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Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +00007What's New in Python 3.2 Alpha 1?
8=================================
9
10*Release date: XX-XXX-XXX*
11
12Core and Builtins
13-----------------
14
Benjamin Peterson14327712009-08-15 13:23:05 +000015- Issue #6707: dir() on an uninitialized module caused a crash.
16
Georg Brandl953152f2009-07-22 12:03:59 +000017- Issue #6540: Fixed crash for bytearray.translate() with invalid parameters.
18
Raymond Hettingere805ecc2009-07-27 20:16:37 +000019- Issue #6573: set.union() stopped processing inputs if an instance of self
20 occurred in the argument chain.
21
R. David Murray046f7232009-07-19 02:22:05 +000022- Issue #6070: On posix platforms import no longer copies the execute bit
23 from the .py file to the .pyc file if it is set.
24
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc8b84ea02009-07-13 20:38:21 +000025- Issue #1616979: Added the cp720 (Arabic DOS) encoding.
26
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc097cd072009-07-07 00:43:08 +000027- Issue #6428: Since Python 3.0, the __bool__ method must return a bool
28 object, and not an int. Fix the corresponding error message, and the
29 documentation.
30
Benjamin Petersonf1664ae2009-07-01 01:28:55 +000031- The deprecated PyCObject has been removed.
32
Mark Dickinson835a6c82009-06-30 15:45:17 +000033- Issue #6347: Include inttypes.h as well as stdint.h in pyport.h.
34 This fixes a build failure on HP-UX: int32_t and uint32_t are
35 defined in inttypes.h instead of stdint.h on that platform.
36
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca4aba662009-07-01 00:48:39 +000037- Issue #6373: Fixed a SystemError when encoding with the latin-1 codec and
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc84ec8d92009-06-29 22:36:49 +000038 the 'surrogateescape' error handler, a string which contains unpaired
39 surrogates.
40
Hirokazu Yamamoto892a37a2009-06-28 11:07:03 +000041- Issue #4856: Remove checks for win NT.
42
Benjamin Peterson466a7822009-07-02 21:44:01 +000043C-API
44-----
45
Alexandre Vassalotti2db046d2009-07-22 03:56:36 +000046- Issue #6151: Made PyDescr_COMMON conform to standard C (like PyObject_HEAD
47 in PEP 3123). The PyDescr_TYPE and PyDescr_NAME macros should be
48 should used for accessing the d_type and d_name members of structures
49 using PyDescr_COMMON.
50
51- Issue #6405: Remove duplicate type declarations in descrobject.h.
Benjamin Peterson89b89172009-07-03 13:30:25 +000052
Benjamin Peterson466a7822009-07-02 21:44:01 +000053- The code flags for old __future__ features are now available again.
54
Alexandre Vassalotti7b82b402009-07-21 04:30:03 +000055- Issue #5954: Add a PyFrame_GetLineNumber() function to replace most uses of
56 PyCode_Addr2Line().
57
58- Issue #5959: Add a PyCode_NewEmpty() function to create a new empty code
59 object at a specified file, function, and line number.
60
61- Issue #1419652: Change the first argument to PyImport_AppendInittab() to
62 ``const char *`` as the string is stored beyond the call.
63
Alexandre Vassalotti2db046d2009-07-22 03:56:36 +000064
Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +000065Library
66-------
67
Guilherme Polobcd03df2009-08-18 15:35:57 +000068- Issue #1356969: Add missing info methods in tix.HList.
69
70- Issue #1522587: New constants and methods for the tix.Grid widget.
71
72- Issue #1250469: Fix the return value of tix.PanedWindow.panes.
73
74- Issue #1119673: Do not override tkinter.Text methods when creating a
75 ScrolledText.
76
Gregory P. Smith01099702009-08-16 18:58:46 +000077- Issue #6665: Fix fnmatch to properly match filenames with newlines in them.
78
Guilherme Poloc3b2ae42009-08-16 14:46:16 +000079- Issue #1135: Add the XView and YView mix-ins to avoid duplicating
80 the xview* and yview* methods.
81
Antoine Pitroua0ceb732009-08-06 20:29:56 +000082- Issue #6629: Fix a data corruption issue in the new I/O library, which could
83 occur when writing to a BufferedRandom object (e.g. a file opened in "rb+" or
84 "wb+" mode) after having buffered a certain amount of data for reading. This
85 bug was not present in the pure Python implementation.
86
Mark Dickinsonea1158f2009-08-06 16:06:25 +000087- Issue #6622: Fix "local variable 'secret' referenced before
88 assignment" bug in POP3.apop.
89
Mark Dickinson45f799f2009-08-02 20:08:54 +000090- Issue #2715: Remove remnants of Carbon.File from binhex module.
91
Mark Dickinson345adc42009-08-02 10:14:23 +000092- Issue #6595: The Decimal constructor now allows arbitrary Unicode
93 decimal digits in input, as recommended by the standard. Previously
94 it was restricted to accepting [0-9].
95
Jack Diederich36596a32009-07-26 22:23:04 +000096- Issue #6106: telnetlib.Telnet.process_rawq doesn't handle default WILL/WONT
97 DO/DONT correctly.
98
Senthil Kumaran67305382009-07-26 04:46:00 +000099- Issue #1424152: Fix for http.client, urllib.request to support SSL while
100 working through proxy. Original patch by Christopher Li, changes made by
101 Senthil Kumaran
Senthil Kumaran97f0c6b2009-07-25 04:24:38 +0000102
Brett Cannon69194272009-07-20 04:23:48 +0000103- Add importlib.abc.ExecutionLoader to represent the PEP 302 protocol for
104 loaders that allow for modules to be executed. Both importlib.abc.PyLoader
105 and PyPycLoader inherit from this class and provide implementations in
106 relation to other methods required by the ABCs.
107
Brett Cannon64ef00f2009-07-20 03:19:18 +0000108- importlib.abc.PyLoader did not inherit from importlib.abc.ResourceLoader like
109 the documentation said it did even though the code in PyLoader relied on the
110 abstract method required by ResourceLoader.
111
Mark Dickinson85424c92009-07-18 14:41:42 +0000112- Issue #6431: Make Fraction type return NotImplemented when it doesn't
113 know how to handle a comparison without loss of precision. Also add
114 correct handling of infinities and nans for comparisons with float.
115
Antoine Pitrouf3637322009-08-06 21:00:37 +0000116- Issue #6415: Fixed warnings.warn segfault on bad formatted string.
Hirokazu Yamamoto1c0c0032009-07-17 06:55:42 +0000117
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc97e5f282009-07-11 09:35:13 +0000118- Issue #6358: The exit status of a command started with os.popen() was
119 reported differently than it did with python 2.x.
120
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc2de11152009-07-09 23:07:52 +0000121- Issue #6323: The pdb debugger did not exit when running a script with a
122 syntax error.
123
Gregory P. Smithd06fa472009-07-04 02:46:54 +0000124- Issue #3392: The subprocess communicate() method no longer fails in select()
125 when file descriptors are large; communicate() now uses poll() when possible.
126
Antoine Pitrou54923952009-07-01 14:53:06 +0000127- Issue #6369: Fix an RLE decompression bug in the binhex module.
128
Hirokazu Yamamoto7a9e1bd2009-06-29 14:54:12 +0000129- Issue #6344: Fixed a crash of mmap.read() when passed a negative argument.
130
Benjamin Peterson5a6deb42009-06-28 21:35:31 +0000131- The deprecated function string.maketrans has been removed.
132
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +0000133- Issue #4005: Fixed a crash of pydoc when there was a zip file present in
134 sys.path.
135
Alexandre Vassalotticf76e1a2009-07-22 03:24:36 +0000136- Issue #6218: io.StringIO and io.BytesIO instances are now picklable.
137
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +0000138Extension Modules
139-----------------
140
Brett Cannon2f827382009-08-13 19:58:01 +0000141- Fix a segfault that could be triggered by expat with specially formed input.
142
Mark Dickinson1f268282009-07-28 17:22:36 +0000143- Issue #6561: '\d' in a regex now matches only characters with
144 Unicode category 'Nd' (Number, Decimal Digit). Previously it also
145 matched characters with category 'No'.
146
Alexandre Vassalottiad077152009-07-15 17:49:23 +0000147- Issue #4509: Array objects are no longer modified after an operation
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +0000148 failing due to the resize restriction in-place when the object has exported
149 buffers.
150
Alexandre Vassalottiad077152009-07-15 17:49:23 +0000151- Issue #2389: Array objects are now pickled in a portable manner.
152
Martin v. Löwis95c46012009-06-28 09:36:14 +0000153Build
154-----
155
Guilherme Polo5d377bd2009-08-16 14:44:14 +0000156- Issue #6244: Allow detect_tkinter to look for Tcl/Tk 8.6.
157
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc321e5332009-07-02 23:08:45 +0000158- Issue 4601: 'make install' did not set the appropriate permissions on
159 directories.
160
Martin v. Löwis95c46012009-06-28 09:36:14 +0000161- Issue 5390: Add uninstall icon independent of whether file
162 extensions are installed.
163
Tarek Ziadéf3b33222009-08-21 14:22:45 +0000164Documenation
165------------
166
167- Issue #6556: Fixed the Distutils configuration files location explanation
168 for Windows.
169
Brett Cannonb49c70c2009-07-15 04:08:33 +0000170Tests
171-----
172
Brett Cannon3c273842009-07-20 00:14:29 +0000173- Fixed tests in importlib.test.source.test_abc_loader that were masking
174 the proper exceptions that should be raised for missing or improper code
175 object bytecode.
176
Brett Cannonb49c70c2009-07-15 04:08:33 +0000177- Removed importlib's custom test discovery code and switched to
178 unittest.TestLoader.discover().
179
Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +0000180
Benjamin Peterson01bf2362009-06-13 14:50:22 +0000181What's New in Python 3.1?
182=========================
183
184*Release date: 27-June-2009*
185
186Core and Builtins
187-----------------
188
Mark Dickinsonad195562009-06-24 19:01:32 +0000189- Issue #6334: Fix bug in range length calculation for ranges with
190 large arguments.
191
Raymond Hettinger159eac92009-06-23 20:38:54 +0000192- Issue #6329: Fixed iteration for memoryview objects (it was being blocked
193 because it wasn't recognized as a sequence).
194
Benjamin Peterson01bf2362009-06-13 14:50:22 +0000195Library
196-------
197
Georg Brandld07ac642009-08-13 07:50:57 +0000198- Issue #6126: Fixed pdb command-line usage.
199
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +0000200- Issue #6314: logging: performs extra checks on the "level" argument.
Vinay Sajip0f6eac22009-06-21 17:46:49 +0000201
Facundo Batista10706e22009-06-19 20:34:30 +0000202- Issue #6274: Fixed possible file descriptors leak in subprocess.py
203
Benjamin Peterson6a38ced2009-06-14 18:32:19 +0000204- Accessing io.StringIO.buffer now raises an AttributeError instead of
205 io.UnsupportedOperation.
206
Vinay Sajip0f6eac22009-06-21 17:46:49 +0000207- Issue #6271: mmap tried to close invalid file handle (-1) when anonymous.
Hirokazu Yamamoto3d8827d2009-06-14 04:58:16 +0000208 (On Unix)
209
Gregory P. Smithe88749b2009-06-26 08:05:13 +0000210- Issue #1202: zipfile module would cause a struct.error when attempting to
211 store files with a CRC32 > 2**31-1.
212
Matthias Kloseab2b7552009-06-22 13:05:52 +0000213Extension Modules
214-----------------
215
216- Issue #5590: Remove unused global variable in pyexpat extension.
217
Benjamin Peterson01bf2362009-06-13 14:50:22 +0000218
Antoine Pitrou3b1b8072009-05-30 21:01:23 +0000219What's New in Python 3.1 Release Candidate 2?
