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Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +00007What's New in Python 3.2 Alpha 1?
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10*Release date: XX-XXX-XXX*
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12Core and Builtins
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14
Victor Stinner00d6a1d2010-03-25 01:02:29 +000015- Issue #8211: Save/restore CFLAGS around AC_PROG_CC in configure.in, compiler
16 optimizations are disabled when --with-pydebug is used.
17
Victor Stinner120c2122010-03-25 00:30:28 +000018- Issue #8226: sys.setfilesystemencoding() raises a LookupError if the encoding
19 is unknown
20
Victor Stinner808fc0a2010-03-22 12:50:40 +000021- Issue #1583863: An str subclass can now override the __str__ method
22
Mark Dickinsond59b4162010-03-13 11:34:40 +000023- Issue #8014: Setting a T_UINT or T_PYSSIZET attribute of an object with
24 PyMemberDefs could produce an internal error; raise TypeError instead.
25
Mark Dickinsonf673f0c2010-03-13 09:48:39 +000026- Issue #7845: Rich comparison methods on the complex type now return
27 NotImplemented rather than raising a TypeError when comparing with an
28 incompatible type; this allows user-defined classes to implement their own
29 comparisons with complex.
30
Victor Stinner52f6dd72010-03-12 14:45:56 +000031- Issue #3137: Don't ignore errors at startup, especially a keyboard interrupt
32 (SIGINT). If an error occurs while importing the site module, the error is
33 printed and Python exits. Initialize the GIL before importing the site
34 module.
35
Benjamin Petersonae5f2f42010-03-07 17:10:51 +000036- Issue #7173: Generator finalization could invalidate sys.exc_info().
37
Victor Stinner45b9be52010-03-03 23:28:07 +000038- Issue #7544: Preallocate thread memory before creating the thread to avoid
39 a fatal error in low memory condition.
40
Victor Stinner6aa278e2010-03-03 00:18:49 +000041- Issue #7820: The parser tokenizer restores all bytes in the right if
42 the BOM check fails.
43
Benjamin Peterson23e018a2010-02-27 17:40:01 +000044- Handle errors from looking up __prepare__ correctly.
45
Larry Hastings1373a072010-02-24 22:49:58 +000046- Issue #5939: Add additional runtime checking to ensure a valid capsule
47 in Modules/_ctypes/callproc.c.
48
Eric Smith0facd772010-02-24 15:42:29 +000049- Issue #7309: Fix unchecked attribute access when converting
50 UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError, and UnicodeTranslateError to
51 strings.
52
Eric Smithabb28c62010-02-23 00:22:24 +000053- Issue #6902: Fix problem with built-in types format incorrectly with
54 0 padding.
55
Eric Smith4e260c52010-02-22 18:54:44 +000056- Issue #7988: Fix default alignment to be right aligned for
57 complex.__format__. Now it matches other numeric types.
58
Eric Smith68af50b2010-02-22 14:58:30 +000059- Issue #5988: Remove deprecated functions PyOS_ascii_formatd,
60 PyOS_ascii_strtod, and PyOS_ascii_atof. Use PyOS_double_to_string
61 and PyOS_string_to_double instead. See issue #5835 for the original
62 deprecations.
63
Antoine Pitrou05b7c562010-02-02 22:47:00 +000064- Issue #7385: Fix a crash in `MemoryView_FromObject` when
65 `PyObject_GetBuffer` fails. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
66
Mark Dickinsonbc099642010-01-29 17:27:24 +000067- Issue #7788: Fix an interpreter crash produced by deleting a list
68 slice with very large step value.
69
Eric Smithf7bb5782010-01-27 00:44:57 +000070- Issue #7766: Change sys.getwindowsversion() return value to a named
71 tuple and add the additional members returned in an OSVERSIONINFOEX
72 structure. The new members are service_pack_major, service_pack_minor,
73 suite_mask, and product_type.
74
Antoine Pitroufc8d6f42010-01-17 12:38:54 +000075- Issue #7561: Operations on empty bytearrays (such as `int(bytearray())`)
76 could crash in many places because of the PyByteArray_AS_STRING() macro
77 returning NULL. The macro now returns a statically allocated empty
78 string instead.
79
Antoine Pitroub7fbcd32010-01-16 18:37:38 +000080- Issue #6690: Optimize the bytecode for expressions such as `x in {1, 2, 3}`,
81 where the right hand operand is a set of constants, by turning the set into
82 a frozenset and pre-building it as a constant. The comparison operation
83 is made against the constant instead of building a new set each time it is
84 executed (a similar optimization already existed which turned a list of
85 constants into a pre-built tuple). Patch and additional tests by Dave
86 Malcolm.
87
Antoine Pitrouf2c54842010-01-13 08:07:53 +000088- Issue #7622: Improve the split(), rsplit(), splitlines() and replace()
89 methods of bytes, bytearray and unicode objects by using a common
90 implementation based on stringlib's fast search. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
91
Mark Dickinson45b63652010-01-16 18:10:25 +000092- Issue #7632: Fix various str -> float conversion bugs present in 2.7
93 alpha 2, including: (1) a serious 'wrong output' bug that could
94 occur for long (> 40 digit) input strings, (2) a crash in dtoa.c
95 that occurred in debug builds when parsing certain long numeric
Mark Dickinsonc4f18682010-01-17 14:39:12 +000096 strings corresponding to subnormal values, (3) a memory leak for
97 some values large enough to cause overflow, and (4) a number of
98 flaws that could lead to incorrectly rounded results.
Mark Dickinson81612e82010-01-12 23:04:19 +000099
Benjamin Petersonaea44282010-01-04 01:10:28 +0000100- The __complex__ method is now looked up on the class of instances to make it
101 consistent with other special methods.
102
Antoine Pitrouda2ecaf2010-01-02 21:40:36 +0000103- Issue #7462: Implement the stringlib fast search algorithm for the `rfind`,
104 `rindex`, `rsplit` and `rpartition` methods. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
105
Benjamin Petersond12362a2009-12-30 19:44:54 +0000106- Issue #7604: Deleting an unset slotted attribute did not raise an
107 AttributeError.
108
Mark Dickinson9ab44b52009-12-30 16:22:49 +0000109- Issue #7534: Fix handling of IEEE specials (infinities, nans,
110 negative zero) in ** operator. The behaviour now conforms to that
111 described in C99 Annex F.
112
Mark Dickinsoncbb62742009-12-27 15:09:50 +0000113- Issue #1811: improve accuracy and cross-platform consistency for
114 true division of integers: the result of a/b is now correctly
115 rounded for ints a and b (at least on IEEE 754 platforms), and in
116 particular does not depend on the internal representation of an int.
117
Ronald Oussoren6f6c5622009-12-24 14:03:19 +0000118- Issue #6834: replace the implementation for the 'python' and 'pythonw'
119 executables on OSX.
120
121 These executables now work properly with the arch(1) command:
122 ``arch -ppc python`` will start a universal binary version of python
123 in PPC mode (unlike previous releases).
124
Antoine Pitrou6b7dfc92009-12-12 19:18:27 +0000125- Issue #7466: segmentation fault when the garbage collector is called
126 in the middle of populating a tuple. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
127
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc64f3ca42009-12-01 21:59:18 +0000128- Issue #7419: setlocale() could crash the interpreter on Windows when called
129 with invalid values.
130
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7d0bddd2009-11-30 00:08:56 +0000131- Issue #6077: On Windows, files opened with tempfile.TemporaryFile in "wt+"
132 mode would appear truncated on the first '0x1a' byte (aka. Ctrl+Z).
133
Ronald Oussoren3c1928a2009-11-19 17:15:31 +0000134- Issue #7085: Fix crash when importing some extensions in a thread
135 on MacOSX 10.6.
136
Philip Jenvey1309adb2009-11-17 03:43:14 +0000137- Issue #1757126: Fix the cyrillic-asian alias for the ptcp154 encoding.
138
Mark Dickinson6f1d0492009-11-15 13:58:49 +0000139- Issue #6970: Remove redundant calls when comparing objects that don't
140 implement the relevant rich comparison methods.
141
Mark Dickinsond550c9a2009-11-15 09:57:26 +0000142- Issue #7298: fixes for range and reversed(range(...)). Iteration
143 over range(a, b, c) incorrectly gave an empty iterator when a, b and
144 c fit in C long but the length of the range did not. Also fix
145 several cases where reversed(range(a, b, c)) gave wrong results, and
146 fix a refleak for reversed(range(a, b, c)) with large arguments.
147
Raymond Hettingerfc438512009-11-01 20:55:33 +0000148- Issue #7244: itertools.izip_longest() no longer ignores exceptions
149 raised during the formation of an output tuple.
150
Benjamin Petersonb2e796a2009-10-28 21:59:39 +0000151- Issue #3297: On wide unicode builds, do not split unicode characters into
152 surrogates.
153
Mark Dickinsonf9724882009-10-26 21:51:18 +0000154- Remove length limitation when constructing a complex number from a string.
155
Mark Dickinson27a87a22009-10-25 20:43:34 +0000156- Issue #1087418: Boost performance of bitwise operations for longs.
157
Antoine Pitroub6ef9632009-10-24 20:47:05 +0000158- Support for AtheOS has been completely removed from the code base. It was
159 disabled since Python 3.0.
160
161- Support for several legacy threading libraries has been disabled. These
162 libraries are: Mach C threads, SunOS LWP, GNU pth, Irix threads. Support code
163 will be entirely removed in 3.3.
164
Raymond Hettingeraf7adad2009-10-22 11:22:50 +0000165- Peephole constant folding had missed UNARY_POSITIVE.
166
Antoine Pitrou011bd622009-10-20 21:52:47 +0000167- Issue #1722344: threading._shutdown() is now called in Py_Finalize(), which
168 fixes the problem of some exceptions being thrown at shutdown when the
169 interpreter is killed. Patch by Adam Olsen.
170
Antoine Pitrou671141d2009-10-19 19:37:25 +0000171- Issue #7147: Remove support for compiling Python without complex number
Skip Montanaroba1e0f42009-10-18 14:25:35 +0000172 support.
173
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +0000174- Issue #7120: logging: Removed import of multiprocessing which is causing
175 crash in GAE.
176
Neil Schemenauere441cb72009-10-14 19:14:38 +0000177- Issue #1754094: Improve the stack depth calculation in the compiler.
178 There should be no other effect than a small decrease in memory use.
179 Patch by Christopher Tur Lesniewski-Laas.
180
Antoine Pitrou403ce782009-10-14 17:14:16 +0000181- Issue #7065: Fix a crash in bytes.maketrans and bytearray.maketrans when
Antoine Pitrou671141d2009-10-19 19:37:25 +0000182 using byte values greater than 127. Patch by Derk Drukker.
Antoine Pitrou403ce782009-10-14 17:14:16 +0000183
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7d520792009-10-06 21:03:20 +0000184- Issue #1571184: The Unicode database contains properties for more characters.
185 The tables for code points representing numeric values, white spaces or line
186 breaks are now generated from the official Unicode Character Database files,
187 and include information from the Unihan.txt file.
188
Mark Dickinson2683ab02009-09-29 19:21:35 +0000189- Issue #7019: Raise ValueError when unmarshalling bad long data, instead
190 of producing internally inconsistent Python longs.
191
Philip Jenvey26713ca2009-09-29 04:57:18 +0000192- Issue #6990: Fix threading.local subclasses leaving old state around
193 after a reference cycle GC which could be recycled by new locals.
194
Benjamin Peterson4905e802009-09-27 02:43:28 +0000195- Issue #5460: Fix an ambiguity in the grammar.
196
Mark Dickinson3e124ae2009-09-22 21:47:24 +0000197- Issue #1766304: Improve performance of membership tests on range objects.
198
Mark Dickinson0a1efd02009-09-16 21:23:34 +0000199- Issue #6713: Improve performance of integer -> string conversions.
200
Mark Dickinson54a3db92009-09-06 10:19:23 +0000201- Issue #6846: Fix bug where bytearray.pop() returns negative integers.
202
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcccd686a2009-08-29 23:00:38 +0000203- Issue #6750: A text file opened with io.open() could duplicate its output
204 when writing from multiple threads at the same time.
205
Benjamin Peterson14327712009-08-15 13:23:05 +0000206- Issue #6707: dir() on an uninitialized module caused a crash.
207
Georg Brandl953152f2009-07-22 12:03:59 +0000208- Issue #6540: Fixed crash for bytearray.translate() with invalid parameters.
209
Raymond Hettingere805ecc2009-07-27 20:16:37 +0000210- Issue #6573: set.union() stopped processing inputs if an instance of self
211 occurred in the argument chain.
212
R. David Murray046f7232009-07-19 02:22:05 +0000213- Issue #6070: On posix platforms import no longer copies the execute bit
214 from the .py file to the .pyc file if it is set.
215
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc8b84ea02009-07-13 20:38:21 +0000216- Issue #1616979: Added the cp720 (Arabic DOS) encoding.
217
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc097cd072009-07-07 00:43:08 +0000218- Issue #6428: Since Python 3.0, the __bool__ method must return a bool
219 object, and not an int. Fix the corresponding error message, and the
220 documentation.
221
Benjamin Petersonf1664ae2009-07-01 01:28:55 +0000222- The deprecated PyCObject has been removed.
223
Mark Dickinson835a6c82009-06-30 15:45:17 +0000224- Issue #6347: Include inttypes.h as well as stdint.h in pyport.h.
225 This fixes a build failure on HP-UX: int32_t and uint32_t are
226 defined in inttypes.h instead of stdint.h on that platform.
227
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca4aba662009-07-01 00:48:39 +0000228- Issue #6373: Fixed a SystemError when encoding with the latin-1 codec and
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc84ec8d92009-06-29 22:36:49 +0000229 the 'surrogateescape' error handler, a string which contains unpaired
230 surrogates.
231
Hirokazu Yamamoto892a37a2009-06-28 11:07:03 +0000232- Issue #4856: Remove checks for win NT.
233
Alexandre Vassalottieb6f8de2009-12-31 03:56:09 +0000234- Issue #6687: PyBytes_FromObject() no longer accepts an integer as its
235 argument to construct a null-initialized bytes object.
236
Alexandre Vassalottic36c3782010-01-09 20:35:09 +0000237- Issue #1023290: Add from_bytes() and to_bytes() methods to integers.
238 These methods allow the conversion of integers to bytes, and vice-versa.
239
Alexandre Vassalotti41f58a72010-01-12 01:23:09 +0000240- Issue #7382: Fix bug in bytes.__getnewargs__ that prevented bytes
241 instances from being copied with copy.copy(), and bytes subclasses
242 from being pickled properly.
243
Collin Winter4222e9c2010-03-18 22:46:40 +0000244- Code objects now support weak references.
245
Benjamin Peterson466a7822009-07-02 21:44:01 +0000246C-API
247-----
248
Mark Dickinson93f562c2010-01-30 10:30:15 +0000249- Issue #7767: New function PyLong_AsLongLongAndOverflow added,
250 analogous to PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow.
251
Benjamin Peterson8667a9b2010-01-09 21:45:28 +0000252- Make PyUnicode_CompareWithASCIIString return not equal if the Python string
253 has '\0' at the end.
254
Mark Dickinsonde604012010-01-01 19:27:32 +0000255- Issue #5080: The argument parsing functions PyArg_ParseTuple,
256 PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords, PyArg_VaParse,
257 PyArg_VaParseTupleAndKeywords and PyArg_Parse now raise a
258 DeprecationWarning for float arguments passed with the 'L' format
259 code. This will become a TypeError in a future version of Python,
260 to match the behaviour of the other integer format codes.
261
Georg Brandl1e28a272009-12-28 08:41:01 +0000262- Issue #7033: function ``PyErr_NewExceptionWithDoc()`` added.
263
Mark Dickinsonf08173b2009-12-03 10:59:46 +0000264- Issue #7414: 'C' code wasn't being skipped properly (for keyword arguments)
265 in PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords.
266
Mark Dickinson0b2b2322009-12-04 11:32:26 +0000267- Issue #7228: Add '%lld' and '%llu' support to PyString_FromFormat(V)
Mark Dickinson6ce4a9a2009-11-16 17:00:11 +0000268 and PyErr_Format, on machines with HAVE_LONG_LONG defined.
269
Alexandre Vassalotti2db046d2009-07-22 03:56:36 +0000270- Issue #6151: Made PyDescr_COMMON conform to standard C (like PyObject_HEAD
271 in PEP 3123). The PyDescr_TYPE and PyDescr_NAME macros should be
272 should used for accessing the d_type and d_name members of structures
273 using PyDescr_COMMON.
274
275- Issue #6405: Remove duplicate type declarations in descrobject.h.
Benjamin Peterson89b89172009-07-03 13:30:25 +0000276
Benjamin Peterson466a7822009-07-02 21:44:01 +0000277- The code flags for old __future__ features are now available again.
278
Alexandre Vassalotti7b82b402009-07-21 04:30:03 +0000279- Issue #5954: Add a PyFrame_GetLineNumber() function to replace most uses of
280 PyCode_Addr2Line().
281
282- Issue #5959: Add a PyCode_NewEmpty() function to create a new empty code
283 object at a specified file, function, and line number.
284
285- Issue #1419652: Change the first argument to PyImport_AppendInittab() to
286 ``const char *`` as the string is stored beyond the call.
287
Benjamin Peterson05159c42009-12-03 03:01:27 +0000288- Issue #2422: When compiled with the ``--with-valgrind`` option, the
289 pymalloc allocator will be automatically disabled when running under
290 Valgrind. This gives improved memory leak detection when running
291 under Valgrind, while taking advantage of pymalloc at other times.
292
Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +0000293Library
294-------
295
Mark Dickinsonab4d63b2010-03-27 11:16:00 +0000296- Comparisons using one of <, <=, >, >= between a complex instance and
297 a Fractions instance now raise TypeError instead of returning
298 True/False. This makes Fraction <=> complex comparisons consistent with
299 int <=> complex, float <=> complex, and complex <=> complex comparisons.
300
Antoine Pitrou39b35432010-03-23 00:25:54 +0000301- Issue #8139: ossaudiodev didn't initialize its types properly, therefore
302 some methods (such as oss_mixer_device.fileno()) were not available.
303 Initial patch by Bertrand Janin.
304
Florent Xiclunafd1b0932010-03-28 00:25:02 +0000305- Issue #8205: Remove the "Modules" directory from sys.path when Python is
306 running from the build directory (POSIX only).
307
Antoine Pitrou910bd512010-03-22 20:11:09 +0000308- Issue #7512: shutil.copystat() could raise an OSError when the filesystem
309 didn't support chflags() (for example ZFS under FreeBSD). The error is
310 now silenced.
311
R. David Murrayca2edce2010-03-22 17:48:48 +0000312- Issue #7860: platform.uname now reports the correct 'machine' type
313 when Python is running in WOW64 mode on 64 bit Windows.
314
Antoine Pitrou3c0fac22010-03-26 19:36:14 +0000315- Issue #3890, #8222: Fix recv() and recv_into() on non-blocking SSL sockets.
316 Also, enable the SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY flag on SSL sockets, so that blocking
317 reads and writes are always retried by OpenSSL itself.
