove deprecated overflow wrapping
4660 when packing an integer: struct.pack('=L', -1) now raises
Mark Dickinsonb40b9472009-03-29 16:58:21 +00004661 struct.error instead of returning b'\xff\xff\xff\xff'. The
4662 _PY_STRUCT_RANGE_CHECKING and _PY_STRUCT_OVERFLOW_MASKING constants
4663 have been removed from the struct module.
Mark Dickinsonae681df2009-03-21 10:26:31 +00004664
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00004665
Benjamin Petersona58a6262009-03-07 16:34:40 +00004666What's New in Python 3.1 alpha 1
Barry Warsaw97f005d2008-12-03 16:46:14 +00004667================================
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00004668
Benjamin Petersona58a6262009-03-07 16:34:40 +00004669*Release date: 2009-03-07*
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00004670
4671Core and Builtins
4672-----------------
4673
Benjamin Peterson4fa88fa2009-03-04 00:14:51 +00004674- The io module has been reimplemented in C for speed.
4675
Raymond Hettingerb0d56af2009-03-03 10:52:49 +00004676- Give dict views an informative __repr__.
4677
Eric Smith5e5c0db2009-02-20 14:25:03 +00004678- Issue #5247: Improve error message when unknown format codes are
4679 used when using str.format() with str, int, and float arguments.
4680
Hirokazu Yamamoto575d1332009-02-16 09:13:20 +00004681- Issue #5249: time.strftime returned malformed string when format string
4682 contained non ascii character on windows.
4683
Benjamin Petersonf5b52242009-03-02 23:31:26 +00004684- Issue #4626: compile(), exec(), and eval() ignore the coding cookie if the
4685 source has already been decoded into str.
4686
Antoine Pitrou79eee6b2009-02-13 14:01:05 +00004687- Issue #5186: Reduce hash collisions for objects with no __hash__ method by
4688 rotating the object pointer by 4 bits to the right.
4689
Mark Dickinson87ec0852009-02-09 17:15:59 +00004690- Issue #4575: Fix Py_IS_INFINITY macro to work correctly on x87 FPUs:
4691 it now forces its argument to double before testing for infinity.
4692
Benjamin Petersonee1ae7c2009-02-08 21:07:20 +00004693- Issue #5137: Make len() correctly raise a TypeError when a __len__ method
4694 returns a non-number type.
4695
Benjamin Peterson87618552009-02-08 15:00:52 +00004696- Issue #5182: Removed memoryview.__str__.
4697
Mark Dickinsonc008a172009-02-01 13:59:22 +00004698- Issue #1717: Removed builtin cmp() function, dropped tp_compare
4699 slot, the C API functions PyObject_Compare and PyUnicode_Compare and
Mark Dickinsone94c6792009-02-02 20:36:42 +00004700 the type definition cmpfunc. The tp_compare slot has been renamed
4701 to tp_reserved, and is reserved for future usage.
Mark Dickinsonf02e0aa2009-02-01 12:13:56 +00004702
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00004703- Issue #1242657: the __len__() and __length_hint__() calls in several tools
Raymond Hettingere8364232009-02-02 22:55:09 +00004704 were suppressing all exceptions. These include list() and bytearray().
4705
Mark Dickinson1124e712009-01-28 21:25:58 +00004706- Issue #4707: round(x, n) now returns an integer if x is an integer.
4707 Previously it returned a float.
4708
Antoine Pitroub52ec782009-01-25 16:34:23 +00004709- Issue #4753: By enabling a configure option named '--with-computed-gotos'
4710 on compilers that support it (notably: gcc, SunPro, icc), the bytecode
4711 evaluation loop is compiled with a new dispatch mechanism which gives
4712 speedups of up to 20%, depending on the system, on various benchmarks.
4713
Antoine Pitrou81fabdb2009-01-22 10:11:36 +00004714- Issue #4874: Most builtin decoders now reject unicode input.
4715
Mark Dickinson9ffc0202009-01-20 20:45:53 +00004716- Issue #4842: Don't allow trailing 'L' when constructing an integer
4717 from a string.
4718
Benjamin Peterson05e782f2009-01-19 15:15:02 +00004719- Issue #4991: os.fdopen now raises an OSError for invalid file descriptors.
4720
Antoine Pitroue4bc7f62009-01-17 21:06:43 +00004721- Issue #4838: When a module is deallocated, free the memory backing the
4722 optional module state data.
4723
Mark Dickinson8055afd2009-01-17 10:04:45 +00004724- Issue #4910: Rename nb_long slot to nb_reserved, and change its
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00004725 type to ``(void *)``.
Mark Dickinson8055afd2009-01-17 10:04:45 +00004726
Antoine Pitrou8d4e5052009-01-13 22:59:11 +00004727- Issue #4935: The overflow checking code in the expandtabs() method common
4728 to str, bytes and bytearray could be optimized away by the compiler, letting
4729 the interpreter segfault instead of raising an error.
4730
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf343e012009-01-12 23:58:21 +00004731- Issue #3720: Fix a crash when an iterator modifies its class and removes its
4732 __next__ method.
4733
Mark Dickinsone5e298f2009-01-12 20:49:19 +00004734- Issue #4910: Builtin int() function and PyNumber_Long/PyNumber_Int API
4735 function no longer attempt to call the __long__ slot to convert an object
4736 to an integer. Only the __int__ and __trunc__ slots are examined.
4737
Martin v. Löwis7c2b66c2009-01-12 08:21:03 +00004738- Issue #4893: Use NT threading on CE.
4739
Martin v. Löwisec59d042009-01-12 07:59:10 +00004740- Issue #4915: Port sysmodule to Windows CE.
4741
Antoine Pitrouab868312009-01-10 15:40:25 +00004742- Issue #4868: utf-8, utf-16 and latin1 decoding are now 2x to 4x faster. The
4743 common cases are optimized thanks to a dedicated fast path and a moderate
4744 amount of loop unrolling.
4745
Antoine Pitrou14b78f52009-01-09 22:27:08 +00004746- Issue #4074: Change the criteria for doing a full garbage collection (i.e.
4747 collecting the oldest generation) so that allocating lots of objects without
4748 destroying them does not show quadratic performance. Based on a proposal by
4749 Martin von Löwis at
4750 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080579.html.