220=============================================
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +0000221
Benjamin Petersonc7c12282009-06-13 13:15:04 +0000222*Release date: 13-June-2009*
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +0000223
224Core and Builtins
225-----------------
226
Raymond Hettinger94f55832009-06-12 18:40:16 +0000227- Fixed SystemError triggered by "range([], 1, -1)".
228
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc66f8c432009-06-09 21:30:01 +0000229- Issue #5924: On Windows, a large PYTHONPATH environment variable
230 (more than 255 characters) would be completely ignored.
231
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc24e581f2009-06-01 21:28:37 +0000232- Issue #4547: When debugging a very large function, it was not always
233 possible to update the lineno attribute of the current frame.
234
Antoine Pitrou8e124f32009-05-30 21:41:10 +0000235- Issue #5330: C functions called with keyword arguments were not reported by
Alexandre Vassalottiea3714e2009-07-17 09:34:31 +0000236 the various profiling modules (profile, cProfile). Patch by Hagen Fürstenau.
Antoine Pitrou8e124f32009-05-30 21:41:10 +0000237
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +0000238Library
239-------
240
Tarek Ziadéc9e6cec2009-07-12 08:27:26 +0000241- Issue #6438: Fixed distutils.cygwinccompiler.get_versions : the regular
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +0000242 expression string pattern was trying to match against a bytes returned by
Tarek Ziadéc9e6cec2009-07-12 08:27:26 +0000243 Popen. Tested under win32 to build the py-postgresql project.
244
Martin v. Löwis83eacca2009-06-12 17:31:41 +0000245- Issue #6258: Support AMD64 in bdist_msi.
246
R. David Murray58641de2009-06-12 15:33:19 +0000247- Issue #6195: fixed doctest to no longer try to read 'source' data from
248 binary files.
249
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +0000250- Issue #5262: Fixed bug in next rollover time computation in
251 TimedRotatingFileHandler.
252
Benjamin Peterson0926ad12009-06-06 18:02:12 +0000253- Issue #6217: The C implementation of io.TextIOWrapper didn't include the
254 errors property. Additionally, the errors and encoding properties of StringIO
255 are always None now.
256
Antoine Pitroud9dfaa92009-06-04 20:32:06 +0000257- Issue #6137: The pickle module now translates module names when loading
258 or dumping pickles with a 2.x-compatible protocol, in order to make data
259 sharing and migration easier. This behaviour can be disabled using the
260 new `fix_imports` optional argument.
261
Raymond Hettinger40925d22009-06-04 18:32:39 +0000262- Removed the ipaddr module.
263
Georg Brandlb54d8012009-06-04 09:11:51 +0000264- Issue #3613: base64.{encode,decode}string are now called
265 base64.{encode,decode}bytes which reflects what type they accept and return.
266 The old names are still there as deprecated aliases.
267
Georg Brandl317185a2009-06-04 09:00:56 +0000268- Issue #5767: Remove sgmlop support from xmlrpc.client.
269
Martin v. Löwis74b7e442009-06-01 04:23:07 +0000270- Issue #6150: Fix test_unicode on wide-unicode builds.
271
Antoine Pitrouc06de472009-05-30 21:04:26 +0000272- Issue #6149: Fix initialization of WeakValueDictionary objects from non-empty
273 parameters.
274
Martin v. Löwis79b13872009-06-01 04:13:14 +0000275Windows
276-------
277
Martin v. Löwisb7a51562009-06-07 17:55:17 +0000278- Issue #6221: Delete test registry key before running the test.
279
Martin v. Löwis79b13872009-06-01 04:13:14 +0000280- Issue #6158: Package Sine-1000Hz-300ms.aif in MSI file.
281
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc11729992009-06-01 21:16:17 +0000282C-API
283-----
284
285- Issue #5735: Python compiled with --with-pydebug should throw an
286 ImportError when trying to import modules compiled without
287 --with-pydebug, and vice-versa.
288
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +0000289
Brett Cannonc6d936e2009-06-07 20:09:53 +0000290Build
291-----
292
293- Issue #6154: Make sure the intl library is added to LIBS if needed. Also
294 added LIBS to OS X framework builds.
295
Ronald Oussoren99aab652009-06-08 21:22:57 +0000296- Issue #5809: Specifying both --enable-framework and --enable-shared is
297 an error. Configure now explicity tells you about this.
298
299
Brett Cannonc6d936e2009-06-07 20:09:53 +0000300
Mark Dickinson4eb88b32009-05-11 16:41:34 +0000301What's New in Python 3.1 release candidate 1?
302=============================================
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +0000303
Benjamin Petersone6ad3872009-05-30 15:30:16 +0000304*Release date: 2009-05-30*
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +0000305
306Core and Builtins
307-----------------
308
Martin v. Löwis8ed91b22009-05-29 16:22:26 +0000309- Issue #6097: Escape UTF-8 surrogates resulting from mbstocs conversion
310 of the command line.
311
Martin v. Löwisc15bdef2009-05-29 14:47:46 +0000312- Issue #6012: Add cleanup support to O& argument parsing.
313
Eric Smith41669ca2009-05-23 14:23:22 +0000314- Issue #6089: Fixed str.format with certain invalid field specifiers
315 that would raise SystemError.
316
Raymond Hettinger2bcde142009-05-29 04:52:27 +0000317- Issue #5982: staticmethod and classmethod now expose the wrapped
318 function with __func__.
319
Raymond Hettinger91e3b9d2009-05-28 22:20:03 +0000320- Added support for multiple context managers in the same with-statement.
321 Deprecated contextlib.nested() which is no longer needed.
Georg Brandl0c315622009-05-25 21:10:36 +0000322
Mark Dickinson6b1e43b2009-05-20 18:41:04 +0000323- Issue #5829: complex("1e500") no longer raises OverflowError. This
324 makes it consistent with float("1e500") and interpretation of real
325 and imaginary literals.
326
Hirokazu Yamamoto8223c242009-05-17 04:21:53 +0000327- Issue #3527: Removed Py_WIN_WIDE_FILENAMES which is not used any more.
328
R. David Murraydd226ea2009-05-13 12:27:21 +0000329- Issue #5994: the marshal module now has docstrings.
330
Mark Dickinsond1ec8b22009-05-11 15:45:15 +0000331- Issue #5981: Fix three minor inf/nan issues in float.fromhex:
332 (1) inf and nan strings with trailing whitespace were incorrectly
333 rejected; (2) parsing of strings representing infinities and nans
334 was locale aware; and (3) the interpretation of fromhex('-nan')
335 didn't match that of float('-nan').
336
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +0000337Library
338-------
339
Martin v. Löwisb6a748b2009-05-29 15:23:17 +0000340- Issue #4859: Implement PEP 383 for pwd, spwd, and grp.
341
R. David Murrayfb123912009-05-28 18:19:00 +0000342- smtplib 'login' and 'cram-md5' login are also fixed (see Issue #5259).
343
R. David Murray1f1b9d32009-05-27 20:56:59 +0000344- Issue #6121: pydoc now ignores leading and trailing spaces in the
345 argument to the 'help' function.
346
Georg Brandlfaf41492009-05-26 18:31:11 +0000347- Issue #6118: urllib.parse.quote_plus ignored the encoding and errors
348 arguments for strings with a space in them.
349
Raymond Hettinger089ba7f2009-05-27 00:38:24 +0000350- collections.namedtuple() was not working with the following field
351 names: cls, self, tuple, itemgetter, and property.
352
Benjamin Peterson14a3dd72009-05-25 00:51:58 +0000353- In unittest, using a skipping decorator on a class is now equivalent to
354 skipping every test on the class. The ClassTestSuite class has been removed.
355
Martin v. Löwis70ccd162009-05-24 19:47:22 +0000356- Issue #6050: Don't fail extracting a directory from a zipfile if
357 the directory already exists.
358
Antoine Pitrou61f77b52009-05-24 15:46:13 +0000359- Issue #1309352: fcntl now converts its third arguments to a C `long` rather
360 than an int, which makes some operations possible under 64-bit Linux (e.g.
361 DN_MULTISHOT with F_NOTIFY).
362
Antoine Pitrou716c4442009-05-23 19:04:03 +0000363- Issue #5761: Add the name of the underlying file to the repr() of various
364 IO objects.
365
R. David Murraycaa27b72009-05-23 18:49:56 +0000366- Issue #5259: smtplib plain auth login no longer gives a traceback. Fix
367 by Musashi Tamura, tests by Marcin Bachry.
368
Antoine Pitrouc3ee1662009-05-23 16:02:33 +0000369- Issue #1983: Fix functions taking or returning a process identifier to use
370 the dedicated C type ``pid_t`` instead of a C ``int``. Some platforms have
371 a process identifier type wider than the standard C integer type.
372
R. David Murray87e20742009-05-23 01:30:26 +0000373- Issue #4066: smtplib.SMTP_SSL._get_socket now correctly returns the socket.
374 Patch by Farhan Ahmad, test by Marcin Bachry.
375
Antoine Pitrou6e610062009-05-15 17:04:50 +0000376- Issue #2116: Weak references and weak dictionaries now support copy()ing and
377 deepcopy()ing.
378
Antoine Pitrouc1d09362009-05-15 12:15:51 +0000379- Issue #1655: Make imaplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
380
Antoine Pitrou37d1c182009-05-14 21:54:00 +0000381- Issue #5918: Fix a crash in the parser module.
382
Antoine Pitrou2ca24f02009-05-14 21:30:46 +0000383- Issue #1664: Make nntplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
384
Antoine Pitroue4501852009-05-14 18:55:55 +0000385- Issue #5006: Better handling of unicode byte-order marks (BOM) in the io
386 library. This means, for example, that opening an UTF-16 text file in
387 append mode doesn't add a BOM at the end of the file if the file isn't
388 empty.
389
R. David Murray74b89242009-05-13 17:33:03 +0000390- Issue #4050: inspect.findsource/getsource now raise an IOError if the 'source'
391 file is a binary. Patch by Brodie Rao, tests by Daniel Diniz. This fix
392 corrects a pydoc regression.
393
R. David Murray99352742009-05-07 18:24:38 +0000394- Issue 5955: aifc's close method did not close the file it wrapped,
395 now it does. This also means getfp method now returns the real fp.
396
Benjamin Peterson932073a2009-05-23 16:14:33 +0000397Installation
398------------
399
400- Issue #6047: fullinstall has been removed because Python 3's executable will
401 now be known as python3.
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +0000402
Ronald Oussorenbe7149e2009-05-26 21:39:08 +0000403- Lib/smtpd.py is no longer installed as a script.
404
Martin v. Löwisdb1c3992009-05-23 10:38:26 +0000405Extension Modules
406-----------------
407
Martin v. Löwisa6a9c4d2009-05-30 06:15:30 +0000408- Issue #3061: Use wcsftime for time.strftime where available.
Martin v. Löwis1b01ccd2009-05-30 06:13:40 +0000409
Martin v. Löwise23c8682009-05-29 16:01:34 +0000410- Issue #4873: Fix resource leaks in error cases of pwd and grp.
411
Martin v. Löwisdb1c3992009-05-23 10:38:26 +0000412- Issue #6093: Fix off-by-one error in locale.strxfrm.
413
Benjamin Peterson744af442009-05-23 18:51:49 +0000414- The _functools and _locale modules are now built into the libpython shared
415 library instead of as extension modules.
Benjamin Peterson3dc22e82009-05-23 17:09:43 +0000416
Antoine Pitrou20327222009-05-24 20:39:11 +0000417Build
418-----
419
420- Issue #3585: Add pkg-config support. It creates a python-2.7.pc file
421 and a python3.pc symlink in the $(LIBDIR)/pkgconfig directory. Patch by
422 Clinton Roy.
423
Brett Cannon1262e7c2009-05-11 01:47:11 +0000424Tests
425-----
426
427- Issue 5442: Tests for importlib were not properly skipping case-sensitivity
428 tests on darwin even when the OS was installed on a case-sensitive
429 filesystem. Also fixed tests that should not be run when
430 sys.dont_write_bytecode is true.