Antoine Pitrou5733c082010-03-22 14:49:10 +0000318
Victor Stinnere3a1f6d2010-03-22 01:58:35 +0000319- Issue #4282: Fix the main function of the profile module for a non-ASCII
320 script, open the file in binary mode and not in text mode with the default
321 (utf8) encoding.
322
Florent Xicluna54467e02010-03-21 12:29:50 +0000323- Issue #8179: Fix macpath.realpath() on a non-existing path.
324
Florent Xiclunafaa663f2010-03-19 13:37:08 +0000325- Issue #8024: Update the Unicode database to 5.2.
326
Benjamin Peterson00888932010-03-18 22:37:38 +0000327- Issue #8168: py_compile now handles files with utf-8 BOMS.
328
Benjamin Peterson689a5582010-03-18 22:29:52 +0000329- ``tokenize.detect_encoding`` now returns ``'utf-8-sig'`` when a UTF-8 BOM is
330 detected.
331
Martin v. Löwis4b003072010-03-16 13:19:21 +0000332- Issue #6716/2: Backslash-replace error output in compilall.
333
Matthias Klosea6d9abf2010-03-16 10:51:28 +0000334- Issue #4961: Inconsistent/wrong result of askyesno function in tkMessageBox
335 with Tcl/Tk-8.5.
336
Matthias Klosec33b9022010-03-16 00:36:26 +0000337- Issue #8140: extend compileall to compile single files. Add -i option.
338
Matthias Klose82f60912010-03-15 13:46:04 +0000339- Issue #7356: ctypes.util: Make parsing of ldconfig output independent of
340 the locale.
341
Gregory P. Smitha31f57c2010-03-14 06:52:18 +0000342- The internals of the subprocess module on POSIX systems have been replaced
343 by an extension module (_posixsubprocess) so that the fork()+exec() can be
344 done safely without the possibility of deadlock in multithreaded applications.
345
Gregory P. Smith580d60c2010-03-14 07:13:25 +0000346- subprocess.Popen now has restore_signals and start_new_session features.
347 The default of restore_signals=True is a new behavior compared to earlier
348 Python versions. This means that signals such as SIGPIPE are not ignored
349 by default in subprocesses launched by Python (Issue #1652).
350
Florent Xiclunaf15351d2010-03-13 23:24:31 +0000351- Issue #6472: The xml.etree package is updated to ElementTree 1.3. The
352 cElementTree module is updated too.
353
Victor Stinnerb33062c2010-03-12 14:27:16 +0000354- Issue #7774: Set sys.executable to an empty string if argv[0] has been set to
355 an non existent program name and Python is unable to retrieve the real
356 program name
357
Florent Xiclunaa4707382010-03-11 00:05:17 +0000358- Issue #7880: Fix sysconfig when the python executable is a symbolic link.
359
Ezio Melottib92ed7c2010-03-06 15:24:08 +0000360- Issue #6509: fix re.sub to work properly when the pattern, the string, and
361 the replacement were all bytes. Patch by Antoine Pitrou.
362
Gerhard Häringf9cee222010-03-05 15:20:03 +0000363- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.6.0. This fixes several obscure
364 bugs and allows loading SQLite extensions from shared libraries.
365
Ezio Melottida227042010-03-14 11:51:00 +0000366- Issue #1054943: Fix ``unicodedata.normalize('NFC', text)`` for the Public
367 Review Issue #29 (http://unicode.org/review/pr-29.html).
Victor Stinner7ed9c4c2010-03-04 12:14:57 +0000368
Victor Stinnercee3ae82010-03-04 00:29:24 +0000369- Issue #7494: fix a crash in _lsprof (cProfile) after clearing the profiler,
370 reset also the pointer to the current pointer context.
371
Lars Gustäbel01385812010-03-03 12:08:54 +0000372- Issue #7232: Add support for the context manager protocol to the TarFile
373 class.
374
Barry Warsawb1938262010-03-01 21:53:00 +0000375- Issue #7250: Fix info leak of os.environ across multi-run uses of
376 wsgiref.handlers.CGIHandler.
377
Florent Xicluna59250852010-02-27 14:21:57 +0000378- Issue #1729305: Fix doctest to handle encode error with "backslashreplace".
379
Florent Xiclunac279ebf2010-02-27 11:31:21 +0000380- Issue #691291: codecs.open() should not convert end of lines on reading and
381 writing.
382
Vinay Sajipdb81c4c2010-02-25 23:13:06 +0000383- Issue #7869: logging: improved diagnostic for format-time errors.
384
385- Issue #7868: logging: added loggerClass attribute to Manager.
386
387- logging: Implemented PEP 391.
388
R. David Murraybe0698b2010-02-23 22:57:58 +0000389- Issue #1537721: Add a writeheader() method to csv.DictWriter.
390
Thomas Heller5117b0b2010-02-23 20:25:02 +0000391- Issue #7959: ctypes callback functions are now registered correctly
Ezio Melotti8b1458b2010-02-24 16:55:43 +0000392 with the cycle garbage collector.
Thomas Heller5117b0b2010-02-23 20:25:02 +0000393
Tarek Ziadé8e615ae2010-02-23 06:00:04 +0000394- Issue #5801: removed spurious empty lines in wsgiref.
395
Andrew M. Kuchlinge1f9beb2010-02-22 22:16:58 +0000396- Issue #6666: fix bug in trace.py that applied the list of directories
397 to be ignored only to the first file. Noted by Bogdan Opanchuk.
398
Andrew M. Kuchlingfbacb062010-02-22 16:52:52 +0000399- Issue #7597: curses.use_env() can now be called before initscr().
400 Noted by Kan-Ru Chen.
401
Ezio Melotti19e4acf2010-02-22 15:59:01 +0000402- Issue #7310: fix the __repr__ of os.environ to show the environment variables.
403
R. David Murray57c45ac2010-02-21 04:39:40 +0000404- Issue #7970: email.Generator.flatten now correctly flattens message/rfc822
405 messages parsed by email.Parser.HeaderParser.
406
Brett Cannonef7d6722010-02-19 16:04:36 +0000407- Issue #7361: Importlib was not properly checking the number of bytes in
408 bytecode file when it was less then 8 bytes.
409
Mark Dickinson84230a12010-02-18 14:49:50 +0000410- Issue #7633: In the decimal module, Context class methods (with the
411 exception of canonical and is_canonical) now accept instances of int
412 and long wherever a Decimal instance is accepted, and implicitly
413 convert that argument to Decimal. Previously only some arguments
414 were converted.
415
R. David Murray1f449142010-02-11 00:15:05 +0000416- Issue #7835: shelve should no longer produce mysterious warnings during
417 interpreter shutdown.
418
Antoine Pitrou99f69ee2010-02-09 17:25:47 +0000419- Issue #2746: Don't escape ampersands and angle brackets ("&", "<", ">")
420 in XML processing instructions and comments. These raw characters are
421 allowed by the XML specification, and are necessary when outputting e.g.
422 PHP code in a processing instruction. Patch by Neil Muller.
423
Antoine Pitrouc77dd322010-02-09 16:51:16 +0000424- Issue #6233: ElementTree failed converting unicode characters to XML
425 entities when they could't be represented in the requested output
426 encoding. Patch by Jerry Chen.
427
Ronald Oussorenee5c8852010-02-07 20:24:02 +0000428- Issue #6003: add an argument to ``zipfile.Zipfile.writestr`` to
429 specify the compression type.
430
Antoine Pitroub6375f12010-02-04 20:23:24 +0000431- Issue #4772: Raise a ValueError when an unknown Bluetooth protocol is
432 specified, rather than fall through to AF_PACKET (in the `socket` module).
433 Also, raise ValueError rather than TypeError when an unknown TIPC address
434 type is specified. Patch by Brian Curtin.
435
Antoine Pitrou905a2ff2010-01-31 22:47:27 +0000436- Issue #6939: Fix file I/O objects in the `io` module to keep the original
437 file position when calling `truncate()`. It would previously change the
438 file position to the given argument, which goes against the tradition of
439 ftruncate() and other truncation APIs. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
440
Antoine Pitroua32f9a22010-01-27 21:18:57 +0000441- Issue #7610: Reworked implementation of the internal
442 :class:`zipfile.ZipExtFile` class used to represent files stored inside
443 an archive. The new implementation is significantly faster and can
444 be wrapped in a :class:`io.BufferedReader` object for more speedups.
445 It also solves an issue where interleaved calls to `read()` and
446 `readline()` give wrong results. Patch by Nir Aides.
447
Jesse Noller1f0b6582010-01-27 03:36:01 +0000448- Issue #6963: Added "maxtasksperchild" argument to multiprocessing.Pool,
449 allowing for a maximum number of tasks within the pool to be completed by
450 the worker before that worker is terminated, and a new one created to
451 replace it.
452
Benjamin Petersond6326642010-01-27 02:25:58 +0000453- Issue #7792: Registering non-classes to ABCs raised an obscure error.
454
Benjamin Peterson9a11a362010-01-27 01:51:29 +0000455- Issue #7785: Don't accept bytes in FileIO.write().
Benjamin Peterson255058f2010-01-27 01:47:14 +0000456
Ezio Melotti38f00332010-01-25 12:39:47 +0000457- Removed the functions 'verify' and 'vereq' from Lib/test/support.py.
458
Benjamin Peterson25001472010-01-25 03:37:42 +0000459- Issue #7773: Fix an UnboundLocalError in platform.linux_distribution() when
460 the release file is empty.
461
Antoine Pitrou1119a642010-01-17 12:16:23 +0000462- Issue #7561: Fix crashes when using bytearray objects with the posix
463 module.
464
R. David Murraya8f480f2010-01-16 18:30:03 +0000465- Issue #1670765: Prevent email.generator.Generator from re-wrapping
466 headers in multipart/signed MIME parts, which fixes one of the sources of
467 invalid modifications to such parts by Generator.
468
Antoine Pitrou747e8b32010-01-16 17:55:52 +0000469- Issue #7703: Add support for the new buffer API to `binascii.a2bhqx`.
470 Patch by Florent Xicluna, along with some additional tests.
471
Antoine Pitrou2843aa82010-01-15 00:27:43 +0000472- Issue #7701: Fix crash in binascii.b2a_uu() in debug mode when given a
473 1-byte argument. Patch by Victor Stinner.
474
Antoine Pitrou82feb1f2010-01-14 17:34:48 +0000475- Issue #3299: Fix possible crash in the _sre module when given bad
476 argument values in debug mode. Patch by Victor Stinner.
477
Antoine Pitrou8e33fd72010-01-13 14:37:26 +0000478- Issue #2846: Add support for gzip.GzipFile reading zero-padded files.
479 Patch by Brian Curtin.
480
Benjamin Peterson5efea042010-01-13 03:49:50 +0000481- Issue #7681: Use floor division in appropiate places in the wave module.
482
Tarek Ziadéac4e6ea2010-01-11 23:15:52 +0000483- Issue #5372: Drop the reuse of .o files in Distutils' ccompiler (since
484 Extension extra options may change the output without changing the .c
485 file). Initial patch by Collin Winter.
486
Tarek Ziadéaf77a2f2010-01-08 23:57:53 +0000487- Issue #7617: Make sure distutils.unixccompiler.UnixCCompiler recognizes
488 gcc when it has a fully qualified configuration prefix. Initial patch
489 by Arfrever.
490
Antoine Pitrouc1baa602010-01-08 17:54:23 +0000491- Issue #7105: Make WeakKeyDictionary and WeakValueDictionary robust against
492 the destruction of weakref'ed objects while iterating.
493
Antoine Pitrou01a15ea2010-01-07 17:57:31 +0000494- Issue #7455: Fix possible crash in cPickle on invalid input. Patch by
495 Victor Stinner.
496
Gregory P. Smithaafdca82010-01-04 04:50:36 +0000497- Issue #1628205: Socket file objects returned by socket.socket.makefile() now
498 properly handles EINTR within the read, readline, write & flush methods.
499 The socket.sendall() method now properly handles interrupted system calls.
500
Antoine Pitroub1f88352010-01-03 22:37:40 +0000501- Issue #7471: Improve the performance of GzipFile's buffering mechanism,
502 and make it implement the `io.BufferedIOBase` ABC to allow for further
503 speedups by wrapping it in an `io.BufferedReader`. Patch by Nir Aides.
504
505- Issue #3972: http.client.HTTPConnection now accepts an optional source_address
Gregory P. Smithb4066372010-01-03 03:28:29 +0000506 parameter to allow specifying where your connections come from.
507
508- socket.create_connection now accepts an optional source_address parameter.
509
Ezio Melottifaa6b7f2009-12-30 12:34:59 +0000510- Issue #5511: now zipfile.ZipFile can be used as a context manager.
511 Initial patch by Brian Curtin.
512
Tarek Ziadéc60ea322009-12-21 23:12:41 +0000513- Issue #7556: Make sure Distutils' msvc9compile reads and writes the
514 MSVC XML Manifest file in text mode so string patterns can be used
515 in regular expressions.
516
Tarek Ziadé8b9361a2009-12-21 00:02:20 +0000517- Issue #7552: Removed line feed in the base64 Authorization header in
518 the Distutils upload command to avoid an error when PyPI reads it.
519 This occurs on long passwords. Initial patch by JP St. Pierre.
520
Senthil Kumaran47fff872009-12-20 07:10:31 +0000521- Issue #7231: urllib2 cannot handle https with proxy requiring auth. Patch by
522 Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa.
523
Antoine Pitrou77b338b2009-12-14 18:00:06 +0000524- Issue #4757: `zlib.compress` and other methods in the zlib module now
525 raise a TypeError when given an `str` object (rather than a `bytes`-like
526 object). Patch by Victor Stinner and Florent Xicluna.
527
Benjamin Petersonbf5ff762009-12-13 19:25:34 +0000528- Issue #7349: Make methods of file objects in the io module accept None as an
529 argument where file-like objects (ie StringIO and BytesIO) accept them to mean
530 the same as passing no argument.
531
Lars Gustäbel365aff32009-12-13 11:42:29 +0000532- Issue #7357: tarfile no longer suppresses fatal extraction errors by
533 default.
534
R. David Murraye8dc2582009-12-10 02:08:06 +0000535- Issue #5949: added check for correct lineends in input from IMAP server
536 in imaplib.
537
Raymond Hettingere5fdedb2009-12-10 00:47:21 +0000538- Add a reverse() method to collections.deque().
539
Raymond Hettinger3f9afd82009-12-10 03:03:02 +0000540- Fix variations of extending deques: d.extend(d) d.extendleft(d) d+=d
541
Antoine Pitrou781eba72009-12-08 15:57:31 +0000542- Issue #6986: Fix crash in the JSON C accelerator when called with the
543 wrong parameter types. Patch by Victor Stinner.
544
Tarek Ziadéb88a4962009-12-08 09:45:25 +0000545- Issue #7457: added a read_pkg_file method to
546 distutils.dist.DistributionMetadata.
547
Vinay Sajip540f2152009-12-06 17:57:11 +0000548- logging: Added optional `secure` parameter to SMTPHandler, to enable use of
549 TLS with authentication credentials.
550
Tarek Ziadédf872d42009-12-06 09:28:17 +0000551- Issue #1923: Fixed the removal of meaningful spaces when PKG-INFO is
552 generated in Distutils. Patch by Stephen Emslie.
553
Martin v. Löwis1679ea82009-12-03 20:57:49 +0000554- Issue #4120: Drop reference to CRT from manifest when building extensions with
555 msvc9compiler.
556
Antoine Pitroub7572f02009-12-02 20:46:48 +0000557- Issue #7333: The `posix` module gains an `initgroups()` function providing
558 access to the initgroups(3) C library call on Unix systems which implement
559 it. Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone.
560
Tarek Ziadéacafc2d2009-11-29 22:24:57 +0000561- Issue #7408: Fixed distutils.tests.sdist so it doesn't check for group
562 ownership when the group is not forced, because the group may be different
563 from the user's group and inherit from its container when the test is run.
564
Antoine Pitrou7b0d4a22009-11-28 16:12:28 +0000565- Issue #4486: When an exception has an explicit cause, do not print its
566 implicit context too. This affects the `traceback` module as well as
567 built-in exception printing.
568
Antoine Pitrou1fc0d2b2009-11-28 15:58:27 +0000569- Issue #1515: Enable use of deepcopy() with instance methods. Patch by
570 Robert Collins.
571
Vinay Sajip03f6c112009-11-27 14:03:36 +0000572- Issue #7403: logging: Fixed possible race condition in lock creation.
573
Antoine Pitrou648bcd72009-11-27 13:23:26 +0000574- Issue #6845: Add restart support for binary upload in ftplib. The
575 `storbinary()` method of FTP and FTP_TLS objects gains an optional `rest`
576 argument. Patch by Pablo Mouzo.
577
Antoine Pitroube6859d2009-11-25 23:02:32 +0000578- Issue #5788: `datetime.timedelta` objects get a new `total_seconds()`
579 method returning the total number of seconds in the duration. Patch by
580 Brian Quinlan.
581
Antoine Pitrou7d7aede2009-11-25 18:55:32 +0000582- Issue #7133: SSL objects now support the new buffer API.
583
Senthil Kumaran758025c2009-11-23 19:02:52 +0000584- Issue #1488943: difflib.Differ() doesn't always add hints for tab characters
585
Lars Gustäbel9520a432009-11-22 18:48:49 +0000586- Issue #6123: tarfile now opens empty archives correctly and consistently
587 raises ReadError on empty files.
588
Tarek Ziadé26afd482009-11-19 05:39:00 +0000589- Issue #7354: distutils.tests.test_msvc9compiler - dragfullwindows can
590 be 2.
591
Benjamin Peterson3ec9b6e2009-11-19 21:22:27 +0000592- Issue #5037: Proxy the __bytes__ special method instead to __bytes__ instead
593 of __str__.
Benjamin Peterson32019772009-11-19 03:08:32 +0000594
Lars Gustäbel7b465392009-11-18 20:29:25 +0000595- Issue #7341: Close the internal file object in the TarFile constructor in
596 case of an error.
597
Tarek Ziadé11c9d252009-11-18 09:32:34 +0000598- Issue #7293: distutils.test_msvc9compiler is fixed to work on any fresh
599 Windows box. Help provided by David Bolen.
600
Antoine Pitrouf988cd02009-11-17 20:21:14 +0000601- Issue #2054: ftplib now provides an FTP_TLS class to do secure FTP using
602 TLS or SSL. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.
603
Nick Coghlan106274b2009-11-15 23:04:33 +0000604- Issue #7328: pydoc no longer corrupts sys.path when run with the '-m' switch
605
Antoine Pitroub8108e22009-11-15 14:25:16 +0000606- Issue #4969: The mimetypes module now reads the MIME database from
607 the registry under Windows. Patch by Gabriel Genellina.
608
Nick Coghlan260bd3e2009-11-16 06:49:25 +0000609- Issue #6816: runpy now provides a run_path function that allows Python code
610 to execute file paths that refer to source or compiled Python files as well
611 as zipfiles, directories and other valid sys.path entries that contain a
612 __main__.py file. This allows applications that run other Python scripts to
613 support the same flexibility as the CPython command line itself.