4751
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00004752- Issue #4604: Some objects of the I/O library could still be used after
Antoine Pitrou8043cf82009-01-09 19:54:29 +00004753 having been closed (for instance, a read() call could return some
4754 previously buffered data). Patch by Dmitry Vasiliev.
4755
Antoine Pitrou05608432009-01-09 18:53:14 +00004756- Issue #4705: Fix the -u ("unbuffered binary stdout and stderr") command-line
4757 flag to work properly. Furthermore, when specifying -u, the text stdout
4758 and stderr streams have line-by-line buffering enabled (the default being
4759 to buffer arbitrary chunks of data).
4760
Raymond Hettinger35631532009-01-09 03:58:09 +00004761- The internal table, _PyLong_DigitValue, is now an array of unsigned chars
4762 instead of ints (reducing its size from 4 to 8 times thereby reducing
4763 Python's overall memory).
4764
Antoine Pitroud35cbf62009-01-06 19:02:24 +00004765- Issue #1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with
4766 an existing .py counterpart, override the co_filename attributes of all
4767 code objects if the original filename is obsolete (which can happen if the
4768 file has been renamed, moved, or if it is accessed through different paths).
4769 Patch by Ziga Seilnacht and Jean-Paul Calderone.
4770
Antoine Pitrouc3b39242009-01-03 16:59:18 +00004771- Issue #4580: Fix slicing of memoryviews when the item size is greater than
4772 one byte. Also fixes the meaning of len() so that it returns the number of
4773 items, rather than the size in bytes.
4774
Martin v. Löwis5c88d812009-01-02 20:47:48 +00004775- Issue #4075: Use OutputDebugStringW in Py_FatalError.
4776
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc374e2202009-01-01 23:05:36 +00004777- Issue #4747: When the terminal does not use utf-8, executing a script with
4778 non-ascii characters in its name could fail with a "SyntaxError: None" error.
4779
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00004780- Issue #4797: IOError.filename was not set when ``_fileio.FileIO`` failed
4781 to open file with a bytes filename on Windows.
Hirokazu Yamamoto0f22d692009-01-01 16:03:45 +00004782
Antoine Pitrou7ddda782009-01-01 15:35:33 +00004783- Issue #3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator
4784 did not get collected.
4785
Nick Coghlanf1f2f682008-12-30 07:29:12 +00004786- Issue #4701: PyObject_Hash now implicitly calls PyType_Ready on types
4787 where the tp_hash and tp_dict slots are both NULL.
4788
Georg Brandlccc47b62008-12-28 11:44:14 +00004789- Issue #4759: None is now allowed as the first argument of
4790 bytearray.translate(). It was always allowed for bytes.translate().
4791
Skip Montanaro80072cb2008-12-23 03:51:14 +00004792- Added test case to ensure attempts to read from a file opened for writing
4793 fail.
4794
Antoine Pitrou51f3ef92008-12-20 13:14:23 +00004795- Issue #3106: Speedup some comparisons (str/str and int/int).
4796
Antoine Pitrouf289ae62008-12-18 11:06:25 +00004797- Issue #2183: Simplify and optimize bytecode for list, dict and set
4798 comprehensions. Original patch for list comprehensions by Neal Norwitz.
4799
Antoine Pitrou621601a2008-12-17 23:18:19 +00004800- Issue #2467: gc.DEBUG_STATS reported invalid elapsed times. Also, always
4801 print elapsed times, not only when some objects are uncollectable /
4802 unreachable. Original patch by Neil Schemenauer.
4803
Mark Dickinson54bc1ec2008-12-17 16:19:07 +00004804- Issue #3439: Add a bit_length method to int.
4805
Mark Dickinsonda2706b2008-12-11 18:03:03 +00004806- Issue #2173: When getting device encoding, check that return value of
4807 nl_langinfo is not the empty string. This was causing silent build
4808 failures on OS X.
4809
Jeffrey Yasskinb9083f32008-12-11 06:18:33 +00004810- Issue #4597: Fixed several opcodes that weren't always propagating
4811 exceptions.
4812
4813- Issue #4589: Fixed exception handling when the __exit__ function of a
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc10b24e82008-12-10 23:49:33 +00004814 context manager returns a value that cannot be converted to a bool.
4815
Mark Dickinsonfd24b322008-12-06 15:33:31 +00004816- Issue #4445: Replace "sizeof(PyBytesObject)" with
4817 "offsetof(PyBytesObject, ob_sval) + 1" when allocating memory for
4818 bytes instances. On a typical machine this saves 3 bytes of memory
4819 (on average) per allocation of a bytes instance.
4820
Christian Heimesa872de52008-12-05 08:26:55 +00004821- Issue #4533: File read operation was dreadfully slow due to a slowly
4822 growing read buffer. Fixed by using the same growth rate algorithm as
4823 Python 2.x.
4824
Antoine Pitrou5504e892008-12-06 21:27:53 +00004825- Issue #4509: Various issues surrounding resize of bytearray objects to
4826 which there are buffer exports (e.g. memoryview instances).
4827
Georg Brandlf9734072008-12-07 15:30:06 +00004828- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()``
4829 method on file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still
4830 kept open but the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO``
4831 object also got a new readonly attribute ``closefd``.
Matthias Klose7e1b8fa2008-11-26 17:22:04 +00004832
Antoine Pitroubc420402008-12-07 20:14:49 +00004833- Issue #4569: Interpreter crash when mutating a memoryview with an item size
4834 larger than 1.
4835
Benjamin Peterson371ccfb2008-12-27 19:03:36 +00004836- Issue #4748: Lambda generators no longer return a value.
4837
Gregory P. Smithccc5ae72009-03-02 05:21:55 +00004838- The re.sub(), re.subn() and re.split() functions now accept a flags parameter.
4839
Walter Dörwaldc1651a02009-05-03 22:55:55 +00004840- Issue #5108: Handle %s like %S, %R and %A in PyUnicode_FromFormatV(): Call
4841 PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8() once, remember the result and output it in a second
4842 step. This avoids problems with counting UTF-8 bytes that ignores the effect
4843 of using the replace error handler in PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8().
4844
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00004845Library
4846-------
Tarek Ziadé38e3d512009-02-27 12:58:56 +00004847
Tarek Ziadé04fe7c02009-10-25 23:08:47 +00004848- Issue #7071: byte-compilation in Distutils is now done with respect to
4849 sys.dont_write_bytecode.