431
432
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +0000433What's New in Python 3.1 beta 1?
434================================
435
Benjamin Peterson5c5f3de2009-05-06 20:43:28 +0000436*Release date: 2009-05-06*
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +0000437
438Core and Builtins
439-----------------
440
Mark Dickinson865e01a2009-05-07 16:37:01 +0000441- Issue #5914: Add new C API function PyOS_string_to_double, and
442 deprecate PyOS_ascii_strtod and PyOS_ascii_atof.
443
Eric Smith741191f2009-05-06 13:08:15 +0000444- Issue #3382: float.__format__, complex.__format__, and %-formatting
445 no longer map 'F' to 'f'. Because of issue #5859 (below), this only
446 affects nan -> NAN and inf -> INF.
447
Mark Hammond5a607a32009-05-06 08:04:54 +0000448- Issue #5799: ntpath (ie, os.path on Windows) fully supports UNC pathnames
449 in all operations, including splitdrive, split, etc. splitunc() now issues
450 a PendingDeprecation warning.
451
Eric Smith63376222009-05-05 14:04:18 +0000452- Issue #5920: For float.__format__, change the behavior with the
453 empty presentation type (that is, not one of 'e', 'f', 'g', or 'n')
454 to be like 'g' but with at least one decimal point and with a
455 default precision of 12. Previously, the behavior the same but with
456 a default precision of 6. This more closely matches str(), and
457 reduces surprises when adding alignment flags to the empty
458 presentation type. This also affects the new complex.__format__ in
459 the same way.
460
Martin v. Löwis011e8422009-05-05 04:43:17 +0000461- Implement PEP 383, Non-decodable Bytes in System Character Interfaces.
462
R. David Murrayb18500d2009-05-04 22:59:07 +0000463- Issue #5890: in subclasses of 'property' the __doc__ attribute was
464 shadowed by classtype's, even if it was None. property now
465 inserts the __doc__ into the subclass instance __dict__.
466
Antoine Pitrou244651a2009-05-04 18:56:13 +0000467- Issue #4426: The UTF-7 decoder was too strict and didn't accept some legal
468 sequences. Patch by Nick Barnes and Victor Stinner.
469
Martin v. Löwise0a2b722009-05-10 08:08:56 +0000470- Issue #3672: Reject surrogates in utf-8 codec; add surrogatepass error handler.
Martin v. Löwisdb12d452009-05-02 18:52:14 +0000471
Benjamin Petersond2e0c792009-05-01 20:40:59 +0000472- Issue #5883: In the io module, the BufferedIOBase and TextIOBase ABCs have
473 received a new method, detach(). detach() disconnects the underlying stream
474 from the buffer or text IO and returns it.
475
Mark Dickinson33841c32009-05-01 15:37:04 +0000476- Issue #5859: Remove switch from '%f' to '%g'-style formatting for
477 floats with absolute value over 1e50. Also remove length
478 restrictions for float formatting: '%.67f' % 12.34 and '%.120e' %
479 12.34 no longer raise an exception.
Mark Dickinsonf489caf2009-05-01 11:42:00 +0000480
Eric Smith741191f2009-05-06 13:08:15 +0000481- Issue #1588: Add complex.__format__. For example,
Eric Smith58a42242009-04-30 01:00:33 +0000482 format(complex(1, 2./3), '.5') now produces a sensible result.
483
Mark Dickinsond3ca5572009-04-29 18:47:07 +0000484- Issue #5864: Fix empty format code formatting for floats so that it
485 never gives more than the requested number of significant digits.
486
Eric Smith6dc46f52009-04-27 20:39:49 +0000487- Issue #5793: Rationalize isdigit / isalpha / tolower, etc. Includes
488 new Py_ISDIGIT / Py_ISALPHA / Py_TOLOWER, etc. in pctypes.h.
489
Eric Smithcc32a112009-04-26 21:35:14 +0000490- Issue #5835: Deprecate PyOS_ascii_formatd.
491
Martin v. Löwis71efeb72009-04-26 01:02:07 +0000492- Issue #4971: Fix titlecase for characters that are their own
493 titlecase, but not their own uppercase.
494
Benjamin Peterson193152c2009-04-25 01:08:45 +0000495- Issue #5283: Setting __class__ in __del__ caused a segfault.
496
Mark Dickinsonad476da2009-04-23 19:14:16 +0000497- Issue #5816: complex(repr(z)) now recovers z exactly, even when
498 z involves nans, infs or negative zeros.
499
Mark Dickinson4a16e3a2009-04-23 19:15:48 +0000500- Issue #3166: Make int -> float conversions correctly rounded.
Mark Dickinsonc6300392009-04-20 21:38:00 +0000501
Mark Dickinsone6a076d2009-04-18 11:48:33 +0000502- Issue #1869 (and many duplicates): make round(x, n) correctly
503 rounded for a float x, by using the decimal <-> binary conversions
504 from Python/dtoa.c. As a consequence, (e.g.) round(x, 2) now
505 consistently agrees with format(x, '.2f').
506
Benjamin Petersonae937c02009-04-18 20:54:08 +0000507- Issue #5787: object.__getattribute__(some_type, "__bases__") segfaulted on
508 some builtin types.
509
Eric Smith0923d1d2009-04-16 20:16:10 +0000510- Issue #5772: format(1e100, '<') produces '1e+100', not '1.0e+100'.
511
Eric Smith35e84722009-04-16 20:21:28 +0000512- Issue #5515: str.format() type 'n' combined with commas and leading
513 zeros no longer gives odd results with ints and floats.
Eric Smith0923d1d2009-04-16 20:16:10 +0000514
515- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for
516 floats.
517
Mark Dickinson3370cce2009-04-17 22:40:53 +0000518- The str function switches to exponential notation at
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +0000519 1e11, not 1e12. This avoids printing 13 significant digits in
520 situations where only 12 of them are correct. Example problem
521 value: str(1e11 + 0.5). (This minor issue has existed in 2.x for a
522 long time.)
523
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +0000524- Issue #1580: On most platforms, use a 'short' float repr: for a
525 finite float x, repr(x) now outputs a string based on the shortest
526 sequence of decimal digits that rounds to x. Previous behaviour was
527 to output 17 significant digits and then strip trailing zeros.
Mark Dickinson3370cce2009-04-17 22:40:53 +0000528 Another minor difference is that the new repr switches to
529 exponential notation at 1e16 instead of the previous 1e17; this
530 avoids misleading output in some cases.
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +0000531
532 There's a new sys attribute sys.float_repr_style, which takes
533 the value 'short' to indicate that we're using short float repr,
534 and 'legacy' if the short float repr isn't available for one
535 reason or another.
536
537 The float repr change involves incorporating David Gay's 'perfect
538 rounding' code into the Python core (it's in Python/dtoa.c). As a
539 secondary consequence, all string-to-float and float-to-string
540 conversions (including all float formatting operations) will be
541 correctly rounded on these platforms.
542
543 See issue 1580 discussions for details of platforms for which
544 this change does not apply.
545
Benjamin Peterson2808d3c2009-04-15 21:34:27 +0000546- Issue #5759: float() didn't call __float__ on str subclasses.
547
Georg Brandlabc38772009-04-12 15:51:51 +0000548- The string.maketrans() function is deprecated; there is a new static method
549 maketrans() on the bytes and bytearray classes. This removes confusion about
550 the types string.maketrans() is supposed to work with, and mirrors the
551 methods available on the str class.
552
R. David Murraydc6da8a2009-04-09 22:16:43 +0000553- Issue #2170: refactored xml.dom.minidom.normalize, increasing both
554 its clarity and its speed.
555
Matthias Klose091c7b12009-04-07 13:24:27 +0000556- Issue #1113244: Py_XINCREF, Py_DECREF, Py_XDECREF: Add `do { ... } while (0)'
557 to avoid compiler warnings.
558
Walter Dörwald8dc33d52009-05-06 14:41:26 +0000559- Issue #3739: The unicode-internal encoder now reports the number of characters
560 consumed like any other encoder (instead of the number of bytes).
561
Benjamin Peterson0b4915e2009-04-25 21:11:45 +0000562Installation
563------------
564
565- Issue #5756: Install idle and pydoc with a 3 suffix.
566
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +0000567Library
568-------
569
Martin v. Löwis403117a2009-05-24 19:19:17 +0000570- Issue #5311: bdist_msi can now build packages that do not depend on a
571 specific Python version.
572
Raymond Hettingereb816952009-05-29 01:22:18 +0000573- Issue #5150: IDLE's format menu now has an option to strip trailing
574 whitespace.
575
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +0000576- Issue #5940: distutils.command.build_clib.check_library_list was not doing
Tarek Ziadédd9f65f2009-05-06 07:26:24 +0000577 the right type checkings anymore.
578
Thomas Heller00cfc372009-05-05 19:04:40 +0000579- Issue #4875: On win32, ctypes.util.find_library does no longer
580 return directories.
581
Georg Brandl243ad662009-05-05 09:00:19 +0000582- Issue #5142: Add the ability to skip modules while stepping to pdb.
583
Georg Brandl991f9202009-05-05 08:31:54 +0000584- Issue #1309567: Fix linecache behavior of stripping subdirectories when
585 looking for files given by a relative filename.
586
Georg Brandleaa84ef2009-05-05 08:14:33 +0000587- Issue #5923: Update the ``turtle`` module to version 1.1, add two new
588 turtle demos in Demo/turtle.
589
Antoine Pitrou3c33e082009-05-04 21:21:36 +0000590- Issue #5692: In :class:`zipfile.Zipfile`, fix wrong path calculation when
591 extracting a file to the root directory.
592
Hirokazu Yamamotobbb9be72009-05-04 05:56:46 +0000593- Issue #5913: os.listdir() should fail for empty path on windows.
594
Antoine Pitroua9f48a02009-05-02 21:41:14 +0000595- Issue #5084: unpickling now interns the attribute names of pickled objects,
596 saving memory and avoiding growth in size of subsequent pickles. Proposal
597 and original patch by Jake McGuire.
598
Benjamin Petersonc6b607d2009-05-02 12:36:44 +0000599- The json module now works exclusively with str and not bytes.
600
Gregory P. Smithe54dff52009-05-01 22:13:48 +0000601- Issue #3959: The ipaddr module has been added to the standard library.
602 Contributed by Google.
603
Antoine Pitrou7fff0962009-05-01 21:09:44 +0000604- Issue #3002: ``shutil.copyfile()`` and ``shutil.copytree()`` now raise an
605 error when a named pipe is encountered, rather than blocking infinitely.
606
Raymond Hettinger1f0db402009-04-29 00:38:08 +0000607- Issue #5857: tokenize.tokenize() now returns named tuples.
608
Thomas Hellerc1edc2d2009-04-28 19:55:58 +0000609- Issue #4305: ctypes should now build again on mipsel-linux-gnu
610
Antoine Pitrou7a0fedf2009-04-27 22:31:40 +0000611- Issue #1734234: Massively speedup ``unicodedata.normalize()`` when the
612 string is already in normalized form, by performing a quick check beforehand.
613 Original patch by Rauli Ruohonen.
614
Antoine Pitrou57f3d932009-04-27 21:04:19 +0000615- Issue #5853: calling a function of the mimetypes module from several threads
616 at once could hit the recursion limit if the mimetypes database hadn't been
617 initialized before.
618
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +0000619- Issue #5854: Updated __all__ to include some missing names and remove some
620 names which should not be exported.
621
Thomas Heller34596a92009-04-24 20:50:00 +0000622- Issue #3102: All global symbols that the _ctypes extension defines
623 are now prefixed with 'Py' or '_ctypes'.
624
625- Issue #5041: ctypes does now allow pickling wide character.