614
Antoine Pitrou45d61a32009-11-13 22:35:18 +0000615- Issue #7318: multiprocessing now uses a timeout when it fails to establish
616 a connection with another process, rather than looping endlessly. The
617 default timeout is 20 seconds, which should be amply sufficient for
618 local connections.
619
Antoine Pitrouc63ecee2009-11-10 21:34:48 +0000620- Issue #7197: Allow unittest.TextTestRunner objects to be pickled and
621 unpickled. This fixes crashes under Windows when trying to run
622 test_multiprocessing in verbose mode.
623
Michael Foord34c94622010-02-10 15:51:42 +0000624- Issue #7893: ``unittest.TextTestResult`` is made public and a ``resultclass``
625 argument added to the TextTestRunner constructor allowing a different result
626 class to be used without having to subclass.
627
628- Issue 7588: ``unittest.TextTestResult.getDescription`` now includes the test
629 name in failure reports even if the test has a docstring.
630
Antoine Pitrou434736a2009-11-10 18:46:01 +0000631- Issue #3001: Add a C implementation of recursive locks which is used by
632 default when instantiating a `threading.RLock` object. This makes
633 recursive locks as fast as regular non-recursive locks (previously,
634 they were slower by 10x to 15x).
635
Antoine Pitroub0872682009-11-09 16:08:16 +0000636- Issue #7282: Fix a memory leak when an RLock was used in a thread other
637 than those started through `threading.Thread` (for example, using
638 `_thread.start_new_thread()`).
639
Brett Cannone52c9192009-11-07 23:55:05 +0000640- Issue #7187: Importlib would not silence the IOError raised when trying to
641 write new bytecode when it was made read-only.
642
Antoine Pitroubdec11f2009-11-05 13:49:14 +0000643- Issue #7264: Fix a possible deadlock when deallocating thread-local objects
644 which are part of a reference cycle.
645
Antoine Pitroud83f1e62009-11-04 21:10:38 +0000646- Issue #7211: Allow 64-bit values for the `ident` and `data` fields of kevent
647 objects on 64-bit systems. Patch by Michael Broghton.
648
Antoine Pitrou03f13442009-11-02 11:36:51 +0000649- Issue #6896: mailbox.Maildir now invalidates its internal cache each time
650 a modification is done through it. This fixes inconsistencies and test
651 failures on systems with slightly bogus mtime behaviour.
652
Gregory P. Smith50467882009-11-01 18:42:17 +0000653- Issue #7246 & Issue #7208: getpass now properly flushes input before
654 reading from stdin so that existing input does not confuse it and
655 lead to incorrect entry or an IOError. It also properly flushes it
656 afterwards to avoid the terminal echoing the input afterwards on
657 OSes such as Solaris.
658
Mark Dickinsona2d1fe02009-10-29 12:23:02 +0000659- Issue #7233: Fix a number of two-argument Decimal methods to make
660 sure that they accept an int or long as the second argument. Also
661 fix buggy handling of large arguments (those with coefficient longer
662 than the current precision) in shift and rotate.
663
Lars Gustäbel1440df22009-10-29 09:39:47 +0000664- Issue #4750: Store the basename of the original filename in the gzip FNAME
665 header as required by RFC 1952.
666
Tarek Ziadéc7c71ff2009-10-27 23:12:01 +0000667- Issue #1180: Added a new global option to ignore ~/.pydistutils.cfg in
668 Distutils.
669
Tarek Ziadé8c0e2172009-10-27 21:24:21 +0000670- Issue #7218: Fix test_site for win32, the directory comparison was done with
671 an uppercase.
672
Antoine Pitrouc66363f2009-10-27 17:47:14 +0000673- Issue #7205: Fix a possible deadlock when using a BZ2File object from
674 several threads at once.
675
Vinay Sajip42ead482009-10-21 20:22:14 +0000676- Issue #7077: logging: SysLogHandler now treats Unicode as per RFC 5424.
677
Mark Dickinson06bb6742009-10-20 13:38:04 +0000678- Issue #7099: Decimal.is_normal now returns True for numbers with exponent
679 larger than emax.
680
Antoine Pitrou6a448d42009-10-19 19:43:09 +0000681- Issue #7080: locale.strxfrm() raises a MemoryError on 64-bit non-Windows
682 platforms, and assorted locale fixes by Derk Drukker.
683
Antoine Pitroudc0900b2009-10-19 18:22:37 +0000684- Issue #5833: Fix extra space character in readline completion with the
685 GNU readline library version 6.0.
686
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +0000687- Issue #6894: Fixed the issue urllib2 doesn't respect "no_proxy" environment
Senthil Kumaran7bb04972009-10-11 04:58:55 +0000688
Vinay Sajipcbabd7e2009-10-10 20:32:36 +0000689- Issue #7086: Added TCP support to SysLogHandler, and tidied up some
690 anachronisms in the code which were a relic of 1.5.2 compatibility.
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +0000691
R. David Murraybf2e0aa2009-10-10 00:13:32 +0000692- Issue #7082: When falling back to the MIME 'name' parameter, the
693 correct place to look for it is the Content-Type header.
694
Benjamin Petersond3afada2009-10-09 21:43:09 +0000695- Make tokenize.detect_coding() normalize utf-8 and iso-8859-1 variants like the
696 builtin tokenizer.
697
Mark Dickinson56df8872009-10-07 19:23:50 +0000698- Issue #7048: Force Decimal.logb to round its result when that result
699 is too large to fit in the current precision.
700
Antoine Pitrouca767bd2009-09-21 21:37:02 +0000701- Issue #6236, #6348: Fix various failures in the I/O library under AIX
Antoine Pitrou6a448d42009-10-19 19:43:09 +0000702 and other platforms, when using a non-gcc compiler. Patch by Derk Drukker.
Antoine Pitrouca767bd2009-09-21 21:37:02 +0000703
Thomas Heller69b639f2009-09-18 20:08:39 +0000704- Issue #4606: Passing 'None' if ctypes argtype is set to POINTER(...)
705 does now always result in NULL.
706
Thomas Hellerd7cb1b92009-09-18 19:05:13 +0000707- Issue #5042: Structure sub-subclass does now initialize correctly
708 with base class positional arguments.
709
Eric Smith81fd8042009-09-18 13:23:13 +0000710- Issue #6882: Import uuid creates zombies processes.
711
Matthias Klosef6b76b02009-09-13 15:18:53 +0000712- Issue #6635: Fix profiler printing usage message.
713
Lars Gustäbel049d2aa2009-09-12 10:44:00 +0000714- Issue #6856: Add a filter keyword argument to TarFile.add().
715
Benjamin Petersonbe74a372009-09-11 21:17:13 +0000716- Issue #6888: pdb's alias command was broken when no arguments were given.
717
Mark Dickinson46ab5d02009-09-08 20:22:46 +0000718- Issue #6857: Default format() alignment should be '>' for Decimal
719 instances.
720
Mark Dickinson825fce32009-09-07 18:08:12 +0000721- Issue #6795: int(Decimal('nan')) now raises ValueError instead of
722 returning NaN or raising InvalidContext. Also, fix infinite recursion
723 in long(Decimal('nan')).
724
Mark Dickinson7718d2b2009-09-07 16:21:56 +0000725- Issue #6850: Fix bug in Decimal._parse_format_specifier for formats
726 with no type specifier.
727
Thomas Heller8b939522009-09-04 18:24:41 +0000728- Issue #6239: ctypes.c_char_p return value must return bytes.
729
Chris Withers9c33cbf2009-09-04 17:04:16 +0000730- Issue #6838: Use a list to accumulate the value instead of
731 repeatedly concatenating strings in http.client's
732 HTTPResponse._read_chunked providing a significant speed increase
733 when downloading large files servend with a Transfer-Encoding of 'chunked'.
734
Brett Cannon1c1dcbf2009-08-30 20:22:21 +0000735- Trying to import a submodule from a module that is not a package, ImportError
736 should be raised, not AttributeError.
737
Brett Cannonde4ebfe2009-08-30 19:53:48 +0000738- When the globals past to importlib.__import__() has __package__ set to None,
739 fall back to computing what __package__ should be instead of giving up.
740
Brett Cannon6afbaef2009-08-30 19:08:58 +0000741- Raise a TypeError when the name of a module to be imported for
742 importlib.__import__ is not a string (was raising an
743 AttributeError before).
744
Brett Cannon9e0e1a62009-08-30 18:28:46 +0000745- Allow the fromlist passed into importlib.__import__ to be any iterable.
746
Brett Cannon4d75fc12009-08-30 03:47:36 +0000747- Have importlib raise ImportError if None is found in sys.modules.
748
Lars Gustäbelbfdfdda2009-08-28 19:59:59 +0000749- Issue #6054: Do not normalize stored pathnames in tarfile.
750
Mark Dickinsond314e1b2009-08-28 13:39:53 +0000751- Issue #6794: Fix Decimal.compare_total and Decimal.compare_total_mag: NaN
752 payloads are now ordered by integer value rather than lexicographically.
753
Guilherme Polobcd03df2009-08-18 15:35:57 +0000754- Issue #1356969: Add missing info methods in tix.HList.
755
756- Issue #1522587: New constants and methods for the tix.Grid widget.
757
758- Issue #1250469: Fix the return value of tix.PanedWindow.panes.
759
760- Issue #1119673: Do not override tkinter.Text methods when creating a
761 ScrolledText.
762
Gregory P. Smith01099702009-08-16 18:58:46 +0000763- Issue #6665: Fix fnmatch to properly match filenames with newlines in them.
764
Guilherme Poloc3b2ae42009-08-16 14:46:16 +0000765- Issue #1135: Add the XView and YView mix-ins to avoid duplicating
766 the xview* and yview* methods.
767
Antoine Pitroua0ceb732009-08-06 20:29:56 +0000768- Issue #6629: Fix a data corruption issue in the new I/O library, which could
769 occur when writing to a BufferedRandom object (e.g. a file opened in "rb+" or
770 "wb+" mode) after having buffered a certain amount of data for reading. This
771 bug was not present in the pure Python implementation.
772
Mark Dickinsonea1158f2009-08-06 16:06:25 +0000773- Issue #6622: Fix "local variable 'secret' referenced before
774 assignment" bug in POP3.apop.
775
Mark Dickinson45f799f2009-08-02 20:08:54 +0000776- Issue #2715: Remove remnants of Carbon.File from binhex module.
777
Mark Dickinson345adc42009-08-02 10:14:23 +0000778- Issue #6595: The Decimal constructor now allows arbitrary Unicode
779 decimal digits in input, as recommended by the standard. Previously
780 it was restricted to accepting [0-9].
781
Jack Diederich36596a32009-07-26 22:23:04 +0000782- Issue #6106: telnetlib.Telnet.process_rawq doesn't handle default WILL/WONT
783 DO/DONT correctly.
784
Senthil Kumaran67305382009-07-26 04:46:00 +0000785- Issue #1424152: Fix for http.client, urllib.request to support SSL while
786 working through proxy. Original patch by Christopher Li, changes made by
787 Senthil Kumaran
Senthil Kumaran97f0c6b2009-07-25 04:24:38 +0000788
Brett Cannon69194272009-07-20 04:23:48 +0000789- Add importlib.abc.ExecutionLoader to represent the PEP 302 protocol for
790 loaders that allow for modules to be executed. Both importlib.abc.PyLoader
791 and PyPycLoader inherit from this class and provide implementations in
792 relation to other methods required by the ABCs.
793
Brett Cannon64ef00f2009-07-20 03:19:18 +0000794- importlib.abc.PyLoader did not inherit from importlib.abc.ResourceLoader like
795 the documentation said it did even though the code in PyLoader relied on the
796 abstract method required by ResourceLoader.
797
Mark Dickinson85424c92009-07-18 14:41:42 +0000798- Issue #6431: Make Fraction type return NotImplemented when it doesn't
799 know how to handle a comparison without loss of precision. Also add
800 correct handling of infinities and nans for comparisons with float.
801
Antoine Pitrouf3637322009-08-06 21:00:37 +0000802- Issue #6415: Fixed warnings.warn segfault on bad formatted string.
Hirokazu Yamamoto1c0c0032009-07-17 06:55:42 +0000803
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc97e5f282009-07-11 09:35:13 +0000804- Issue #6358: The exit status of a command started with os.popen() was
805 reported differently than it did with python 2.x.
806
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc2de11152009-07-09 23:07:52 +0000807- Issue #6323: The pdb debugger did not exit when running a script with a
808 syntax error.
809
Gregory P. Smithd06fa472009-07-04 02:46:54 +0000810- Issue #3392: The subprocess communicate() method no longer fails in select()
811 when file descriptors are large; communicate() now uses poll() when possible.
812
Antoine Pitrou54923952009-07-01 14:53:06 +0000813- Issue #6369: Fix an RLE decompression bug in the binhex module.
814
Hirokazu Yamamoto7a9e1bd2009-06-29 14:54:12 +0000815- Issue #6344: Fixed a crash of mmap.read() when passed a negative argument.
816
Benjamin Peterson5a6deb42009-06-28 21:35:31 +0000817- The deprecated function string.maketrans has been removed.
818
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +0000819- Issue #4005: Fixed a crash of pydoc when there was a zip file present in
820 sys.path.
821
Alexandre Vassalotticf76e1a2009-07-22 03:24:36 +0000822- Issue #6218: io.StringIO and io.BytesIO instances are now picklable.
823
Gregory P. Smithb6e8c7e2010-02-27 07:22:22 +0000824- The os.get_exec_path() function to return the list of directories that will
825 be searched for an executable when launching a subprocess was added.
826
Gregory P. Smith3fdd9642010-02-28 18:57:46 +0000827- Issue #7481: When a threading.Thread failed to start it would leave the
828 instance stuck in initial state and present in threading.enumerate().
829
Gregory P. Smitha59c59f2010-03-01 00:17:40 +0000830- Issue #1068268: The subprocess module now handles EINTR in internal
831 os.waitpid and os.read system calls where appropriate.
832
Gregory P. Smith1a530912010-03-01 04:59:27 +0000833- Issue #6729: Added ctypes.c_ssize_t to represent ssize_t.
834
Steven Bethard6d265692010-03-02 09:22:57 +0000835- Issue #6247: The argparse module has been added to the standard library.
836
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +0000837Extension Modules
838-----------------
Mark Dickinson12c4bdb2009-09-28 19:21:11 +0000839
Matthias Klosea8349752010-03-15 13:25:28 +0000840- Issue #8142: Update libffi to the 3.0.9 release.
841
Matthias Klose9550aa12010-03-15 12:49:46 +0000842- Issue #6949: Allow the _dbm extension to be built with db 4.8.x.
843
Georg Brandlc0e22b72010-03-14 10:51:01 +0000844- Issue #6544: fix a reference leak in the kqueue implementation's error
845 handling.
846
Martin v. Löwis3afc62e2010-02-18 16:27:43 +0000847- Stop providing crtassem.h symbols when compiling with Visual Studio 2010, as
848 msvcr100.dll is not a platform assembly anymore.
849
Martin v. Löwis7aed61a2009-11-27 14:09:49 +0000850- Issue #6508: Add posix.{getresuid,getresgid,setresuid,setresgid}.
851
Mark Dickinson40714af2009-10-08 15:59:20 +0000852- Issue #7078: Set struct.__doc__ from _struct.__doc__.
853
Mark Dickinson45f992a2009-12-19 11:20:49 +0000854- Issue #3366: Add erf, erfc, expm1, gamma, lgamma functions to math module.
Mark Dickinson12c4bdb2009-09-28 19:21:11 +0000855
Ronald Oussoren2efd9242009-09-20 14:53:22 +0000856- Issue #6877: It is now possible to link the readline extension to the
857 libedit readline emulation on OSX 10.5 or later.
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +0000858
Mark Dickinson5ea7d642009-09-06 21:24:55 +0000859- Issue #6848: Fix curses module build failure on OS X 10.6.
860
Brett Cannon2f827382009-08-13 19:58:01 +0000861- Fix a segfault that could be triggered by expat with specially formed input.
862
Mark Dickinson1f268282009-07-28 17:22:36 +0000863- Issue #6561: '\d' in a regex now matches only characters with
864 Unicode category 'Nd' (Number, Decimal Digit). Previously it also
865 matched characters with category 'No'.
866
Alexandre Vassalottiad077152009-07-15 17:49:23 +0000867- Issue #4509: Array objects are no longer modified after an operation
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +0000868 failing due to the resize restriction in-place when the object has exported
869 buffers.
870
Alexandre Vassalottiad077152009-07-15 17:49:23 +0000871- Issue #2389: Array objects are now pickled in a portable manner.
872
Matthias Klosea50ffe52010-01-22 01:10:19 +0000873- Expat: Fix DoS via XML document with malformed UTF-8 sequences
874 (CVE_2009_3560).
875
Gregory P. Smith24cec9f2010-03-01 06:18:41 +0000876- Issue #7242: On Solaris 9 and earlier calling os.fork() from within a
877 thread could raise an incorrect RuntimeError about not holding the import
878 lock. The import lock is now reinitialized after fork.
879
Gregory P. Smithc78d79c2010-03-01 05:54:14 +0000880- Issue #7999: os.setreuid() and os.setregid() would refuse to accept a -1
881 parameter on some platforms such as OS X.
882
Martin v. Löwis95c46012009-06-28 09:36:14 +0000883Build
884-----
885
Benjamin Petersone6c9d242010-03-30 17:34:47 +0000886- Issue #3326: Build Python without -fno-strict-aliasing when the gcc does not
887 give false warnings.
888
Antoine Pitrou7a61ba92010-03-21 19:25:26 +0000889- Issue #1628484: The Makefile doesn't ignore the CFLAGS environment
890 variable anymore. It also forwards the LDFLAGS settings to the linker
891 when building a shared library.
892
Martin v. Löwis09c86af2010-03-16 11:03:13 +0000893- Issue #6716: Quote -x arguments of compileall in MSI installer.
Martin v. Löwis4ad70df2010-03-16 16:19:47 +0000894 Exclude 2to3 tests from compileall.
Martin v. Löwis09c86af2010-03-16 11:03:13 +0000895
Martin v. Löwis19ed3c82010-02-15 21:45:06 +0000896- Issue #3920, #7903: Define _BSD_SOURCE on OpenBSD 4.4 through 4.9.
Martin v. Löwis7671efc2010-02-15 08:35:16 +0000897
Mark Dickinsonde508002010-01-17 21:02:55 +0000898- Issue #7632: When Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER is defined, disable the
899 private memory allocation scheme in dtoa.c and use PyMem_Malloc and
900 PyMem_Free instead. Also disable caching of powers of 5.
901
Benjamin Petersond78735d2010-01-01 16:04:23 +0000902- Issue #6491: Allow --with-dbmliborder to specify that no dbms will be built.
903
904- Issue #6943: Use pkg-config to find the libffi headers when the
905 --with-system-ffi flag is used.
906
Benjamin Petersonb2d90462009-12-31 03:23:10 +0000907- Issue #7609: Add a --with-system-expat option that causes the system's expat
908 library to be used for the pyexpat module instead of the one included with
909 Python.
910
Benjamin Petersone57d6762009-12-30 03:02:03 +0000911- Issue #7589: Only build the nis module when the correct header files are
912 found.
913
Martin v. Löwis7df3b9e2010-01-02 10:06:19 +0000914- Switch to OpenSSL 0.9.8l and sqlite 3.6.21 on Windows.