4850
Victor Stinnere125f132010-05-15 21:04:43 +00004851- Issue #7066: archive_util.make_archive now restores the cwd if an error is
Tarek Ziadé978cca62009-10-24 13:38:27 +00004852 raised. Initial patch by Ezio Melotti.
4853
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +00004854- Issue #6516: Added owner/group support when creating tar archives in
Tarek Ziadé05b30342009-10-02 23:56:02 +00004855 Distutils.
4856
Tarek Ziadé31d46072009-09-21 13:55:19 +00004857- Issue #6954: Fixed crash when using DISTUTILS_DEBUG flag in Distutils.
4858
Tarek Ziadé165581c2009-09-09 08:48:07 +00004859- Issue #6163: Fixed HP-UX runtime library dir options in
4860 distutils.unixcompiler. Initial patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar and
4861 Michael Haubenwallner.
4862
Tarek Ziadé4a608c02009-08-20 21:28:05 +00004863- Issue #6693: New functions in site.py to get user/global site packages paths.
4864
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbc347802009-07-28 22:18:57 +00004865- Issue #6511: ZipFile now raises BadZipfile (instead of an IOError) when
4866 opening an empty or very small file.
4867
4868- Issue #6545: Removed assert statements in distutils.Extension, so the
Tarek Ziadé2f19bb12009-07-22 08:57:28 +00004869 behavior is similar when used with -O.
4870
Benjamin Petersonbed7d042009-07-19 21:01:52 +00004871- unittest has been split up into a package. All old names should still work.
4872
Tarek Ziadéf8926b22009-07-16 16:18:19 +00004873- Issue #6466: now distutils.cygwinccompiler and distutils.emxccompiler
4874 uses the same refactored function to get gcc/ld/dllwrap versions numbers.
4875 It's `distutils.util.get_compiler_versions`. Added deprecation warnings
4876 for the obsolete get_versions() functions.
4877
Alexandre Vassalottie52e3782009-07-17 09:18:18 +00004878- Issue #6433: fixed issues with multiprocessing.pool.map hanging on empty list
4879
4880- Issue #6314: logging: Extra checks on the "level" argument in more places.
4881
Florent Xiclunae7eaec62010-08-08 18:03:44 +00004882- Issue #2622: Fixed an ImportError when importing email.message from a
Alexandre Vassalottie52e3782009-07-17 09:18:18 +00004883 standalone application built with py2exe or py2app.
4884
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00004885- Issue #6455: Fixed test_build_ext under win32.
Tarek Ziadéb7815e32009-07-10 09:14:31 +00004886
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00004887- Issue #6377: Enabled the compiler option, and deprecate its usage as an
Tarek Ziadédd07ebb2009-07-06 13:52:17 +00004888 attribute.
4889
Tarek Ziadé05bf01a2009-07-04 02:04:21 +00004890- Issue #6413: Fixed the log level in distutils.dist for announce.
4891
Tarek Ziadée10d6de2009-07-03 08:33:28 +00004892- Issue #6403: Fixed package path usage in build_ext.
4893
Alexandre Vassalottie52e3782009-07-17 09:18:18 +00004894- Issues #5155, 5313, 5331: multiprocessing.Process._bootstrap was
4895 unconditionally calling "os.close(sys.stdin.fileno())" resulting in file
4896 descriptor errors
4897
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00004898- Issue #6365: Distutils build_ext inplace mode was copying the compiled
Tarek Ziadé0156f912009-06-29 16:19:22 +00004899 extension in a subdirectory if the extension name had dots.
4900
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00004901- Issue #6164: Added an AIX specific linker argument in Distutils
Tarek Ziadé8f480e52009-06-28 21:30:52 +00004902 unixcompiler. Original patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
4903
Tarek Ziadé25bd2062009-06-28 21:26:27 +00004904- Issue #6286: Now Distutils upload command is based on urllib2 instead of
4905 httplib, allowing the usage of http_proxy.
4906
Tarek Ziadé5e06a652009-06-16 07:43:42 +00004907- Issue #6287: Added the license field in Distutils documentation.
4908
Tarek Ziadéff543362009-06-11 09:25:41 +00004909- Issue #6263: Fixed syntax error in distutils.cygwincompiler.
4910
Tarek Ziadéabcc3f42009-06-11 08:31:17 +00004911- Issue #5201: distutils.sysconfig.parse_makefile() now understands `$$`
4912 in Makefiles. This prevents compile errors when using syntax like:
4913 `LDFLAGS='-rpath=\$$LIB:/some/other/path'`. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
4914
Hirokazu Yamamoto2703fd92009-05-29 09:14:04 +00004915- Issue #6131: test_modulefinder leaked when run after test_distutils.
4916 Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
4917
Tarek Ziadé77c8b372009-05-28 13:01:13 +00004918- Issue #6048: Now Distutils uses the tarfile module in archive_util.
4919
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00004920- Issue #6062: In distutils, fixed the package option of build_ext. Feedback
Tarek Ziadé822eb842009-05-19 16:22:57 +00004921 and tests on pywin32 by Tim Golden.
4922
Tarek Ziadé93fb3aa2009-05-18 12:29:06 +00004923- Issue #6053: Fixed distutils tests on win32. patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
4924
Tarek Ziadéd18a84e2009-05-18 08:07:46 +00004925- Issue #6046: Fixed the library extension when distutils build_ext is used
4926 inplace. Initial patch by Roumen Petrov.
4927
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00004928- Issue #6041: Now distutils `sdist` and `register` commands use `check` as a
Tarek Ziadé5af55c62009-05-16 16:52:13 +00004929 subcommand.
4930
Tarek Ziadé4210c6e2009-05-14 20:20:47 +00004931- Issue #6022: a test file was created in the current working directory by
4932 test_get_outputs in Distutils.
4933
Tarek Ziadéff0e5002009-05-12 17:14:01 +00004934- Issue #5977: distutils build_ext.get_outputs was not taking into account the
4935 inplace option. Initial patch by kxroberto.
4936
Tarek Ziadé06fbee12009-05-10 10:34:01 +00004937- Issue #5984: distutils.command.build_ext.check_extensions_list checks were broken
4938 for old-style extensions.
4939
Tarek Ziadébe5b1b92009-05-09 10:09:11 +00004940- Issue #5976: Fixed Distutils test_check_environ.