626
Mark Dickinsond4d95f82009-04-24 14:06:19 +0000627- Issue #5812: For the two-argument form of the Fraction constructor,
628 Fraction(m, n), m and n are permitted to be arbitrary Rational
629 instances.
630
Mark Dickinsoncf63f2f2009-04-22 17:50:21 +0000631- Issue #5812: Fraction('1e6') is valid: more generally, any string
632 that's valid for float() is now valid for Fraction(), with the
633 exception of strings representing NaNs and infinities.
634
Antoine Pitroucf4c7492009-04-19 00:09:36 +0000635- Issue #5734: BufferedRWPair was poorly tested and had several glaring
636 bugs. Patch by Brian Quinlan.
637
R. David Murray9e94ddf2009-04-13 17:06:33 +0000638- Issue #1161031: fix readwrite select flag handling: POLLPRI now
639 results in a handle_expt_event call, not handle_read_event, and POLLERR
640 and POLLNVAL now call handle_close, not handle_expt_event. Also,
641 dispatcher now has an 'ignore_log_types' attribute for suppressing
642 log messages, which is set to 'warning' by default.
643
Matthias Klosea3d29e82009-04-07 13:13:10 +0000644- Issue #2703: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher.__init__: Provide default values for
645 new arguments introduced in 2.5.
646
Walter Dörwald1b08b302009-04-25 14:13:56 +0000647- Issue #5828 (Invalid behavior of unicode.lower): Fixed bogus logic in
648 makeunicodedata.py and regenerated the Unicode database (This fixes
649 u'\u1d79'.lower() == '\x00').
650
Matthias Klose535336f2009-04-07 13:49:45 +0000651Extension Modules
652-----------------
653
Benjamin Petersone04b6272009-05-04 22:25:21 +0000654- Issue #5881: Remove old undocumented compatibility interfaces in hashlib and
655 pwd.
656
Mark Dickinsonea835e72009-04-19 20:40:33 +0000657- Issue #5463: In struct module, remove deprecated float coercion
658 for integer type codes: struct.pack('L', 0.3) should now raise
659 an error. The _PY_STRUCT_FLOAT_COERCE constant has been removed.
660 The version number has been bumped to 0.3.
661
Matthias Klose535336f2009-04-07 13:49:45 +0000662- Issue #5359: Readd the Berkley-DB detection code to allow _dbm be built
663 using Berkley-DB.
664
Nick Coghlan47384702009-04-22 16:13:36 +0000665Tests
666-----
667
668- Issue #5354: New test support function import_fresh_module() makes
669 it easy to import both normal and optimised versions of modules.
670 test_heapq and test_warnings have been adjusted to use it, tests for
671 other modules with both C and Python implementations in the stdlib
672 can be adjusted to use it over time.
673
Walter Dörwald4ba80132009-04-25 12:48:43 +0000674- Issue #5837: Certain sequences of calls to set() and unset() for
675 support.EnvironmentVarGuard objects restored the environment variables
676 incorrectly on __exit__.
677
Benjamin Petersonb173f782009-05-05 22:31:58 +0000678C-API
679-----
680
681- Issue #5630: A replacement PyCObject API, PyCapsule, has been added.
682
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +0000683
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +0000684What's New in Python 3.1 alpha 2?
685=================================
686
Benjamin Peterson88f14352009-04-04 21:06:52 +0000687*Release date: 2009-4-4*
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +0000688
689Core and Builtins
690-----------------
Benjamin Petersone099b372009-04-04 17:09:35 +0000691
Eric Smith1e1d7d22009-04-03 22:25:33 +0000692- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for
693 integers.
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +0000694
Benjamin Peterson8f76b492009-04-03 22:22:42 +0000695- Issue #5666: Py_BuildValue's 'c' code should create byte strings.
696
Benjamin Peterson7fe98532009-04-02 00:33:55 +0000697- Issue #5499: The 'c' code for argument parsing functions now only accepts a
698 byte, and the 'C' code only accepts a unicode character.
699
Georg Brandl406b3d82009-04-11 21:24:37 +0000700- Fix a problem in PyErr_NormalizeException that leads to "undetected errors"
701 when hitting the recursion limit under certain circumstances.
702
Brett Cannon0759dd62009-04-01 18:13:07 +0000703- Issue #1665206: Remove the last eager import in _warnings.c and make it lazy.
704
Georg Brandlab6f2f62009-03-31 04:16:10 +0000705- Fix a segfault when running test_exceptions with coverage, caused by
706 insufficient checks in accessors of Exception.__context__.
707
Guido van Rossum0ad59d42009-03-30 22:01:35 +0000708- Issue #5604: non-ASCII characters in module name passed to
709 imp.find_module() were converted to UTF-8 while the path is
710 converted to the default filesystem encoding, causing nonsense.
711
Benjamin Peterson09832742009-03-26 17:15:46 +0000712- Issue #5126: str.isprintable() returned False for space characters.
713
Ronald Oussorenfa1fcd12009-03-30 23:16:10 +0000714- Issue #4865: On MacOSX /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages is added to
715 the end sys.path, for compatibility with the system install of Python.
716
Antoine Pitrou3a652b12009-03-23 18:52:06 +0000717- Issue #4688: Add a heuristic so that tuples and dicts containing only
718 untrackable objects are not tracked by the garbage collector. This can
719 reduce the size of collections and therefore the garbage collection overhead
720 on long-running programs, depending on their particular use of datatypes.
721
Mark Dickinson17e4fdd2009-03-23 18:44:57 +0000722- Issue #5512: Rewrite PyLong long division algorithm (x_divrem) to
723 improve its performance. Long divisions and remainder operations
724 are now between 50% and 150% faster.
725
Mark Dickinsonbd792642009-03-18 20:06:12 +0000726- Issue #4258: Make it possible to use base 2**30 instead of base
727 2**15 for the internal representation of integers, for performance
728 reasons. Base 2**30 is enabled by default on 64-bit machines. Add
729 --enable-big-digits option to configure, which overrides the
730 default. Add sys.int_info structseq to provide information about
731 the internal format.
732
Mark Dickinson081dfee2009-03-18 14:47:41 +0000733- Issue #4474: PyUnicode_FromWideChar now converts characters outside
734 the BMP to surrogate pairs, on systems with sizeof(wchar_t) == 4
735 and sizeof(Py_UNICODE) == 2.
736
Eric Smith8ec90442009-03-14 12:29:34 +0000737- Issue #5237: Allow auto-numbered fields in str.format(). For
738 example: '{} {}'.format(1, 2) == '1 2'.
739
Antoine Pitrou652e7072009-03-13 19:25:20 +0000740- Issue #5392: when a very low recursion limit was set, the interpreter would
741 abort with a fatal error after the recursion limit was hit twice.
742
Matthias Klose042f1332009-04-04 14:32:42 +0000743- Issue #3845: In PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags avoid invalid memory access with
744 short file names.
745
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +0000746Library
747-------
748
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +0000749- Issue #2625: added missing items() call to the for loop in
R. David Murray548ac412009-04-02 19:44:43 +0000750 mailbox.MH.get_message().
751
Hye-Shik Chang944820b2009-04-02 10:33:16 +0000752- Issue #5640: Fix _multibytecodec so that CJK codecs don't repeat
753 error substitutions from non-strict codec error callbacks in
754 incrementalencoder and StreamWriter.
755
Georg Brandl33c28812009-04-01 23:07:29 +0000756- Issue #5656: Fix the coverage reporting when running the test suite with
757 the -T argument.
758
Raymond Hettinger3f10a952009-04-01 19:05:50 +0000759- Issue #5647: MutableSet.__iand__() no longer mutates self during iteration.
760
Georg Brandl4ed72ac2009-04-01 04:28:33 +0000761- Issue #5624: Fix the _winreg module name still used in several modules.
762
Benjamin Petersona1b49012009-03-31 23:11:32 +0000763- Issue #5628: Fix io.TextIOWrapper.read() with a unreadable buffer.
764
Jesse Nollera9314042009-03-31 22:36:44 +0000765- Issue #5619: Multiprocessing children disobey the debug flag and causes
766 popups on windows buildbots. Patch applied to work around this issue.
767
Jesse Noller32d68c22009-03-31 18:48:42 +0000768- Issue #5400: Added patch for multiprocessing on netbsd compilation/support
769
Hirokazu Yamamoto16caab02009-03-31 13:44:06 +0000770- Issue #5387: Fixed mmap.move crash by integer overflow.
771
Jesse Nollerf8d00852009-03-31 03:25:07 +0000772- Issue #5261: Patch multiprocessing's semaphore.c to support context
773 manager use: "with multiprocessing.Lock()" works now.
774
Brett Cannon7f6b4f82009-03-30 21:30:26 +0000775- Issue #5236: Change time.strptime() to only take strings. Didn't work with
776 bytes already but the failure was non-obvious.
777
Jesse Noller7af4ef82009-03-30 16:47:15 +0000778- Issue #5177: Multiprocessing's SocketListener class now uses
779 socket.SO_REUSEADDR on all connections so that the user no longer needs
780 to wait 120 seconds for the socket to expire.
781
Benjamin Peterson48e24782009-03-29 13:02:52 +0000782- Issue #5595: Fix UnboundedLocalError in ntpath.ismount().
783
Antoine Pitrou66994e12009-03-29 00:45:26 +0000784- Issue #1174606: Calling read() without arguments of an unbounded file
785 (typically /dev/zero under Unix) could crash the interpreter.
786
Benjamin Peterson59406a92009-03-26 17:10:29 +0000787- The max_buffer_size arguments of io.BufferedWriter, io.BufferedRWPair, and
788 io.BufferedRandom have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.2.
789
Lars Gustäbel42e00912009-03-22 20:34:29 +0000790- Issue #5068: Fixed the tarfile._BZ2Proxy.read() method that would loop
791 forever on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used
792 with mode 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or
793 partial bzip2 compressed data.
794
Mark Dickinson79f52032009-03-17 23:12:51 +0000795- Issue #2110: Add support for thousands separator and 'n' type
796 specifier to Decimal.__format__
797
Mark Dickinson9c59fe02009-03-17 18:15:08 +0000798- Fix Decimal.__format__ bug that swapped the meanings of the '<' and
799 '>' alignment characters.
800
Antoine Pitrou0ae29cf2009-03-13 22:33:17 +0000801- The error detection code in FileIO.close() could fail to reflect the `errno`
802 value, and report it as -1 instead.
803
Antoine Pitroua28fcfd2009-03-13 23:42:55 +0000804- Issue #5016: FileIO.seekable() could return False if the file position
805 was negative when truncated to a C int. Patch by Victor Stinner.
806
Mark Dickinsonae681df2009-03-21 10:26:31 +0000807Extension Modules
808-----------------
809
Benjamin Petersone099b372009-04-04 17:09:35 +0000810- Issue #5391: mmap now deals exclusively with bytes.
811
Mark Dickinsonae681df2009-03-21 10:26:31 +0000812- Issue #5463: In struct module, remove deprecated overflow wrapping
813 when packing an integer: struct.pack('=L', -1) now raises
Mark Dickinsonb40b9472009-03-29 16:58:21 +0000814 struct.error instead of returning b'\xff\xff\xff\xff'. The
815 _PY_STRUCT_RANGE_CHECKING and _PY_STRUCT_OVERFLOW_MASKING constants
816 have been removed from the struct module.
Mark Dickinsonae681df2009-03-21 10:26:31 +0000817
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +0000818
Benjamin Petersona58a6262009-03-07 16:34:40 +0000819What's New in Python 3.1 alpha 1
Barry Warsaw97f005d2008-12-03 16:46:14 +0000820================================
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +0000821
Benjamin Petersona58a6262009-03-07 16:34:40 +0000822*Release date: 2009-03-07*
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +0000823
824Core and Builtins
825-----------------
826
Benjamin Peterson4fa88fa2009-03-04 00:14:51 +0000827- The io module has been reimplemented in C for speed.