Martin v. Löwise5692cd2009-12-22 08:57:39 +0000915
Mark Dickinsonf4243f62009-11-15 13:47:27 +0000916- Issue #5792: Extend the short float repr support to x86 systems using
917 icc or suncc.
918
Mark Dickinsona25b1312009-10-31 10:18:44 +0000919- Issue #6603: Change READ_TIMESTAMP macro in ceval.c so that it
920 compiles correctly under gcc on x86-64. This fixes a reported
921 problem with the --with-tsc build on x86-64.
922
Ronald Oussoren5bbab3e2009-09-06 11:01:15 +0000923- Issue #6802: Fix build issues on MacOSX 10.6
924
Guilherme Polo5d377bd2009-08-16 14:44:14 +0000925- Issue #6244: Allow detect_tkinter to look for Tcl/Tk 8.6.
926
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc321e5332009-07-02 23:08:45 +0000927- Issue 4601: 'make install' did not set the appropriate permissions on
928 directories.
929
Martin v. Löwis95c46012009-06-28 09:36:14 +0000930- Issue 5390: Add uninstall icon independent of whether file
931 extensions are installed.
932
Florent Xicluna3f88c0e2010-03-19 14:40:31 +0000933- Issue #7541: when using ``python-config`` with a framework install the
934 compiler might use the wrong library.
Ronald Oussoren585c1732009-12-24 14:21:55 +0000935
Collin Winterbf199072010-03-19 21:17:17 +0000936- python-config now supports multiple options on the same command line.
937
Mark Dickinsond3aa6462009-09-17 00:06:41 +0000938Documentation
Tarek Ziadéf3b33222009-08-21 14:22:45 +0000939------------
940
R. David Murraye821cb62010-03-08 17:48:38 +0000941- A small wsgi server was added as Tools/scripts/serve.py, and is used to
942 implement a local documentation server via 'make serve' in the doc directory.
943
Barry Warsaw615368f2010-02-05 19:12:30 +0000944- Updating `Using Python` documentation to include description of CPython's
945 -J and -X options.
946
Brett Cannon757df6e2009-08-30 04:00:12 +0000947- Document that importing a module that has None in sys.modules triggers an
948 ImportError.
949
Tarek Ziadéf3b33222009-08-21 14:22:45 +0000950- Issue #6556: Fixed the Distutils configuration files location explanation
951 for Windows.
Florent Xiclunaf089fd62010-03-19 14:25:03 +0000952
Matthias Klosec8b16f82010-01-31 16:14:37 +0000953- Update python manual page (options -B, -O0, -s, environment variables
954 PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE, PYTHONNOUSERSITE).
Tarek Ziadéf3b33222009-08-21 14:22:45 +0000955
Brett Cannonb49c70c2009-07-15 04:08:33 +0000956Tests
957-----
958
Florent Xiclunafd1b0932010-03-28 00:25:02 +0000959- Issue #8180 and #8207: Fix test_pep277 on OS X and add more tests for special
960 Unicode normalization cases.
Florent Xiclunaeb136182010-03-21 18:49:50 +0000961
Florent Xicluna3f88c0e2010-03-19 14:40:31 +0000962- Issue #7783: test.support.open_urlresource invalidates the outdated files
963 from the local cache.
Florent Xiclunaf089fd62010-03-19 14:25:03 +0000964
Florent Xiclunab14930c2010-03-13 15:26:44 +0000965- Issue #7849: Now the utility ``check_warnings`` verifies if the warnings are
966 effectively raised.
967
Florent Xiclunac9c79782010-03-08 12:24:53 +0000968- The four path modules (genericpath, macpath, ntpath, posixpath) share a
969 common TestCase for some tests: test_genericpath.CommonTest.
970
Florent Xicluna0e62a142010-03-06 17:34:48 +0000971- Print platform information when running the whole test suite, or using
972 the --verbose flag.
973
Florent Xicluna683a7e72010-03-03 00:06:37 +0000974- Issue #767675: enable test_pep277 on POSIX platforms with Unicode-friendly
975 filesystem encoding.
976
R. David Murray378c0cf2010-02-24 01:46:21 +0000977- Issue #6292: for the moment at least, the test suite runs cleanly if python
978 is run with the -OO flag. Tests requiring docstrings are skipped.
979
Ezio Melotti184bdfb2010-02-18 09:37:05 +0000980- Issue #7712: test.support gained a new `temp_cwd` context manager which is
981 now also used by regrtest to run all the tests in a temporary directory.
982 The original CWD is saved in `support.SAVEDCWD`.
983 Thanks to Florent Xicluna who helped with the patch.
984
Mark Dickinsonedff7af2010-02-13 18:34:53 +0000985- Issue #7924: Fix an intermittent 'XXX undetected error' failure in
986 test_capi (only seen so far on platforms where the curses module
987 wasn't built), due to an uncleared exception.
988
Florent Xicluna3f88c0e2010-03-19 14:40:31 +0000989- Issue #7728: test_timeout was changed to use support.bind_port instead of a
990 hard coded port.
R. David Murraye9e95932010-02-06 05:00:15 +0000991
R. David Murray445448c2009-12-20 17:28:31 +0000992- Issue #7376: instead of running a self-test (which was failing) when called
993 with no arguments, doctest.py now gives a usage message.
994
R. David Murrayef1992b2009-12-16 15:19:27 +0000995- Issue #7396: fix regrtest -s, which was broken by the -j enhancement.
996
R. David Murray596da442009-12-14 23:06:11 +0000997- Issue #7498: test_multiprocessing now uses test.support.find_unused_port
R. David Murray83396232009-12-14 22:45:15 +0000998 instead of a hardcoded port number in test_rapid_restart.
999
R. David Murrayba311052009-12-04 00:09:14 +00001000- Issue #7431: use TESTFN in test_linecache instead of trying to create a
1001 file in the Lib/test directory, which might be read-only for the
1002 user running the tests.
1003
R. David Murray35768ad2009-11-15 00:23:21 +00001004- Issue #7324: add a sanity check to regrtest argument parsing to
1005 catch the case of an option with no handler.
1006
R. David Murray7dc72cc2009-11-14 16:13:02 +00001007- Issue #7312: Add a -F flag to run the selected tests in a loop until
1008 a test fails. Can be combined with -j.
1009
Antoine Pitrou060cee22009-11-13 16:29:04 +00001010- Issue #6551: test_zipimport could import and then destroy some modules of
1011 the encodings package, which would make other tests fail further down
1012 the road because the internally cached encoders and decoders would point
1013 to empty global variables.
1014
Antoine Pitrou941ee882009-11-11 20:59:38 +00001015- Issue #7295: Do not use a hardcoded file name in test_tarfile.
1016
Antoine Pitrou557934f2009-11-06 22:41:14 +00001017- Issue #7270: Add some dedicated unit tests for multi-thread synchronization
1018 primitives such as Lock, RLock, Condition, Event and Semaphore.
1019
Brett Cannoncfed0292009-11-05 01:26:57 +00001020- Issue #7248 (part 2): Use a unique temporary directory for importlib source
1021 tests instead of tempfile.tempdir. This prevents the tests from sharing state
1022 between concurrent executions on the same system.
1023
Brett Cannon0ae45112009-11-05 01:17:22 +00001024- Issue #7248: In importlib.test.source.util a try/finally block did not make
1025 sure that some referenced objects actually were created in the block before
1026 calling methods on the object.
1027
Antoine Pitrou65c9c642009-10-30 17:25:12 +00001028- Issue #7222: Make thread "reaping" more reliable so that reference
1029 leak-chasing test runs give sensible results. The previous method of
1030 reaping threads could return successfully while some Thread objects were
1031 still referenced. This also introduces a new private function:
1032 :func:`_thread._count()`.
1033
R. David Murray27144602009-10-19 15:26:16 +00001034- Issue #7151: fixed regrtest -j so that output to stderr from a test no
1035 longer runs the risk of causing the worker thread to fail.
1036
Antoine Pitrou4de39cd2009-10-10 21:08:31 +00001037- Issue #7055: test___all__ now greedily detects all modules which have an
1038 __all__ attribute, rather than using a hardcoded and incomplete list.
1039
R. David Murray0bc11ae2009-10-18 22:18:17 +00001040- Issue #7058: Added save/restore for things like sys.argv and cwd to
1041 runtest_inner in regrtest, with warnings if the called test modifies them,
1042 and a new section in the summary report at the end.
R. David Murray097e51f2009-10-07 23:38:55 +00001043
Mark Dickinson2e304402009-10-04 18:43:54 +00001044- Issue #7042: Fix test_signal (test_itimer_virtual) failure on OS X 10.6.
1045
Brett Cannon3c273842009-07-20 00:14:29 +00001046- Fixed tests in importlib.test.source.test_abc_loader that were masking
1047 the proper exceptions that should be raised for missing or improper code
1048 object bytecode.
1049
Brett Cannonb49c70c2009-07-15 04:08:33 +00001050- Removed importlib's custom test discovery code and switched to
1051 unittest.TestLoader.discover().
1052
Antoine Pitroua69ba652010-01-18 21:20:53 +00001053Tools/Demos
1054-----------
1055
1056- iobench (a file I/O benchmark) and ccbench (a concurrency benchmark) were
1057 added to the `Tools/` directory. They were previously living in the
1058 sandbox.
1059
Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +00001060
Benjamin Peterson01bf2362009-06-13 14:50:22 +00001061What's New in Python 3.1?
1062=========================
1063
1064*Release date: 27-June-2009*
1065
1066Core and Builtins
1067-----------------
1068
Mark Dickinsonad195562009-06-24 19:01:32 +00001069- Issue #6334: Fix bug in range length calculation for ranges with
1070 large arguments.
1071
Raymond Hettinger159eac92009-06-23 20:38:54 +00001072- Issue #6329: Fixed iteration for memoryview objects (it was being blocked
1073 because it wasn't recognized as a sequence).
1074
Benjamin Peterson01bf2362009-06-13 14:50:22 +00001075Library
1076-------
1077
Georg Brandld07ac642009-08-13 07:50:57 +00001078- Issue #6126: Fixed pdb command-line usage.
1079
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00001080- Issue #6314: logging: performs extra checks on the "level" argument.
Vinay Sajip0f6eac22009-06-21 17:46:49 +00001081
Facundo Batista10706e22009-06-19 20:34:30 +00001082- Issue #6274: Fixed possible file descriptors leak in subprocess.py
1083
Benjamin Peterson6a38ced2009-06-14 18:32:19 +00001084- Accessing io.StringIO.buffer now raises an AttributeError instead of
1085 io.UnsupportedOperation.
1086
Vinay Sajip0f6eac22009-06-21 17:46:49 +00001087- Issue #6271: mmap tried to close invalid file handle (-1) when anonymous.
Hirokazu Yamamoto3d8827d2009-06-14 04:58:16 +00001088 (On Unix)
1089
Gregory P. Smithe88749b2009-06-26 08:05:13 +00001090- Issue #1202: zipfile module would cause a struct.error when attempting to
1091 store files with a CRC32 > 2**31-1.
1092
Matthias Kloseab2b7552009-06-22 13:05:52 +00001093Extension Modules
1094-----------------
1095
1096- Issue #5590: Remove unused global variable in pyexpat extension.
1097
Benjamin Peterson01bf2362009-06-13 14:50:22 +00001098
Antoine Pitrou3b1b8072009-05-30 21:01:23 +00001099What's New in Python 3.1 Release Candidate 2?
1100=============================================
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00001101
Benjamin Petersonc7c12282009-06-13 13:15:04 +00001102*Release date: 13-June-2009*
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00001103
1104Core and Builtins
1105-----------------
1106
Raymond Hettinger94f55832009-06-12 18:40:16 +00001107- Fixed SystemError triggered by "range([], 1, -1)".
1108
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc66f8c432009-06-09 21:30:01 +00001109- Issue #5924: On Windows, a large PYTHONPATH environment variable
1110 (more than 255 characters) would be completely ignored.
1111
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc24e581f2009-06-01 21:28:37 +00001112- Issue #4547: When debugging a very large function, it was not always
1113 possible to update the lineno attribute of the current frame.
1114
Antoine Pitrou8e124f32009-05-30 21:41:10 +00001115- Issue #5330: C functions called with keyword arguments were not reported by
Alexandre Vassalottiea3714e2009-07-17 09:34:31 +00001116 the various profiling modules (profile, cProfile). Patch by Hagen Fürstenau.
Antoine Pitrou8e124f32009-05-30 21:41:10 +00001117
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00001118Library
1119-------
1120
Tarek Ziadéc9e6cec2009-07-12 08:27:26 +00001121- Issue #6438: Fixed distutils.cygwinccompiler.get_versions : the regular
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00001122 expression string pattern was trying to match against a bytes returned by
Tarek Ziadéc9e6cec2009-07-12 08:27:26 +00001123 Popen. Tested under win32 to build the py-postgresql project.
1124
Martin v. Löwis83eacca2009-06-12 17:31:41 +00001125- Issue #6258: Support AMD64 in bdist_msi.
1126
R. David Murray58641de2009-06-12 15:33:19 +00001127- Issue #6195: fixed doctest to no longer try to read 'source' data from
1128 binary files.
1129
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00001130- Issue #5262: Fixed bug in next rollover time computation in
1131 TimedRotatingFileHandler.
1132
Benjamin Peterson0926ad12009-06-06 18:02:12 +00001133- Issue #6217: The C implementation of io.TextIOWrapper didn't include the
1134 errors property. Additionally, the errors and encoding properties of StringIO
1135 are always None now.
1136
Antoine Pitroud9dfaa92009-06-04 20:32:06 +00001137- Issue #6137: The pickle module now translates module names when loading
1138 or dumping pickles with a 2.x-compatible protocol, in order to make data
1139 sharing and migration easier. This behaviour can be disabled using the
1140 new `fix_imports` optional argument.
1141
Raymond Hettinger40925d22009-06-04 18:32:39 +00001142- Removed the ipaddr module.
1143
Georg Brandlb54d8012009-06-04 09:11:51 +00001144- Issue #3613: base64.{encode,decode}string are now called
1145 base64.{encode,decode}bytes which reflects what type they accept and return.
1146 The old names are still there as deprecated aliases.
1147
Georg Brandl317185a2009-06-04 09:00:56 +00001148- Issue #5767: Remove sgmlop support from xmlrpc.client.
1149
Martin v. Löwis74b7e442009-06-01 04:23:07 +00001150- Issue #6150: Fix test_unicode on wide-unicode builds.
1151
Antoine Pitrouc06de472009-05-30 21:04:26 +00001152- Issue #6149: Fix initialization of WeakValueDictionary objects from non-empty
1153 parameters.
1154
Martin v. Löwis79b13872009-06-01 04:13:14 +00001155Windows
1156-------
1157
Martin v. Löwisb7a51562009-06-07 17:55:17 +00001158- Issue #6221: Delete test registry key before running the test.
1159
Martin v. Löwis79b13872009-06-01 04:13:14 +00001160- Issue #6158: Package Sine-1000Hz-300ms.aif in MSI file.
1161
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc11729992009-06-01 21:16:17 +00001162C-API
1163-----
1164
1165- Issue #5735: Python compiled with --with-pydebug should throw an
1166 ImportError when trying to import modules compiled without
1167 --with-pydebug, and vice-versa.
1168
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00001169
Brett Cannonc6d936e2009-06-07 20:09:53 +00001170Build
1171-----
1172
1173- Issue #6154: Make sure the intl library is added to LIBS if needed. Also
1174 added LIBS to OS X framework builds.
1175
Ronald Oussoren99aab652009-06-08 21:22:57 +00001176- Issue #5809: Specifying both --enable-framework and --enable-shared is
1177 an error. Configure now explicity tells you about this.
1178
1179
Brett Cannonc6d936e2009-06-07 20:09:53 +00001180
Mark Dickinson4eb88b32009-05-11 16:41:34 +00001181What's New in Python 3.1 release candidate 1?
1182=============================================
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00001183
Benjamin Petersone6ad3872009-05-30 15:30:16 +00001184*Release date: 2009-05-30*
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00001185
1186Core and Builtins
1187-----------------
1188
Martin v. Löwis8ed91b22009-05-29 16:22:26 +00001189- Issue #6097: Escape UTF-8 surrogates resulting from mbstocs conversion
1190 of the command line.
1191
Martin v. Löwisc15bdef2009-05-29 14:47:46 +00001192- Issue #6012: Add cleanup support to O& argument parsing.
1193
Eric Smith41669ca2009-05-23 14:23:22 +00001194- Issue #6089: Fixed str.format with certain invalid field specifiers
1195 that would raise SystemError.
1196
Raymond Hettinger2bcde142009-05-29 04:52:27 +00001197- Issue #5982: staticmethod and classmethod now expose the wrapped
1198 function with __func__.
1199
Raymond Hettinger91e3b9d2009-05-28 22:20:03 +00001200- Added support for multiple context managers in the same with-statement.
1201 Deprecated contextlib.nested() which is no longer needed.
Georg Brandl0c315622009-05-25 21:10:36 +00001202
Mark Dickinson6b1e43b2009-05-20 18:41:04 +00001203- Issue #5829: complex("1e500") no longer raises OverflowError. This
1204 makes it consistent with float("1e500") and interpretation of real
1205 and imaginary literals.
1206
Hirokazu Yamamoto8223c242009-05-17 04:21:53 +00001207- Issue #3527: Removed Py_WIN_WIDE_FILENAMES which is not used any more.
1208
R. David Murraydd226ea2009-05-13 12:27:21 +00001209- Issue #5994: the marshal module now has docstrings.
1210
Mark Dickinsond1ec8b22009-05-11 15:45:15 +00001211- Issue #5981: Fix three minor inf/nan issues in float.fromhex:
1212 (1) inf and nan strings with trailing whitespace were incorrectly
1213 rejected; (2) parsing of strings representing infinities and nans
1214 was locale aware; and (3) the interpretation of fromhex('-nan')
1215 didn't match that of float('-nan').
1216
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00001217Library
1218-------
1219
Martin v. Löwisb6a748b2009-05-29 15:23:17 +00001220- Issue #4859: Implement PEP 383 for pwd, spwd, and grp.
1221
R. David Murrayfb123912009-05-28 18:19:00 +00001222- smtplib 'login' and 'cram-md5' login are also fixed (see Issue #5259).
1223
R. David Murray1f1b9d32009-05-27 20:56:59 +00001224- Issue #6121: pydoc now ignores leading and trailing spaces in the
1225 argument to the 'help' function.
1226
Georg Brandlfaf41492009-05-26 18:31:11 +00001227- Issue #6118: urllib.parse.quote_plus ignored the encoding and errors
1228 arguments for strings with a space in them.
1229
Raymond Hettinger089ba7f2009-05-27 00:38:24 +00001230- collections.namedtuple() was not working with the following field
1231 names: cls, self, tuple, itemgetter, and property.
1232
Benjamin Peterson14a3dd72009-05-25 00:51:58 +00001233- In unittest, using a skipping decorator on a class is now equivalent to
1234 skipping every test on the class. The ClassTestSuite class has been removed.