4941
Tarek Ziadé5662d3e2009-05-07 21:24:43 +00004942- Issue #5941: Distutils build_clib command was not working anymore because
4943 of an incomplete costumization of the archiver command. Added ARFLAGS in the
4944 Makefile besides AR and make Distutils use it. Original patch by David
4945 Cournapeau.
4946
R. David Murrayb507d2e2009-04-29 15:34:32 +00004947- Issue #2245: aifc now skips chunk types it doesn't recognize, per spec.
4948
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00004949- Issue #5874: distutils.tests.test_config_cmd is not locale-sensitive
Tarek Ziadé81623822009-04-29 08:07:44 +00004950 anymore.
4951
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00004952- Issue #5810: Fixed Distutils test_build_scripts so it uses
Tarek Ziadé939f9c82009-04-25 12:53:56 +00004953 sysconfig.get_config_vars.
4954
Tarek Ziadé23336082009-04-25 12:39:56 +00004955- Issue #4951: Fixed failure in test_httpservers.
4956
Thomas Hellerd3cfe992009-04-24 20:10:24 +00004957- Issue #5795: Fixed test_distutils failure on Debian ppc.
4958
Tarek Ziadé822e1d42009-04-13 12:37:57 +00004959- Issue #5607: fixed Distutils test_get_platform for Mac OS X fat binaries.
4960
Georg Brandl1f9fa312009-04-27 16:42:58 +00004961- Issue #5741: don't disallow "%%" (which is an escape for "%") when setting
4962 a value in SafeConfigParser.
4963
Tarek Ziadéf396ecf2009-04-11 15:00:43 +00004964- Issue #5732: added a new command in Distutils: check.
4965
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00004966- Issue #5731: Distutils bdist_wininst no longer worked on non-Windows
Tarek Ziadéa6191802009-04-09 22:02:39 +00004967 platforms. Initial patch by Paul Moore.
4968
Tarek Ziadéf6370502009-04-05 22:57:21 +00004969- Issue #5095: Added bdist_msi to the list of bdist supported formats.
4970 Initial fix by Steven Bethard.
4971
Tarek Ziadé889b0aa2009-04-05 21:49:36 +00004972- Issue #1491431: Fixed distutils.filelist.glob_to_re for edge cases.
4973 Initial fix by Wayne Davison.
4974
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00004975- Issue #5694: removed spurious test output in Distutils (test_clean).
Tarek Ziadéea261632009-04-05 18:33:34 +00004976
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00004977- Issue #1326077: fix the formatting of SyntaxErrors by the traceback module.
Georg Brandl236f7972009-04-05 14:28:42 +00004978
Brett Cannonf47e84c2009-04-01 16:06:01 +00004979- Issue #1665206 (partially): Move imports in cgitb to the top of the module
4980 instead of performing them in functions. Helps prevent import deadlocking in
4981 threads.
4982
R. David Murraye59482e2009-04-01 03:42:00 +00004983- Issue #2522: locale.format now checks its first argument to ensure it has
4984 been passed only one pattern, avoiding mysterious errors where it appeared
4985 that it was failing to do localization.
4986
Tarek Ziadéb2e36f12009-03-31 22:37:55 +00004987- Issue #5583: Added optional Extensions in Distutils. Initial patch by Georg
4988 Brandl.
4989
Antoine Pitrou350370c2009-03-14 00:13:13 +00004990- Issue #1222: locale.format() bug when the thousands separator is a space
4991 character.
4992
Tarek Ziadé516db942009-03-11 12:52:00 +00004993- Issue #5472: Fixed distutils.test_util tear down. Original patch by
4994 Tim Golden.
4995
Raymond Hettinger5bb0f0e2009-03-10 12:56:32 +00004996- collections.deque() objects now have a read-only attribute called maxlen.
4997
Guilherme Polof45b4cc2009-03-07 02:19:14 +00004998- Issue #2638: Show a window constructed with tkSimpleDialog.Dialog only after
4999 it is has been populated and properly configured in order to prevent
5000 window flashing.
5001
Guilherme Polo56f5be52009-03-07 01:54:57 +00005002- Issue #4792: Prevent a segfault in _tkinter by using the
5003 guaranteed to be safe interp argument given to the PythonCmd in place of
5004 the Tcl interpreter taken from a PythonCmd_ClientData.
5005
5006- Issue #5193: Guarantee that tkinter.Text.search returns a string.
5007
Tarek Ziadé63b64c02009-03-07 00:51:53 +00005008- Issue #5394: removed > 2.3 syntax from distutils.msvc9compiler.
5009 Original patch by Akira Kitada.
5010
Hirokazu Yamamoto54d0df62009-03-06 03:04:07 +00005011- Issue #5334: array.fromfile() failed to insert values when EOFError was raised.
5012
Hirokazu Yamamoto8e722bc2009-03-05 14:33:01 +00005013- Issue #5385: Fixed mmap crash after resize failure on windows.
5014
Hirokazu Yamamoto0c988172009-03-03 22:41:26 +00005015- Issue #5179: Fixed subprocess handle leak on failure on windows.
5016
Raymond Hettinger2d32f632009-03-02 21:24:57 +00005017- PEP 372: Added collections.OrderedDict().
5018
Raymond Hettingera4f52b12009-03-02 22:28:31 +00005019- The _asdict() for method for namedtuples now returns an OrderedDict().
5020
Raymond Hettinger0663a1e2009-03-02 23:06:00 +00005021- configparser now defaults to using an ordered dictionary.
5022
Benjamin Petersone0124bd2009-03-09 21:04:33 +00005023- Issue #5401: Fixed a performance problem in mimetypes when ``from mimetypes
5024 import guess_extension`` was used.
5025
Hirokazu Yamamoto10c99372009-02-28 12:21:53 +00005026- Issue #1733986: Fixed mmap crash in accessing elements of second map object
5027 with same tagname but larger size than first map. (Windows)
5028
Hirokazu Yamamoto39c6dea2009-02-28 10:56:50 +00005029- Issue #5386: mmap.write_byte didn't check map size, so it could cause buffer
5030 overrun.
5031
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00005032- Issue #1533164: Installed but not listed ``*.pyo`` was breaking Distutils
Tarek Ziadéf0721222009-02-28 10:16:43 +00005033 bdist_rpm command.