828
Raymond Hettingerb0d56af2009-03-03 10:52:49 +0000829- Give dict views an informative __repr__.
830
Eric Smith5e5c0db2009-02-20 14:25:03 +0000831- Issue #5247: Improve error message when unknown format codes are
832 used when using str.format() with str, int, and float arguments.
833
Hirokazu Yamamoto575d1332009-02-16 09:13:20 +0000834- Issue #5249: time.strftime returned malformed string when format string
835 contained non ascii character on windows.
836
Benjamin Petersonf5b52242009-03-02 23:31:26 +0000837- Issue #4626: compile(), exec(), and eval() ignore the coding cookie if the
838 source has already been decoded into str.
839
Antoine Pitrou79eee6b2009-02-13 14:01:05 +0000840- Issue #5186: Reduce hash collisions for objects with no __hash__ method by
841 rotating the object pointer by 4 bits to the right.
842
Mark Dickinson87ec0852009-02-09 17:15:59 +0000843- Issue #4575: Fix Py_IS_INFINITY macro to work correctly on x87 FPUs:
844 it now forces its argument to double before testing for infinity.
845
Benjamin Petersonee1ae7c2009-02-08 21:07:20 +0000846- Issue #5137: Make len() correctly raise a TypeError when a __len__ method
847 returns a non-number type.
848
Benjamin Peterson87618552009-02-08 15:00:52 +0000849- Issue #5182: Removed memoryview.__str__.
850
Mark Dickinsonc008a172009-02-01 13:59:22 +0000851- Issue #1717: Removed builtin cmp() function, dropped tp_compare
852 slot, the C API functions PyObject_Compare and PyUnicode_Compare and
Mark Dickinsone94c6792009-02-02 20:36:42 +0000853 the type definition cmpfunc. The tp_compare slot has been renamed
854 to tp_reserved, and is reserved for future usage.
Mark Dickinsonf02e0aa2009-02-01 12:13:56 +0000855
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +0000856- Issue #1242657: the __len__() and __length_hint__() calls in several tools
Raymond Hettingere8364232009-02-02 22:55:09 +0000857 were suppressing all exceptions. These include list() and bytearray().
858
Mark Dickinson1124e712009-01-28 21:25:58 +0000859- Issue #4707: round(x, n) now returns an integer if x is an integer.
860 Previously it returned a float.
861
Antoine Pitroub52ec782009-01-25 16:34:23 +0000862- Issue #4753: By enabling a configure option named '--with-computed-gotos'
863 on compilers that support it (notably: gcc, SunPro, icc), the bytecode
864 evaluation loop is compiled with a new dispatch mechanism which gives
865 speedups of up to 20%, depending on the system, on various benchmarks.
866
Antoine Pitrou81fabdb2009-01-22 10:11:36 +0000867- Issue #4874: Most builtin decoders now reject unicode input.
868
Mark Dickinson9ffc0202009-01-20 20:45:53 +0000869- Issue #4842: Don't allow trailing 'L' when constructing an integer
870 from a string.
871
Benjamin Peterson05e782f2009-01-19 15:15:02 +0000872- Issue #4991: os.fdopen now raises an OSError for invalid file descriptors.
873
Antoine Pitroue4bc7f62009-01-17 21:06:43 +0000874- Issue #4838: When a module is deallocated, free the memory backing the
875 optional module state data.
876
Mark Dickinson8055afd2009-01-17 10:04:45 +0000877- Issue #4910: Rename nb_long slot to nb_reserved, and change its
878 type to (void *).
879
Antoine Pitrou8d4e5052009-01-13 22:59:11 +0000880- Issue #4935: The overflow checking code in the expandtabs() method common
881 to str, bytes and bytearray could be optimized away by the compiler, letting
882 the interpreter segfault instead of raising an error.
883
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf343e012009-01-12 23:58:21 +0000884- Issue #3720: Fix a crash when an iterator modifies its class and removes its
885 __next__ method.
886
Mark Dickinsone5e298f2009-01-12 20:49:19 +0000887- Issue #4910: Builtin int() function and PyNumber_Long/PyNumber_Int API
888 function no longer attempt to call the __long__ slot to convert an object
889 to an integer. Only the __int__ and __trunc__ slots are examined.
890
Martin v. Löwis7c2b66c2009-01-12 08:21:03 +0000891- Issue #4893: Use NT threading on CE.
892
Martin v. Löwisec59d042009-01-12 07:59:10 +0000893- Issue #4915: Port sysmodule to Windows CE.
894
Antoine Pitrouab868312009-01-10 15:40:25 +0000895- Issue #4868: utf-8, utf-16 and latin1 decoding are now 2x to 4x faster. The
896 common cases are optimized thanks to a dedicated fast path and a moderate
897 amount of loop unrolling.
898
Antoine Pitrou14b78f52009-01-09 22:27:08 +0000899- Issue #4074: Change the criteria for doing a full garbage collection (i.e.
900 collecting the oldest generation) so that allocating lots of objects without
901 destroying them does not show quadratic performance. Based on a proposal by
902 Martin von Löwis at
903 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080579.html.
904
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +0000905- Issue #4604: Some objects of the I/O library could still be used after
Antoine Pitrou8043cf82009-01-09 19:54:29 +0000906 having been closed (for instance, a read() call could return some
907 previously buffered data). Patch by Dmitry Vasiliev.
908
Antoine Pitrou05608432009-01-09 18:53:14 +0000909- Issue #4705: Fix the -u ("unbuffered binary stdout and stderr") command-line
910 flag to work properly. Furthermore, when specifying -u, the text stdout
911 and stderr streams have line-by-line buffering enabled (the default being
912 to buffer arbitrary chunks of data).
913
Raymond Hettinger35631532009-01-09 03:58:09 +0000914- The internal table, _PyLong_DigitValue, is now an array of unsigned chars
915 instead of ints (reducing its size from 4 to 8 times thereby reducing
916 Python's overall memory).
917
Antoine Pitroud35cbf62009-01-06 19:02:24 +0000918- Issue #1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with
919 an existing .py counterpart, override the co_filename attributes of all
920 code objects if the original filename is obsolete (which can happen if the
921 file has been renamed, moved, or if it is accessed through different paths).
922 Patch by Ziga Seilnacht and Jean-Paul Calderone.
923
Antoine Pitrouc3b39242009-01-03 16:59:18 +0000924- Issue #4580: Fix slicing of memoryviews when the item size is greater than
925 one byte. Also fixes the meaning of len() so that it returns the number of
926 items, rather than the size in bytes.
927
Martin v. Löwis5c88d812009-01-02 20:47:48 +0000928- Issue #4075: Use OutputDebugStringW in Py_FatalError.
929
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc374e2202009-01-01 23:05:36 +0000930- Issue #4747: When the terminal does not use utf-8, executing a script with
931 non-ascii characters in its name could fail with a "SyntaxError: None" error.
932
Hirokazu Yamamoto0f22d692009-01-01 16:03:45 +0000933- Issue #4797: IOError.filename was not set when _fileio.FileIO failed to open
Hirokazu Yamamoto8ed9a802009-01-01 16:09:52 +0000934 file with `bytes' filename on Windows.
Hirokazu Yamamoto0f22d692009-01-01 16:03:45 +0000935
Antoine Pitrou7ddda782009-01-01 15:35:33 +0000936- Issue #3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator
937 did not get collected.
938
Nick Coghlanf1f2f682008-12-30 07:29:12 +0000939- Issue #4701: PyObject_Hash now implicitly calls PyType_Ready on types
940 where the tp_hash and tp_dict slots are both NULL.
941
Georg Brandlccc47b62008-12-28 11:44:14 +0000942- Issue #4759: None is now allowed as the first argument of
943 bytearray.translate(). It was always allowed for bytes.translate().
944
Skip Montanaro80072cb2008-12-23 03:51:14 +0000945- Added test case to ensure attempts to read from a file opened for writing
946 fail.
947
Antoine Pitrou51f3ef92008-12-20 13:14:23 +0000948- Issue #3106: Speedup some comparisons (str/str and int/int).
949
Antoine Pitrouf289ae62008-12-18 11:06:25 +0000950- Issue #2183: Simplify and optimize bytecode for list, dict and set
951 comprehensions. Original patch for list comprehensions by Neal Norwitz.
952
Antoine Pitrou621601a2008-12-17 23:18:19 +0000953- Issue #2467: gc.DEBUG_STATS reported invalid elapsed times. Also, always
954 print elapsed times, not only when some objects are uncollectable /
955 unreachable. Original patch by Neil Schemenauer.
956
Mark Dickinson54bc1ec2008-12-17 16:19:07 +0000957- Issue #3439: Add a bit_length method to int.
958
Mark Dickinsonda2706b2008-12-11 18:03:03 +0000959- Issue #2173: When getting device encoding, check that return value of
960 nl_langinfo is not the empty string. This was causing silent build
961 failures on OS X.
962
Jeffrey Yasskinb9083f32008-12-11 06:18:33 +0000963- Issue #4597: Fixed several opcodes that weren't always propagating
964 exceptions.
965
966- Issue #4589: Fixed exception handling when the __exit__ function of a
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc10b24e82008-12-10 23:49:33 +0000967 context manager returns a value that cannot be converted to a bool.
968
Mark Dickinsonfd24b322008-12-06 15:33:31 +0000969- Issue #4445: Replace "sizeof(PyBytesObject)" with
970 "offsetof(PyBytesObject, ob_sval) + 1" when allocating memory for
971 bytes instances. On a typical machine this saves 3 bytes of memory
972 (on average) per allocation of a bytes instance.
973
Christian Heimesa872de52008-12-05 08:26:55 +0000974- Issue #4533: File read operation was dreadfully slow due to a slowly
975 growing read buffer. Fixed by using the same growth rate algorithm as
976 Python 2.x.
977
Antoine Pitrou5504e892008-12-06 21:27:53 +0000978- Issue #4509: Various issues surrounding resize of bytearray objects to
979 which there are buffer exports (e.g. memoryview instances).
980
Georg Brandlf9734072008-12-07 15:30:06 +0000981- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()``
982 method on file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still
983 kept open but the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO``
984 object also got a new readonly attribute ``closefd``.
Matthias Klose7e1b8fa2008-11-26 17:22:04 +0000985
Antoine Pitroubc420402008-12-07 20:14:49 +0000986- Issue #4569: Interpreter crash when mutating a memoryview with an item size
987 larger than 1.
988
Benjamin Peterson371ccfb2008-12-27 19:03:36 +0000989- Issue #4748: Lambda generators no longer return a value.
990
Gregory P. Smithccc5ae72009-03-02 05:21:55 +0000991- The re.sub(), re.subn() and re.split() functions now accept a flags parameter.
992
Walter Dörwaldc1651a02009-05-03 22:55:55 +0000993- Issue #5108: Handle %s like %S, %R and %A in PyUnicode_FromFormatV(): Call
994 PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8() once, remember the result and output it in a second
995 step. This avoids problems with counting UTF-8 bytes that ignores the effect
996 of using the replace error handler in PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8().
997
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +0000998Library
999-------
Tarek Ziadé38e3d512009-02-27 12:58:56 +00001000
Tarek Ziadé4a608c02009-08-20 21:28:05 +00001001- Issue #6693: New functions in site.py to get user/global site packages paths.
1002
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbc347802009-07-28 22:18:57 +00001003- Issue #6511: ZipFile now raises BadZipfile (instead of an IOError) when
1004 opening an empty or very small file.
1005
1006- Issue #6545: Removed assert statements in distutils.Extension, so the
Tarek Ziadé2f19bb12009-07-22 08:57:28 +00001007 behavior is similar when used with -O.
1008
Benjamin Petersonbed7d042009-07-19 21:01:52 +00001009- unittest has been split up into a package. All old names should still work.