1235
Martin v. Löwis70ccd162009-05-24 19:47:22 +00001236- Issue #6050: Don't fail extracting a directory from a zipfile if
1237 the directory already exists.
1238
Antoine Pitrou61f77b52009-05-24 15:46:13 +00001239- Issue #1309352: fcntl now converts its third arguments to a C `long` rather
1240 than an int, which makes some operations possible under 64-bit Linux (e.g.
1241 DN_MULTISHOT with F_NOTIFY).
1242
Antoine Pitrou716c4442009-05-23 19:04:03 +00001243- Issue #5761: Add the name of the underlying file to the repr() of various
1244 IO objects.
1245
R. David Murraycaa27b72009-05-23 18:49:56 +00001246- Issue #5259: smtplib plain auth login no longer gives a traceback. Fix
1247 by Musashi Tamura, tests by Marcin Bachry.
1248
Antoine Pitrouc3ee1662009-05-23 16:02:33 +00001249- Issue #1983: Fix functions taking or returning a process identifier to use
1250 the dedicated C type ``pid_t`` instead of a C ``int``. Some platforms have
1251 a process identifier type wider than the standard C integer type.
1252
R. David Murray87e20742009-05-23 01:30:26 +00001253- Issue #4066: smtplib.SMTP_SSL._get_socket now correctly returns the socket.
1254 Patch by Farhan Ahmad, test by Marcin Bachry.
1255
Antoine Pitrou6e610062009-05-15 17:04:50 +00001256- Issue #2116: Weak references and weak dictionaries now support copy()ing and
1257 deepcopy()ing.
1258
Antoine Pitrouc1d09362009-05-15 12:15:51 +00001259- Issue #1655: Make imaplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
1260
Antoine Pitrou37d1c182009-05-14 21:54:00 +00001261- Issue #5918: Fix a crash in the parser module.
1262
Antoine Pitrou2ca24f02009-05-14 21:30:46 +00001263- Issue #1664: Make nntplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
1264
Antoine Pitroue4501852009-05-14 18:55:55 +00001265- Issue #5006: Better handling of unicode byte-order marks (BOM) in the io
1266 library. This means, for example, that opening an UTF-16 text file in
1267 append mode doesn't add a BOM at the end of the file if the file isn't
1268 empty.
1269
R. David Murray74b89242009-05-13 17:33:03 +00001270- Issue #4050: inspect.findsource/getsource now raise an IOError if the 'source'
1271 file is a binary. Patch by Brodie Rao, tests by Daniel Diniz. This fix
1272 corrects a pydoc regression.
1273
R. David Murray99352742009-05-07 18:24:38 +00001274- Issue 5955: aifc's close method did not close the file it wrapped,
1275 now it does. This also means getfp method now returns the real fp.
1276
Benjamin Peterson932073a2009-05-23 16:14:33 +00001277Installation
1278------------
1279
1280- Issue #6047: fullinstall has been removed because Python 3's executable will
1281 now be known as python3.
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00001282
Ronald Oussorenbe7149e2009-05-26 21:39:08 +00001283- Lib/smtpd.py is no longer installed as a script.
1284
Martin v. Löwisdb1c3992009-05-23 10:38:26 +00001285Extension Modules
1286-----------------
1287
Martin v. Löwisa6a9c4d2009-05-30 06:15:30 +00001288- Issue #3061: Use wcsftime for time.strftime where available.
Martin v. Löwis1b01ccd2009-05-30 06:13:40 +00001289
Martin v. Löwise23c8682009-05-29 16:01:34 +00001290- Issue #4873: Fix resource leaks in error cases of pwd and grp.
1291
Martin v. Löwisdb1c3992009-05-23 10:38:26 +00001292- Issue #6093: Fix off-by-one error in locale.strxfrm.
1293
Benjamin Peterson744af442009-05-23 18:51:49 +00001294- The _functools and _locale modules are now built into the libpython shared
1295 library instead of as extension modules.
Benjamin Peterson3dc22e82009-05-23 17:09:43 +00001296
Antoine Pitrou20327222009-05-24 20:39:11 +00001297Build
1298-----
1299
1300- Issue #3585: Add pkg-config support. It creates a python-2.7.pc file
1301 and a python3.pc symlink in the $(LIBDIR)/pkgconfig directory. Patch by
1302 Clinton Roy.
1303
Brett Cannon1262e7c2009-05-11 01:47:11 +00001304Tests
1305-----
1306
1307- Issue 5442: Tests for importlib were not properly skipping case-sensitivity
1308 tests on darwin even when the OS was installed on a case-sensitive
1309 filesystem. Also fixed tests that should not be run when
1310 sys.dont_write_bytecode is true.
1311
1312
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00001313What's New in Python 3.1 beta 1?
1314================================
1315
Benjamin Peterson5c5f3de2009-05-06 20:43:28 +00001316*Release date: 2009-05-06*
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00001317
1318Core and Builtins
1319-----------------
1320
Mark Dickinson865e01a2009-05-07 16:37:01 +00001321- Issue #5914: Add new C API function PyOS_string_to_double, and
1322 deprecate PyOS_ascii_strtod and PyOS_ascii_atof.
1323
Eric Smith741191f2009-05-06 13:08:15 +00001324- Issue #3382: float.__format__, complex.__format__, and %-formatting
1325 no longer map 'F' to 'f'. Because of issue #5859 (below), this only
1326 affects nan -> NAN and inf -> INF.
1327
Mark Hammond5a607a32009-05-06 08:04:54 +00001328- Issue #5799: ntpath (ie, os.path on Windows) fully supports UNC pathnames
1329 in all operations, including splitdrive, split, etc. splitunc() now issues
1330 a PendingDeprecation warning.
1331
Eric Smith63376222009-05-05 14:04:18 +00001332- Issue #5920: For float.__format__, change the behavior with the
1333 empty presentation type (that is, not one of 'e', 'f', 'g', or 'n')
1334 to be like 'g' but with at least one decimal point and with a
1335 default precision of 12. Previously, the behavior the same but with
1336 a default precision of 6. This more closely matches str(), and
1337 reduces surprises when adding alignment flags to the empty
1338 presentation type. This also affects the new complex.__format__ in
1339 the same way.
1340
Martin v. Löwis011e8422009-05-05 04:43:17 +00001341- Implement PEP 383, Non-decodable Bytes in System Character Interfaces.
1342
R. David Murrayb18500d2009-05-04 22:59:07 +00001343- Issue #5890: in subclasses of 'property' the __doc__ attribute was
1344 shadowed by classtype's, even if it was None. property now
1345 inserts the __doc__ into the subclass instance __dict__.
1346
Antoine Pitrou244651a2009-05-04 18:56:13 +00001347- Issue #4426: The UTF-7 decoder was too strict and didn't accept some legal
1348 sequences. Patch by Nick Barnes and Victor Stinner.
1349
Martin v. Löwise0a2b722009-05-10 08:08:56 +00001350- Issue #3672: Reject surrogates in utf-8 codec; add surrogatepass error handler.
Martin v. Löwisdb12d452009-05-02 18:52:14 +00001351
Benjamin Petersond2e0c792009-05-01 20:40:59 +00001352- Issue #5883: In the io module, the BufferedIOBase and TextIOBase ABCs have
1353 received a new method, detach(). detach() disconnects the underlying stream
1354 from the buffer or text IO and returns it.
1355
Mark Dickinson33841c32009-05-01 15:37:04 +00001356- Issue #5859: Remove switch from '%f' to '%g'-style formatting for
1357 floats with absolute value over 1e50. Also remove length
1358 restrictions for float formatting: '%.67f' % 12.34 and '%.120e' %
1359 12.34 no longer raise an exception.
Mark Dickinsonf489caf2009-05-01 11:42:00 +00001360
Eric Smith741191f2009-05-06 13:08:15 +00001361- Issue #1588: Add complex.__format__. For example,
Eric Smith58a42242009-04-30 01:00:33 +00001362 format(complex(1, 2./3), '.5') now produces a sensible result.
1363
Mark Dickinsond3ca5572009-04-29 18:47:07 +00001364- Issue #5864: Fix empty format code formatting for floats so that it
1365 never gives more than the requested number of significant digits.
1366
Eric Smith6dc46f52009-04-27 20:39:49 +00001367- Issue #5793: Rationalize isdigit / isalpha / tolower, etc. Includes
1368 new Py_ISDIGIT / Py_ISALPHA / Py_TOLOWER, etc. in pctypes.h.
1369
Eric Smithcc32a112009-04-26 21:35:14 +00001370- Issue #5835: Deprecate PyOS_ascii_formatd.
1371
Martin v. Löwis71efeb72009-04-26 01:02:07 +00001372- Issue #4971: Fix titlecase for characters that are their own
1373 titlecase, but not their own uppercase.
1374
Benjamin Peterson193152c2009-04-25 01:08:45 +00001375- Issue #5283: Setting __class__ in __del__ caused a segfault.
1376
Mark Dickinsonad476da2009-04-23 19:14:16 +00001377- Issue #5816: complex(repr(z)) now recovers z exactly, even when
1378 z involves nans, infs or negative zeros.
1379
Mark Dickinson4a16e3a2009-04-23 19:15:48 +00001380- Issue #3166: Make int -> float conversions correctly rounded.
Mark Dickinsonc6300392009-04-20 21:38:00 +00001381
Mark Dickinsone6a076d2009-04-18 11:48:33 +00001382- Issue #1869 (and many duplicates): make round(x, n) correctly
1383 rounded for a float x, by using the decimal <-> binary conversions
1384 from Python/dtoa.c. As a consequence, (e.g.) round(x, 2) now
1385 consistently agrees with format(x, '.2f').
1386
Benjamin Petersonae937c02009-04-18 20:54:08 +00001387- Issue #5787: object.__getattribute__(some_type, "__bases__") segfaulted on
1388 some builtin types.
1389
Eric Smith0923d1d2009-04-16 20:16:10 +00001390- Issue #5772: format(1e100, '<') produces '1e+100', not '1.0e+100'.
1391
Eric Smith35e84722009-04-16 20:21:28 +00001392- Issue #5515: str.format() type 'n' combined with commas and leading
1393 zeros no longer gives odd results with ints and floats.
Eric Smith0923d1d2009-04-16 20:16:10 +00001394
1395- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for
1396 floats.
1397
Mark Dickinson3370cce2009-04-17 22:40:53 +00001398- The str function switches to exponential notation at
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00001399 1e11, not 1e12. This avoids printing 13 significant digits in
1400 situations where only 12 of them are correct. Example problem
1401 value: str(1e11 + 0.5). (This minor issue has existed in 2.x for a
1402 long time.)
1403
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00001404- Issue #1580: On most platforms, use a 'short' float repr: for a
1405 finite float x, repr(x) now outputs a string based on the shortest
1406 sequence of decimal digits that rounds to x. Previous behaviour was
1407 to output 17 significant digits and then strip trailing zeros.
Mark Dickinson3370cce2009-04-17 22:40:53 +00001408 Another minor difference is that the new repr switches to
1409 exponential notation at 1e16 instead of the previous 1e17; this
1410 avoids misleading output in some cases.
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00001411
1412 There's a new sys attribute sys.float_repr_style, which takes
1413 the value 'short' to indicate that we're using short float repr,
1414 and 'legacy' if the short float repr isn't available for one
1415 reason or another.
1416
1417 The float repr change involves incorporating David Gay's 'perfect
1418 rounding' code into the Python core (it's in Python/dtoa.c). As a
1419 secondary consequence, all string-to-float and float-to-string
1420 conversions (including all float formatting operations) will be
1421 correctly rounded on these platforms.
1422
1423 See issue 1580 discussions for details of platforms for which
1424 this change does not apply.
1425
Benjamin Peterson2808d3c2009-04-15 21:34:27 +00001426- Issue #5759: float() didn't call __float__ on str subclasses.
1427
Georg Brandlabc38772009-04-12 15:51:51 +00001428- The string.maketrans() function is deprecated; there is a new static method
1429 maketrans() on the bytes and bytearray classes. This removes confusion about
1430 the types string.maketrans() is supposed to work with, and mirrors the
1431 methods available on the str class.
1432
R. David Murraydc6da8a2009-04-09 22:16:43 +00001433- Issue #2170: refactored xml.dom.minidom.normalize, increasing both
1434 its clarity and its speed.
1435
Matthias Klose091c7b12009-04-07 13:24:27 +00001436- Issue #1113244: Py_XINCREF, Py_DECREF, Py_XDECREF: Add `do { ... } while (0)'
1437 to avoid compiler warnings.
1438
Walter Dörwald8dc33d52009-05-06 14:41:26 +00001439- Issue #3739: The unicode-internal encoder now reports the number of characters
1440 consumed like any other encoder (instead of the number of bytes).
1441
Benjamin Peterson0b4915e2009-04-25 21:11:45 +00001442Installation
1443------------
1444
1445- Issue #5756: Install idle and pydoc with a 3 suffix.
1446
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00001447Library
1448-------
1449
Martin v. Löwis403117a2009-05-24 19:19:17 +00001450- Issue #5311: bdist_msi can now build packages that do not depend on a
1451 specific Python version.
1452
Raymond Hettingereb816952009-05-29 01:22:18 +00001453- Issue #5150: IDLE's format menu now has an option to strip trailing
1454 whitespace.
1455
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00001456- Issue #5940: distutils.command.build_clib.check_library_list was not doing
Tarek Ziadédd9f65f2009-05-06 07:26:24 +00001457 the right type checkings anymore.
1458
Thomas Heller00cfc372009-05-05 19:04:40 +00001459- Issue #4875: On win32, ctypes.util.find_library does no longer
1460 return directories.
1461
Georg Brandl243ad662009-05-05 09:00:19 +00001462- Issue #5142: Add the ability to skip modules while stepping to pdb.
1463
Georg Brandl991f9202009-05-05 08:31:54 +00001464- Issue #1309567: Fix linecache behavior of stripping subdirectories when
1465 looking for files given by a relative filename.
1466
Georg Brandleaa84ef2009-05-05 08:14:33 +00001467- Issue #5923: Update the ``turtle`` module to version 1.1, add two new
1468 turtle demos in Demo/turtle.
1469
Antoine Pitrou3c33e082009-05-04 21:21:36 +00001470- Issue #5692: In :class:`zipfile.Zipfile`, fix wrong path calculation when
1471 extracting a file to the root directory.
1472
Hirokazu Yamamotobbb9be72009-05-04 05:56:46 +00001473- Issue #5913: os.listdir() should fail for empty path on windows.
1474
Antoine Pitroua9f48a02009-05-02 21:41:14 +00001475- Issue #5084: unpickling now interns the attribute names of pickled objects,
1476 saving memory and avoiding growth in size of subsequent pickles. Proposal
1477 and original patch by Jake McGuire.
1478
Benjamin Petersonc6b607d2009-05-02 12:36:44 +00001479- The json module now works exclusively with str and not bytes.
1480
Gregory P. Smithe54dff52009-05-01 22:13:48 +00001481- Issue #3959: The ipaddr module has been added to the standard library.
1482 Contributed by Google.
1483
Antoine Pitrou7fff0962009-05-01 21:09:44 +00001484- Issue #3002: ``shutil.copyfile()`` and ``shutil.copytree()`` now raise an
1485 error when a named pipe is encountered, rather than blocking infinitely.
1486
Raymond Hettinger1f0db402009-04-29 00:38:08 +00001487- Issue #5857: tokenize.tokenize() now returns named tuples.
1488
Thomas Hellerc1edc2d2009-04-28 19:55:58 +00001489- Issue #4305: ctypes should now build again on mipsel-linux-gnu
1490
Antoine Pitrou7a0fedf2009-04-27 22:31:40 +00001491- Issue #1734234: Massively speedup ``unicodedata.normalize()`` when the
1492 string is already in normalized form, by performing a quick check beforehand.
1493 Original patch by Rauli Ruohonen.
1494
Antoine Pitrou57f3d932009-04-27 21:04:19 +00001495- Issue #5853: calling a function of the mimetypes module from several threads
1496 at once could hit the recursion limit if the mimetypes database hadn't been
1497 initialized before.
1498
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00001499- Issue #5854: Updated __all__ to include some missing names and remove some
1500 names which should not be exported.
1501
Thomas Heller34596a92009-04-24 20:50:00 +00001502- Issue #3102: All global symbols that the _ctypes extension defines
1503 are now prefixed with 'Py' or '_ctypes'.
1504
1505- Issue #5041: ctypes does now allow pickling wide character.
1506
Mark Dickinsond4d95f82009-04-24 14:06:19 +00001507- Issue #5812: For the two-argument form of the Fraction constructor,
1508 Fraction(m, n), m and n are permitted to be arbitrary Rational
1509 instances.
1510
Mark Dickinsoncf63f2f2009-04-22 17:50:21 +00001511- Issue #5812: Fraction('1e6') is valid: more generally, any string
1512 that's valid for float() is now valid for Fraction(), with the
1513 exception of strings representing NaNs and infinities.
1514
Antoine Pitroucf4c7492009-04-19 00:09:36 +00001515- Issue #5734: BufferedRWPair was poorly tested and had several glaring
1516 bugs. Patch by Brian Quinlan.
1517
R. David Murray9e94ddf2009-04-13 17:06:33 +00001518- Issue #1161031: fix readwrite select flag handling: POLLPRI now
1519 results in a handle_expt_event call, not handle_read_event, and POLLERR
1520 and POLLNVAL now call handle_close, not handle_expt_event. Also,
1521 dispatcher now has an 'ignore_log_types' attribute for suppressing
1522 log messages, which is set to 'warning' by default.
1523
Matthias Klosea3d29e82009-04-07 13:13:10 +00001524- Issue #2703: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher.__init__: Provide default values for
1525 new arguments introduced in 2.5.
1526
Walter Dörwald1b08b302009-04-25 14:13:56 +00001527- Issue #5828 (Invalid behavior of unicode.lower): Fixed bogus logic in
1528 makeunicodedata.py and regenerated the Unicode database (This fixes
1529 u'\u1d79'.lower() == '\x00').
1530
Matthias Klose535336f2009-04-07 13:49:45 +00001531Extension Modules
1532-----------------
1533
Benjamin Petersone04b6272009-05-04 22:25:21 +00001534- Issue #5881: Remove old undocumented compatibility interfaces in hashlib and
1535 pwd.
1536
Mark Dickinsonea835e72009-04-19 20:40:33 +00001537- Issue #5463: In struct module, remove deprecated float coercion
1538 for integer type codes: struct.pack('L', 0.3) should now raise
1539 an error. The _PY_STRUCT_FLOAT_COERCE constant has been removed.
1540 The version number has been bumped to 0.3.
1541
Matthias Klose535336f2009-04-07 13:49:45 +00001542- Issue #5359: Readd the Berkley-DB detection code to allow _dbm be built
1543 using Berkley-DB.
1544
Nick Coghlan47384702009-04-22 16:13:36 +00001545Tests
1546-----
1547
1548- Issue #5354: New test support function import_fresh_module() makes
1549 it easy to import both normal and optimised versions of modules.
1550 test_heapq and test_warnings have been adjusted to use it, tests for
1551 other modules with both C and Python implementations in the stdlib
1552 can be adjusted to use it over time.