5034
5035- Issue #5378: added --quiet option to Distutils bdist_rpm command.
5036
Tarek Ziadé38e3d512009-02-27 12:58:56 +00005037- Issue #5052: make Distutils compatible with 2.3 again.
5038
Tarek Ziadé0f31e6d2009-02-25 22:31:38 +00005039- Issue #5316: Fixed buildbot failures introduced by multiple inheritance
5040 in Distutils tests.
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00005041
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00005042- Issue #5287: Add exception handling around findCaller() call to help out
5043 IronPython.
5044
Hirokazu Yamamoto0654ccd2009-02-18 16:38:00 +00005045- Issue #5282: Fixed mmap resize on 32bit windows and unix. When offset > 0,
5046 The file was resized to wrong size.
5047
5048- Issue #5292: Fixed mmap crash on its boundary access m[len(m)].
5049
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00005050- Issue #2279: distutils.sdist.add_defaults now add files
Tarek Ziadé0d0506e2009-02-16 21:49:12 +00005051 from the package_data and the data_files metadata.
5052
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00005053- Issue #5257: refactored all tests in distutils, so they use
Tarek Ziadéc1375d52009-02-14 14:35:51 +00005054 support.TempdirManager, to avoid writing in the tests directory.
5055
Tarek Ziadé68c50952009-02-13 23:04:17 +00005056- Issue #4524: distutils build_script command failed with --with-suffix=3.
5057 Initial patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
5058
Tarek Ziadé811d6242009-02-13 22:26:15 +00005059- Issue #2461: added tests for distutils.util
5060
Mark Dickinsonc28ad272009-02-12 17:58:36 +00005061- Issue #4998: The memory saving effect of __slots__ had been lost on Fractions
5062 which inherited from numbers.py which did not have __slots__ defined. The
5063 numbers hierarchy now has its own __slots__ declarations.
5064
Antoine Pitroub353c122009-02-11 00:39:14 +00005065- Issue #4631: Fix urlopen() result when an HTTP response uses chunked
5066 encoding.
5067
Thomas Heller465c8022009-02-10 18:59:04 +00005068- Issue #5203: Fixed ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a
5069 function without argtypes (only occurs if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false).
5070
Tarek Ziadé7d5e9872009-02-10 12:36:33 +00005071- Issue #3386: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument was ignored
5072 under NT and OS2. Patch by Philip Jenvey.
5073
Brett Cannonbefb14f2009-02-10 02:10:16 +00005074- Issue #5128: Make compileall properly inspect bytecode to determine if needs
5075 to be recreated. This avoids a timing hole thanks to the old reliance on the
5076 ctime of the files involved.
5077
Guilherme Polob681df42009-02-09 22:33:59 +00005078- Issue #5122: Synchronize tk load failure check to prevent a potential
5079 deadlock.
5080
Benjamin Petersona86f2c02009-02-10 02:41:10 +00005081- Issue #1818: collections.namedtuple() now supports a keyword argument
5082 'rename' which lets invalid fieldnames be automatically converted to
5083 positional names in the form, _1, _2, ...
5084
Guilherme Poloae098992009-02-09 16:44:24 +00005085- Issue #4890: Handle empty text search pattern in Tkinter.Text.search.
5086
Nick Coghlan9a1d6e32009-02-08 03:37:27 +00005087- Issue #4512 (part 2): Promote ``ZipImporter._get_filename()`` to be a
5088 public documented method ``ZipImporter.get_filename()``.
5089
Nick Coghlan3f48ae32009-02-08 01:58:26 +00005090- Issue #4195: The ``runpy`` module (and the ``-m`` switch) now support
5091 the execution of packages by looking for and executing a ``__main__``
5092 submodule when a package name is supplied. Initial patch by Andi
5093 Vajda.
5094
Guilherme Polo491aee22009-02-06 23:16:11 +00005095- Issue #1731706: Call Tcl_ConditionFinalize for Tcl_Conditions that will
5096 not be used again (this requires Tcl/Tk 8.3.1), also fix a memory leak in
5097 Tkapp_Call when calling from a thread different than the one that created
5098 the Tcl interpreter. Patch by Robert Hancock.
5099
Eric Smith0e5b5622009-02-06 01:32:42 +00005100- Issue #4285: Change sys.version_info to be a named tuple. Patch by
5101 Ross Light.
5102
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00005103- Issue #1520877: Now distutils.sysconfig reads $AR from the
Tarek Ziadéd3409de2009-02-06 01:18:36 +00005104 environment/Makefile. Patch by Douglas Greiman.
5105
Tarek Ziadé70a74eb2009-02-06 00:38:35 +00005106- Issue #1276768: The verbose option was not used in the code of
5107 distutils.file_util and distutils.dir_util.
5108
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00005109- Issue #5132: Fixed trouble building extensions under Solaris with
Tarek Ziadé5874ef12009-02-05 22:56:14 +00005110 --enabled-shared activated. Initial patch by Dave Peterson.
5111
Guilherme Polo7f423952009-02-02 21:17:09 +00005112- Issue #1581476: Always use the Tcl global namespace when calling into Tcl.
5113
Raymond Hettinger85602262009-02-03 04:19:10 +00005114- The shelve module now defaults to pickle protocol 3.
5115
Brett Cannone61426e2009-01-30 01:31:34 +00005116- Fix a bug in the trace module where a bytes object from co_lnotab had its
5117 items being passed through ord().
5118
Antoine Pitrou0dcc3cd2009-01-29 20:26:59 +00005119- Issue #2047: shutil.move() could believe that its destination path was
5120 inside its source path if it began with the same letters (e.g. "src" vs.
5121 "src.new").
5122
Guilherme Polo5f238482009-01-28 14:41:10 +00005123- Added the ttk module. See issue #2983: Ttk support for Tkinter.
5124
Raymond Hettinger89e12962009-01-26 02:09:03 +00005125- Removed isSequenceType(), isMappingType, and isNumberType() from the
5126 operator module; use the abstract base classes instead. Also removed
5127 the repeat() function; use mul() instead.
5128
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00005129- Issue #5021: doctest.testfile() did not create __name__ and
Raymond Hettinger0f055172009-01-27 10:06:09 +00005130 collections.namedtuple() relied on __name__ being defined.