1010
Tarek Ziadéf8926b22009-07-16 16:18:19 +00001011- Issue #6466: now distutils.cygwinccompiler and distutils.emxccompiler
1012 uses the same refactored function to get gcc/ld/dllwrap versions numbers.
1013 It's `distutils.util.get_compiler_versions`. Added deprecation warnings
1014 for the obsolete get_versions() functions.
1015
Alexandre Vassalottie52e3782009-07-17 09:18:18 +00001016- Issue #6433: fixed issues with multiprocessing.pool.map hanging on empty list
1017
1018- Issue #6314: logging: Extra checks on the "level" argument in more places.
1019
1020- Issue #2622: Fixed an ImportError when importing email.messsage from a
1021 standalone application built with py2exe or py2app.
1022
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00001023- Issue #6455: Fixed test_build_ext under win32.
Tarek Ziadéb7815e32009-07-10 09:14:31 +00001024
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00001025- Issue #6377: Enabled the compiler option, and deprecate its usage as an
Tarek Ziadédd07ebb2009-07-06 13:52:17 +00001026 attribute.
1027
Tarek Ziadé05bf01a2009-07-04 02:04:21 +00001028- Issue #6413: Fixed the log level in distutils.dist for announce.
1029
Tarek Ziadée10d6de2009-07-03 08:33:28 +00001030- Issue #6403: Fixed package path usage in build_ext.
1031
Alexandre Vassalottie52e3782009-07-17 09:18:18 +00001032- Issues #5155, 5313, 5331: multiprocessing.Process._bootstrap was
1033 unconditionally calling "os.close(sys.stdin.fileno())" resulting in file
1034 descriptor errors
1035
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00001036- Issue #6365: Distutils build_ext inplace mode was copying the compiled
Tarek Ziadé0156f912009-06-29 16:19:22 +00001037 extension in a subdirectory if the extension name had dots.
1038
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00001039- Issue #6164: Added an AIX specific linker argument in Distutils
Tarek Ziadé8f480e52009-06-28 21:30:52 +00001040 unixcompiler. Original patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
1041
Tarek Ziadé25bd2062009-06-28 21:26:27 +00001042- Issue #6286: Now Distutils upload command is based on urllib2 instead of
1043 httplib, allowing the usage of http_proxy.
1044
Tarek Ziadé5e06a652009-06-16 07:43:42 +00001045- Issue #6287: Added the license field in Distutils documentation.
1046
Tarek Ziadéff543362009-06-11 09:25:41 +00001047- Issue #6263: Fixed syntax error in distutils.cygwincompiler.
1048
Tarek Ziadéabcc3f42009-06-11 08:31:17 +00001049- Issue #5201: distutils.sysconfig.parse_makefile() now understands `$$`
1050 in Makefiles. This prevents compile errors when using syntax like:
1051 `LDFLAGS='-rpath=\$$LIB:/some/other/path'`. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
1052
Hirokazu Yamamoto2703fd92009-05-29 09:14:04 +00001053- Issue #6131: test_modulefinder leaked when run after test_distutils.
1054 Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
1055
Tarek Ziadé77c8b372009-05-28 13:01:13 +00001056- Issue #6048: Now Distutils uses the tarfile module in archive_util.
1057
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00001058- Issue #6062: In distutils, fixed the package option of build_ext. Feedback
Tarek Ziadé822eb842009-05-19 16:22:57 +00001059 and tests on pywin32 by Tim Golden.
1060
Tarek Ziadé93fb3aa2009-05-18 12:29:06 +00001061- Issue #6053: Fixed distutils tests on win32. patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
1062
Tarek Ziadéd18a84e2009-05-18 08:07:46 +00001063- Issue #6046: Fixed the library extension when distutils build_ext is used
1064 inplace. Initial patch by Roumen Petrov.
1065
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00001066- Issue #6041: Now distutils `sdist` and `register` commands use `check` as a
Tarek Ziadé5af55c62009-05-16 16:52:13 +00001067 subcommand.
1068
Tarek Ziadé4210c6e2009-05-14 20:20:47 +00001069- Issue #6022: a test file was created in the current working directory by
1070 test_get_outputs in Distutils.
1071
Tarek Ziadéff0e5002009-05-12 17:14:01 +00001072- Issue #5977: distutils build_ext.get_outputs was not taking into account the
1073 inplace option. Initial patch by kxroberto.
1074
Tarek Ziadé06fbee12009-05-10 10:34:01 +00001075- Issue #5984: distutils.command.build_ext.check_extensions_list checks were broken
1076 for old-style extensions.
1077
Tarek Ziadébe5b1b92009-05-09 10:09:11 +00001078- Issue #5976: Fixed Distutils test_check_environ.
1079
Tarek Ziadé5662d3e2009-05-07 21:24:43 +00001080- Issue #5941: Distutils build_clib command was not working anymore because
1081 of an incomplete costumization of the archiver command. Added ARFLAGS in the
1082 Makefile besides AR and make Distutils use it. Original patch by David
1083 Cournapeau.
1084
R. David Murrayb507d2e2009-04-29 15:34:32 +00001085- Issue #2245: aifc now skips chunk types it doesn't recognize, per spec.
1086
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00001087- Issue #5874: distutils.tests.test_config_cmd is not locale-sensitive
Tarek Ziadé81623822009-04-29 08:07:44 +00001088 anymore.
1089
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00001090- Issue #5810: Fixed Distutils test_build_scripts so it uses
Tarek Ziadé939f9c82009-04-25 12:53:56 +00001091 sysconfig.get_config_vars.
1092
Tarek Ziadé23336082009-04-25 12:39:56 +00001093- Issue #4951: Fixed failure in test_httpservers.
1094
Thomas Hellerd3cfe992009-04-24 20:10:24 +00001095- Issue #5795: Fixed test_distutils failure on Debian ppc.
1096
Tarek Ziadé822e1d42009-04-13 12:37:57 +00001097- Issue #5607: fixed Distutils test_get_platform for Mac OS X fat binaries.
1098
Georg Brandl1f9fa312009-04-27 16:42:58 +00001099- Issue #5741: don't disallow "%%" (which is an escape for "%") when setting
1100 a value in SafeConfigParser.
1101
Tarek Ziadéf396ecf2009-04-11 15:00:43 +00001102- Issue #5732: added a new command in Distutils: check.
1103
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00001104- Issue #5731: Distutils bdist_wininst no longer worked on non-Windows
Tarek Ziadéa6191802009-04-09 22:02:39 +00001105 platforms. Initial patch by Paul Moore.
1106
Tarek Ziadéf6370502009-04-05 22:57:21 +00001107- Issue #5095: Added bdist_msi to the list of bdist supported formats.
1108 Initial fix by Steven Bethard.
1109
Tarek Ziadé889b0aa2009-04-05 21:49:36 +00001110- Issue #1491431: Fixed distutils.filelist.glob_to_re for edge cases.
1111 Initial fix by Wayne Davison.
1112
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00001113- Issue #5694: removed spurious test output in Distutils (test_clean).
Tarek Ziadéea261632009-04-05 18:33:34 +00001114
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00001115- Issue #1326077: fix the formatting of SyntaxErrors by the traceback module.
Georg Brandl236f7972009-04-05 14:28:42 +00001116
Brett Cannonf47e84c2009-04-01 16:06:01 +00001117- Issue #1665206 (partially): Move imports in cgitb to the top of the module
1118 instead of performing them in functions. Helps prevent import deadlocking in
1119 threads.
1120
R. David Murraye59482e2009-04-01 03:42:00 +00001121- Issue #2522: locale.format now checks its first argument to ensure it has
1122 been passed only one pattern, avoiding mysterious errors where it appeared
1123 that it was failing to do localization.
1124
Tarek Ziadéb2e36f12009-03-31 22:37:55 +00001125- Issue #5583: Added optional Extensions in Distutils. Initial patch by Georg
1126 Brandl.
1127
Antoine Pitrou350370c2009-03-14 00:13:13 +00001128- Issue #1222: locale.format() bug when the thousands separator is a space
1129 character.
1130
Tarek Ziadé516db942009-03-11 12:52:00 +00001131- Issue #5472: Fixed distutils.test_util tear down. Original patch by
1132 Tim Golden.
1133
Raymond Hettinger5bb0f0e2009-03-10 12:56:32 +00001134- collections.deque() objects now have a read-only attribute called maxlen.
1135
Guilherme Polof45b4cc2009-03-07 02:19:14 +00001136- Issue #2638: Show a window constructed with tkSimpleDialog.Dialog only after
1137 it is has been populated and properly configured in order to prevent
1138 window flashing.
1139
Guilherme Polo56f5be52009-03-07 01:54:57 +00001140- Issue #4792: Prevent a segfault in _tkinter by using the
1141 guaranteed to be safe interp argument given to the PythonCmd in place of
1142 the Tcl interpreter taken from a PythonCmd_ClientData.
1143
1144- Issue #5193: Guarantee that tkinter.Text.search returns a string.
1145
Tarek Ziadé63b64c02009-03-07 00:51:53 +00001146- Issue #5394: removed > 2.3 syntax from distutils.msvc9compiler.
1147 Original patch by Akira Kitada.
1148
Hirokazu Yamamoto54d0df62009-03-06 03:04:07 +00001149- Issue #5334: array.fromfile() failed to insert values when EOFError was raised.
1150
Hirokazu Yamamoto8e722bc2009-03-05 14:33:01 +00001151- Issue #5385: Fixed mmap crash after resize failure on windows.
1152
Hirokazu Yamamoto0c988172009-03-03 22:41:26 +00001153- Issue #5179: Fixed subprocess handle leak on failure on windows.
1154
Raymond Hettinger2d32f632009-03-02 21:24:57 +00001155- PEP 372: Added collections.OrderedDict().
1156
Raymond Hettingera4f52b12009-03-02 22:28:31 +00001157- The _asdict() for method for namedtuples now returns an OrderedDict().
1158
Raymond Hettinger0663a1e2009-03-02 23:06:00 +00001159- configparser now defaults to using an ordered dictionary.
1160
Benjamin Petersone0124bd2009-03-09 21:04:33 +00001161- Issue #5401: Fixed a performance problem in mimetypes when ``from mimetypes
1162 import guess_extension`` was used.
1163
Hirokazu Yamamoto10c99372009-02-28 12:21:53 +00001164- Issue #1733986: Fixed mmap crash in accessing elements of second map object
1165 with same tagname but larger size than first map. (Windows)
1166
Hirokazu Yamamoto39c6dea2009-02-28 10:56:50 +00001167- Issue #5386: mmap.write_byte didn't check map size, so it could cause buffer
1168 overrun.
1169
Tarek Ziadéf0721222009-02-28 10:16:43 +00001170- Issue #1533164: Installed but not listed *.pyo was breaking Distutils
1171 bdist_rpm command.
1172
1173- Issue #5378: added --quiet option to Distutils bdist_rpm command.
1174
Tarek Ziadé38e3d512009-02-27 12:58:56 +00001175- Issue #5052: make Distutils compatible with 2.3 again.
1176
Tarek Ziadé0f31e6d2009-02-25 22:31:38 +00001177- Issue #5316: Fixed buildbot failures introduced by multiple inheritance
1178 in Distutils tests.
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00001179
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00001180- Issue #5287: Add exception handling around findCaller() call to help out
1181 IronPython.
1182
Hirokazu Yamamoto0654ccd2009-02-18 16:38:00 +00001183- Issue #5282: Fixed mmap resize on 32bit windows and unix. When offset > 0,
1184 The file was resized to wrong size.
1185
1186- Issue #5292: Fixed mmap crash on its boundary access m[len(m)].
1187
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00001188- Issue #2279: distutils.sdist.add_defaults now add files
Tarek Ziadé0d0506e2009-02-16 21:49:12 +00001189 from the package_data and the data_files metadata.
1190
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00001191- Issue #5257: refactored all tests in distutils, so they use
Tarek Ziadéc1375d52009-02-14 14:35:51 +00001192 support.TempdirManager, to avoid writing in the tests directory.