1553
Walter Dörwald4ba80132009-04-25 12:48:43 +00001554- Issue #5837: Certain sequences of calls to set() and unset() for
1555 support.EnvironmentVarGuard objects restored the environment variables
1556 incorrectly on __exit__.
1557
Benjamin Petersonb173f782009-05-05 22:31:58 +00001558C-API
1559-----
1560
1561- Issue #5630: A replacement PyCObject API, PyCapsule, has been added.
1562
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00001563
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00001564What's New in Python 3.1 alpha 2?
1565=================================
1566
Benjamin Peterson88f14352009-04-04 21:06:52 +00001567*Release date: 2009-4-4*
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00001568
1569Core and Builtins
1570-----------------
Benjamin Petersone099b372009-04-04 17:09:35 +00001571
Eric Smith1e1d7d22009-04-03 22:25:33 +00001572- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for
1573 integers.
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00001574
Benjamin Peterson8f76b492009-04-03 22:22:42 +00001575- Issue #5666: Py_BuildValue's 'c' code should create byte strings.
1576
Benjamin Peterson7fe98532009-04-02 00:33:55 +00001577- Issue #5499: The 'c' code for argument parsing functions now only accepts a
1578 byte, and the 'C' code only accepts a unicode character.
1579
Georg Brandl406b3d82009-04-11 21:24:37 +00001580- Fix a problem in PyErr_NormalizeException that leads to "undetected errors"
1581 when hitting the recursion limit under certain circumstances.
1582
Brett Cannon0759dd62009-04-01 18:13:07 +00001583- Issue #1665206: Remove the last eager import in _warnings.c and make it lazy.
1584
Georg Brandlab6f2f62009-03-31 04:16:10 +00001585- Fix a segfault when running test_exceptions with coverage, caused by
1586 insufficient checks in accessors of Exception.__context__.
1587
Guido van Rossum0ad59d42009-03-30 22:01:35 +00001588- Issue #5604: non-ASCII characters in module name passed to
1589 imp.find_module() were converted to UTF-8 while the path is
1590 converted to the default filesystem encoding, causing nonsense.
1591
Benjamin Peterson09832742009-03-26 17:15:46 +00001592- Issue #5126: str.isprintable() returned False for space characters.
1593
Ronald Oussorenfa1fcd12009-03-30 23:16:10 +00001594- Issue #4865: On MacOSX /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages is added to
1595 the end sys.path, for compatibility with the system install of Python.
1596
Antoine Pitrou3a652b12009-03-23 18:52:06 +00001597- Issue #4688: Add a heuristic so that tuples and dicts containing only
1598 untrackable objects are not tracked by the garbage collector. This can
1599 reduce the size of collections and therefore the garbage collection overhead
1600 on long-running programs, depending on their particular use of datatypes.
1601
Mark Dickinson17e4fdd2009-03-23 18:44:57 +00001602- Issue #5512: Rewrite PyLong long division algorithm (x_divrem) to
1603 improve its performance. Long divisions and remainder operations
1604 are now between 50% and 150% faster.
1605
Mark Dickinsonbd792642009-03-18 20:06:12 +00001606- Issue #4258: Make it possible to use base 2**30 instead of base
1607 2**15 for the internal representation of integers, for performance
1608 reasons. Base 2**30 is enabled by default on 64-bit machines. Add
1609 --enable-big-digits option to configure, which overrides the
1610 default. Add sys.int_info structseq to provide information about
1611 the internal format.
1612
Mark Dickinson081dfee2009-03-18 14:47:41 +00001613- Issue #4474: PyUnicode_FromWideChar now converts characters outside
1614 the BMP to surrogate pairs, on systems with sizeof(wchar_t) == 4
1615 and sizeof(Py_UNICODE) == 2.
1616
Eric Smith8ec90442009-03-14 12:29:34 +00001617- Issue #5237: Allow auto-numbered fields in str.format(). For
1618 example: '{} {}'.format(1, 2) == '1 2'.
1619
Antoine Pitrou652e7072009-03-13 19:25:20 +00001620- Issue #5392: when a very low recursion limit was set, the interpreter would
1621 abort with a fatal error after the recursion limit was hit twice.
1622
Matthias Klose042f1332009-04-04 14:32:42 +00001623- Issue #3845: In PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags avoid invalid memory access with
1624 short file names.
1625
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00001626Library
1627-------
1628
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00001629- Issue #2625: added missing items() call to the for loop in
R. David Murray548ac412009-04-02 19:44:43 +00001630 mailbox.MH.get_message().
1631
Hye-Shik Chang944820b2009-04-02 10:33:16 +00001632- Issue #5640: Fix _multibytecodec so that CJK codecs don't repeat
1633 error substitutions from non-strict codec error callbacks in
1634 incrementalencoder and StreamWriter.
1635
Georg Brandl33c28812009-04-01 23:07:29 +00001636- Issue #5656: Fix the coverage reporting when running the test suite with
1637 the -T argument.
1638
Raymond Hettinger3f10a952009-04-01 19:05:50 +00001639- Issue #5647: MutableSet.__iand__() no longer mutates self during iteration.
1640
Georg Brandl4ed72ac2009-04-01 04:28:33 +00001641- Issue #5624: Fix the _winreg module name still used in several modules.
1642
Benjamin Petersona1b49012009-03-31 23:11:32 +00001643- Issue #5628: Fix io.TextIOWrapper.read() with a unreadable buffer.
1644
Jesse Nollera9314042009-03-31 22:36:44 +00001645- Issue #5619: Multiprocessing children disobey the debug flag and causes
1646 popups on windows buildbots. Patch applied to work around this issue.
1647
Jesse Noller32d68c22009-03-31 18:48:42 +00001648- Issue #5400: Added patch for multiprocessing on netbsd compilation/support
1649
Hirokazu Yamamoto16caab02009-03-31 13:44:06 +00001650- Issue #5387: Fixed mmap.move crash by integer overflow.
1651
Jesse Nollerf8d00852009-03-31 03:25:07 +00001652- Issue #5261: Patch multiprocessing's semaphore.c to support context
1653 manager use: "with multiprocessing.Lock()" works now.
1654
Brett Cannon7f6b4f82009-03-30 21:30:26 +00001655- Issue #5236: Change time.strptime() to only take strings. Didn't work with
1656 bytes already but the failure was non-obvious.
1657
Jesse Noller7af4ef82009-03-30 16:47:15 +00001658- Issue #5177: Multiprocessing's SocketListener class now uses
1659 socket.SO_REUSEADDR on all connections so that the user no longer needs
1660 to wait 120 seconds for the socket to expire.
1661
Benjamin Peterson48e24782009-03-29 13:02:52 +00001662- Issue #5595: Fix UnboundedLocalError in ntpath.ismount().
1663
Antoine Pitrou66994e12009-03-29 00:45:26 +00001664- Issue #1174606: Calling read() without arguments of an unbounded file
1665 (typically /dev/zero under Unix) could crash the interpreter.
1666
Benjamin Peterson59406a92009-03-26 17:10:29 +00001667- The max_buffer_size arguments of io.BufferedWriter, io.BufferedRWPair, and
1668 io.BufferedRandom have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.2.
1669
Lars Gustäbel42e00912009-03-22 20:34:29 +00001670- Issue #5068: Fixed the tarfile._BZ2Proxy.read() method that would loop
1671 forever on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used
1672 with mode 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or
1673 partial bzip2 compressed data.
1674
Mark Dickinson79f52032009-03-17 23:12:51 +00001675- Issue #2110: Add support for thousands separator and 'n' type
1676 specifier to Decimal.__format__
1677
Mark Dickinson9c59fe02009-03-17 18:15:08 +00001678- Fix Decimal.__format__ bug that swapped the meanings of the '<' and
1679 '>' alignment characters.
1680
Antoine Pitrou0ae29cf2009-03-13 22:33:17 +00001681- The error detection code in FileIO.close() could fail to reflect the `errno`
1682 value, and report it as -1 instead.
1683
Antoine Pitroua28fcfd2009-03-13 23:42:55 +00001684- Issue #5016: FileIO.seekable() could return False if the file position
1685 was negative when truncated to a C int. Patch by Victor Stinner.
1686
Mark Dickinsonae681df2009-03-21 10:26:31 +00001687Extension Modules
1688-----------------
1689
Benjamin Petersone099b372009-04-04 17:09:35 +00001690- Issue #5391: mmap now deals exclusively with bytes.
1691
Mark Dickinsonae681df2009-03-21 10:26:31 +00001692- Issue #5463: In struct module, remove deprecated overflow wrapping
1693 when packing an integer: struct.pack('=L', -1) now raises
Mark Dickinsonb40b9472009-03-29 16:58:21 +00001694 struct.error instead of returning b'\xff\xff\xff\xff'. The
1695 _PY_STRUCT_RANGE_CHECKING and _PY_STRUCT_OVERFLOW_MASKING constants
1696 have been removed from the struct module.
Mark Dickinsonae681df2009-03-21 10:26:31 +00001697
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00001698
Benjamin Petersona58a6262009-03-07 16:34:40 +00001699What's New in Python 3.1 alpha 1
Barry Warsaw97f005d2008-12-03 16:46:14 +00001700================================
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00001701
Benjamin Petersona58a6262009-03-07 16:34:40 +00001702*Release date: 2009-03-07*
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00001703
1704Core and Builtins
1705-----------------
1706
Benjamin Peterson4fa88fa2009-03-04 00:14:51 +00001707- The io module has been reimplemented in C for speed.
1708
Raymond Hettingerb0d56af2009-03-03 10:52:49 +00001709- Give dict views an informative __repr__.
1710
Eric Smith5e5c0db2009-02-20 14:25:03 +00001711- Issue #5247: Improve error message when unknown format codes are
1712 used when using str.format() with str, int, and float arguments.
1713
Hirokazu Yamamoto575d1332009-02-16 09:13:20 +00001714- Issue #5249: time.strftime returned malformed string when format string
1715 contained non ascii character on windows.
1716
Benjamin Petersonf5b52242009-03-02 23:31:26 +00001717- Issue #4626: compile(), exec(), and eval() ignore the coding cookie if the
1718 source has already been decoded into str.
1719
Antoine Pitrou79eee6b2009-02-13 14:01:05 +00001720- Issue #5186: Reduce hash collisions for objects with no __hash__ method by
1721 rotating the object pointer by 4 bits to the right.
1722
Mark Dickinson87ec0852009-02-09 17:15:59 +00001723- Issue #4575: Fix Py_IS_INFINITY macro to work correctly on x87 FPUs:
1724 it now forces its argument to double before testing for infinity.
1725
Benjamin Petersonee1ae7c2009-02-08 21:07:20 +00001726- Issue #5137: Make len() correctly raise a TypeError when a __len__ method
1727 returns a non-number type.
1728
Benjamin Peterson87618552009-02-08 15:00:52 +00001729- Issue #5182: Removed memoryview.__str__.
1730
Mark Dickinsonc008a172009-02-01 13:59:22 +00001731- Issue #1717: Removed builtin cmp() function, dropped tp_compare
1732 slot, the C API functions PyObject_Compare and PyUnicode_Compare and
Mark Dickinsone94c6792009-02-02 20:36:42 +00001733 the type definition cmpfunc. The tp_compare slot has been renamed
1734 to tp_reserved, and is reserved for future usage.
Mark Dickinsonf02e0aa2009-02-01 12:13:56 +00001735
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00001736- Issue #1242657: the __len__() and __length_hint__() calls in several tools
Raymond Hettingere8364232009-02-02 22:55:09 +00001737 were suppressing all exceptions. These include list() and bytearray().
1738
Mark Dickinson1124e712009-01-28 21:25:58 +00001739- Issue #4707: round(x, n) now returns an integer if x is an integer.
1740 Previously it returned a float.
1741
Antoine Pitroub52ec782009-01-25 16:34:23 +00001742- Issue #4753: By enabling a configure option named '--with-computed-gotos'
1743 on compilers that support it (notably: gcc, SunPro, icc), the bytecode
1744 evaluation loop is compiled with a new dispatch mechanism which gives
1745 speedups of up to 20%, depending on the system, on various benchmarks.
1746
Antoine Pitrou81fabdb2009-01-22 10:11:36 +00001747- Issue #4874: Most builtin decoders now reject unicode input.
1748
Mark Dickinson9ffc0202009-01-20 20:45:53 +00001749- Issue #4842: Don't allow trailing 'L' when constructing an integer
1750 from a string.
1751
Benjamin Peterson05e782f2009-01-19 15:15:02 +00001752- Issue #4991: os.fdopen now raises an OSError for invalid file descriptors.
1753
Antoine Pitroue4bc7f62009-01-17 21:06:43 +00001754- Issue #4838: When a module is deallocated, free the memory backing the
1755 optional module state data.
1756
Mark Dickinson8055afd2009-01-17 10:04:45 +00001757- Issue #4910: Rename nb_long slot to nb_reserved, and change its
1758 type to (void *).
1759
Antoine Pitrou8d4e5052009-01-13 22:59:11 +00001760- Issue #4935: The overflow checking code in the expandtabs() method common
1761 to str, bytes and bytearray could be optimized away by the compiler, letting
1762 the interpreter segfault instead of raising an error.
1763
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf343e012009-01-12 23:58:21 +00001764- Issue #3720: Fix a crash when an iterator modifies its class and removes its
1765 __next__ method.
1766
Mark Dickinsone5e298f2009-01-12 20:49:19 +00001767- Issue #4910: Builtin int() function and PyNumber_Long/PyNumber_Int API
1768 function no longer attempt to call the __long__ slot to convert an object
1769 to an integer. Only the __int__ and __trunc__ slots are examined.
1770
Martin v. Löwis7c2b66c2009-01-12 08:21:03 +00001771- Issue #4893: Use NT threading on CE.
1772
Martin v. Löwisec59d042009-01-12 07:59:10 +00001773- Issue #4915: Port sysmodule to Windows CE.
1774
Antoine Pitrouab868312009-01-10 15:40:25 +00001775- Issue #4868: utf-8, utf-16 and latin1 decoding are now 2x to 4x faster. The
1776 common cases are optimized thanks to a dedicated fast path and a moderate
1777 amount of loop unrolling.
1778
Antoine Pitrou14b78f52009-01-09 22:27:08 +00001779- Issue #4074: Change the criteria for doing a full garbage collection (i.e.
1780 collecting the oldest generation) so that allocating lots of objects without
1781 destroying them does not show quadratic performance. Based on a proposal by
1782 Martin von Löwis at
1783 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080579.html.
1784
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00001785- Issue #4604: Some objects of the I/O library could still be used after
Antoine Pitrou8043cf82009-01-09 19:54:29 +00001786 having been closed (for instance, a read() call could return some
1787 previously buffered data). Patch by Dmitry Vasiliev.
1788
Antoine Pitrou05608432009-01-09 18:53:14 +00001789- Issue #4705: Fix the -u ("unbuffered binary stdout and stderr") command-line
1790 flag to work properly. Furthermore, when specifying -u, the text stdout
1791 and stderr streams have line-by-line buffering enabled (the default being
1792 to buffer arbitrary chunks of data).
1793
Raymond Hettinger35631532009-01-09 03:58:09 +00001794- The internal table, _PyLong_DigitValue, is now an array of unsigned chars
1795 instead of ints (reducing its size from 4 to 8 times thereby reducing
1796 Python's overall memory).
1797
Antoine Pitroud35cbf62009-01-06 19:02:24 +00001798- Issue #1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with
1799 an existing .py counterpart, override the co_filename attributes of all
1800 code objects if the original filename is obsolete (which can happen if the
1801 file has been renamed, moved, or if it is accessed through different paths).
1802 Patch by Ziga Seilnacht and Jean-Paul Calderone.
1803
Antoine Pitrouc3b39242009-01-03 16:59:18 +00001804- Issue #4580: Fix slicing of memoryviews when the item size is greater than
1805 one byte. Also fixes the meaning of len() so that it returns the number of
1806 items, rather than the size in bytes.
1807
Martin v. Löwis5c88d812009-01-02 20:47:48 +00001808- Issue #4075: Use OutputDebugStringW in Py_FatalError.
1809
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc374e2202009-01-01 23:05:36 +00001810- Issue #4747: When the terminal does not use utf-8, executing a script with
1811 non-ascii characters in its name could fail with a "SyntaxError: None" error.
1812
Hirokazu Yamamoto0f22d692009-01-01 16:03:45 +00001813- Issue #4797: IOError.filename was not set when _fileio.FileIO failed to open
Hirokazu Yamamoto8ed9a802009-01-01 16:09:52 +00001814 file with `bytes' filename on Windows.
Hirokazu Yamamoto0f22d692009-01-01 16:03:45 +00001815
Antoine Pitrou7ddda782009-01-01 15:35:33 +00001816- Issue #3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator
1817 did not get collected.
1818
Nick Coghlanf1f2f682008-12-30 07:29:12 +00001819- Issue #4701: PyObject_Hash now implicitly calls PyType_Ready on types
1820 where the tp_hash and tp_dict slots are both NULL.
1821
Georg Brandlccc47b62008-12-28 11:44:14 +00001822- Issue #4759: None is now allowed as the first argument of
1823 bytearray.translate(). It was always allowed for bytes.translate().
1824
Skip Montanaro80072cb2008-12-23 03:51:14 +00001825- Added test case to ensure attempts to read from a file opened for writing
1826 fail.
1827
Antoine Pitrou51f3ef92008-12-20 13:14:23 +00001828- Issue #3106: Speedup some comparisons (str/str and int/int).
1829
Antoine Pitrouf289ae62008-12-18 11:06:25 +00001830- Issue #2183: Simplify and optimize bytecode for list, dict and set
1831 comprehensions. Original patch for list comprehensions by Neal Norwitz.
1832
Antoine Pitrou621601a2008-12-17 23:18:19 +00001833- Issue #2467: gc.DEBUG_STATS reported invalid elapsed times. Also, always
1834 print elapsed times, not only when some objects are uncollectable /
1835 unreachable. Original patch by Neil Schemenauer.
1836
Mark Dickinson54bc1ec2008-12-17 16:19:07 +00001837- Issue #3439: Add a bit_length method to int.
1838
Mark Dickinsonda2706b2008-12-11 18:03:03 +00001839- Issue #2173: When getting device encoding, check that return value of
1840 nl_langinfo is not the empty string. This was causing silent build
1841 failures on OS X.
1842
Jeffrey Yasskinb9083f32008-12-11 06:18:33 +00001843- Issue #4597: Fixed several opcodes that weren't always propagating
1844 exceptions.
1845
1846- Issue #4589: Fixed exception handling when the __exit__ function of a
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc10b24e82008-12-10 23:49:33 +00001847 context manager returns a value that cannot be converted to a bool.
1848
Mark Dickinsonfd24b322008-12-06 15:33:31 +00001849- Issue #4445: Replace "sizeof(PyBytesObject)" with
1850 "offsetof(PyBytesObject, ob_sval) + 1" when allocating memory for
1851 bytes instances. On a typical machine this saves 3 bytes of memory
1852 (on average) per allocation of a bytes instance.
1853
Christian Heimesa872de52008-12-05 08:26:55 +00001854- Issue #4533: File read operation was dreadfully slow due to a slowly
1855 growing read buffer. Fixed by using the same growth rate algorithm as
1856 Python 2.x.
1857
Antoine Pitrou5504e892008-12-06 21:27:53 +00001858- Issue #4509: Various issues surrounding resize of bytearray objects to
1859 which there are buffer exports (e.g. memoryview instances).