5131
5132- Backport importlib from Python 3.1. Only the import_module() function has
5133 been backported to help facilitate transitions from 2.7 to 3.1.
5134
Tarek Ziadé0302cf52009-01-26 17:23:20 +00005135- Issue #1885: distutils. When running sdist with --formats=tar,gztar
5136 the tar file was overriden by the gztar one.
5137
Tarek Ziadé4d4456f2009-01-25 18:27:45 +00005138- Issue #4863: distutils.mwerkscompiler has been removed.
5139
Raymond Hettingerd07d9392009-01-27 04:20:44 +00005140- Added a new itertools functions: combinations_with_replacement()
5141 and compress().
Raymond Hettinger6b3b0fc2009-01-26 02:56:58 +00005142
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00005143- Issue #5032: added a step argument to itertools.count() and
Raymond Hettinger30729212009-02-12 06:28:27 +00005144 allowed non-integer arguments.
5145
Jesse Noller41faa542009-01-25 03:45:53 +00005146- Fix and properly document the multiprocessing module's logging
5147 support, expose the internal levels and provide proper usage
5148 examples.
5149
Mark Dickinsoncddcf442009-01-24 21:46:33 +00005150- Issue #1672332: fix unpickling of subnormal floats, which was
5151 producing a ValueError on some platforms.
5152
Martin v. Löwisacbf4612009-01-24 16:19:45 +00005153- Issue #3881: Help Tcl to load even when started through the
5154 unreadable local symlink to "Program Files" on Vista.
5155
Martin v. Löwis59e47792009-01-24 14:10:07 +00005156- Issue #4710: Extract directories properly in the zipfile module;
5157 allow adding directories to a zipfile.
5158
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00005159- Issue #3807: _multiprocessing build fails when configure is passed
Jesse Noller6fd47e22009-01-23 14:09:08 +00005160 --without-threads argument. When this occurs, _multiprocessing will
5161 be disabled, and not compiled.
5162
Antoine Pitrou08838b62009-01-21 00:55:13 +00005163- Issue #5008: When a file is opened in append mode with the new IO library,
5164 do an explicit seek to the end of file (so that e.g. tell() returns the
5165 file size rather than 0). This is consistent with the behaviour of the
5166 traditional 2.x file object.
5167
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00005168- Issue #5013: Fixed a bug in FileHandler which occurred when the delay
5169 parameter was set.
5170
Mark Dickinson8dd05142009-01-20 20:43:58 +00005171- Issue #4842: Always append a trailing 'L' when pickling longs using
5172 pickle protocol 0. When reading, the 'L' is optional.
5173
Brett Cannonafccd632009-01-20 02:21:27 +00005174- Add the importlib package.
5175
Jesse Noller9a0fc972009-01-18 21:12:58 +00005176- Issue #4301: Patch the logging module to add processName support, remove
5177 _check_logger_class from multiprocessing.
5178
Jesse Noller1cbb17a2009-01-18 19:45:18 +00005179- Issue #3325: Remove python2.x try: except: imports for old cPickle from
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00005180 multiprocessing.
Jesse Nollerf70a5382009-01-18 19:44:02 +00005181
Benjamin Peterson9953a8d2009-01-17 04:15:01 +00005182- Issue #4959: inspect.formatargspec now works for keyword only arguments
5183 without defaults.
5184
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00005185- Issue #3321: ``_multiprocessing.Connection()`` doesn't check handle; added checks
5186 for Unix machines for negative handles and large int handles. Without this check
Jesse Noller6214edd2009-01-19 16:23:53 +00005187 it is possible to segfault the interpreter.
5188
Jesse Nollerb0516a62009-01-18 03:11:38 +00005189- Issue #4449: AssertionError in mp_benchmarks.py, caused by an underlying issue
5190 in sharedctypes.py.
5191
5192- Issue #1225107: inspect.isclass() returned True for instances with a custom
5193 __getattr__.
5194
Gregory P. Smithde3369f2009-01-12 04:50:11 +00005195- Issue #3826 and #4791: The socket module now closes the underlying socket
5196 appropriately when it is being used via socket.makefile() objects
5197 rather than delaying the close by waiting for garbage collection to do it.
5198
Raymond Hettingerb8baf632009-01-14 02:20:07 +00005199- Issue #1696199: Add collections.Counter() for rapid and convenient
5200 counting.
5201
Antoine Pitrou308705e2009-01-10 16:22:51 +00005202- Issue #3860: GzipFile and BZ2File now support the context manager protocol.
5203
Thomas Heller5e4e4272009-01-08 09:34:20 +00005204- Issue #4867: Fixed a crash in ctypes when passing a string to a
5205 function without defining argtypes.
5206
Antoine Pitrou42db3ef2009-01-04 21:37:59 +00005207- Issue #4272: Add an optional argument to the GzipFile constructor to override
5208 the timestamp in the gzip stream. The default value remains the current time.
5209 The information can be used by e.g. gunzip when decompressing. Patch by
5210 Jacques Frechet.
5211
Mark Dickinson315a20a2009-01-04 21:34:18 +00005212- Restore Python 2.3 compatibility for decimal.py.
5213
Guilherme Polo3f5f8222009-01-03 22:00:39 +00005214- Issue #3638: Remove functions from _tkinter module level that depend on
5215 TkappObject to work with multiple threads.
5216
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00005217- Issue #4718: Adapt the wsgiref package so that it actually works with
5218 Python 3.x, in accordance with the `official amendments of the spec
Antoine Pitrou38a66ad2009-01-03 18:41:49 +00005219 <http://www.wsgi.org/wsgi/Amendments_1.0>`_.
5220
Raymond Hettinger771ed762009-01-03 19:20:32 +00005221- Issue #4796: Added Decimal.from_float() and Context.create_decimal_from_float()
5222 to the decimal module.
5223
Georg Brandl3a9b0622009-01-03 22:07:57 +00005224- Fractions.from_float() no longer loses precision for integers too big to
5225 cast as floats.
5226
Mark Dickinsonf9236412009-01-02 23:23:21 +00005227- Issue #4812: add missing underscore prefix to some internal-use-only
5228 constants in the decimal module. (Dec_0 becomes _Dec_0, etc.)
5229
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00005230- Issue #4790: The nsmallest() and nlargest() functions in the heapq module
Georg Brandl3a9b0622009-01-03 22:07:57 +00005231 did unnecessary work in the common case where no key function was specified.