1193
Tarek Ziadé68c50952009-02-13 23:04:17 +00001194- Issue #4524: distutils build_script command failed with --with-suffix=3.
1195 Initial patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
1196
Tarek Ziadé811d6242009-02-13 22:26:15 +00001197- Issue #2461: added tests for distutils.util
1198
Mark Dickinsonc28ad272009-02-12 17:58:36 +00001199- Issue #4998: The memory saving effect of __slots__ had been lost on Fractions
1200 which inherited from numbers.py which did not have __slots__ defined. The
1201 numbers hierarchy now has its own __slots__ declarations.
1202
Antoine Pitroub353c122009-02-11 00:39:14 +00001203- Issue #4631: Fix urlopen() result when an HTTP response uses chunked
1204 encoding.
1205
Thomas Heller465c8022009-02-10 18:59:04 +00001206- Issue #5203: Fixed ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a
1207 function without argtypes (only occurs if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false).
1208
Tarek Ziadé7d5e9872009-02-10 12:36:33 +00001209- Issue #3386: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument was ignored
1210 under NT and OS2. Patch by Philip Jenvey.
1211
Brett Cannonbefb14f2009-02-10 02:10:16 +00001212- Issue #5128: Make compileall properly inspect bytecode to determine if needs
1213 to be recreated. This avoids a timing hole thanks to the old reliance on the
1214 ctime of the files involved.
1215
Guilherme Polob681df42009-02-09 22:33:59 +00001216- Issue #5122: Synchronize tk load failure check to prevent a potential
1217 deadlock.
1218
Benjamin Petersona86f2c02009-02-10 02:41:10 +00001219- Issue #1818: collections.namedtuple() now supports a keyword argument
1220 'rename' which lets invalid fieldnames be automatically converted to
1221 positional names in the form, _1, _2, ...
1222
Guilherme Poloae098992009-02-09 16:44:24 +00001223- Issue #4890: Handle empty text search pattern in Tkinter.Text.search.
1224
Nick Coghlan9a1d6e32009-02-08 03:37:27 +00001225- Issue #4512 (part 2): Promote ``ZipImporter._get_filename()`` to be a
1226 public documented method ``ZipImporter.get_filename()``.
1227
Nick Coghlan3f48ae32009-02-08 01:58:26 +00001228- Issue #4195: The ``runpy`` module (and the ``-m`` switch) now support
1229 the execution of packages by looking for and executing a ``__main__``
1230 submodule when a package name is supplied. Initial patch by Andi
1231 Vajda.
1232
Guilherme Polo491aee22009-02-06 23:16:11 +00001233- Issue #1731706: Call Tcl_ConditionFinalize for Tcl_Conditions that will
1234 not be used again (this requires Tcl/Tk 8.3.1), also fix a memory leak in
1235 Tkapp_Call when calling from a thread different than the one that created
1236 the Tcl interpreter. Patch by Robert Hancock.
1237
Eric Smith0e5b5622009-02-06 01:32:42 +00001238- Issue #4285: Change sys.version_info to be a named tuple. Patch by
1239 Ross Light.
1240
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00001241- Issue #1520877: Now distutils.sysconfig reads $AR from the
Tarek Ziadéd3409de2009-02-06 01:18:36 +00001242 environment/Makefile. Patch by Douglas Greiman.
1243
Tarek Ziadé70a74eb2009-02-06 00:38:35 +00001244- Issue #1276768: The verbose option was not used in the code of
1245 distutils.file_util and distutils.dir_util.
1246
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00001247- Issue #5132: Fixed trouble building extensions under Solaris with
Tarek Ziadé5874ef12009-02-05 22:56:14 +00001248 --enabled-shared activated. Initial patch by Dave Peterson.
1249
Guilherme Polo7f423952009-02-02 21:17:09 +00001250- Issue #1581476: Always use the Tcl global namespace when calling into Tcl.
1251
Raymond Hettinger85602262009-02-03 04:19:10 +00001252- The shelve module now defaults to pickle protocol 3.
1253
Brett Cannone61426e2009-01-30 01:31:34 +00001254- Fix a bug in the trace module where a bytes object from co_lnotab had its
1255 items being passed through ord().
1256
Antoine Pitrou0dcc3cd2009-01-29 20:26:59 +00001257- Issue #2047: shutil.move() could believe that its destination path was
1258 inside its source path if it began with the same letters (e.g. "src" vs.
1259 "src.new").
1260
Guilherme Polo5f238482009-01-28 14:41:10 +00001261- Added the ttk module. See issue #2983: Ttk support for Tkinter.
1262
Raymond Hettinger89e12962009-01-26 02:09:03 +00001263- Removed isSequenceType(), isMappingType, and isNumberType() from the
1264 operator module; use the abstract base classes instead. Also removed
1265 the repeat() function; use mul() instead.
1266
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00001267- Issue #5021: doctest.testfile() did not create __name__ and
Raymond Hettinger0f055172009-01-27 10:06:09 +00001268 collections.namedtuple() relied on __name__ being defined.
1269
1270- Backport importlib from Python 3.1. Only the import_module() function has
1271 been backported to help facilitate transitions from 2.7 to 3.1.
1272
Tarek Ziadé0302cf52009-01-26 17:23:20 +00001273- Issue #1885: distutils. When running sdist with --formats=tar,gztar
1274 the tar file was overriden by the gztar one.
1275
Tarek Ziadé4d4456f2009-01-25 18:27:45 +00001276- Issue #4863: distutils.mwerkscompiler has been removed.
1277
Raymond Hettingerd07d9392009-01-27 04:20:44 +00001278- Added a new itertools functions: combinations_with_replacement()
1279 and compress().
Raymond Hettinger6b3b0fc2009-01-26 02:56:58 +00001280
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00001281- Issue #5032: added a step argument to itertools.count() and
Raymond Hettinger30729212009-02-12 06:28:27 +00001282 allowed non-integer arguments.
1283
Jesse Noller41faa542009-01-25 03:45:53 +00001284- Fix and properly document the multiprocessing module's logging
1285 support, expose the internal levels and provide proper usage
1286 examples.
1287
Mark Dickinsoncddcf442009-01-24 21:46:33 +00001288- Issue #1672332: fix unpickling of subnormal floats, which was
1289 producing a ValueError on some platforms.
1290
Martin v. Löwisacbf4612009-01-24 16:19:45 +00001291- Issue #3881: Help Tcl to load even when started through the
1292 unreadable local symlink to "Program Files" on Vista.
1293
Martin v. Löwis59e47792009-01-24 14:10:07 +00001294- Issue #4710: Extract directories properly in the zipfile module;
1295 allow adding directories to a zipfile.
1296
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00001297- Issue #3807: _multiprocessing build fails when configure is passed
Jesse Noller6fd47e22009-01-23 14:09:08 +00001298 --without-threads argument. When this occurs, _multiprocessing will
1299 be disabled, and not compiled.
1300
Antoine Pitrou08838b62009-01-21 00:55:13 +00001301- Issue #5008: When a file is opened in append mode with the new IO library,
1302 do an explicit seek to the end of file (so that e.g. tell() returns the
1303 file size rather than 0). This is consistent with the behaviour of the
1304 traditional 2.x file object.
1305
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00001306- Issue #5013: Fixed a bug in FileHandler which occurred when the delay
1307 parameter was set.
1308
Mark Dickinson8dd05142009-01-20 20:43:58 +00001309- Issue #4842: Always append a trailing 'L' when pickling longs using
1310 pickle protocol 0. When reading, the 'L' is optional.
1311
Brett Cannonafccd632009-01-20 02:21:27 +00001312- Add the importlib package.
1313
Jesse Noller9a0fc972009-01-18 21:12:58 +00001314- Issue #4301: Patch the logging module to add processName support, remove
1315 _check_logger_class from multiprocessing.
1316
Jesse Noller1cbb17a2009-01-18 19:45:18 +00001317- Issue #3325: Remove python2.x try: except: imports for old cPickle from
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00001318 multiprocessing.
Jesse Nollerf70a5382009-01-18 19:44:02 +00001319
Benjamin Peterson9953a8d2009-01-17 04:15:01 +00001320- Issue #4959: inspect.formatargspec now works for keyword only arguments
1321 without defaults.
1322
Jesse Noller6214edd2009-01-19 16:23:53 +00001323- Issue #3321: _multiprocessing.Connection() doesn't check handle; added checks
1324 for *nix machines for negative handles and large int handles. Without this check
1325 it is possible to segfault the interpreter.
1326
Jesse Nollerb0516a62009-01-18 03:11:38 +00001327- Issue #4449: AssertionError in mp_benchmarks.py, caused by an underlying issue
1328 in sharedctypes.py.
1329
1330- Issue #1225107: inspect.isclass() returned True for instances with a custom
1331 __getattr__.
1332
Gregory P. Smithde3369f2009-01-12 04:50:11 +00001333- Issue #3826 and #4791: The socket module now closes the underlying socket
1334 appropriately when it is being used via socket.makefile() objects
1335 rather than delaying the close by waiting for garbage collection to do it.
1336
Raymond Hettingerb8baf632009-01-14 02:20:07 +00001337- Issue #1696199: Add collections.Counter() for rapid and convenient
1338 counting.
1339
Antoine Pitrou308705e2009-01-10 16:22:51 +00001340- Issue #3860: GzipFile and BZ2File now support the context manager protocol.
1341
Thomas Heller5e4e4272009-01-08 09:34:20 +00001342- Issue #4867: Fixed a crash in ctypes when passing a string to a
1343 function without defining argtypes.
1344
Antoine Pitrou42db3ef2009-01-04 21:37:59 +00001345- Issue #4272: Add an optional argument to the GzipFile constructor to override
1346 the timestamp in the gzip stream. The default value remains the current time.
1347 The information can be used by e.g. gunzip when decompressing. Patch by
1348 Jacques Frechet.
1349
Mark Dickinson315a20a2009-01-04 21:34:18 +00001350- Restore Python 2.3 compatibility for decimal.py.
1351
Guilherme Polo3f5f8222009-01-03 22:00:39 +00001352- Issue #3638: Remove functions from _tkinter module level that depend on
1353 TkappObject to work with multiple threads.
1354
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00001355- Issue #4718: Adapt the wsgiref package so that it actually works with
1356 Python 3.x, in accordance with the `official amendments of the spec
Antoine Pitrou38a66ad2009-01-03 18:41:49 +00001357 <http://www.wsgi.org/wsgi/Amendments_1.0>`_.
1358
Raymond Hettinger771ed762009-01-03 19:20:32 +00001359- Issue #4796: Added Decimal.from_float() and Context.create_decimal_from_float()
1360 to the decimal module.
1361
Georg Brandl3a9b0622009-01-03 22:07:57 +00001362- Fractions.from_float() no longer loses precision for integers too big to
1363 cast as floats.
1364
Mark Dickinsonf9236412009-01-02 23:23:21 +00001365- Issue #4812: add missing underscore prefix to some internal-use-only
1366 constants in the decimal module. (Dec_0 becomes _Dec_0, etc.)
1367
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00001368- Issue #4790: The nsmallest() and nlargest() functions in the heapq module
Georg Brandl3a9b0622009-01-03 22:07:57 +00001369 did unnecessary work in the common case where no key function was specified.
1370
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00001371- Issue #4795: inspect.isgeneratorfunction() returns False instead of None when
1372 the function is not a generator.
1373
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00001374- Issue #4702: Throwing a DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError in case
1375 no MSVC compiler is found under Windows. Original patch by Philip Jenvey.
Tarek Ziadé9df8ce32008-12-30 23:09:20 +00001376
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00001377- Issue #4646: distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup
Tarek Ziadé4450dcf2008-12-29 22:38:38 +00001378 function. Original patch by Thomas Heller.