1860
Georg Brandlf9734072008-12-07 15:30:06 +00001861- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()``
1862 method on file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still
1863 kept open but the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO``
1864 object also got a new readonly attribute ``closefd``.
Matthias Klose7e1b8fa2008-11-26 17:22:04 +00001865
Antoine Pitroubc420402008-12-07 20:14:49 +00001866- Issue #4569: Interpreter crash when mutating a memoryview with an item size
1867 larger than 1.
1868
Benjamin Peterson371ccfb2008-12-27 19:03:36 +00001869- Issue #4748: Lambda generators no longer return a value.
1870
Gregory P. Smithccc5ae72009-03-02 05:21:55 +00001871- The re.sub(), re.subn() and re.split() functions now accept a flags parameter.
1872
Walter Dörwaldc1651a02009-05-03 22:55:55 +00001873- Issue #5108: Handle %s like %S, %R and %A in PyUnicode_FromFormatV(): Call
1874 PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8() once, remember the result and output it in a second
1875 step. This avoids problems with counting UTF-8 bytes that ignores the effect
1876 of using the replace error handler in PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8().
1877
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00001878Library
1879-------
Tarek Ziadé38e3d512009-02-27 12:58:56 +00001880
Tarek Ziadé04fe7c02009-10-25 23:08:47 +00001881- Issue #7071: byte-compilation in Distutils is now done with respect to
1882 sys.dont_write_bytecode.
1883
Tarek Ziadé978cca62009-10-24 13:38:27 +00001884- Issue #7066: archive_util.make_archive now restores the cwd if an error is
1885 raised. Initial patch by Ezio Melotti.
1886
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +00001887- Issue #6516: Added owner/group support when creating tar archives in
Tarek Ziadé05b30342009-10-02 23:56:02 +00001888 Distutils.
1889
Tarek Ziadé31d46072009-09-21 13:55:19 +00001890- Issue #6954: Fixed crash when using DISTUTILS_DEBUG flag in Distutils.
1891
Tarek Ziadé165581c2009-09-09 08:48:07 +00001892- Issue #6163: Fixed HP-UX runtime library dir options in
1893 distutils.unixcompiler. Initial patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar and
1894 Michael Haubenwallner.
1895
Tarek Ziadé4a608c02009-08-20 21:28:05 +00001896- Issue #6693: New functions in site.py to get user/global site packages paths.
1897
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbc347802009-07-28 22:18:57 +00001898- Issue #6511: ZipFile now raises BadZipfile (instead of an IOError) when
1899 opening an empty or very small file.
1900
1901- Issue #6545: Removed assert statements in distutils.Extension, so the
Tarek Ziadé2f19bb12009-07-22 08:57:28 +00001902 behavior is similar when used with -O.
1903
Benjamin Petersonbed7d042009-07-19 21:01:52 +00001904- unittest has been split up into a package. All old names should still work.
1905
Tarek Ziadéf8926b22009-07-16 16:18:19 +00001906- Issue #6466: now distutils.cygwinccompiler and distutils.emxccompiler
1907 uses the same refactored function to get gcc/ld/dllwrap versions numbers.
1908 It's `distutils.util.get_compiler_versions`. Added deprecation warnings
1909 for the obsolete get_versions() functions.
1910
Alexandre Vassalottie52e3782009-07-17 09:18:18 +00001911- Issue #6433: fixed issues with multiprocessing.pool.map hanging on empty list
1912
1913- Issue #6314: logging: Extra checks on the "level" argument in more places.
1914
1915- Issue #2622: Fixed an ImportError when importing email.messsage from a
1916 standalone application built with py2exe or py2app.
1917
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00001918- Issue #6455: Fixed test_build_ext under win32.
Tarek Ziadéb7815e32009-07-10 09:14:31 +00001919
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00001920- Issue #6377: Enabled the compiler option, and deprecate its usage as an
Tarek Ziadédd07ebb2009-07-06 13:52:17 +00001921 attribute.
1922
Tarek Ziadé05bf01a2009-07-04 02:04:21 +00001923- Issue #6413: Fixed the log level in distutils.dist for announce.
1924
Tarek Ziadée10d6de2009-07-03 08:33:28 +00001925- Issue #6403: Fixed package path usage in build_ext.
1926
Alexandre Vassalottie52e3782009-07-17 09:18:18 +00001927- Issues #5155, 5313, 5331: multiprocessing.Process._bootstrap was
1928 unconditionally calling "os.close(sys.stdin.fileno())" resulting in file
1929 descriptor errors
1930
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00001931- Issue #6365: Distutils build_ext inplace mode was copying the compiled
Tarek Ziadé0156f912009-06-29 16:19:22 +00001932 extension in a subdirectory if the extension name had dots.
1933
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00001934- Issue #6164: Added an AIX specific linker argument in Distutils
Tarek Ziadé8f480e52009-06-28 21:30:52 +00001935 unixcompiler. Original patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
1936
Tarek Ziadé25bd2062009-06-28 21:26:27 +00001937- Issue #6286: Now Distutils upload command is based on urllib2 instead of
1938 httplib, allowing the usage of http_proxy.
1939
Tarek Ziadé5e06a652009-06-16 07:43:42 +00001940- Issue #6287: Added the license field in Distutils documentation.
1941
Tarek Ziadéff543362009-06-11 09:25:41 +00001942- Issue #6263: Fixed syntax error in distutils.cygwincompiler.
1943
Tarek Ziadéabcc3f42009-06-11 08:31:17 +00001944- Issue #5201: distutils.sysconfig.parse_makefile() now understands `$$`
1945 in Makefiles. This prevents compile errors when using syntax like:
1946 `LDFLAGS='-rpath=\$$LIB:/some/other/path'`. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
1947
Hirokazu Yamamoto2703fd92009-05-29 09:14:04 +00001948- Issue #6131: test_modulefinder leaked when run after test_distutils.
1949 Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
1950
Tarek Ziadé77c8b372009-05-28 13:01:13 +00001951- Issue #6048: Now Distutils uses the tarfile module in archive_util.
1952
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00001953- Issue #6062: In distutils, fixed the package option of build_ext. Feedback
Tarek Ziadé822eb842009-05-19 16:22:57 +00001954 and tests on pywin32 by Tim Golden.
1955
Tarek Ziadé93fb3aa2009-05-18 12:29:06 +00001956- Issue #6053: Fixed distutils tests on win32. patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
1957
Tarek Ziadéd18a84e2009-05-18 08:07:46 +00001958- Issue #6046: Fixed the library extension when distutils build_ext is used
1959 inplace. Initial patch by Roumen Petrov.
1960
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00001961- Issue #6041: Now distutils `sdist` and `register` commands use `check` as a
Tarek Ziadé5af55c62009-05-16 16:52:13 +00001962 subcommand.
1963
Tarek Ziadé4210c6e2009-05-14 20:20:47 +00001964- Issue #6022: a test file was created in the current working directory by
1965 test_get_outputs in Distutils.
1966
Tarek Ziadéff0e5002009-05-12 17:14:01 +00001967- Issue #5977: distutils build_ext.get_outputs was not taking into account the
1968 inplace option. Initial patch by kxroberto.
1969
Tarek Ziadé06fbee12009-05-10 10:34:01 +00001970- Issue #5984: distutils.command.build_ext.check_extensions_list checks were broken
1971 for old-style extensions.
1972
Tarek Ziadébe5b1b92009-05-09 10:09:11 +00001973- Issue #5976: Fixed Distutils test_check_environ.
1974
Tarek Ziadé5662d3e2009-05-07 21:24:43 +00001975- Issue #5941: Distutils build_clib command was not working anymore because
1976 of an incomplete costumization of the archiver command. Added ARFLAGS in the
1977 Makefile besides AR and make Distutils use it. Original patch by David
1978 Cournapeau.
1979
R. David Murrayb507d2e2009-04-29 15:34:32 +00001980- Issue #2245: aifc now skips chunk types it doesn't recognize, per spec.
1981
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00001982- Issue #5874: distutils.tests.test_config_cmd is not locale-sensitive
Tarek Ziadé81623822009-04-29 08:07:44 +00001983 anymore.
1984
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00001985- Issue #5810: Fixed Distutils test_build_scripts so it uses
Tarek Ziadé939f9c82009-04-25 12:53:56 +00001986 sysconfig.get_config_vars.
1987
Tarek Ziadé23336082009-04-25 12:39:56 +00001988- Issue #4951: Fixed failure in test_httpservers.
1989
Thomas Hellerd3cfe992009-04-24 20:10:24 +00001990- Issue #5795: Fixed test_distutils failure on Debian ppc.
1991
Tarek Ziadé822e1d42009-04-13 12:37:57 +00001992- Issue #5607: fixed Distutils test_get_platform for Mac OS X fat binaries.
1993
Georg Brandl1f9fa312009-04-27 16:42:58 +00001994- Issue #5741: don't disallow "%%" (which is an escape for "%") when setting
1995 a value in SafeConfigParser.
1996
Tarek Ziadéf396ecf2009-04-11 15:00:43 +00001997- Issue #5732: added a new command in Distutils: check.
1998
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00001999- Issue #5731: Distutils bdist_wininst no longer worked on non-Windows
Tarek Ziadéa6191802009-04-09 22:02:39 +00002000 platforms. Initial patch by Paul Moore.
2001
Tarek Ziadéf6370502009-04-05 22:57:21 +00002002- Issue #5095: Added bdist_msi to the list of bdist supported formats.
2003 Initial fix by Steven Bethard.
2004
Tarek Ziadé889b0aa2009-04-05 21:49:36 +00002005- Issue #1491431: Fixed distutils.filelist.glob_to_re for edge cases.
2006 Initial fix by Wayne Davison.
2007
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00002008- Issue #5694: removed spurious test output in Distutils (test_clean).
Tarek Ziadéea261632009-04-05 18:33:34 +00002009
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00002010- Issue #1326077: fix the formatting of SyntaxErrors by the traceback module.
Georg Brandl236f7972009-04-05 14:28:42 +00002011
Brett Cannonf47e84c2009-04-01 16:06:01 +00002012- Issue #1665206 (partially): Move imports in cgitb to the top of the module
2013 instead of performing them in functions. Helps prevent import deadlocking in
2014 threads.
2015
R. David Murraye59482e2009-04-01 03:42:00 +00002016- Issue #2522: locale.format now checks its first argument to ensure it has
2017 been passed only one pattern, avoiding mysterious errors where it appeared
2018 that it was failing to do localization.
2019
Tarek Ziadéb2e36f12009-03-31 22:37:55 +00002020- Issue #5583: Added optional Extensions in Distutils. Initial patch by Georg
2021 Brandl.
2022
Antoine Pitrou350370c2009-03-14 00:13:13 +00002023- Issue #1222: locale.format() bug when the thousands separator is a space
2024 character.
2025
Tarek Ziadé516db942009-03-11 12:52:00 +00002026- Issue #5472: Fixed distutils.test_util tear down. Original patch by
2027 Tim Golden.
2028
Raymond Hettinger5bb0f0e2009-03-10 12:56:32 +00002029- collections.deque() objects now have a read-only attribute called maxlen.
2030
Guilherme Polof45b4cc2009-03-07 02:19:14 +00002031- Issue #2638: Show a window constructed with tkSimpleDialog.Dialog only after
2032 it is has been populated and properly configured in order to prevent
2033 window flashing.
2034
Guilherme Polo56f5be52009-03-07 01:54:57 +00002035- Issue #4792: Prevent a segfault in _tkinter by using the
2036 guaranteed to be safe interp argument given to the PythonCmd in place of
2037 the Tcl interpreter taken from a PythonCmd_ClientData.
2038
2039- Issue #5193: Guarantee that tkinter.Text.search returns a string.
2040
Tarek Ziadé63b64c02009-03-07 00:51:53 +00002041- Issue #5394: removed > 2.3 syntax from distutils.msvc9compiler.
2042 Original patch by Akira Kitada.
2043
Hirokazu Yamamoto54d0df62009-03-06 03:04:07 +00002044- Issue #5334: array.fromfile() failed to insert values when EOFError was raised.
2045
Hirokazu Yamamoto8e722bc2009-03-05 14:33:01 +00002046- Issue #5385: Fixed mmap crash after resize failure on windows.
2047
Hirokazu Yamamoto0c988172009-03-03 22:41:26 +00002048- Issue #5179: Fixed subprocess handle leak on failure on windows.
2049
Raymond Hettinger2d32f632009-03-02 21:24:57 +00002050- PEP 372: Added collections.OrderedDict().
2051
Raymond Hettingera4f52b12009-03-02 22:28:31 +00002052- The _asdict() for method for namedtuples now returns an OrderedDict().
2053
Raymond Hettinger0663a1e2009-03-02 23:06:00 +00002054- configparser now defaults to using an ordered dictionary.
2055
Benjamin Petersone0124bd2009-03-09 21:04:33 +00002056- Issue #5401: Fixed a performance problem in mimetypes when ``from mimetypes
2057 import guess_extension`` was used.
2058
Hirokazu Yamamoto10c99372009-02-28 12:21:53 +00002059- Issue #1733986: Fixed mmap crash in accessing elements of second map object
2060 with same tagname but larger size than first map. (Windows)
2061
Hirokazu Yamamoto39c6dea2009-02-28 10:56:50 +00002062- Issue #5386: mmap.write_byte didn't check map size, so it could cause buffer
2063 overrun.
2064
Tarek Ziadéf0721222009-02-28 10:16:43 +00002065- Issue #1533164: Installed but not listed *.pyo was breaking Distutils
2066 bdist_rpm command.
2067
2068- Issue #5378: added --quiet option to Distutils bdist_rpm command.
2069
Tarek Ziadé38e3d512009-02-27 12:58:56 +00002070- Issue #5052: make Distutils compatible with 2.3 again.
2071
Tarek Ziadé0f31e6d2009-02-25 22:31:38 +00002072- Issue #5316: Fixed buildbot failures introduced by multiple inheritance
2073 in Distutils tests.
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00002074
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00002075- Issue #5287: Add exception handling around findCaller() call to help out
2076 IronPython.
2077
Hirokazu Yamamoto0654ccd2009-02-18 16:38:00 +00002078- Issue #5282: Fixed mmap resize on 32bit windows and unix. When offset > 0,
2079 The file was resized to wrong size.
2080
2081- Issue #5292: Fixed mmap crash on its boundary access m[len(m)].
2082
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00002083- Issue #2279: distutils.sdist.add_defaults now add files
Tarek Ziadé0d0506e2009-02-16 21:49:12 +00002084 from the package_data and the data_files metadata.
2085
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00002086- Issue #5257: refactored all tests in distutils, so they use
Tarek Ziadéc1375d52009-02-14 14:35:51 +00002087 support.TempdirManager, to avoid writing in the tests directory.
2088
Tarek Ziadé68c50952009-02-13 23:04:17 +00002089- Issue #4524: distutils build_script command failed with --with-suffix=3.
2090 Initial patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
2091
Tarek Ziadé811d6242009-02-13 22:26:15 +00002092- Issue #2461: added tests for distutils.util
2093
Mark Dickinsonc28ad272009-02-12 17:58:36 +00002094- Issue #4998: The memory saving effect of __slots__ had been lost on Fractions
2095 which inherited from numbers.py which did not have __slots__ defined. The
2096 numbers hierarchy now has its own __slots__ declarations.
2097
Antoine Pitroub353c122009-02-11 00:39:14 +00002098- Issue #4631: Fix urlopen() result when an HTTP response uses chunked
2099 encoding.
2100
Thomas Heller465c8022009-02-10 18:59:04 +00002101- Issue #5203: Fixed ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a
2102 function without argtypes (only occurs if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false).
2103
Tarek Ziadé7d5e9872009-02-10 12:36:33 +00002104- Issue #3386: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument was ignored
2105 under NT and OS2. Patch by Philip Jenvey.
2106
Brett Cannonbefb14f2009-02-10 02:10:16 +00002107- Issue #5128: Make compileall properly inspect bytecode to determine if needs
2108 to be recreated. This avoids a timing hole thanks to the old reliance on the
2109 ctime of the files involved.
2110
Guilherme Polob681df42009-02-09 22:33:59 +00002111- Issue #5122: Synchronize tk load failure check to prevent a potential
2112 deadlock.
2113
Benjamin Petersona86f2c02009-02-10 02:41:10 +00002114- Issue #1818: collections.namedtuple() now supports a keyword argument
2115 'rename' which lets invalid fieldnames be automatically converted to
2116 positional names in the form, _1, _2, ...
2117
Guilherme Poloae098992009-02-09 16:44:24 +00002118- Issue #4890: Handle empty text search pattern in Tkinter.Text.search.
2119
Nick Coghlan9a1d6e32009-02-08 03:37:27 +00002120- Issue #4512 (part 2): Promote ``ZipImporter._get_filename()`` to be a
2121 public documented method ``ZipImporter.get_filename()``.
2122
Nick Coghlan3f48ae32009-02-08 01:58:26 +00002123- Issue #4195: The ``runpy`` module (and the ``-m`` switch) now support
2124 the execution of packages by looking for and executing a ``__main__``
2125 submodule when a package name is supplied. Initial patch by Andi
2126 Vajda.
2127
Guilherme Polo491aee22009-02-06 23:16:11 +00002128- Issue #1731706: Call Tcl_ConditionFinalize for Tcl_Conditions that will
2129 not be used again (this requires Tcl/Tk 8.3.1), also fix a memory leak in
2130 Tkapp_Call when calling from a thread different than the one that created
2131 the Tcl interpreter. Patch by Robert Hancock.
2132
Eric Smith0e5b5622009-02-06 01:32:42 +00002133- Issue #4285: Change sys.version_info to be a named tuple. Patch by
2134 Ross Light.
2135
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00002136- Issue #1520877: Now distutils.sysconfig reads $AR from the
Tarek Ziadéd3409de2009-02-06 01:18:36 +00002137 environment/Makefile. Patch by Douglas Greiman.
2138
Tarek Ziadé70a74eb2009-02-06 00:38:35 +00002139- Issue #1276768: The verbose option was not used in the code of
2140 distutils.file_util and distutils.dir_util.
2141
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00002142- Issue #5132: Fixed trouble building extensions under Solaris with
Tarek Ziadé5874ef12009-02-05 22:56:14 +00002143 --enabled-shared activated. Initial patch by Dave Peterson.
2144
Guilherme Polo7f423952009-02-02 21:17:09 +00002145- Issue #1581476: Always use the Tcl global namespace when calling into Tcl.
2146
Raymond Hettinger85602262009-02-03 04:19:10 +00002147- The shelve module now defaults to pickle protocol 3.
2148
Brett Cannone61426e2009-01-30 01:31:34 +00002149- Fix a bug in the trace module where a bytes object from co_lnotab had its
2150 items being passed through ord().
2151
Antoine Pitrou0dcc3cd2009-01-29 20:26:59 +00002152- Issue #2047: shutil.move() could believe that its destination path was
2153 inside its source path if it began with the same letters (e.g. "src" vs.
2154 "src.new").