5232
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00005233- Issue #4795: inspect.isgeneratorfunction() returns False instead of None when
5234 the function is not a generator.
5235
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00005236- Issue #4702: Throwing a DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError in case
5237 no MSVC compiler is found under Windows. Original patch by Philip Jenvey.
Tarek Ziadé9df8ce32008-12-30 23:09:20 +00005238
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00005239- Issue #4646: distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup
Tarek Ziadé4450dcf2008-12-29 22:38:38 +00005240 function. Original patch by Thomas Heller.
5241
Martin v. Löwis1f1620e2008-12-29 16:27:13 +00005242- Issue #3767: Convert Tk object to string in tkColorChooser.
5243
Martin v. Löwise354d782008-12-29 16:03:04 +00005244- Issue #3248: Allow placing ScrolledText in a PanedWindow.
5245
Antoine Pitrou5acd41e2008-12-28 14:29:00 +00005246- Issue #4444: Allow assertRaises() to be used as a context handler, so that
5247 the code under test can be written inline if more practical.
5248
Georg Brandldb7b6b92009-01-01 15:53:14 +00005249- Issue #4739: Add pydoc help topics for symbols, so that e.g. help('@')
5250 works as expected in the interactive environment.
5251
Antoine Pitroudb5fe662008-12-27 15:50:40 +00005252- Issue #4756: zipfile.is_zipfile() now supports file-like objects. Patch by
5253 Gabriel Genellina.
5254
Antoine Pitrou180a3362008-12-14 16:36:46 +00005255- Issue #4574: reading an UTF16-encoded text file crashes if \r on 64-char
5256 boundary.
5257
Nick Coghlanf088e5e2008-12-14 11:50:48 +00005258- Issue #4223: inspect.getsource() will now correctly display source code
5259 for packages loaded via zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302
5260 loader). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
5261
5262- Issue #4201: pdb can now access and display source code loaded via
5263 zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302 loader). Original patch by
5264 Alexander Belopolsky.
5265
5266- Issue #4197: doctests in modules loaded via zipimport (or any other PEP
5267 302 conformant loader) will now work correctly in most cases (they
5268 are still subject to the constraints that exist for all code running
5269 from inside a module loaded via a PEP 302 loader and attempting to
5270 perform IO operations based on __file__). Original patch by
5271 Alexander Belopolsky.
5272
5273- Issues #4082 and #4512: Add runpy support to zipimport in a manner that
5274 allows backporting to maintenance branches. Original patch by
5275 Alexander Belopolsky.
5276
Antoine Pitrou7c59bc62008-12-13 23:20:54 +00005277- Issue #4163: textwrap module: allow word splitting on a hyphen preceded by
5278 a non-ASCII letter.
5279
Lars Gustäbel43fcf3a2008-12-12 14:58:38 +00005280- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
5281
Benjamin Peterson433f32c2008-12-12 01:25:05 +00005282- Issue #4021: tokenize.detect_encoding() now raises a SyntaxError when the
5283 codec cannot be found. This is for compatibility with the builtin behavior.
5284
Facundo Batista708d5812008-12-11 04:20:07 +00005285- Issue #4084: Fix max, min, max_mag and min_mag Decimal methods to
5286 give correct results in the case where one argument is a quiet NaN
5287 and the other is a finite number that requires rounding.
5288
Skip Montanaroc1ce2862008-12-06 17:25:02 +00005289- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat
5290 libs.
5291
Georg Brandlf9734072008-12-07 15:30:06 +00005292- Added the subprocess.check_call_output() convenience function to get output
5293 from a subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
5294
5295- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
5296 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
5297 Content-Disposition headers.
5298
5299- Issue #4384: Added logging integration with warnings module using
5300 captureWarnings(). This change includes a NullHandler which does nothing;
5301 it will be of use to library developers who want to avoid the "No handlers
5302 could be found for logger XXX" message which can appear if the library user
5303 doesn't configure logging.
5304
5305- Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
5306 exception.
5307
Georg Brandleee31162008-12-07 15:15:22 +00005308- Issue #4529: fix the parser module's validation of try-except-finally
5309 statements.
5310
5311- Issue #4458: getopt.gnu_getopt() now recognizes a single "-" as an argument,
5312 not a malformed option.
5313
5314- Added the subprocess.check_output() convenience function to get output
5315 from a subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
5316
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbc9d4742008-12-05 01:40:43 +00005317- Issue #4542: On Windows, binascii.crc32 still accepted str as binary input;
5318 the corresponding tests now pass.
5319
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbc2ce572008-12-05 01:02:21 +00005320- Issue #4537: webbrowser.UnixBrowser would fail to open the browser because
5321 it was calling the wrong open() function.
5322
Fred Drake9a0a65b2008-12-04 19:24:50 +00005323- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
5324 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
5325 Content-Disposition headers.
5326
Matthias Klose2c7e3ee2009-01-10 17:08:25 +00005327- Issue #4861: ctypes.util.find_library(): Robustify. Fix library detection on
5328 biarch systems. Try to rely on ldconfig only, without using objdump and gcc.
5329
Benjamin Peterson5c6d7872009-02-06 02:40:07 +00005330- Issue #5104: The socket module now raises OverflowError when 16-bit port and
5331 protocol numbers are supplied outside the allowed 0-65536 range on bind()
5332 and getservbyport().
5333
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven0a866942009-05-08 14:18:00 +00005334- Windows locale mapping updated to Vista.
5335
Antoine Pitrou2a013ea2008-12-27 20:39:28 +00005336Tools/Demos
5337-----------
5338
Antoine Pitrou8a681222009-02-07 17:13:31 +00005339- Issue #4704: remove use of cmp() in pybench, bump its version number to 2.1,
5340 and make it 2.6-compatible.
5341
Guilherme Poloa7d27972009-01-28 16:06:51 +00005342- Ttk demos added in Demo/tkinter/ttk/
5343
Antoine Pitrou2a013ea2008-12-27 20:39:28 +00005344- Issue #4677: add two list comprehension tests to pybench.
5345
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00005346
5347Build
5348-----
5349
Benjamin Petersonf53eec82009-05-23 19:36:27 +00005350- Issue #6094: Build correctly with Subversion 1.7.
5351
Martin v. Löwis8482ef92009-05-05 16:14:30 +00005352- Issue #5847: Remove -n switch on "Edit with IDLE" menu item.