1379
Martin v. Löwis1f1620e2008-12-29 16:27:13 +00001380- Issue #3767: Convert Tk object to string in tkColorChooser.
1381
Martin v. Löwise354d782008-12-29 16:03:04 +00001382- Issue #3248: Allow placing ScrolledText in a PanedWindow.
1383
Antoine Pitrou5acd41e2008-12-28 14:29:00 +00001384- Issue #4444: Allow assertRaises() to be used as a context handler, so that
1385 the code under test can be written inline if more practical.
1386
Georg Brandldb7b6b92009-01-01 15:53:14 +00001387- Issue #4739: Add pydoc help topics for symbols, so that e.g. help('@')
1388 works as expected in the interactive environment.
1389
Antoine Pitroudb5fe662008-12-27 15:50:40 +00001390- Issue #4756: zipfile.is_zipfile() now supports file-like objects. Patch by
1391 Gabriel Genellina.
1392
Antoine Pitrou180a3362008-12-14 16:36:46 +00001393- Issue #4574: reading an UTF16-encoded text file crashes if \r on 64-char
1394 boundary.
1395
Nick Coghlanf088e5e2008-12-14 11:50:48 +00001396- Issue #4223: inspect.getsource() will now correctly display source code
1397 for packages loaded via zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302
1398 loader). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
1399
1400- Issue #4201: pdb can now access and display source code loaded via
1401 zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302 loader). Original patch by
1402 Alexander Belopolsky.
1403
1404- Issue #4197: doctests in modules loaded via zipimport (or any other PEP
1405 302 conformant loader) will now work correctly in most cases (they
1406 are still subject to the constraints that exist for all code running
1407 from inside a module loaded via a PEP 302 loader and attempting to
1408 perform IO operations based on __file__). Original patch by
1409 Alexander Belopolsky.
1410
1411- Issues #4082 and #4512: Add runpy support to zipimport in a manner that
1412 allows backporting to maintenance branches. Original patch by
1413 Alexander Belopolsky.
1414
Antoine Pitrou7c59bc62008-12-13 23:20:54 +00001415- Issue #4163: textwrap module: allow word splitting on a hyphen preceded by
1416 a non-ASCII letter.
1417
Lars Gustäbel43fcf3a2008-12-12 14:58:38 +00001418- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
1419
Benjamin Peterson433f32c2008-12-12 01:25:05 +00001420- Issue #4021: tokenize.detect_encoding() now raises a SyntaxError when the
1421 codec cannot be found. This is for compatibility with the builtin behavior.
1422
Facundo Batista708d5812008-12-11 04:20:07 +00001423- Issue #4084: Fix max, min, max_mag and min_mag Decimal methods to
1424 give correct results in the case where one argument is a quiet NaN
1425 and the other is a finite number that requires rounding.
1426
Skip Montanaroc1ce2862008-12-06 17:25:02 +00001427- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat
1428 libs.
1429
Georg Brandlf9734072008-12-07 15:30:06 +00001430- Added the subprocess.check_call_output() convenience function to get output
1431 from a subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
1432
1433- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
1434 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
1435 Content-Disposition headers.
1436
1437- Issue #4384: Added logging integration with warnings module using
1438 captureWarnings(). This change includes a NullHandler which does nothing;
1439 it will be of use to library developers who want to avoid the "No handlers
1440 could be found for logger XXX" message which can appear if the library user
1441 doesn't configure logging.
1442
1443- Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
1444 exception.
1445
Georg Brandleee31162008-12-07 15:15:22 +00001446- Issue #4529: fix the parser module's validation of try-except-finally
1447 statements.
1448
1449- Issue #4458: getopt.gnu_getopt() now recognizes a single "-" as an argument,
1450 not a malformed option.
1451
1452- Added the subprocess.check_output() convenience function to get output
1453 from a subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
1454
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbc9d4742008-12-05 01:40:43 +00001455- Issue #4542: On Windows, binascii.crc32 still accepted str as binary input;
1456 the corresponding tests now pass.
1457
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbc2ce572008-12-05 01:02:21 +00001458- Issue #4537: webbrowser.UnixBrowser would fail to open the browser because
1459 it was calling the wrong open() function.
1460
Fred Drake9a0a65b2008-12-04 19:24:50 +00001461- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
1462 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
1463 Content-Disposition headers.
1464
Matthias Klose2c7e3ee2009-01-10 17:08:25 +00001465- Issue #4861: ctypes.util.find_library(): Robustify. Fix library detection on
1466 biarch systems. Try to rely on ldconfig only, without using objdump and gcc.
1467
Benjamin Peterson5c6d7872009-02-06 02:40:07 +00001468- Issue #5104: The socket module now raises OverflowError when 16-bit port and
1469 protocol numbers are supplied outside the allowed 0-65536 range on bind()
1470 and getservbyport().
1471
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven0a866942009-05-08 14:18:00 +00001472- Windows locale mapping updated to Vista.
1473
Antoine Pitrou2a013ea2008-12-27 20:39:28 +00001474Tools/Demos
1475-----------
1476
Antoine Pitrou8a681222009-02-07 17:13:31 +00001477- Issue #4704: remove use of cmp() in pybench, bump its version number to 2.1,
1478 and make it 2.6-compatible.
1479
Guilherme Poloa7d27972009-01-28 16:06:51 +00001480- Ttk demos added in Demo/tkinter/ttk/
1481
Antoine Pitrou2a013ea2008-12-27 20:39:28 +00001482- Issue #4677: add two list comprehension tests to pybench.
1483
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00001484
1485Build
1486-----
1487
Benjamin Petersonf53eec82009-05-23 19:36:27 +00001488- Issue #6094: Build correctly with Subversion 1.7.
1489
Martin v. Löwis8482ef92009-05-05 16:14:30 +00001490- Issue #5847: Remove -n switch on "Edit with IDLE" menu item.
1491
Antoine Pitrou8966c992009-05-01 21:18:27 +00001492- Issue #5726: Make Modules/ld_so_aix return the actual exit code of the
1493 linker, rather than always exit successfully. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
1494
Matthias Klose55708cc2009-04-30 08:06:49 +00001495- Issue #4587: Add configure option --with-dbmliborder=db1:db2:... to specify
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00001496 the order that backends for the dbm extension are checked.
Matthias Klose55708cc2009-04-30 08:06:49 +00001497
Matthias Klose906785c2009-02-22 23:18:38 +00001498- Link the shared python library with $(MODLIBS).
1499
Martin v. Löwis11f72102009-02-10 13:13:30 +00001500- Issue #5134: Silence compiler warnings when compiling sqlite with VC++.
1501
Martin v. Löwisbc186a82009-02-02 15:32:22 +00001502- Issue #4494: Fix build with Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED on Windows.
1503
Martin v. Löwise97637d2009-01-11 09:45:11 +00001504- Issue #4895: Use _strdup on Windows CE.
1505
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00001506- Issue #4472: "configure --enable-shared" now works on OSX
1507
1508- Issues #4728 and #4060: WORDS_BIGEDIAN is now correct in Universal builds.
1509
1510- Issue #4389: Add icon to the uninstall entry in "add-and-remove-programs".
1511
1512- Issue #4289: Remove Cancel button from AdvancedDlg.
1513
1514- Issue #1656675: Register a drop handler for .py* files on Windows.
1515
1516- Issue #4120: Exclude manifest from extension modules in VS2008.
1517
1518- Issue #4091: Install pythonxy.dll in system32 again.
1519
1520- Issue #4018: Disable "for me" installations on Vista.
1521
1522- Issue #3758: Add ``patchcheck`` build target to .PHONY.
1523
1524- Issue #4204: Fixed module build errors on FreeBSD 4.
1525
1526
1527C-API
1528-----
1529
Sean Reifscheider642d96a2009-08-01 23:55:06 +00001530- Issue #6624: yArg_ParseTuple with "s" format when parsing argument with
1531 NUL: Bogus TypeError detail string.
1532
Mark Dickinson21776072009-02-10 16:13:25 +00001533- Issue #5175: PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLong now raises OverflowError
1534 for negative arguments. Previously, it raised TypeError.
1535
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00001536- Issue #4720: The format for PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords can begin with '|'.
1537
1538- Issue #3632: from the gdb debugger, the 'pyo' macro can now be called when
1539 the GIL is released, or owned by another thread.
1540
1541- Issue #4122: On Windows, fix a compilation error when using the
1542 Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE macro in an extension module.
1543
1544
Mark Dickinsone675f082008-12-11 21:56:00 +00001545Extension Modules
1546-----------------
1547
Gregory P. Smith365a1862009-02-12 07:35:29 +00001548- Issue #3745: Fix hashlib to always reject unicode and non buffer-api
1549 supporting objects as input no matter how it was compiled (built in
1550 implementations or external openssl library).
1551
Mark Dickinson29500f62009-01-15 15:36:10 +00001552- Issue #4397: Fix occasional test_socket failure on OS X.
1553
Martin v. Löwisa9b54c72009-01-11 09:30:50 +00001554- Issue #4279: Fix build of parsermodule under Cygwin.
1555
Antoine Pitroubcd5cbe2009-01-08 21:17:16 +00001556- Issue #4751: hashlib now releases the GIL when hashing large buffers
1557 (with a hardwired threshold of 2048 bytes), allowing better parallelization
1558 on multi-CPU systems. Contributed by Lukas Lueg (ebfe) and Victor Stinner.
1559
Martin v. Löwis5c88d812009-01-02 20:47:48 +00001560- Issue #4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle.
1561
Antoine Pitrou31f30b12009-01-02 17:34:35 +00001562- Issue #4738: Each zlib object now has a separate lock, allowing to compress
1563 or decompress several streams at once on multi-CPU systems. Also, the GIL
1564 is now released when computing the CRC of a large buffer. Patch by ebfe.
1565
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00001566- Issue #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format.
1567
Martin v. Löwis05bfe1f2008-12-29 18:21:47 +00001568- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
1569
Mark Dickinsone675f082008-12-11 21:56:00 +00001570- Issues #3167, #3682: Fix test_math failures for log, log10 on Solaris,
1571 OpenBSD.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcefae8c42008-11-21 23:08:09 +00001572
Antoine Pitrou3ad3a0d2008-12-18 17:08:32 +00001573- Issue #4583: array.array would not always prohibit resizing when a buffer
1574 has been exported, resulting in an interpreter crash when accessing the
1575 buffer.
1576
Martin v. Löwis841edad2008-11-30 10:36:49 +00001577
Jack Diederiche0cbd692009-04-01 04:27:09 +00001578- Issue #5228: Make functools.partial objects can now be pickled.
1579
Guilherme Polo9de29af2009-01-28 20:40:48 +00001580Tests
1581-----
1582
Antoine Pitrou88909542009-06-29 13:54:42 +00001583- Issue #6152: New option '-j'/'--multiprocess' for regrtest allows running
1584 regression tests in parallel, shortening the total runtime.
1585
Guilherme Polo2a998fa2009-06-21 17:40:07 +00001586- Issue #5450: Moved tests involving loading tk from Lib/test/test_tcl to
1587 Lib/tkinter/test/test_tkinter/test_loadtk. With this, these tests demonstrate
1588 the same behaviour as test_ttkguionly (and now also test_tk) which is to
1589 skip the tests if DISPLAY is defined but can't be used.
1590
R. David Murraya21e4ca2009-03-31 23:16:50 +00001591- regrtest no longer treats ImportError as equivalent to SkipTest. Imports
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00001592 that should cause a test to be skipped are now done using import_module
R. David Murraya21e4ca2009-03-31 23:16:50 +00001593 from test support, which does the conversion.
1594
Guilherme Polo9de29af2009-01-28 20:40:48 +00001595- Issue #5083: New 'gui' resource for regrtest.
1596
1597
Brett Cannon7317c1e2008-11-25 19:19:17 +00001598Docs
1599----
1600
Georg Brandl52b92cc2008-05-25 09:43:03 +00001601
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00001602**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**