2155
Guilherme Polo5f238482009-01-28 14:41:10 +00002156- Added the ttk module. See issue #2983: Ttk support for Tkinter.
2157
Raymond Hettinger89e12962009-01-26 02:09:03 +00002158- Removed isSequenceType(), isMappingType, and isNumberType() from the
2159 operator module; use the abstract base classes instead. Also removed
2160 the repeat() function; use mul() instead.
2161
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00002162- Issue #5021: doctest.testfile() did not create __name__ and
Raymond Hettinger0f055172009-01-27 10:06:09 +00002163 collections.namedtuple() relied on __name__ being defined.
2164
2165- Backport importlib from Python 3.1. Only the import_module() function has
2166 been backported to help facilitate transitions from 2.7 to 3.1.
2167
Tarek Ziadé0302cf52009-01-26 17:23:20 +00002168- Issue #1885: distutils. When running sdist with --formats=tar,gztar
2169 the tar file was overriden by the gztar one.
2170
Tarek Ziadé4d4456f2009-01-25 18:27:45 +00002171- Issue #4863: distutils.mwerkscompiler has been removed.
2172
Raymond Hettingerd07d9392009-01-27 04:20:44 +00002173- Added a new itertools functions: combinations_with_replacement()
2174 and compress().
Raymond Hettinger6b3b0fc2009-01-26 02:56:58 +00002175
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00002176- Issue #5032: added a step argument to itertools.count() and
Raymond Hettinger30729212009-02-12 06:28:27 +00002177 allowed non-integer arguments.
2178
Jesse Noller41faa542009-01-25 03:45:53 +00002179- Fix and properly document the multiprocessing module's logging
2180 support, expose the internal levels and provide proper usage
2181 examples.
2182
Mark Dickinsoncddcf442009-01-24 21:46:33 +00002183- Issue #1672332: fix unpickling of subnormal floats, which was
2184 producing a ValueError on some platforms.
2185
Martin v. Löwisacbf4612009-01-24 16:19:45 +00002186- Issue #3881: Help Tcl to load even when started through the
2187 unreadable local symlink to "Program Files" on Vista.
2188
Martin v. Löwis59e47792009-01-24 14:10:07 +00002189- Issue #4710: Extract directories properly in the zipfile module;
2190 allow adding directories to a zipfile.
2191
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00002192- Issue #3807: _multiprocessing build fails when configure is passed
Jesse Noller6fd47e22009-01-23 14:09:08 +00002193 --without-threads argument. When this occurs, _multiprocessing will
2194 be disabled, and not compiled.
2195
Antoine Pitrou08838b62009-01-21 00:55:13 +00002196- Issue #5008: When a file is opened in append mode with the new IO library,
2197 do an explicit seek to the end of file (so that e.g. tell() returns the
2198 file size rather than 0). This is consistent with the behaviour of the
2199 traditional 2.x file object.
2200
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00002201- Issue #5013: Fixed a bug in FileHandler which occurred when the delay
2202 parameter was set.
2203
Mark Dickinson8dd05142009-01-20 20:43:58 +00002204- Issue #4842: Always append a trailing 'L' when pickling longs using
2205 pickle protocol 0. When reading, the 'L' is optional.
2206
Brett Cannonafccd632009-01-20 02:21:27 +00002207- Add the importlib package.
2208
Jesse Noller9a0fc972009-01-18 21:12:58 +00002209- Issue #4301: Patch the logging module to add processName support, remove
2210 _check_logger_class from multiprocessing.
2211
Jesse Noller1cbb17a2009-01-18 19:45:18 +00002212- Issue #3325: Remove python2.x try: except: imports for old cPickle from
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00002213 multiprocessing.
Jesse Nollerf70a5382009-01-18 19:44:02 +00002214
Benjamin Peterson9953a8d2009-01-17 04:15:01 +00002215- Issue #4959: inspect.formatargspec now works for keyword only arguments
2216 without defaults.
2217
Jesse Noller6214edd2009-01-19 16:23:53 +00002218- Issue #3321: _multiprocessing.Connection() doesn't check handle; added checks
2219 for *nix machines for negative handles and large int handles. Without this check
2220 it is possible to segfault the interpreter.
2221
Jesse Nollerb0516a62009-01-18 03:11:38 +00002222- Issue #4449: AssertionError in mp_benchmarks.py, caused by an underlying issue
2223 in sharedctypes.py.
2224
2225- Issue #1225107: inspect.isclass() returned True for instances with a custom
2226 __getattr__.
2227
Gregory P. Smithde3369f2009-01-12 04:50:11 +00002228- Issue #3826 and #4791: The socket module now closes the underlying socket
2229 appropriately when it is being used via socket.makefile() objects
2230 rather than delaying the close by waiting for garbage collection to do it.
2231
Raymond Hettingerb8baf632009-01-14 02:20:07 +00002232- Issue #1696199: Add collections.Counter() for rapid and convenient
2233 counting.
2234
Antoine Pitrou308705e2009-01-10 16:22:51 +00002235- Issue #3860: GzipFile and BZ2File now support the context manager protocol.
2236
Thomas Heller5e4e4272009-01-08 09:34:20 +00002237- Issue #4867: Fixed a crash in ctypes when passing a string to a
2238 function without defining argtypes.
2239
Antoine Pitrou42db3ef2009-01-04 21:37:59 +00002240- Issue #4272: Add an optional argument to the GzipFile constructor to override
2241 the timestamp in the gzip stream. The default value remains the current time.
2242 The information can be used by e.g. gunzip when decompressing. Patch by
2243 Jacques Frechet.
2244
Mark Dickinson315a20a2009-01-04 21:34:18 +00002245- Restore Python 2.3 compatibility for decimal.py.
2246
Guilherme Polo3f5f8222009-01-03 22:00:39 +00002247- Issue #3638: Remove functions from _tkinter module level that depend on
2248 TkappObject to work with multiple threads.
2249
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00002250- Issue #4718: Adapt the wsgiref package so that it actually works with
2251 Python 3.x, in accordance with the `official amendments of the spec
Antoine Pitrou38a66ad2009-01-03 18:41:49 +00002252 <http://www.wsgi.org/wsgi/Amendments_1.0>`_.
2253
Raymond Hettinger771ed762009-01-03 19:20:32 +00002254- Issue #4796: Added Decimal.from_float() and Context.create_decimal_from_float()
2255 to the decimal module.
2256
Georg Brandl3a9b0622009-01-03 22:07:57 +00002257- Fractions.from_float() no longer loses precision for integers too big to
2258 cast as floats.
2259
Mark Dickinsonf9236412009-01-02 23:23:21 +00002260- Issue #4812: add missing underscore prefix to some internal-use-only
2261 constants in the decimal module. (Dec_0 becomes _Dec_0, etc.)
2262
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00002263- Issue #4790: The nsmallest() and nlargest() functions in the heapq module
Georg Brandl3a9b0622009-01-03 22:07:57 +00002264 did unnecessary work in the common case where no key function was specified.
2265
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00002266- Issue #4795: inspect.isgeneratorfunction() returns False instead of None when
2267 the function is not a generator.
2268
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00002269- Issue #4702: Throwing a DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError in case
2270 no MSVC compiler is found under Windows. Original patch by Philip Jenvey.
Tarek Ziadé9df8ce32008-12-30 23:09:20 +00002271
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00002272- Issue #4646: distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup
Tarek Ziadé4450dcf2008-12-29 22:38:38 +00002273 function. Original patch by Thomas Heller.
2274
Martin v. Löwis1f1620e2008-12-29 16:27:13 +00002275- Issue #3767: Convert Tk object to string in tkColorChooser.
2276
Martin v. Löwise354d782008-12-29 16:03:04 +00002277- Issue #3248: Allow placing ScrolledText in a PanedWindow.
2278
Antoine Pitrou5acd41e2008-12-28 14:29:00 +00002279- Issue #4444: Allow assertRaises() to be used as a context handler, so that
2280 the code under test can be written inline if more practical.
2281
Georg Brandldb7b6b92009-01-01 15:53:14 +00002282- Issue #4739: Add pydoc help topics for symbols, so that e.g. help('@')
2283 works as expected in the interactive environment.
2284
Antoine Pitroudb5fe662008-12-27 15:50:40 +00002285- Issue #4756: zipfile.is_zipfile() now supports file-like objects. Patch by
2286 Gabriel Genellina.
2287
Antoine Pitrou180a3362008-12-14 16:36:46 +00002288- Issue #4574: reading an UTF16-encoded text file crashes if \r on 64-char
2289 boundary.
2290
Nick Coghlanf088e5e2008-12-14 11:50:48 +00002291- Issue #4223: inspect.getsource() will now correctly display source code
2292 for packages loaded via zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302
2293 loader). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
2294
2295- Issue #4201: pdb can now access and display source code loaded via
2296 zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302 loader). Original patch by
2297 Alexander Belopolsky.
2298
2299- Issue #4197: doctests in modules loaded via zipimport (or any other PEP
2300 302 conformant loader) will now work correctly in most cases (they
2301 are still subject to the constraints that exist for all code running
2302 from inside a module loaded via a PEP 302 loader and attempting to
2303 perform IO operations based on __file__). Original patch by
2304 Alexander Belopolsky.
2305
2306- Issues #4082 and #4512: Add runpy support to zipimport in a manner that
2307 allows backporting to maintenance branches. Original patch by
2308 Alexander Belopolsky.
2309
Antoine Pitrou7c59bc62008-12-13 23:20:54 +00002310- Issue #4163: textwrap module: allow word splitting on a hyphen preceded by
2311 a non-ASCII letter.
2312
Lars Gustäbel43fcf3a2008-12-12 14:58:38 +00002313- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
2314
Benjamin Peterson433f32c2008-12-12 01:25:05 +00002315- Issue #4021: tokenize.detect_encoding() now raises a SyntaxError when the
2316 codec cannot be found. This is for compatibility with the builtin behavior.
2317
Facundo Batista708d5812008-12-11 04:20:07 +00002318- Issue #4084: Fix max, min, max_mag and min_mag Decimal methods to
2319 give correct results in the case where one argument is a quiet NaN
2320 and the other is a finite number that requires rounding.
2321
Skip Montanaroc1ce2862008-12-06 17:25:02 +00002322- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat
2323 libs.
2324
Georg Brandlf9734072008-12-07 15:30:06 +00002325- Added the subprocess.check_call_output() convenience function to get output
2326 from a subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
2327
2328- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
2329 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
2330 Content-Disposition headers.
2331
2332- Issue #4384: Added logging integration with warnings module using
2333 captureWarnings(). This change includes a NullHandler which does nothing;
2334 it will be of use to library developers who want to avoid the "No handlers
2335 could be found for logger XXX" message which can appear if the library user
2336 doesn't configure logging.
2337
2338- Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
2339 exception.
2340
Georg Brandleee31162008-12-07 15:15:22 +00002341- Issue #4529: fix the parser module's validation of try-except-finally
2342 statements.
2343
2344- Issue #4458: getopt.gnu_getopt() now recognizes a single "-" as an argument,
2345 not a malformed option.
2346
2347- Added the subprocess.check_output() convenience function to get output
2348 from a subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
2349
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbc9d4742008-12-05 01:40:43 +00002350- Issue #4542: On Windows, binascii.crc32 still accepted str as binary input;
2351 the corresponding tests now pass.
2352
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbc2ce572008-12-05 01:02:21 +00002353- Issue #4537: webbrowser.UnixBrowser would fail to open the browser because
2354 it was calling the wrong open() function.
2355
Fred Drake9a0a65b2008-12-04 19:24:50 +00002356- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
2357 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
2358 Content-Disposition headers.
2359
Matthias Klose2c7e3ee2009-01-10 17:08:25 +00002360- Issue #4861: ctypes.util.find_library(): Robustify. Fix library detection on
2361 biarch systems. Try to rely on ldconfig only, without using objdump and gcc.
2362
Benjamin Peterson5c6d7872009-02-06 02:40:07 +00002363- Issue #5104: The socket module now raises OverflowError when 16-bit port and
2364 protocol numbers are supplied outside the allowed 0-65536 range on bind()
2365 and getservbyport().
2366
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven0a866942009-05-08 14:18:00 +00002367- Windows locale mapping updated to Vista.
2368
Antoine Pitrou2a013ea2008-12-27 20:39:28 +00002369Tools/Demos
2370-----------
2371
Antoine Pitrou8a681222009-02-07 17:13:31 +00002372- Issue #4704: remove use of cmp() in pybench, bump its version number to 2.1,
2373 and make it 2.6-compatible.
2374
Guilherme Poloa7d27972009-01-28 16:06:51 +00002375- Ttk demos added in Demo/tkinter/ttk/
2376
Antoine Pitrou2a013ea2008-12-27 20:39:28 +00002377- Issue #4677: add two list comprehension tests to pybench.
2378
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00002379
2380Build
2381-----
2382
Benjamin Petersonf53eec82009-05-23 19:36:27 +00002383- Issue #6094: Build correctly with Subversion 1.7.
2384
Martin v. Löwis8482ef92009-05-05 16:14:30 +00002385- Issue #5847: Remove -n switch on "Edit with IDLE" menu item.
2386
Antoine Pitrou8966c992009-05-01 21:18:27 +00002387- Issue #5726: Make Modules/ld_so_aix return the actual exit code of the
2388 linker, rather than always exit successfully. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
2389
Matthias Klose55708cc2009-04-30 08:06:49 +00002390- Issue #4587: Add configure option --with-dbmliborder=db1:db2:... to specify
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00002391 the order that backends for the dbm extension are checked.
Matthias Klose55708cc2009-04-30 08:06:49 +00002392
Matthias Klose906785c2009-02-22 23:18:38 +00002393- Link the shared python library with $(MODLIBS).
2394
Martin v. Löwis11f72102009-02-10 13:13:30 +00002395- Issue #5134: Silence compiler warnings when compiling sqlite with VC++.
2396
Martin v. Löwisbc186a82009-02-02 15:32:22 +00002397- Issue #4494: Fix build with Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED on Windows.
2398
Martin v. Löwise97637d2009-01-11 09:45:11 +00002399- Issue #4895: Use _strdup on Windows CE.
2400
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00002401- Issue #4472: "configure --enable-shared" now works on OSX
2402
2403- Issues #4728 and #4060: WORDS_BIGEDIAN is now correct in Universal builds.
2404
2405- Issue #4389: Add icon to the uninstall entry in "add-and-remove-programs".
2406
2407- Issue #4289: Remove Cancel button from AdvancedDlg.
2408
2409- Issue #1656675: Register a drop handler for .py* files on Windows.
2410
2411- Issue #4120: Exclude manifest from extension modules in VS2008.
2412
2413- Issue #4091: Install pythonxy.dll in system32 again.
2414
2415- Issue #4018: Disable "for me" installations on Vista.
2416
2417- Issue #3758: Add ``patchcheck`` build target to .PHONY.
2418
2419- Issue #4204: Fixed module build errors on FreeBSD 4.
2420
2421
2422C-API
2423-----
2424
Sean Reifscheider642d96a2009-08-01 23:55:06 +00002425- Issue #6624: yArg_ParseTuple with "s" format when parsing argument with
2426 NUL: Bogus TypeError detail string.
2427
Mark Dickinson21776072009-02-10 16:13:25 +00002428- Issue #5175: PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLong now raises OverflowError
2429 for negative arguments. Previously, it raised TypeError.
2430
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00002431- Issue #4720: The format for PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords can begin with '|'.
2432
2433- Issue #3632: from the gdb debugger, the 'pyo' macro can now be called when
2434 the GIL is released, or owned by another thread.
2435
2436- Issue #4122: On Windows, fix a compilation error when using the
2437 Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE macro in an extension module.
2438
2439
Mark Dickinsone675f082008-12-11 21:56:00 +00002440Extension Modules
2441-----------------
2442
Gregory P. Smith365a1862009-02-12 07:35:29 +00002443- Issue #3745: Fix hashlib to always reject unicode and non buffer-api
2444 supporting objects as input no matter how it was compiled (built in
2445 implementations or external openssl library).
2446
Mark Dickinson29500f62009-01-15 15:36:10 +00002447- Issue #4397: Fix occasional test_socket failure on OS X.
2448
Martin v. Löwisa9b54c72009-01-11 09:30:50 +00002449- Issue #4279: Fix build of parsermodule under Cygwin.
2450
Antoine Pitroubcd5cbe2009-01-08 21:17:16 +00002451- Issue #4751: hashlib now releases the GIL when hashing large buffers
2452 (with a hardwired threshold of 2048 bytes), allowing better parallelization
2453 on multi-CPU systems. Contributed by Lukas Lueg (ebfe) and Victor Stinner.
2454
Martin v. Löwis5c88d812009-01-02 20:47:48 +00002455- Issue #4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle.
2456
Antoine Pitrou31f30b12009-01-02 17:34:35 +00002457- Issue #4738: Each zlib object now has a separate lock, allowing to compress
2458 or decompress several streams at once on multi-CPU systems. Also, the GIL
2459 is now released when computing the CRC of a large buffer. Patch by ebfe.
2460
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00002461- Issue #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format.
2462
Martin v. Löwis05bfe1f2008-12-29 18:21:47 +00002463- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
2464
Mark Dickinsone675f082008-12-11 21:56:00 +00002465- Issues #3167, #3682: Fix test_math failures for log, log10 on Solaris,
2466 OpenBSD.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcefae8c42008-11-21 23:08:09 +00002467
Antoine Pitrou3ad3a0d2008-12-18 17:08:32 +00002468- Issue #4583: array.array would not always prohibit resizing when a buffer
2469 has been exported, resulting in an interpreter crash when accessing the
2470 buffer.
2471
Martin v. Löwis841edad2008-11-30 10:36:49 +00002472
Jack Diederiche0cbd692009-04-01 04:27:09 +00002473- Issue #5228: Make functools.partial objects can now be pickled.
2474
Guilherme Polo9de29af2009-01-28 20:40:48 +00002475Tests
2476-----
2477
Antoine Pitrou88909542009-06-29 13:54:42 +00002478- Issue #6152: New option '-j'/'--multiprocess' for regrtest allows running
2479 regression tests in parallel, shortening the total runtime.
2480
Guilherme Polo2a998fa2009-06-21 17:40:07 +00002481- Issue #5450: Moved tests involving loading tk from Lib/test/test_tcl to
2482 Lib/tkinter/test/test_tkinter/test_loadtk. With this, these tests demonstrate
2483 the same behaviour as test_ttkguionly (and now also test_tk) which is to
2484 skip the tests if DISPLAY is defined but can't be used.
2485
R. David Murraya21e4ca2009-03-31 23:16:50 +00002486- regrtest no longer treats ImportError as equivalent to SkipTest. Imports
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00002487 that should cause a test to be skipped are now done using import_module
R. David Murraya21e4ca2009-03-31 23:16:50 +00002488 from test support, which does the conversion.
2489
Guilherme Polo9de29af2009-01-28 20:40:48 +00002490- Issue #5083: New 'gui' resource for regrtest.
2491
2492
Brett Cannon7317c1e2008-11-25 19:19:17 +00002493Docs
2494----
2495
Georg Brandl52b92cc2008-05-25 09:43:03 +00002496
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00002497**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**