5353
Antoine Pitrou8966c992009-05-01 21:18:27 +00005354- Issue #5726: Make Modules/ld_so_aix return the actual exit code of the
5355 linker, rather than always exit successfully. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
5356
Matthias Klose55708cc2009-04-30 08:06:49 +00005357- Issue #4587: Add configure option --with-dbmliborder=db1:db2:... to specify
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00005358 the order that backends for the dbm extension are checked.
Matthias Klose55708cc2009-04-30 08:06:49 +00005359
Matthias Klose906785c2009-02-22 23:18:38 +00005360- Link the shared python library with $(MODLIBS).
5361
Martin v. Löwis11f72102009-02-10 13:13:30 +00005362- Issue #5134: Silence compiler warnings when compiling sqlite with VC++.
5363
Martin v. Löwisbc186a82009-02-02 15:32:22 +00005364- Issue #4494: Fix build with Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED on Windows.
5365
Martin v. Löwise97637d2009-01-11 09:45:11 +00005366- Issue #4895: Use _strdup on Windows CE.
5367
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00005368- Issue #4472: "configure --enable-shared" now works on OSX
5369
5370- Issues #4728 and #4060: WORDS_BIGEDIAN is now correct in Universal builds.
5371
5372- Issue #4389: Add icon to the uninstall entry in "add-and-remove-programs".
5373
5374- Issue #4289: Remove Cancel button from AdvancedDlg.
5375
5376- Issue #1656675: Register a drop handler for .py* files on Windows.
5377
5378- Issue #4120: Exclude manifest from extension modules in VS2008.
5379
5380- Issue #4091: Install pythonxy.dll in system32 again.
5381
5382- Issue #4018: Disable "for me" installations on Vista.
5383
5384- Issue #3758: Add ``patchcheck`` build target to .PHONY.
5385
5386- Issue #4204: Fixed module build errors on FreeBSD 4.
5387
5388
5389C-API
5390-----
5391
Sean Reifscheider642d96a2009-08-01 23:55:06 +00005392- Issue #6624: yArg_ParseTuple with "s" format when parsing argument with
5393 NUL: Bogus TypeError detail string.
5394
Mark Dickinson21776072009-02-10 16:13:25 +00005395- Issue #5175: PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLong now raises OverflowError
5396 for negative arguments. Previously, it raised TypeError.
5397
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00005398- Issue #4720: The format for PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords can begin with '|'.
5399
5400- Issue #3632: from the gdb debugger, the 'pyo' macro can now be called when
5401 the GIL is released, or owned by another thread.
5402
5403- Issue #4122: On Windows, fix a compilation error when using the
5404 Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE macro in an extension module.
5405
5406
Mark Dickinsone675f082008-12-11 21:56:00 +00005407Extension Modules
5408-----------------
5409
Gregory P. Smith365a1862009-02-12 07:35:29 +00005410- Issue #3745: Fix hashlib to always reject unicode and non buffer-api
5411 supporting objects as input no matter how it was compiled (built in
5412 implementations or external openssl library).
5413
Mark Dickinson29500f62009-01-15 15:36:10 +00005414- Issue #4397: Fix occasional test_socket failure on OS X.
5415
Martin v. Löwisa9b54c72009-01-11 09:30:50 +00005416- Issue #4279: Fix build of parsermodule under Cygwin.
5417
Antoine Pitroubcd5cbe2009-01-08 21:17:16 +00005418- Issue #4751: hashlib now releases the GIL when hashing large buffers
5419 (with a hardwired threshold of 2048 bytes), allowing better parallelization
5420 on multi-CPU systems. Contributed by Lukas Lueg (ebfe) and Victor Stinner.
5421
Martin v. Löwis5c88d812009-01-02 20:47:48 +00005422- Issue #4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle.
5423
Antoine Pitrou31f30b12009-01-02 17:34:35 +00005424- Issue #4738: Each zlib object now has a separate lock, allowing to compress
5425 or decompress several streams at once on multi-CPU systems. Also, the GIL
5426 is now released when computing the CRC of a large buffer. Patch by ebfe.
5427
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00005428- Issue #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format.
5429
Martin v. Löwis05bfe1f2008-12-29 18:21:47 +00005430- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
5431
Mark Dickinsone675f082008-12-11 21:56:00 +00005432- Issues #3167, #3682: Fix test_math failures for log, log10 on Solaris,
5433 OpenBSD.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcefae8c42008-11-21 23:08:09 +00005434
Antoine Pitrou3ad3a0d2008-12-18 17:08:32 +00005435- Issue #4583: array.array would not always prohibit resizing when a buffer
5436 has been exported, resulting in an interpreter crash when accessing the
5437 buffer.
5438
Martin v. Löwis841edad2008-11-30 10:36:49 +00005439
Jack Diederiche0cbd692009-04-01 04:27:09 +00005440- Issue #5228: Make functools.partial objects can now be pickled.
5441
Guilherme Polo9de29af2009-01-28 20:40:48 +00005442Tests
5443-----
5444
Antoine Pitrou88909542009-06-29 13:54:42 +00005445- Issue #6152: New option '-j'/'--multiprocess' for regrtest allows running
5446 regression tests in parallel, shortening the total runtime.
5447
Guilherme Polo2a998fa2009-06-21 17:40:07 +00005448- Issue #5450: Moved tests involving loading tk from Lib/test/test_tcl to
5449 Lib/tkinter/test/test_tkinter/test_loadtk. With this, these tests demonstrate
5450 the same behaviour as test_ttkguionly (and now also test_tk) which is to
5451 skip the tests if DISPLAY is defined but can't be used.
5452
R. David Murraya21e4ca2009-03-31 23:16:50 +00005453- regrtest no longer treats ImportError as equivalent to SkipTest. Imports
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00005454 that should cause a test to be skipped are now done using import_module
R. David Murraya21e4ca2009-03-31 23:16:50 +00005455 from test support, which does the conversion.
5456
Guilherme Polo9de29af2009-01-28 20:40:48 +00005457- Issue #5083: New 'gui' resource for regrtest.
5458
5459
Brett Cannon7317c1e2008-11-25 19:19:17 +00005460Docs
5461----
5462
Georg Brandl52b92cc2008-05-25 09:43:03 +00005463
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00005464**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**